we just got to work through it bro
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i43.tinypic.com/1zlx4b6.jpg
― kind of loam but mostly sand (los blue jeans), Monday, 26 April 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ILX, that's where I'm a bottle opener!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 26 April 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
lolling so hard at that bottle opener
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 April 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
racist
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Monday, 26 April 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I know ;_;
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 April 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
to express myself in a way which those this message pertains to will understand: this thread is where i'm a viking of sbing.
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
how is this debatable? dreaming about being a viking isn't funny. sleep being the area in which one excels the most is, and it's particularly fitting for ralh. the context of the line is that Ralph just ate a worm he was supposed to dissect, the teacher tells him to sleep while the other students are learning. what he is saying is "ah, now this is something i'm good at".
― musically, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Dreaming about being a viking isn't funny. Your dreams being a separate place where you are a Viking is.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ok i swore i wasn't going to get into this but lol @ the idea that ralph could come up with a fanciful and original metaphor such as "viking" being "something you are good at"
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
also ralph dreaming about being a viking IS funny because look at him for chrissakes
as noted above, the simpsons is not exactly consistent in portraying characters' abilities and personalities, especially when they can just make a funny joke instead
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, April 26, 2010 2:32 PM (3 minutes ago)
this.
xxpost -- THAT TOO.
― Nom Nom Nom Chomsky (WmC), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
did I miss the part where people give other instances in our culture, pre-dating the Simpsons episode, where the term "viking" is used to mean "excels at"?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
the best part about this argument is "explain how that's funny!"/"ok, here's how"/"I'm not laughing" as if "explain how that's funny" will ever, anywhere, in the history of the universe, result in somebody laughing after the explanation is given
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I think we are approaching the critical "show them the lesbian orgy" portion of the argument.
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
call all destroyer otm
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i still don't understand what the Tom Green reference in the title has to do with anything.
xpost ummm
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
curse and bless you HI DERE for the gis at which I am presently agog
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
just a hunch but I'm saying some of these women aren't actually lesbians
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, April 26, 2010 2:38 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
THERE ARE NONETHIS IS WHAT IS CALLED AN "ORIGINAL JOKE"
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
(sorry for the all-caps, guys, MIA is guest-writing my posts today)
"Yo! Hey what's happening dude?I'm a guy with a rep for bein' a Viking when it comes to being rude."
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Sleep? You've got another think coming!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm so sorry for bringing this cancer here
― eyes without afaik (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
no i think that's called a bizarre misreading of a simple joke
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
as long as my "bizarre misreadings" of jokes are actually funnier than the other possible readings, I'm cool with it
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
h8 u so much whiney
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost you'd find the correct reading funnier if your heels weren't dug in tho
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
also you're reading is dumb and unfunny. "ralph equates being good at something as being viking at it, chortle".
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
oh boy "you're"
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I need to go get a haircut, but I will leave you with a link to one of my best-conceived threads: Which is more annoying: arguing about what people find funny or arguing about what people find sexy?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
egg on my face
which is funny because i have wasted perfectly good egg
you are totally egg on your face about scolding people for misreading jokes
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't see how not making any sort of sense makes something more funny, but fyi "it's funnier this way" is not ever a valid argument for whether something is a correct interpretation. ugh i now want to kill myself and everyone else here.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
lol ok to the next person who reminds us that arguing about what is funny is pointless: we know
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh i now want to kill myself and everyone else here.
okay now THIS is a board description
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
think people who misread this are too used to non-sequitur humour at this stage or something. "I'M VIKING AT SLEEP. IN WALKS FONZIE. FART."
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
if you guys want to have a serious fit, read the 1000-post board.crewcial.org take on this
http://board.crewcial.org/thread/view/201813/
― eyes without afaik (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
jim u may have something there
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
lol hstencil never forget
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney is like our older cousin showing us filthy message board threads when we're 13
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the more i think about it the more option b absolutism is one of the weirdest awful human behaviors i never woulda learned of had it not been for internet message boards
― A B C, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus god why did i bookmark this abortion
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
a b c winning the devolution of the argument award
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i just can't believe this is an argument that has haunted the internet for years and not a 24-post thread on alt.tv.simpsons in 1995
― A B C, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The next thread should be an argument about what Ralph really meant when he said "My cat's breath smells like cat food."
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
for ralph, "cat food" means "totally awesome"
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is not cat food
― iatee, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link