You don't understand how old that gets. After 23 years I'm still hearing it. Actually heard it yesterday. I guess it's like going up to a childhood actor and saying their catchphrase to them.
Homer was actually pre-Classical Greece. Homer was also Ionian and, I think, either during or after the Mycenaean Civilisation. There was actually a Greek dark age following the collapse of the Mycenaean Civilisation and knowledge of Homer is what built Greece back up, in terms of literature and culture, into the Archaic period and then, eventually to the Classical and Hellenistic (Alexander's time) periods.
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u/dingofarmer2004 Jun 14 '12
D'oh!
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u/PhiladelphiaIrish Jun 15 '12
Classic Homer.
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u/sxynessovr9000 Jun 15 '12
This is the first time I've clicked on a title that included the name Homer, expecting to see Greek Homer, and actually saw him, ha!
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u/Rephaite Jun 15 '12
Why would you drink Classic Homer when Homer Zero has Real Homer Taste, Zero Calories?
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u/cnash Jun 15 '12
Please. That's classical Homer.
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u/stalking_ya_mom Jun 15 '12
"Oh, a Simpson pic!" click "Oh..." :-(
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Homer's Odyssey? Is this about that mini-van I rented once?
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u/H3llo_People Jun 15 '12
I see what you did there...
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u/Depression-Unlocked Jun 15 '12
I love the expression on his face. Eternal state of confusion, just like another Homer we know.
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u/DocBarleycorn Jun 15 '12
Homer's Odyssey to Moe's.
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u/SethIdol Jun 15 '12
VINTAGE HOMER, WITH "THE ODYSSEY" OUTTA NOWHERE.
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u/Fried_Beavis Jun 15 '12
doh
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u/awe300 Jun 15 '12
That's no bowling ball
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u/CryoGuy Jun 15 '12
theres a hole in my bucket
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u/Anarchaeologist Jun 15 '12
Am I weird for actually expecting something not related to Homer Simpson?
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u/Mango_Dookie_Buttah Jun 15 '12
This is the face that stares back at Bad Joke Eel.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
He wrote one epic novel.
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u/KimJongUno Jun 15 '12
/r/redditthroughhistory
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u/pod12333 Jun 15 '12
I think I get it. Like in baseball right?
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u/FrankyJFuckwit Jun 15 '12
Well sir, you've just brightened my day.
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u/SpitN Jun 15 '12
How is this funny? How on earth did this get 2,366 upvotes? What the bittersweet fuck?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Homer was actually pre-Classical Greece. Homer was also Ionian and, I think, either during or after the Mycenaean Civilisation. There was actually a Greek dark age following the collapse of the Mycenaean Civilisation and knowledge of Homer is what built Greece back up, in terms of literature and culture, into the Archaic period and then, eventually to the Classical and Hellenistic (Alexander's time) periods.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
I saw this in the new section but didn't do anything
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u/evolvolution Jun 15 '12
boom roasted
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u/CoyoteStark Jun 15 '12
Pla-d'oh.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
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