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

are vikings viking at being vikings

Wowwww that THor gif is fantastic./

Ralph idl (in dream life):
http://meuk.ouweouwe.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/viking.gif

I am the general population! This is the default, obvious reading of this joke!

This is kind of like saying that viewing this as a gaping mouth with 3 top teeth and 4 bottom teeth is the obvious, default reading of this image:

http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/res_halls/RTK/KRSS/KG_K1/images/batman-logo-large-view.gif

like... yes I see how can view it that way but I seriously doubt that was what was intended

to me, you "dreamers" are the bat-tooth-see-ers.

Come on, that's a bit of a challops, surely.

smh

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8sVAY2TlYo

Someone wake me when this is over.

When I was a kid I frequently had a recurring dream where I had to fight sapient refrigerators and ovens in a giant, glowing pyramid that had pterodactyls flying over it.

― Walter Melon (Abbott), Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:18 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

you too???

I like the resource-pooling idea. I'd like to get a solid resolution to this.

This is kind of like saying that viewing this as a gaping mouth with 3 top teeth and 4 bottom teeth is the obvious, default reading of this image:

I seriously never understood it was a bat until the 2nd movie came out.

guys this is INCREDIBLE

but seriously: can ANYONE name any example other than the buffy one of the word viking being used to mean anything other than 'I am probably muscly and wear a hat with horns'???

Uh, even on "Buffy" that's probably what it meant. Remember, Anya consorted with actual Vikings once upon a time.

I never saw the show so my only Anya reference is the ANTM contestant.. :)

I, on the other hand, am a nerd.

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/blink/2008/03/14/anya_antm.jpg

"in the sack, he is very much of a Viking"

I'm a Lostafarian. (xp)

LOL!

but seriously: can ANYONE name any example other than the buffy one of the word viking being used to mean anything other than 'I am probably muscly and wear a hat with horns'???

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 3:01 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

can anyone name one example of someone saying "tastes like...burning!" before that simpsons episode

What confuses me even more than people defaulting to option A are the ones that truly, honestly CANNOT FATHOM how ANYONE could POSSIBLY consider option A to be valid.

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the fact that ralph can't make simple grammatically correct phrases "tastes like...burning" / "that's unpossible" etc. is probably a good sign that he's not going to be creating complicated metaphors

I still don't get why you guys are arguing that ralph is /intending/ to create a complicated metaphor.

because that's what the bizarro interpretation depends on?

people create silly 'complicated' metaphors all the time through misusing language - how is babee formed - doesn't mean that they did so intentionally

you guys are also not looking at the screencaps - he looks so sad!

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/wargames.jpg

ralph doesn't recognize the nature of dreaming, he just thinks he's a viking when he goes to sleep because he previously had a dream or series of dreams in which he was a viking. the joke is character-based. ralph doesn't have the self-consciousness necessary for assessing his performance in any field. he's "sad" because he ate a worm, plus he now hasn't got a worm.

i hate myself

greetings professor falken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbh4u_oA0rk

ralph is also capable of using language at a higher level

http://www.libertyfree.fr/simpson/images/s04e15.jpg

Zvookster OTM. (Basically, I'm with Dan on this.)

can anyone name one example of someone saying "tastes like...burning!" before that simpsons episode

you're an english major and you really think this is a good comparison?

not to mention that there's a bazillion examples of people saying food is hot/mouth is on fire

by which obv they meant their mouth is on a streak of great success

and everyone is invited

dyao stfu iirc

lol whiney if you are really so butthurt about this why don't you go tweet about it

can u show me past instances of ppl saying 'co-a-che-lla'

why is there even an 'a' in that word

good job, co-ach

man see u I'm gonna go call my co-ach-man to take me outta here

haha so who wants to talk about the emphasis on different words in the youtube clip

see also: heartburn
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btw I have it on good authority from matt groening himself that ralph is actually referring to becoming a NASA space probe sent to explore and survey Mars, the fourth planet in our solar system. it is unclear, however, if Ralph was referring to the first or second iteration of the probe.

dyao the guy who told you he'd pay you two cents a post if you started a thread that generated a lot of posts? I don't know how to tell you this man but he was pulling your chain

xpost this thread is making me want to drink until I'm convinced I'm Harriet Tubman

i will admit that i've got to be biased towards the world i've been living in since i was ten years old but i genuinely believe that the way ralph says "i'm" points to option a

shit aerosmith how else am I supposed to monetize cultural criticism in the age of new media. next thing I know you're gonna tell me I'm not really getting a book deal out of my hipster viking tumblr.

surely there is more stress on I'm than one would expect in the dyao interpretation. One would expect all the stress to fall on viking