O/T Pop Quiz: The Simpsons

[TightPaulFolds]

How many children have Homer as their father, and what are their names?

[snoopy1239]

That's TV, not pop. 

[TightPaulFolds]

Don't dodge the question, o floppy-eared one

Noun 1. pop quiz - a quiz given without prior warning

[TightPaulFolds]

£10 says this thread will run to 30+ replies. This question just runs and runs and runs...

[tikay]

£10 says this thread will run to 30+ replies. This question just runs and runs and runs...

Well, 4 hitherto, including 3 from you, so you could  be right......

[thetank]

Lock it for a laff, lock it for £10

[tikay]

Lock it for a laff, lock it for £10

That'd be cheating. It's a thought though.....

You are a genuine subversive Mr Tank.

[TightPaulFolds]

Lock it for a laff, lock it for £10

I've seen this question asked before somewhere. It goes onnnn.....
I'm scottish...you think I lay £10 on the line without looking at all the angles?

tikay. please don't lock. I blew £50 on crazy pineapple.

[thetank]

I'll go for the easy (so undoubtably wrong) answer first and get it out of the way.

3, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

[Ginger]

How many children have Homer as their father, and what are their names?

I can only think of 4, so it must be a trick question. Bart, Hugo (evil twin) Lisa and Maggie.

[TightPaulFolds]

Homer is Maggie's dad?

[Swordpoker]

How many children have Homer as their father, and what are their names?

I can only think of 4, so it must be a trick question. Bart, Hugo (evil twin) Lisa and Maggie.

Does Matt Groening (sp?) count? He's still a child at heart.

[snoopy1239]

Is it a joke answer, like 'he's not real' or something or how many kids in the world.

[JungleCat03]

How many children have Homer as their father, and what are their names?

I can only think of 4, so it must be a trick question. Bart, Hugo (evil twin) Lisa and Maggie.

Wasn't hugo in a haloween special though, where the stories don't really occur in simpson world? After many vodkas and  red bulls tho there is a good chance i am talking bs.

[Geo the Sarge]

Homer on children:

Children Who Resemble Their Fathers

In Homer's Odyssey (1.206-216, tr. A.T. Murray and George E. Dimock), the goddess Athena disguised as Mentes talks with Odysseus' son Telemachus:

"But come, tell me this and declare it truly, whether indeed, tall as you are, you are the son of Odysseus himself. Wondrously like his are your head and beautiful eyes; for many were the times we consorted with one another before he embarked for the land of Troy, whither others, too, the bravest of the Argives, went in their hollow ships. But since that day neither have I seen Odysseus, nor he me."

Then wise Telemachus answered her: "Therefore, stranger, will I frankly tell you all. My mother says that I am his child; but I do not know this, for never yet did any man know his parentage of his own knowledge."
For most of human history, children did not know for certain the identities of their fathers. This ignorance may be one impulse behind those societies that defined their membership through the maternal line alone. It is only recently that blood and DNA tests have allowed children to know for sure who their fathers are (and vice versa).

Just thought I'd add a wee bit education.

Geo