However, this is clearly not the manner in which Homer uses the term.

In his online column, Best of The Web Today, James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal often uses the phrase " Homer Nods " as the title of a retraction or correction.

However, although Homer is not at the beginning of the Trojan War, he is at the beginning of the poem and therefore uses the Teichoscopia as a poetic structure that provides information and suspense important for the remainder of the play and the duel to come.

Homer even uses a simile to reiterate the father-son relationship between Telemachus and Eumaeus.

Homer uses the word λοετρά, loetrá, " baths ", later λουτρά, loutrá, from the verb λούειν, loúein, to bathe.

* The Simpsons episode 2F12 " Homer the Clown ", Krusty the Clown uses all the money he made franchising his name to bet against the Harlem Globetrotters, stating that he " thought the Generals were due!

He also uses the epic style of invocations, lamentations, exclamations and similes, and in some cases adds parody to imitation by following the framework of actual speeches in Homer ’ s Iliad.

At the trial, the Blue Haired Lawyer uses a doll commonly seen in child molestation trials from whose clothing Bart pulls out the pockets to show the court where Homer swindled money from him.

Homer uses the word meaning necessity ( αναγκαίη πολεμίζειν, " ιt is necessary to fight ") or force ( ἐξ ἀνάγκης, " by force " ).

Homer uses the word Moira which is later personified indicating the destiny, but it seems that originally the word included the " ascertainment " or " proof ".

from 1934 ; see below ), uses the concept of paideia to trace the development of Greek thought and education from Homer to Demosthenes.

" They have been given cameo appearances in The Simpsons, such as during " Homer's Triple Bypass ", where Homer uses finger puppets resembling the characters to describe his surgery to Bart and Lisa.

The player chooses from one of the remaining four Simpsons ( as shown in playable order ): Marge ( The first player ), who swings her vacuum cleaner ; Homer ( The second player ), who punches and kicks ; Bart ( The third player ), who wields his skateboard ; and Lisa ( The fourth player ), who uses a jump rope like a whip.

The post-animatic rewrite was to include the joke in which Homer uses the radio dial to tip the precariously balanced plow back onto the road.

However, where Homer uses the concept as a free-standing idea which gives Helen life after death, Euripides entangles it with the idea of kleos, one being the product of the other.

He then traces the semasiological history of the hamart-group of the words from Homer ( who also tried to determine the meaning behind the word ) and Aristotle, concluding that of the three possible meanings of hamartia ( missing, error, offense ), the Stagirite uses the second in our passage of Poetics.

Goose does so and Homer uses his leverage to get himself some novelty items as well.

Homer grabs the giant " M " from the side of the monorail and uses it as an anchor.

In the episode, Bart orders a mail-order spy camera, which he uses to secretly take a photograph of Homer dancing with an exotic belly dancer.

**" Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily ": Skinner uses " Sweet Georgia Brown " as an oath when he finds Bart and Lisa disheveled and suspects that it has something to do with Homer and Marge neglecting them at home.

Eventually Homer uses it to make a giant ball of deep-fried, caramel-covered, cotton candy.

Homer tells Bart that he can buy a $ 50 ticket if he uses his own money.

As well as this, whenever Homer describes the details of ' xenia ' he uses the same formula every time, for example the maid pouring wine into the gold cups, etc.

As Marge and the children are enjoying dinner, Homer begins chasing the family with an axe and Bart uses his powers to call Willie, who runs to the family's rescue, dropping his portable television in the snow.

* In The Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", Homer Simpson is hit in the head by a pitch while playing for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, rendering him unconscious, but forcing in the winning run.

In " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ), it is revealed via flashback that Marge attended Springfield High School, and in her final year met Homer Simpson.

These include working as a nuclear technician alongside Homer at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in " Marge Gets a Job " ( season four, 1992 ); selling houses in " Realty Bites " ( season nine, 1997 ); owning her own pretzel business in " The Twisted World of Marge Simpson " ( season eight, 1997 ), and working at an erotic bakery in " Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes " ( season 20, 2008 ).

Another episode (" Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ") Homer and Howard are fighting each other while appearing on The Springfield Squares.

" Mother Simpson " ( season seven, 1995 ) depicts Homer's mother, Mona, as a radical who went into hiding in the mid-1960s following a run-in with the law ; " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ) shows Homer falling in love with Marge Bouvier as a senior at Springfield High School in the 1970s ; and " I Married Marge " ( season three, 1991 ) implies that Marge became pregnant with Bart in 1980.

Grampa is a veteran of both World War I ( by enlisting as a toddler ) and World War II who was later sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle by Homer.

Homer ran over Hans once again while he was carrying a sign saying " YOU SUCK " in a field of signposts saying " No Dumping " in regards to Lake Springfield in The Simpsons Movie.

Moe is the proprietor and bartender of Moe's Tavern, a Springfield bar frequented by Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, Carl Carlson, Lenny Leonard, Sam, Larry, and others.

In " Flaming Moe's " ( 1991 ), he is called Morris by his lover, while in " The Springfield Connection " ( 1995 ), Homer refers to Moe by the Arabic " Moammar ", and in " Eeny Teeny Maya Moe " ( 2009 ), he suggests that he only changed his name to Moe when he purchased Moe's Tavern.

This is not his last foray into attempted leadership of Springfield ; in the Season 17 episode " See Homer Run ", he is one of over 200 candidates for mayor, following his usual catchphrase into " BEST MAYOR EVER.

Barney was born on April 20th ( which Homer remembers as being on the same day as Hitler's in " Viva Ned Flanders " and Barney's entry into the Springfield Film Festival in " A Star Is Burns " where Barney states that he is 40 years old ).

As revenge, Homer fooled Barney into plowing a driveway on Widow's Peak, a treacherous mountain outside of Springfield.

Apu is the proprietor of the Kwik-E-Mart, a popular convenience store in Springfield, and a friend of Homer Simpson.

Apu responded by purchasing a forged birth certificate from the Springfield Mafia that listed his parents as U. S. citizens Herb and Judy Nahasapeemapetilon, but when he realized he was forsaking his origins, he abandoned this plan and instead successfully managed to pass his citizenship test with help from Lisa and Homer Simpson.

" In " The Joy of Sect ", the episode in which the whole town of Springfield is deceived into joining a cult, Lovejoy kidnaps Homer with Groundskeeper Willie from the cult and violently hits him across the head numerous times hoping to knock him out.

Bernice is known to be something of a heavy drinker ; this has been joked about on at least one occasion ( in " Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment ", she faints upon reading the news that Prohibition has been introduced in Springfield ).

Clancy Wiggum, more commonly known as ' Chief Wiggum ', grew up in Springfield, but is originally from Ireland and was among the same class and age group as Homer Simpson, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Barney Gumble, and Marge Simpson ( née Bouvier ).

At Springfield Downs, Homer, inspired by an announcement about a last-minute entry named Santa's Little Helper, bet all his money on the 99-1 long shot.

In this episode Homer becomes a crusader for citizen safety in Springfield, and is promoted to his current position as Nuclear Safety Inspector for the entire power plant.

Mrs. Krabappel takes Bart's class on a field trip to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, where everybody watches as Homer crashes an electric cart into a cooling vent and is fired.

Unsatisfied with his own efforts, Homer takes on the biggest danger in Springfield, the nuclear power plant.

Ned ’ s dogged friendship inspires the loyalty of others ; when his Leftorium appeared on the verge of bankruptcy shortly after it opened, Homer arranged a George Bailey-esque bailout with the help of many people in Springfield.

Larry is put to work in Sector 7G at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant alongside Homer and the two become fast friends.

Levy appeared in the corner of a poster hanging outside the movie theatre in Springfield in the " See Homer Run " episode of The Simpsons.