Oh boy, ILX! That's where I'm a viking!..?

just a hunch but I'm saying some of these women aren't actually lesbians

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, April 26, 2010 2:38 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

THERE ARE NONE
THIS IS WHAT IS CALLED AN "ORIGINAL JOKE"

(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."

Sleep? You've got another think coming!

i'm so sorry for bringing this cancer here

no i think that's called a bizarre misreading of a simple joke

as long as my "bizarre misreadings" of jokes are actually funnier than the other possible readings, I'm cool with it

h8 u so much whiney

xpost you'd find the correct reading funnier if your heels weren't dug in tho

also you're reading is dumb and unfunny. "ralph equates being good at something as being viking at it, chortle".

oh boy "you're"

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?

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

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.

lol ok to the next person who reminds us that arguing about what is funny is pointless: we know

ugh i now want to kill myself and everyone else here.

okay now THIS is a board description

hahahahaha

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."

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/

jim u may have something there

lol hstencil never forget

whiney is like our older cousin showing us filthy message board threads when we're 13

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

jesus god why did i bookmark this abortion

a b c winning the devolution of the argument award

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

The next thread should be an argument about what Ralph really meant when he said "My cat's breath smells like cat food."

for ralph, "cat food" means "totally awesome"

this thread is not cat food

http://www.richmolnar.com/Sounds/Homer%20-%20You%27re%20all%20nuts.wav

I bent my "Wookie"

lol!

http://c2.api.ning.com/files/*K0CPt1rhrSSvi5mrSpSuDdXRTF4U5C6-Ma1FXvlc38_/wook17.jpg

I love all of you.

also feeling sad I broke this promise:

I am NOT arguing about the Simpsons on the internet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:25 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

But when you say "love"....

like I'm a worse person, now that I've argued about The Simpsons on the Internet, and one day my daughter will find this thread and think that I was a terrible person

yeah but prob cause you didn't understand a simple joke

give it time, ILX will by the end of day have a pejorative adjective ending in "ist" for both supporters of Option A AND Option b.

n/a to make amends you must raise your daughter to be a Viking irl

meaning raise his daughter to be awesome, or to be a literal Viking?

she must be a viking at being a viking

http://www.mtbs.com/bkbz/kidwar/02_bg.jpg

just gonna reaffirm that option B absolutists = pred ship denyers

: D

dear god AaronHZ may be drawn to this thread if you mention the pred ship....

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, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:36 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

ftr I totally don't get this argument, when has ralph ever been aware of the import of anything he says. he's totally the kid you teach solecisms to who'll never question the meaning of it and always use it. someone taught one of the chinese tutors at my last job that saying "I'm really horny!" was a cool & american way of saying "I'm really happy!" and he went around for a week telling people he was really horny before someone broke it to him.

and then afterwards he pooped right before showering....

So we need to assume that someone has already told Ralph that "viking" = "expert"?