The story of the lost Flanders boy and sightings in the north west............... Kneedeep wrote:.... I looked up and standing next to me was a pudgy twelve-year-old boy that looked like he just stepped out of 1950s television show....... What a lovely story Kneedeep!! Unwittingly you may have one of the few leads to solving a north west mystery that rivals the disappearance of DB Cooper. It would appear that you have possibly located the long lost 3rd son of Ned Flanders Homer Simpson's neighbor in the bucolic Eden that is Springfield U.S.A. This is how it began......... Matt Groening (back in the day, when he was a struggling 'toonist living low in the highbrow West Hills), having finally sold a strip of cells to a South Korean mega-conglomerate slaveship of animation artists for a soul guzzling amount of money and thus freed himself from ever having to stand in line at the local Starbucks for a mocha-cinno (his fave drink!). Back in those days once you had sold your characters in this fashion, you lost control and direction of their lives and for better or for worse they became the property of a soulless corporation. There to be re-drawn and sent back to the the good ol' U.S.A. in a container ship where they were unloaded in Long Beach Harbor and sold to equally soulless Hollywood financiers who attached their names to the new and improved cartoons before showing them off on upstart television stations across the country. However I'm ...