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Jebediah Springfield
Springfield's town founder, Jebediah Springfield isn't exactly what the history books and short films (starring Troy McClure) would have you believe. Here's what the history books want you to believe:
In 1796, Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Jedediah Springfield, a brave pioneer and woodsman founded the town of Springfield. He built the town's first hospital out of mud and logs. He tamed the buffalo or as he named it, the land cow, and he even killed a bear with his bare hands.
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Lately, I've been bored, and I've been reading a lot of best and worst Simpsons episode lists, and I thought that I would try to cram another salted snack treat into the world's already bloated snack hole... if you know what I mean. (If you don't, watch the season eight episode "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson.")
Warning: The soapbox you are about to read contains very few facts, and is mostly the opinions of me. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and is almost entirely me rambling on about the Simpsons. I suppose the only time it would be useful is if you've never seen the...
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In the tradition of the "Nuts!" campaign that compelled CBS to resurrect Jericho by shipping hundreds of pounds of nuts to CBS's corporate offices, http://www.TheFanUnion.com has begun a movement targeted towards the networks and the AMPTP to urge them, through the nuisance of fan activism, to bring the strike to an end so our favorite show(s) can move forward.
Our plan is to have fans, as many as we can get, to mail the studio head of their choice a lovely, but very inexpensive, Roller Skate charm. A "Cheap Skate" for a bunch of Cheap...
A memorabilia dealer who profited from O.J. Simpson for many years is the latest former crony to write a tell-all book, this one alleging a groggy Simpson, high on marijuana, confessed to killing his ex-wife ...
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