In the Odyssey, Homer says nothing of their origin or names, but gives the number of the Sirens as two.

Socrates says that the men of flux, like Homer and Heraclitus, are really hard to talk to because you can't pin them down.

When Homer has a heart attack in front of him in response to this news, he says, unmoved, that the cost is now $ 40, 000-hinting the heart attack made him now require a quadruple bypass.

Homer says nothing at the wedding, but later offhandedly mentions McClure's admission to Marge, who then informs her sister.

Homer says they were killed by Apollo before they had any beards, consistent with their being bound to columns in the Underworld by snakes, with the nymph of the Styx in the form of an owl over them.

Homer gives a literary account of love never expressed: while she is presented as a potential love interest to Odysseus – she says to her friend that she would like her husband to be like him, and her father tells Odysseus he would let him marry her – nothing would result between the pair.

Apollodorus of Erythrae, however, says that one who was his own countrywoman predicted the Trojan War and prophesied to the Greeks both that Troy would be destroyed and that Homer would write falsehoods.

Homer ( Iliad 4 ) says that Zeus struck him blind ; Dryas, the oak, is sacred to Zeus.

" Also, at the end of their song, Homer says the ending comments "... I hope we pass the audition ", followed by everyone laughing and Barney saying " I don't get it.

When the record store owner advises him to look at the ' Oldies ' section, Homer takes out a Styx record and says " Oldies ?, but you got all the top bands in here.

" After Lisa criticizes it, Homer says " this is the only newspaper in the country that is not afraid to tell the truth: that everything is just fine ".

Homer calls Mr. Burns and says that he can have Larry back if he admits that he loves him.

Fundamentally, all that is known of this Erichthonius comes from Homer, who says ( Samuel Butler's translation of Iliad 20. 215-234 ):

The next day, Bart prepares to leave and says tearful goodbyes to everyone except Homer.

He says he will obtain a picture of him for his study and that " I'll worship sweet Mr Shakespeare and to honour him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillow, as we read of one-I do not well remember his name, but I'm sure he was a king-slept with Homer under his bed's head ".

* The US Festival was mentioned in The Simpsons episode " Homerpalooza ", where Homer says, " There can only be one truly great festival of a lifetime, and it's the US Festival!

" When a young record shop employee asks what that is, Homer says " The US Festival, sponsored by that guy from Apple Computers!

Socrates says this can't be right because Homer ( whose authority they both accept on this point ) says that modesty is not good for all people, but it is agreed that sophrosyne is ( 160e ).

According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus hostage at Ogygia for seven years, while Pseudo-Apollodorus says five years and Hyginus says one.

Homer ( Pope's translation ) says:

The Historia Regum Britanniae says that at the time of her death Samuel was judge in Judea, Aeneas Silvius was ruling Alba Longa, and Homer was gaining fame in Greece.

In explaining the presence of the Titan Anytos at Lycosura, he says that " From Homer the name of the Titans was taken by Onomakritos, who in the orgies he composed for Dionysos made the Titans the authors of the god's sufferings ".

When a player misses, the Homer figure screams or says one of his trademark lines such as " D ' oh!

Homer expressed her relationship with Zeus delicately in the Iliad, in which she declares to Zeus, " I am Cronus ' eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king of the gods.

In " Homer the Heretic " ( season four, 1992 ), Homer starts skipping church and Marge tells him " don't make me choose between my man and my God, because you just can't win.

* In The Simpsons episode " Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ," Homer dresses up like a Teletubby to entertain Maggie, remarking "... and I'm all man, in case you heard otherwise " in reference to claims by Jerry Falwell.

It was acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as " a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal " ( although the classical scholar Richard Bentley wrote: " It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.

Bodett is known for the Motel 6 " We'll leave the light on for you " advertisements, and the whimsical book about Homer, As Far as You Can go Without a Passport.

In another episode, " A Star is Burns ", Homer tricks Jay Sherman into insulting MacGyver in front of Patty and Selma ; Sherman ends up being hung from the rain gutter by his underpants, and Bart asks " You badmouthed MacGyver, didn't you?

Homer presents his thought to you just as it wells from the source of his mind: Mr. Tennyson carefully distils his thought before he will part with it.

Nevertheless he did not appreciate the Hellenistic poets, perhaps because he did not understand their culture: " Would you prefer to be Homer or Apollonius ?& nbsp ... No sane person would give just one tragedy, the Oedipus Rex, in exchange for all Ion's dramas.

" In one episode, Homer runs out of gay couples to marry ; he speculates that Lenny and Carl might be interested, and Marge responds with " Don't you push them – they've gotta work that out for themselves.

The mascots then begin to brutally attack Homer and Mr. Cleanser, identical to Mr. Clean right down to having the correct skin colour ( as opposed to the usual yellow skin of characters in the series ), angrily informs Homer in a German accent " I ... must ... destroy you!

In The Simpsons episode, " Krusty Gets Kancelled ", Homer Simpson is reading the funny pages and comments, " Ah, Rex Morgan, M. D., you have the prescription for the daily blues.

" to which Homer replies " the only friend you need is SpringShield ," and holds a business card in front of the camera.

In The Simpsons Movie, Homer Simpson opines that everybody who watches movies in theaters is a giant sucker, turns to the audience, and says, " Especially you!

* When Weird Al calls the above songs " basically the same ", Homer remarks " Yeah, like you and Allan Sherman ".

When Homer and Comic Book Guy enter Moe's Tavern, Moe says " Get out and take your Sacagawea dollars with you " to one of his guests.

Jacobson commented that he " absolutely lost it when Homer ’ s drawing of a robot grilling a hot dog was seen-it ’ s funnier if you see it-and Lawrence Tierney ’ s guest turn as the store detective adds hilarious grit to the show.

There was some talk NoHomers. net about the ending — we just did that because ( a ) it ’ s really funny and shocking, ( 2 ) we like the lesson of ' sometimes, you just can't win '— the whole Frank Grimes episode is a study in frustration and hence Homer has the last laugh and ( 3 ) we wanted to show that in real life, being Homer Simpson could be really dangerous and life threatening, as Frank Grimes sadly learned.

Homer tells Maggie, " I hope you never say a word.

In a faux sneak preview for the next episode, Lisa reminds Homer that her class is hosting an " all you can eat " spaghetti dinner while Burns reminds him that they have a reception for Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands that same night.

In the same segment, Homer runs over Johnny and Edgar Winter while fleeing the mutants pursuing him, crying: " Die, you chalk-faced goons!