Here is an interview with Conan O'Brien about his life with the Simpsons. One part sticks out.....
I look back at a few periods and realize, "Gee, I think I lost my mind a little bit during certain stretches." I used to walk around the Fox lot, and I found two pieces of a broken pool cue in an alley. There were two pieces that screwed together with a brass fitting, and then unscrewed. Jeff Martin and I developed a whole game around unscrewing it, flipping both handles in opposite hands, and screwing it back together, and how many times could we do that in a one-minute period. We developed all these complicated rules involving how far your wrists had to be apart, and so forth, and we took it really seriously.
"See how many envelopes you can close in one minute, then try to beat that record."--Seymour Skinner
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