# My son is ready to become a Simpsons writer

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 11, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-is-ready-to-become-a-simpsons-writer/637386 "2012-10-11T02:50:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-is-ready-to-become-a-simpsons-writer/637386/1 "2012-10-11T02:50:59Z")

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So we’re talking, just playing around, and he says he’d like to not go to daycare after school. Sarcastically, I asked him what he was going to do after school – did he plan to don a leather jacket and become a bully, extorting a quarter from kids who crossed his turf?

“That’d be great,” he wistfully replied. “I’d be respected AND feared – like the Buddha.”

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-is-ready-to-become-a-simpsons-writer/637386/2 "2012-10-11T04:23:12Z")

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Heck, I’d have given him a quarter just for that line.

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-is-ready-to-become-a-simpsons-writer/637386/3 "2012-10-11T12:38:21Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Heck, I’d have given him a quarter just for that line.

No kidding – it was so strongly Homerish that I asked him if he was quoting the show, and he told me he Mae it up.

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**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-is-ready-to-become-a-simpsons-writer/637386/4 "2012-10-11T12:45:22Z")

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Better start trying to get him in to Harvard now.