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

http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/17d2/timesnewviking.jpg

THE LONGSHIP APPROACHETH, LOAD YER MUSKETS

This is or will be a 1000+ thread

hope you guys never see the far side's "cow tools"

you're revolutionizing my thinking about vikings, but that doesnt change the popular archetype bro

Gary Larson has explained cow tools, thank god.

oh so now were falling for the idea of "authorial intent"?

I think my favorite part about this is how this debate is that this is the closest we've come so far to proving that brain viruses can exist a la neal stephenson's snow crash

lol I wanted to bring that up but felt it would only do harm xp

I think my favorite part about this is how this debate is that this is the closest we've come so far to proving that brain viruses can exist a la neal stephenson's snow crash the rampaging effects of syphilis.

I don't think cow tools could ever be as divisive as sleep Viking, it's just vague, there aren't two definite interpretations that would divide folks like here.

of course part of being a fundamentalist "B" grouper means u think that there is only one worthwhile interpretation so

I know two things; the literalist reading of the Bible is the correct one and Ralph is dreaming of being a Viking in his sleep.

Yeah, maybe. I'm definitely a Viking of Sleep man, but I'm not saying I don't see any point in Viking in Sleep crew's argument, I just feel it doesn't work as well.

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Jesus I can't believe this thread hit like 850+. I go to class for one fucking afternoon and come home to this

yeah laugh now but when the vikings are at your doorstep and all you have to defend yourself is a throw pillow you'll be wishing you had listened now

http://financialmarketer.com/files/capital_one.jpg

^ ralph, being a viking at making responsible credit decisions

Jesus I can't believe this thread hit like 850+. I go to class for one fucking afternoon and come home to this

― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 8:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

tbf half this thread is ppl going 'cant believe we're arguing about this'

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/130039976_3c633b7276.jpg

^viking ralphing at this whole argument

http://www.3simplerules.com/images/digging.jpg

^ deej arguing

Option-"A"-ers worse than anti-vaccinators

Ralph: I'm a brick!

Ralph: I'm happy and angry

Ralph: I look like cable TV!

Ralph: I'm a unitard!

Ralph: I'm Idaho!

Ralph is Idaho, or as its postal abbreviation state to the delight of bearded Viennese at the turn of the last century, the ID. Makes you think.

lol Abbott

under my government the right to give a Viking the business end of your rifle if he removes his helmet in a lady's presence will not be abridged

― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

XD

if you wait 2 hours or so between coming back to this thread, it becomes a kind of random topic generator

deej sounds literally insane and i worry about him

um I think that everyone who posted to this thread sounds pretty fucking insane tbh. I showed snippets to my friend and she was dumbfounded that somebody was trying to argue about Ralph Wiggum with postmotherfuckingmodernism. Seriously, guys. What the fuck.

stevie d, bad news--you are insane

This thread makes me regret the fact that later today I will be in NYC.

argument #4316 against A: if you're making the joke that Ralph excels at sleeping, you don't muck it up by piling on a joke that the majority of the audience will not even register about Ralph inventing slang.

#4317: the emphasis would be on *I'm* in Ralph's delivery of the line. but it ain't.

xxp dude I figured that out when I was like 9 and watching QVC as much as Nickelodeon.

I don't know the "bum / lips" thing though, so, y'know, English.

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/UK_shipping_forecast_zones.png/400px-UK_shipping_forecast_zones.png

Maybe Ralph is referring to the Shipping Forecast, where, of course, 'Viking' is a metaphor for "moderate or good, occasionally poor".

omg you fucking ppl

and I mean that (mostly) with love, of course

This thread:

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2433/neverland3ko1.jpg

how many of Team A are trolling?

does ILX have 9/11 truthers too?

lol @ the backpatting abt how much smarter ilx is than other message boards bcuz so many of our loudest are "B" evangelicals

This thread makes me regret the fact that later today I will be in NYC.

― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy)

loooooool

lol @ the backpatting abt how much smarter ilx is than other message boards bcuz so many of our loudest are "B" evangelicals

― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

No the backpatting is because we only have a handful of people who would ever troll/honestly defend A.

thats exactly what im saying? minus your backpatting

http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/52516825/544703

thats exactly what im saying? minus your backpatting

― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:25 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

Our two statements are totally different; are you high?

argument #4316 against A: if you're making the joke that Ralph excels at sleeping, you don't muck it up by piling on a joke that the majority of the audience will not even register about Ralph inventing slang.

But the joke is not just that he excels at sleep, it's also that he thinks a "Viking of sleep" is a proper way to describe oneself. The humor comes both from the form and the content. And The Simpsons isn't really famous for it's straightforward and pleasing-the-majority humor, is it? There are many Simpsons jokes that the "majority" probably doesn't get immediately. For example, when Mr. Burns first answered the telephone "A-hoy hoy!", I'm pretty sure the majority of viewers only thought he has a funny way of answering the phone, and didn't get that it was a historical joke.

Also, many people (including me) in this thread have noted that they immediately interpreted Ralph's line as "excelling in sleep". And in the poll linked to above, 35% of the answerers thought so too. So it's not like it was some super-complicated gag that only a handful of people got.

#4317: the emphasis would be on *I'm* in Ralph's delivery of the line. but it ain't.

No, the emphasis is on the word "Viking", but that doesn't prove it either way. When he says "That's where I'm a Viking!", it could be the same as saying "That's where I'm the best!". He just wants to emphasize the "best" part, it's perfectly common.

idgtt

There are many reasons to ephasize words in a sentence other than to indicate that you.think you're the best.

No the backpatting is because we only have a handful of people who would ever troll/honestly defend A.

Why is it that the Viking of Sleep people are willing to accept that the Viking in Sleep crew interpreted the line differently, but so many of the Viking in Sleep folks accuse us of being trolls? Makes you guys look kinda bad.

There are many reasons to ephasize words in a sentence other than to indicate that you.think you're the best.

Of course there are. But Granny Dainger's argument was that because Ralph put the emphasis on the word "Viking" and not the word "I'm", that would automatically be a proof against the "Viking of sleep" interpretation. And I just wanted to point out that it isn't necessarily so: there are many ways to interpret Ralph's emphasis.

Why is it that the Viking of Sleep people are willing to accept that the Viking in Sleep crew interpreted the line differently, but so many of the Viking in Sleep folks accuse us of being trolls? Makes you guys look kinda bad.

It's because there's a wrong answer to this, and it's your one.

Makes you guys look kinda bad.

We're all cool with that