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Arglebargle or Foofaraw?

By The Daily Dish
Apr 25 2007, 3:23 AM ET

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A reader writes:

And to think I previously respected your Simpson's I.Q. "Foofaraw" is used in an episode listed among the Top 25 all-time as chosen by Entertainment Weekly.

As a labor relations attorney, it is probably my all time favorite. In "Last Exit to Springfield" Homer becomes plant union boss and goes mano-a-mano with Mr. Burns over the employee dental plan, among other hot worker issues of the day. Homer, of course, trades all for a keg of beer in the lunchroom. And don't miss Lisa's touching picket-line folk singing..."they have the plant, but we have the power".

Anyway, reporter Kent Brockman, in commenting on the story, asks the immortal question as a pithy commentary: "Arglebargle, or fooferaw?"

I will now slink back to my cubicle.



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