“Homer Goes to College”
Homer made a bookshelf out of four planks and six cinder blocks:
Marge: Homer, we have a perfectly good bookcase.
Homer: Yeah, but this is what they’re doing on campus. Besides, it isn’t costing us: I swiped the cinderblocks from a construction site.
Meanwhile, at the construction site:
Worker: Sir, six cinderblocks are missing.
Boss: There’ll be no hospital, then. I’ll tell the children.
Neither passing nor cutting are what they used to be and motion offences are suffering as a result. But there’s a nice bookcase next to the bench by the pick-up court.
In the N.B.A.
During training camp practice:
Player: I don’t feel like closing out hard in this drill. We talkin’ about practice.