File Under "D'OH!"
This just in: Rutgers University researcher claims that Homer Simpsons' diet is bad for you, and wants an investigation into how his eating choices influence children.
This kind of thinking deserves some sort of prize for stating the unbelievably obvious and utterly failing to grasp the concept.
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Wait, wait -- a diet of donuts and beer is *bad* for you?? How can this be?
How is it that people who are supposedly smart enough to get research grants at universities are dumb enough to miss the fact that perhaps The Simpsons might be poking fun at Homer's diet?
Silly college people. Next they'll do a study on why it's bad to grab your son by the neck and try to throttle him.
Posted by: aine42 | March 26, 2004 3:37 PM
In my experience, people who have a great deal of formal education, especially in the sciences, are often shockingly deficient in basic common sense. I suspect that it has something to do with the way their brains are wired.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | March 26, 2004 5:23 PM
It took this guy 14+ years to figure this out?
Posted by: jim | March 26, 2004 9:42 PM
They were probably milking a federal research grant...=^P
Posted by: MrBaliHai | March 27, 2004 12:35 AM