Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'
I have always been a huge sports fan, but more of the pedestrian and 'homer' sort.
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.
I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet.
