{"id":9424,"date":"2010-11-10T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9424"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","slug":"day-3-simpsons-trivia-game-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9424","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 – Simpsons Trivia Game (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Tuesday, November 9, 2010)<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I made it easy on myself today.\u00a0 I gave away a game I have never once played.\u00a0 It’s a Simpsons trivia game in a tin container that Melissa gave me one year as one of those goofy little “extra” gifts that you throw in with the “real” gift at Christmas time.\u00a0 I like the Simpsons.\u00a0 I just don’t like games.\u00a0 And so it had been relegated to the garage where it\u00a0rested on a counter top for … literally … years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So this morning I was in the garage to get an extension cord because I planned to go to my mom’s house after school today to blow her leaves away from her house.\u00a0 I saw that pathetic tin box and decided to set the Simpson’s free from the garage.\u00a0 I say I gave it away, but technically what I did was put it on the shelf in my classroom which houses a stack of straggly board games.\u00a0 It will finally get used.\u00a0 The 7th and 8th graders get to play games sometimes on Fridays for the last 20 minutes or so of class.\u00a0\u00a0The Simpsons\u00a0will get attention if for no other reason than it is novel and has all its pieces!\u00a0 And when I pack up my room a year and a half from now (God willing), I will leave\u00a0the\u00a0Simpsons trivia game\u00a0on that shelf.\u00a0 And that will virtually guarantee that it will\u00a0NEVER be thrown away! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If I had the money back from all the unused items around this house that I or Melissa or one of the kids spent money on, I’d be a rich man.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can’t leave this post without at least mentioning my all-time favorite Simpsons episode … and it was my favorite even before I began to consider the possibility that I might become a missionary.\u00a0 It’s the episode from a few years back called “Missionary: Impossible.” \u00a0Homer is watching PBS and he gets impatient with all the phonathon fundraising interrupting his program so he calls in a pledge of ten thousand dollars to get them to shut up and return to the show.\u00a0 Of course he has no intention of paying up and he’s surprised when folks from PBS hunt him down.\u00a0 Reverend Lovejoy\u00a0helps Homer escape by putting him on a plane for “Microasia” where Homer replaces some departing missionaries.\u00a0 Instead of finishing the half-built\u00a0chapel, Homer decides to\u00a0erect a casino.\u00a0 When the morals of the island collapse, Homer reluctantly finishes building the chapel.\u00a0 The best line of the whole episode (in my humble opinion) is when Homer steps back from the church building and admires his handiwork:\u00a0 “Well, I may not know much about God, but I\u00a0have to say\u00a0we built a pretty nice cage<\/strong> for Him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Tuesday, November 9, 2010) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I made it easy on myself today.\u00a0 I gave away a game I have never once played.\u00a0 It’s a Simpsons trivia game in a tin container that Melissa gave me one year as one of those goofy little “extra” gifts that you throw in with the “real” gift at Christmas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9425,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions\/9425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}