Matt Groening first came up with the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. He had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts, and had intended to pitch the Life in Hell series. Realizing that he would need to rescind his publication rights for his life's work, and needing to create a new idea, he sketched out his version of a dysfunctional family. He named the characters after his own family.

The Simpson family first appeared as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, with the first short, "Good Night," airing on April 19, 1987.

VOIP stands for Voice Over IP, meaning it is phone service over the Internet.
If you have a quality Internet connection you can get phone service delivered through your Internet connection instead of from your local phone company.

Some people use VOIP in addition to their traditional phone service, since VOIP service providers usually offer lower rates than traditional phone companies, but sometimes doesn't offer 911 service, phone directory listings, 411 service, or other common phone services.

Pokemon is a multi-billion dollar media franchise created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996 (it celebrated its tenth anniversary on February 27, 2006). The original Game Boy video games have since been merchandised into anime, manga, trading cards, toys, books and other media. The name, Pok?mon, is a portmanteau of its Japanese name, ?Pocket Monsters?

Customarily, coupons are issued by manufacturers of consumer packaged goods or by retailers, to be used in retail stores as a part of sales promotions. They are often widely distributed through mail, magazines, newspapers and the Internet. Internet coupons have become very popular as of late, because the cost is borne by the user (who has to print off the coupons themselves) as opposed to the businesses issuing the coupons.

Material safety data sheet or MSDS is a form containing data regarding the properties of a particular substance. An important component of workplace safety, it is intended to provide workers and emergency personnel with procedures for handling or working with that substance in a safe manner, and includes information such as physical data (melting point, boiling point, flash point, etc.), toxicity, health effects, first aid, reactivity, storage, disposal, protective equipment, and spill handling procedures.