Simpsons

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-11-10 10:26pm

Now then... we need someone to flip the coin...

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-11-11 10:56am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Now then... we need someone to flip the coin...

Somebody honest...

So, that cancels out all of the Mods and 95.5% of the active posters here... (

)

Zaia can't do it, you can't do it, and I can't do it, since we're all involved...

Who's left?

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-11-11 11:19am

*raises hand*

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-11-11 01:20pm

*notes IB is crossing her fingers behind her back with her other hand*

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-11-11 02:31pm

RogueIce wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:Now then... we need someone to flip the coin...
Somebody honest...

So, that cancels out all of the Mods and 95.5% of the active posters here... ( )

Zaia can't do it, you can't do it, and I can't do it, since we're all involved...

Who's left?

I'll flip it!

Does it mean I'll get laid? No, it doesn't? No deal, then.

Now, what was this thread origionally about? I think it was about some cartoon show or something, someone fill in the blanks for me.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-11-11 02:51pm

Putting this thread back on track,list of dead Simpsons character.

Dr Marvin Monroe
Bleeding Gums Murphy
Beatrice Simmons
Frank "Grimey" Grimes
Maude Flanders

Until we have the proof Sideshow Bob.

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-11-11 03:16pm

Please, please! No need to fight over me! Don't y'all know how to share?

...That is, if I deem you worthy.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-11-11 03:35pm

Zaia wrote:Please, please! No need to fight over me! Don't y'all know how to share?

Kinky

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-11-11 04:09pm

RougeIce doesn't like to share Z, so I'm afraid we would have to take turns.

*sees IBs hand raised*

Why don't we let her flip the coin, Ice?

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-11-11 04:46pm

Montcalm wrote:Putting this thread back on track,list of dead Simpsons character.

Dr Marvin Monroe
Bleeding Gums Murphy
Beatrice Simmons
Frank "Grimey" Grimes
Maude Flanders

Until we have the proof Sideshow Bob.

Accually do, the episode with Frank Grimes Junior.

If you really must know:
Homer Simpson
Abraham Simpson
Barney Gumble
Marge Simpson
Patty Bouvier
Selma Bouvier
Lisa Simpson
Bart Simpson
Nelson Muntz
Todd Flanders
Ralph Wiggum
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Moe Szyslak
Clancy Wiggum
Carl Carlson
Nick Riviera
Kirk Van Houten
John Frink
Cletus Del Roy
Drederick Tatum
C. Montgomery Burns
Waylon Smithers
Ned Flanders
Maude Flanders
Timothy Lovejoy
Julius Hibbert
Kent Brockman
Rainier Wolfcastle
Loren J. Pryor
Edna Krabappel
Martin Prince
Milhouse Van Houten
Rod Flanders
Janey Powell
Jimbo Jones
Brandine Del Roy
Agnes Skinner
Sara Wiggum
Helen Lovejoy
Luann Van Houten
Troy McClure
Lionel Hutz

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-11-11 05:20pm

*puts Anarchistbunny and Montcalm on the List for rerailing the thread just when it promised to get interesting*

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-11-11 05:23pm

Batman wrote:*puts Anarchistbunny and Montcalm on the List for rerailing the thread just when it promised to get interesting*

Hey, this is a simpsons thead, just cause some people started drooling over Zaia doesn't mean we should stop talking about it.

*besides, this kind of thing should be restricted to the brotherhood to piss non-monkey's off*

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-11-11 05:45pm

What do you mean "started"?

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-11-11 06:55pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:What do you mean "started"?

Yeah. We've been at it for awhile.

And my definition of sharing is DP gets five minutes with the rope, I get five hours. Rope optional.

But in this thread, remember who made the suggestion first. First come (no pun intended...REALLY!), first serve.

But we'll conclude this later, DP. In the meantime, continue on with the Simpsons!

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-11-12 10:22am

BTW- I'm speculating that Homer's current car is a GAZ Volga M24, a Russian car from the 1970s which bears a vague resemblance to the one Homer drives.

Proof:

- In the episode where Homer joins the Stonecutter Society, Abraham Simpson claims to be a member of the Communist Party... and in its native USSR, the Volga was reserved for important people like politicians and KGB operatives as it was a luxury car compared to, say, a Lada or Yugo. So it's possible that as a reward the Communist Party sent Abraham Simpson a car.

- In the episode where Frank Grimes Jr. tries to kill him, Homer says that his car was made somewhere in Eastern Europe from old Soviet tanks. I know that Homer specifically mentions Slovakia - while Czechoslovakia has housed carmakers Tatra and Skoda (both state-owned under the communist regime), Skoda never made cars the size of Homer's and Tatra cars had rear-mounted engines... thus excluding the possibility of Homer's car being a Tatra.

A search around on a site about Eastern European cars revealed that the Eastern car bearing the greatest resemblance to Homer's is aforementioned Volga M24.

Some pictures:

from the front

another POV

Okay, I know this is very desperate speculation and not very plausible but it's worth the laughs.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-11-12 10:38pm

Wasn't there an episode (I think it's the one where Homer starts a farm), where Homer said it was made in Guatemala? And didn't Marge have a car at one point?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-11-12 11:12pm

The Simpson family does indeed have two cars (see the opening credits if you don't believe me), but it tends to dissappear and not show up unless needed.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-11-13 08:43am

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:Wasn't there an episode (I think it's the one where Homer starts a farm), where Homer said it was made in Guatemala?

Maybe it was disassembled in Russia, then sent to Guevara-backed revolutionaries in Guatemala who re-assembled it and somehow got it to USA. BTW - do you know any car manufacturers which have assembled cars in Guatemala?? I know that Chrysler has a factory in Mexico and Ford has one in Brazil.

In any case, I'm losing faith in my theory about Homer's car being a Volga. Particularly since Homer's car is probably not intended to resemble any specific car - and Soviet-manufactured cars were intentionally generic-looking. (the Volga being no exception) Also, Homer's car have different bumpers and slightly different rear lights than a Volga M24.

However, this particular Volga (which evidently has been used for "banger racing") bears a great resemblance to Homer's car.

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-11-13 12:50pm

Homer's car is just supposed to be a generic 80's POS car. Looks to me like an Oldsmobile.

Marge's car i dont know what make it may be but it was made in 1987--in one episode she describes it as "the light pink '87 wagon".

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-11-13 01:48pm

zombie84 wrote:Homer's car is just supposed to be a generic 80's POS car.

Possible, but if Homer's car is a GAZ Volga it's a 1970s model. In the 1980s, the Volga got facelifted so that it looked like this, although it technologically remained the same. (It was a very rare occassion that the Eastern Bloc countries restyled any of the cars they manufactured)

Looks to me like an Oldsmobile.

Oldsmobiles from the 1980s don't have round headlights, although the rear end of Homer's car almost exactly resembles those of early-to-mid '80s Oldsmobile sedans.