The Simpsons for Unschoolers

My husband brought papers for me to sign. He's moving my IRA to the Navy credit union (his dad was a WWII pilot, and his brother was on a submarine years later)

We were talking about insurance policies his dad has for the kids, which are paid for by interest from an IRA that's in Holly's name, bought by her grandparents. Holly wanted us to tell her what we were talking about. I said it would be enough money if she died that we could bury her and have a party. She acted like that sounded good. I said maybe we could put her out between Purple and Luna (a cat and rat of hers, both in the flowerbed out back). I said maybe we could pay the house off with the insurance money so we wouldn't ever have to sell it and lose Holly's grave.

Illegal to bury her in the yard? Maybe.

I suggested that we could get a stone that says "Luna, beloved rat of Holly," and underline Holly, so God would know it was actually her.

Holly said God is a genius and would know anyway.

"Why's God a genius?" Keith asked. He just is. I suggested "butterflies." Holly concurred.

Keith said God's omnipotent, so he knows everything.

Will he turn us in to the city?
Probably.

I said, "That's omnicient. Omnipotent means he can do anything, all-powerful. And (to Holly I said) the question that goes with that is whether God can make a rock so big that he himself can't pick it up. If not, he's not omnipotent.

Holly, without missing a beat: "I thought the question was whether Jesus could microwave a burrito so hot that he himself couldn't eat it."

I HOOTED!

Me: "Well yes, that's the same question, updated. Where did it come from?"

"The Simpsons."

"Who asked it?"

"Homer."

SOME SONGS FROM THE SIMPSONS: Parodies of the theme song of Cheers, something from Mary Poppins, "Canyonero" (truck commercial sung by Hank Williams, Jr.) and some other things... Here's YouTube, in case you want to see if you can find videos of any of those, or other Simpsons stuff, and here's Google video.