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To: GreyFriar

Homer notices that his colleagues Lenny and Carl are enjoying inexplicable privileges at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He discovers they are part of an ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. To join, one must either be the son of a Stonecutter or save the life of a Stonecutter. While extolling the Stonecutters at the dinner table, Homer discovers that his father is a member and is admitted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Great


15 posted on 01/13/2018 3:21:21 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Ah, a “play” on Socrates being a stone cutter in ancient Athens. The only Homer I’m familiar with is the ancient Greek author of the Odyssey and the Iliad.


16 posted on 01/13/2018 3:27:18 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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