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

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can cats eat Eleanor Roosevelt? I don't think she'd be having any of it.

Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link

xp

I agree- anyone that tries to limit what can be considered as smelling of 'cat food' is an enemy to free thought.

just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link

my cat's bræth smells like cat fjord

Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link

is there anything in the world, then, that doesn't smell like cat food?

I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Friskies

Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link

viking food

peter in montreal, Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link

I always just assumed cat food was slang for a really awesome scent, akin to bee's knees. Mmmm mom this meal is straight cat food! You're the best!

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link

your mom smells like cat food

I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link

thanks!

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link

given a sufficiently motivated cat that can work a food processor, that is true

just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link

is there anything in the world, then, that doesn't smell like cat food?

Well, theoretically speaking, nothing really smells like cat food (except things created, labeled, packaged, or intended as Cat Food) until they've been eaten by the cat.

ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link

1000 fucking posts in this bitch

one of your top-tier posters! (history mayne), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link

an unending ring of cat

a la human caterpillar.

ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link

argh nooooooooooooo

Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link

a-yo waiting for my paycheck

I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link

cat gets ringworm, ralphs

just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link

dyao, dyao

dyalight come and me wan go hoooooom

ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

― Tuomas

If it were option (a)/"excels", he would've accented "That's", surely

too dancy, rocking, jazzy, funky or american (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link

http://quizilla.teennick.com/user_images/P/poet/1034803328_sAlixloki1.jpg
The "trickster" with a hardon for fire!

Fetchboy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link

RAGNAROK!

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh, so this thing is still going on, huh?

Mordy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link

ha not until you just posted

Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link

i almost want to count and see what percentage of those thousand posts are people going "800 posts!" or "i can't believe you guys are still posting!"

Dennis Parrotin' (some dude), Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link

V few of them iirc.

Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Flush this question out

Aimless, Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link

Don't misread my tone! I wasn't expressing dismay. I love that it's still going, tho I find it kinda suspicious that the evil option A people have all tried to divert our attention with their Cthulhu nonsense. Did you know that were it not for the Option A'ers, ILX would have won World War I?

Mordy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link

yes. who was ilx fighting in WWI again?

The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 29 April 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link

The vikings.

Walter Melon (Abbott), Thursday, 29 April 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link

think you mean the excels ats

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link

Fuckin' biplanes all with wigglepuppies on 'em.

huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Thank God. I need to know!

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link

so badly want to lock and delete this thread about 23 hours from now, but i am resisting total mod abuse

Matt Daemon (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link

for now

Matt Daemon (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link

so badly want to lock and delete this thread about 23 hours from now, but i am resisting total mod abuse

do this & send the receipts for the dinner you take your family out to tonight to me

run up a huge bar tab while you're at it, drink like a viking

brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link

uh the phrase is "The Bar? That's where I'm a Viking!" actually

just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link

run up a huge bar tab while you're at it, drink like a viking

dude you don't know what you're dealing with here

rapping about space and shit, floatin’ around in an orgy of screen savers (gbx), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link

right or wrong, granny danger always comes across like a humongous cock

Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Friday, 30 April 2010 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link

no one cares

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 April 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link

I've read just about every post imaginable in this thread. I stayed up without sleep last night, even avoiding showers or going to work. I missed my band's gig tonight so I could take more time to ponder. I turned down three opportunities at hot under the covers action so I could wrap my head around it. I then ingested some of the most highly illegal drugs known to mankind, and a little gasoline.

And I still have no idea what the fuck dyao is talking about. Answer B, stop listening to Pink Floyd and smoking up so much. Next you'll be telling me Everybody Poops is an anarchist screed about bucking conformity.

Pippi Longstockings (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Friday, 30 April 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link

But Ralph is like the guy from Memento, he can't remember anything that happened more than 10 seconds ago, now he's onto something new, taking a nap. And like everything else, he's exuberant: Naps are great. In naps you get to be a viking excel at something.

fixed. BTW, I know we're long past actually discussing this in any productive way but I do have one more wrinkle to throw in, which is that the Simpsons is/was written by committee, with a lot of the material getting added in during script reviews/dry runs and such. So, assuming even 1/6 of the population instinctively hears this joke as being an "A" joke, it's entirely possible at least one of the people who laughed at it and kept it in the script was, in fact, a Sleeper Of Vikings.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 April 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link

1029 new answers

you guys

he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link

MY EYES TASTE LIKE BURNING

Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Friday, 30 April 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link

I do not know what to do with the quickness with which I go from a detached and superior "lol that thread is still at the top of the page" to having to restrain myself from attempting the 1000-word post that makes B absolutists come to Jesus

A B C, Friday, 30 April 2010 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link

Next you'll be telling me Everybody Poops is an anarchist screed about bucking conformity.

Everybody Poops (In My Viking Hat)

brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 30 April 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Ralf is a concrete thinker. He is does not use metaphors consciouslyat all. Therefore, he doesn't mean that he excels at something. He means he is literally a viking. However, he is wrong to think he is literally a viking. He is only a metaphorical viking, as sleep images are metaphors. Therfore, he has the capacity to create metaphors, but not the insight to know that is what he is doing: and what he is doing is creating an unconscious metaphor for a state in which he excels.

moley, Friday, 30 April 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link

do i know what rhetorical means??

ways t'burg (electricsound), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link

this is the song that never ends
it goes on and on my friends

I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link

I feel like people have been looking at this all wrong, trying to use other words in place of 'viking' to demonstrate the stupidity of one version or the other, but OK, think about this, A folks --

if the teacher told Ralph to go to lunch, and he said "oh boy, the cafeteria -- that's where I'm a viking!" or if she told him to go to recess and he said "oh boy, the playground -- that's where I'm a viking!" would you have laughed? would that have made ANY fucking sense to you? really think about this and be honest.

Dennis Parrotin' (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link

I lol'd

I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link


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