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

no! we must come up with unlikely alternate explanations for every joke and ruin them ALL with interminable arguments.

*kills self*

a. but not interesting enough to argue about...I think I thought about this on my own before while watching the episode, which was recently cause I'm powering through the first 10 seasons. homer's response isn't the joke and was prob an afterthought for the writer. classic episode...top 5 for me.

The show's writers did not worry too much about perfecting Scorpio's lines because they knew Brooks would rewrite or ad lib new ones.[4] Entire parts of Scorpio's dialogue, such as his hammock speech, are Brooks's lines and not the writers'. Dan Castellaneta described how, after he prepared something for Homer to say in response to Brooks's new Scorpio lines, Brooks would deliver totally different lines in the next take.[7] Josh Weinstein said Homer's reactions are exactly like someone talking to Albert Brooks.[4]

Hah. Yes I could totally see "you ever see a guy say goodbye to a shoe?" being an adlib, as well as castellanatas response!

On the DVD of season um... 1 or 2, the one where Marge falls for Jaques the bowling instructor, there is a whole outtake section where Brooks and Julie Kaver are doing what sounds very much like an extended adlib of the seduction scene where she's fainted. There is someone giggling in the background and everything. Brooks is a hoot.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1355405/Daniel-Agger-shows-tattoos.html

amazing post i stumbled across on a TV Without Pity forum:

Practically everyone on the Simpsons has a catch phrase, which was highlighted at the end of one episode where all of the characters appeared and said their's. Then, everyone looks at Lisa, who hasn't said anything, she frowns then mutters, "if anyone needs me, I'll be in my room." Here's the debate I had with someone else once: Is that her catch phrase, or is the point that she doesn't have one? I thought it was the latter, my debatee thought it was the former. Opinions?

like, this person makes the people on the wrong side of the viking debate seem like rocket scientists.

the wrong side of the viking debate

Which is the wrong side again?

like, this person makes the people on the wrong side of the viking debate seem like rocket scientists.

but, they're right?

oh i misread the last part, i guess by "this person" i mean the one being described, not the one who wrote the post.

imo it is both

Procrastination, that's where Darragh's a salmon.

no, you've got that completely wrong

It simply means that you were really good at procrastinating, not that you are literally a salmon when you do so.

were = are

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SsEJYY3HW8E/TARBbMUEmDI/AAAAAAAACMY/XwgbS8Ppwv8/s1600/Salmond460x276.jpg

Pointless nationalist grandstanding, that's where he's a Salmond.

no no no

The procrastination is mere happenstance, and i am literally a salmon

it is literally an actual metaphor

oh i misread the last part, i guess by "this person" i mean the one being described, not the one who wrote the post.

― some dude, Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:43 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

well the writer has completely missed the point too--it's not that lisa doesn't have a catchphrase, it's that she thinks everyone else is a moron!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e2weCZFqWQ

heroin, that's where I'm a viking!

yeah cad that's true too, i mean the person writing was clearly kinda dumm even if they weren't on the really wrong side of the debate

i love how mad the wrong interpretation of this joke makes aero

classic

ha guess we were both reviving this at the same time

my favorite aero thread, next to poop shelf

Second, there was controversy over the existence and meaning of Bentley's alleged instruction to Craig, "let him have it, Chris". Craig and Bentley denied that Bentley had said the words while the police officers testified that he had said them. Further, Bentley's counsel argued that even if he had said the words, it could not be proven that Bentley had intended the words to mean the informal meaning of "shoot him, Chris" instead of the literal meaning of "give him the gun, Chris".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bentley_case#Attempted_burglary_and_the_murder_of_PC_Sidney_Miles

the only time a linguistic debate got more heated

Huh. I missed this internet war. The dream interpretation's never occurred to me. I guess it's plausible, though this metafilter post makes a good argument for "area in which he excels":

http://www.metafilter.com/61946/Sleep-is-where-Ralph-is-a-Viking#1723914

Second, there was controversy over the existence and meaning of Bentley's alleged instruction to Craig, "let him have it, Chris". Craig and Bentley denied that Bentley had said the words while the police officers testified that he had said them. Further, Bentley's counsel argued that even if he had said the words, it could not be proven that Bentley had intended the words to mean the informal meaning of "shoot him, Chris" instead of the literal meaning of "give him the gun, Chris".

this seriously happens in a bugs bunny cartoon

The dream interpretation's never occurred to me. I guess it's plausible

Lighting a candle and saying a prayer thanking the gods that Aerosmith is currently on tour.

"Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a pred ship!"

epic thread

did horseshoe and n/a revive at the same time by total coincidence!? or was it brought up on some other thread or something

in dreams that's where I begin responsibilities

btw I never read this thread so I kind of started now (didn't finish obvi) but I have to say that deejs entrance into it is on some classic wwf new villain out of nowhere shit

haha wow this thread. just read the whole thing but I never heard of this "debate".

I wonder if there's some fundamental difference in how the A & B people experience dreams. It seems like a few of the A people have a problem conceiving of sleep as a place, which might be why they were stretching for some alternate interpretation.

Would never in one million years have conceived of the non-dream option, what is even happening to America

It's actually exactly the sort of thing I'd think of first and then go "duh" when I realized the sensible interpretation.

my gf was asking me what ilx was like tonight and i described this thread to her. i think she got the point.

can she explain the point to the 35%

I'm coming around to the dream option, but I don't see why the non-dream option strikes people as so unnatural. It's natural to hear "that's where I'm an X" and assume that the gesture towards a location is just metaphorical for a context in which the speaker is an X. We use this sort of spatial metaphor all of the time.

What I'm guessing blocks this reading for people is that "viking" is never used as a metaphor for "champ"... my assumption was that Ralph was inventing an idiom, and part of the humour (maybe unintended) is that he's coining a phrase to express how dumb he is.

Anyway, I'm reluctantly evolving towards the other reading. But the metafilter post that I linked makes a good point, that 5 or 6 foreign language translations confirm the non-dream option, and none unambiguously confirm the dream option. This is the closest thing to a paraphrase we can get.

STOP IT JUST STOP IT

Viking of Dreams II: The Next Generation

It's natural to hear "that's where I'm an X" and assume that the gesture towards a location is just metaphorical for a context in which the speaker is an X.

This is a little unclear. I meant,

It's natural to hear "that's where I'm an X" and assume that the gesture towards a location is just metaphorical for "When it comes to that, I'm an X."

No really, STOP THIS MADNESS.

to sleep, perchance to dream

fuck I ate ALL the popcorn during the last round of this

OK, I'm done. ;) *lets sleeping dogs lie*

sleeping dog vikings

this is seriously one of the best threads ever