Max Abram

4-panel comic. (1) PERSON to two listeners [in inset panel]: When the Greeks departed, they left behind a horse as a gift. [horse faces people in front of a tower] (2) We took it as a gesture of peace, but it carried a secret payload. [horse in between people] (3) One night, from within the horse, *another, smaller horse emerged!* [big horse looks behind at smaller horse] (4) PERSON: Our guards have been unable to determine the inner horse’s objective, but it has begun to show an interest in our oats. PERSON 2 from off-panel: An attack on Troy’s food supply! PERSON 3 from off-panel: How *dare* they!?

Trojan Horse

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Series winning goal by Max Pacioretty assisted by Max Domi, what did I tell you. Max/60 off the charts

Leafs are winning this series because they have more guys named Max #analytics

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The Workhorse from Whitehorse lfg

Disagree

Kevin Bieksa rambling about the Trojan War before the Canada USA game starts in an intro designed specifically for me

Jacob Wrestling the Angel, Italian School, 17th century, 📸 by @Photography514

Sometimes you get high and start waxing idiotic about how The Simpsons is about the journey from Judaism ("Abraham" Simpson) to Hellenism ("Homer" Simpson) and then finally to Christianity ("Bartholomew" Simpson) and then someone tells you to shut the fuck up, and they’re right to do so.

Reporting for duty

I don't have many elitist tendencies, but one hill I will die on is that the best way to experience Homer is in the original Greek/4:3 aspect ratio

Excerpt from Jules Verne: "Oh, with figures you may prove anything!" "But it is the same with facts!"

Simpsons quote: Homer says "Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true."

TIL Jules Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1864) wrote for the Simpsons (Lisa the Skeptic, S9E8)

Alcinous raising taxes so he and his friends can give a random dude who just spent hours lying to him a bunch of fancy gifts. Phaeacians need to revolt imo

The juxtaposition of "archer your arrows barely scratched me" and the foot wound forcing him to leave the battle is one of my favourite parts of the Iliad

Met a dog in the elevator and his name was Jude, so I said "hey Jude" and then I laughed, and his people laughed, and the dog didn't laugh cuz he doesn't know who the Beatles are.
Overall, 10/10 elevator ride, would do again.

Reading the Iliad, every time Nestor tells a story from his youth, all I can do is picture Abe Simpson rambling. I know Nestor is supposed to be a well-respected elder, but his stories have big "I was wearing an onion on my belt, as was the style at the time" energy.

Sub pelliculís canticórum á mé Latíné versórum saepe commentárií leguntur hominum nárrantium daemonas appáruisse sibi ea cantica canentibus: salsé! sed cavét... Halloween treat! BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY in LATIN, COPTIC, and GREEK - ft the Exorcism of PGM IV

Someone took passages from one of the Greek Magical Papyri and adapted them to the music of Bohemian Rhapsody, this is awesome www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrFZ...

I bet I could write a sick comparison between Donkey in the Shrek movies and donkeys in Aesop's fables

Katherine Ryan demonstrated this in the "Perform a Miracle" task on the first Champion of Champions! youtu.be/FVvN4sk0zjA?...

Original scene from the Simpsons Homer suicide scene (original) Simpsons sad

Anyway, it's kinda wild that Homer literally tried to kill himself in Episode 3 of the Simpsons, and it went on to become one of the most successful TV shows of all time www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS1v...

Trying to find a clip from a specific Simpsons episode so I searched the title of the episode, and soon as I hit search on "Homer's Odyssey" I realized I'm an idiot

The reveal at the end of why Fry was telling Leela to wake up still gives me chills every time. So good.

Diomedes in Book 6 of the Iliad: "I am not one to fight the heavenly gods"

Diomedes in Book 5 of the Iliad: fights both Aphrodite and Apollo

The Leafs remain the Leafs and the Sens looked respectable against the best team in the league. Could have been a worse opening night!

The funniest parts of the Iliad are when soldiers go on massive monologues in the middle of battle. Aeneas tells Pandarus to stop Diomedes in book 5, and Pandarus replies with a tangent about his father's horses. A+ humour. Homer was the first comedian.