picking up on a phrase that was used as early as 1752, Benjamin Disraeli famously referred to the “sweet simplicity of the three percents in his novel Endymion (1880) because of the reliable dividend this form of investment provided.

...and so says the king to himself, the divil receave the dhrop of that wine they shall get, says he, ... bad cess to the dhrop, says he, my big-bellied bishop, to nourish your jolly red nose...

The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.”

Craps is a simple game, made even simpler because most of the bets are worthless to the smart player, although ploppies—the unschooled, unthinking masses of casino craps players—will fall all over themselves to wager on them.