15
Nov
When Homer thought there were no doughnuts…
…is my favourite Simpsons moment ever!
Homer started travelling back in time with a toaster cum time machine he built (didn’t he learn anything about the perils of messing around with the space-time continuum from watching Back To The Future 1, 2, or 3???) and in one alternate universe everything was better than perfect but sans doughy sugary goodness. Obviously he freaked out over this untenable situation while in his haste to leave he missed out on seeing doughnuts actually just raining from the sky and the people who inhabited this magical alternate universe thought nothing of them. I just remembered that after reading John Birmingham’s request for a Simpsons quote to use in his BRW column and it made me laugh.
You would have noticed I chose to use the spelling doughnuts and not donuts. Wikipedia the world’s journal of record on everything says Doughnuts which usually would be enough to give me confidence in my decision but Google says the Intamaweb has 11,500,000 for Donuts but only 3,890,000 for Doughnuts. This really troubles me. Is Wiki or G! wrong? Also in the Doughnuts corner is Krispy Kreme while Dunkin Donuts has made their choice of spelling very clear. I have no idea how this food group (yes, food group) and it’s associated franchised distributors became so popular when the substance in question can’t even decide what it should be called. Very poor branding. For more info about my war on the english language in marketing/advertising please consider buying one of my books. Splendid.
Anthony: I have to go home.
Kate Hudson: (waves her fingers down in front of my face) You are
home. (places her head on my shoulder)
SNAP!!!
