What if having dreams about being a viking is the area in which Ralph excels?
― peace, man, Friday, 8 October 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
Do vikings dream of electric ralphs?
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 October 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
"sleep! that's where i'm a void king"
pic.twitter.com/G1k1LLKF9L— Sharon Kuruvilla đš âď¸ đĄď¸ (@Sharon_Kuruvila) October 9, 2021
― mark s, Sunday, 10 October 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
Legit lol
― Extinct Namibian shrub genus: Var. (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 10 October 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
i love that image. it was part of somebodyâs presentation at a conference i was at a few years ago and it was easily the most memorable thing i saw at the entire event.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 10 October 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
So...there's a Simpsons lore channel on Youtube, and ILX gets called out on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99qXaVFZkQE about 4:15 in.
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Sunday, 29 May 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
Omg, absolutely howling at the scroll through all the posts
― gyac, Sunday, 29 May 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
theyre good posts brent
― mark s, Sunday, 29 May 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
thatâs amazing.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 29 May 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
This feels like a bunch of people trying to apply failed college degrees to something that is not deep at all.
New board description
― jmm, Sunday, 29 May 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
LOL-ing so hard right now.
― cajunsunday, Sunday, 29 May 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
loool
― kinder, Sunday, 29 May 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
i learned here that the whole thing probably stems from the foreign versions saying he's great at sleep. and that ilx is the best dang borad on the web!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 29 May 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
TEACH THE CONTROVERSY
― I am just a squirrel in the world (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 29 May 2022 23:11 (two years ago) link
ok this is really weird because i literally just explained the viking thing to my partner about four hours ago (she picked the literal reading, ofc, and had trouble understanding the metaphor). it was probably the first time i had thought about this or talked about it in 10 years. and then i come home to find this thread revive!
plate of shrimp. plate of fuckin' shrimp man
― éž, Monday, 30 May 2022 00:09 (two years ago) link
special shoutout for Doctor Casino!
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 30 May 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
Ten years a Viking.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 30 May 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
Omg, absolutely howling at the scroll through all the postsâ gyac, Sunday, May 29, 2022 3:20 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
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This is truly amazing and every ilxor should view it.
― peace, man, Monday, 30 May 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
The way the scrollthrough starts sow and gradually gets faster and faster is a++++ hilarious
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 30 May 2022 02:01 (two years ago) link
when Homer laughs at Milhouse's dad for "Can I Borrow a Feeling?", was he laughing at the idea of borrowing feelings, or laughing at him for recording a lame album
― GymnopĂŠdie Pablo (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 May 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
I started lolling 50 seconds into the scroll and kept going
― Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Monday, 30 May 2022 02:23 (two years ago) link
i will say that part of me was thinking that acting like scrolling 2000 ilx posts is a big deal marks you as a casual
― call all destroyer, Monday, 30 May 2022 02:39 (two years ago) link
I'm surprised no-one is offended at that podcast copying an entire thread to another medium. It reminded me of that event years ago where someone printed a bunch of threads in a book and caused a great fuss here.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 30 May 2022 02:50 (two years ago) link
Omg that scroll is transcendent
― Jaq, Monday, 30 May 2022 02:52 (two years ago) link
if one could reduce this thread only to the posts posing arguments meant to argue in favor one's considered and sincerely held opinion, removing all tongue-in-cheek posts, posts simply attempting to amuse the ilx collective through some sort of clever wit, or posts on the meta-subject of the why anyone would bother to argue about the supposed subject of the thread, then I'd estimate the whole thing would be about 40 posts long and as interesting as a limp dishrag.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 30 May 2022 03:37 (two years ago) link
feeling very called out but lolllll at that video
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 30 May 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
I was so confused at first, because it came on after something else and I wasn't paying attention. Then I notice that ILX is scrolling past on it's own, and it broke my brain for a moment.
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Monday, 30 May 2022 14:09 (two years ago) link
Incidentally, the video-maker is otm throughout (both his defense of the literal interpretation and his charitable reconstruction of why the metaphor interpretation lands for some people.)
― jmm, Monday, 30 May 2022 14:15 (two years ago) link
literal
― UncannyRhino, Friday, 16 September 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link
omg @ the ilx thread scroll.
― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Friday, 16 September 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Interestingly someone in the YT comments details a Simpsons book that basically answers the question anyway.
M. Conway3 months agoThis is most likely non-canon, but I had this book called "The Ralph Wiggum Book." In it, there was a section that detailed a typical day for Ralph, in which Ms. Hoover puts him in time-out, where he literally dreams of being a Viking. Because of that, I've always considered the line to be interpreted literally.
Miles Majeran3 months agoHoly shit I own that book, also in the anatomy of Ralph page, in the brain part it says: âWhere dreams of being a Viking and little else resideâ checkmate.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 16 September 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
Sounds like literalist propaganda to me. Is there nothing these people wonât stoop to?!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Saturday, 17 September 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
sleep is where ilx dreams of being hermeneutic anarchists
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 17 September 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
jfc, this guy Iâve been hanging out with came over for dinner last night and then when he found out I hadnât seen/didnât recall âLisa the Vegetarianâ he insisted we watch it, and apparently itâs this episode, and when Ralph said this I paused it and was like âoh my god, this message board I post on had this whole black-blue/white-gold dress moment 10 years ago ab out this line, isnât that nuts?â and he was like âwtf, Its OBVIOUSLY that heâs a pro at sleeping!â and I was completely dumbfounded
― music for Aâ TEENSâ musicians (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
lol my heart goes out to you
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
you don't win friends with salad
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:07 (one year ago) link
The two things you don't discuss in polite company: politics and Ralph being a viking
― jmm, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:09 (one year ago) link
Hi Stevie
― G. DâArcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:10 (one year ago) link
I was at the wedding of one of my best friends from high school tonight and then I remembered that he told me that he thought Ralph meant he was a 'viking at sleep' and when asked by the officiant, I objected to the marriage.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link
viking @ sleep
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
i hope some high-ranking admin at the Internet sleep info hub sleep.com has the username "viking."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 04:47 (one year ago) link
Jesus Christ Stevie
― after several days on âthe milk,â (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 08:16 (one year ago) link
guy that stevie's been hanging out with otm
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 10:21 (one year ago) link
U can post truth, or be post truth, which way western man
― 49 Percent Jesus (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link
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this joke was retroactively unwritten, sorry guys
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
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― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
what happened did some writer say some bullshit
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQnZZ-Wmao
― Kieth Encounter (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
k but what about this one then (from tvtropes)
The same episode also has Barney telling Lisa "Go back to Russia!" after she announces that she's made gazpacho for everyone at the BBQ; debate has raged over whether Barney thought gazpacho was a Russian foodnote (possibly confusing it with borscht?), or he was saying Lisa is a communist. He might also be saying that Lisa might as well be foreign for being vegetarian, since he feels eating meat is a big part of American culture. Then again, heâs a drunk, so his understanding of anything is questionable.
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link