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

j0hn iirc you are a boxing fan, you have never encountered a description where someone compares a boxer to some historical/literary figure known for their brute force as a way to express how good he is at boxing?

yeah dude all that's true but "sleep, where I am a viking, in the sense that vikings are really good at something, and that something is being strong, which here stands in for 'excellence in general,' so in the sense that vikings are good at being strong, I am a viking at sleep, in the sense that when vikings set out to demonstrate their strength, they excel," etc etc

I mean it's just so transparently obviously not what the joke means, but the internet means that you can find out just how many people think eg that barack obama was born in kenya & surprise, a bunch of people don't get a really obvious joke, too - not trying to be a total dick but that really does seem to me the level of willfully not-getting-it you need to torture "sleep, at which I am a badass in the sense that vikings are badass, i.e., they are strong" out of a really simple joke

I don't take as many steps to get there btw as you are claiming: viking means badass -> I'm a badass at sleeping

really the fact that there have been countless threads on a galaxy of other message boards about this is just deeply, deeply amazing/distressing to me, j0hn otm

that being said, i kinda like the idea of sublimating viking into an adjective. tho i think it appeals to my baser, bro-ier tendencies

"dude did u see mike's backflip off the windlip, shit was ~viking~"

you do take as many steps - they're metaphorical, and you're ignoring the use of "where" - why "where" in the line? because ralph conceives of sleep as a place. ralph's character would be perfectly capable of saying "oh boy! I'm a viking at sleep" - it would actually save him words & be easier for him to see

anyway that's too many posts from me on what seems an incredibly obvious point that people just like to get into argts abt

wait why does it make sense to conceive of sleep as a place

later dudes, I'm going to visit sleep

the 'viking' as sports meme isn't only about power/violence i think.....they are a sort of mythic archetype right?
like a transfigured 'family romance' for farmboys from wisconisin to believe they were descended from leif erikson rather than livonian peasants

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wait why does it make sense to conceive of sleep as a place

nobody's ever used the phrase "the land of dreams," I guess

I guess I just grew up around too many sports dudes who were constnatly making brute force = excellence metaphors i.e. "dude's a beast at basketball"

anyway I'm tired of goin ham on dudes itt peace

btw itt i am a viking

didn't the vikings (or some other olden times ppls w/e) believe they visited another physical world in dreams?

no they meant that they were awesome at dreaming

anyone who thinks/votes option a is retarded, end of story.

sleep is where vikings became semi-retarded 8 year olds

why "where" in the line? because ralph conceives of sleep as a place.

see you are taking just as many hermeneutic steps as I am when you conceive of sleep as a metaphysical-cum-physical place

yeah no that's wrong

this is just not actually complicated, the only complicated part is trying to explain it to people who don't get it, cf magnets & how they work

all my thread predictions now fulfilled ^^

has been a good thread

sleep! that's where i'm a homicidal clown!

:o stay out of my drams gbx

sleep! that's where I'm a pelican = sleep is where I get free cell phones

pleagic everywhere

*pelagic

xpost JESUS FUCKING CHRIST PEOPLE IT'S A GODDAMN SIMPSONS QUOTE. why are we analyzing it like a Platonic work...

this isn't really even an argument w/ two sides? it's just a handful of people who refuse to accept that they're wrong about something stupid

next thing you know someones gonna suggest people who voted option A should be put in camps

I just sc'd you cattle

suggest camped?

wow, being in ilx is dangerous now!

http://www.campvikingcapecod.org/

http://www.vikingcamps.net/

tres blinkered ^^

first, they came for the people who voted for option A.....

then the vikings killed everyone

fukken sleep, how does it work

you would know if you were a viking of sleep

so are the Minnesota Vikings just people who dream they're football players??? i'm confused

next thing I know people are gonna tell me goin ham means going to a place called ham

8 hours til work. ah work, where I'm a viking

vikings wd probably be asleep by now, it wd be 5.25am for most of them afaik

xpost this is where i'm an ocd viking

-- mookieproof, Thursday, January 3, 2008 3:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

ILE is one of the only three message boards in existance not to have a screaming match over the "that's where I'm a viking."

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, January 3, 2008 6:51 PM (2 years ago)

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( it has come to pass

it's alright if it makes u feel meta

it'd be really funny if the writers came by and said neither answer was right....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham,_Belgium

Yay, Belgium, that's where I'm a waffle....

I have never heard this whole argument until tonight. I get how B makes sense but I don't think it's very plausible. This thread, however, is wildly entertaining.

is pill really moving the trap to Belgium??????

So seriously in Pickle Surprise when Sister Dimension is repeating her mantra ("ham") she is actually talking about Belgium or going to sleep, right?

wait guys I'm still trying to find out if the Minnesota vikings are real or not...

maffew i must belatedly and abashedly recognise your genius

aw don't be abashed

Splash splash I was taken, abashed

along about a Saturday night

I was surprised to hear a podcaster I listen to casually drop the "that's where I'm a viking" expression the other day in the context of "that's where I'm at my peak contentment / comfort zone".

He does like to drop the odd Simpsons reference now and again, but it made me wonder how proliferate this expression is outside of ILX?

i think it's from the simpsons

haha

Just to say I've been having a bad health day and decided to load all answers on this thread, only made it to the bit where Tuomas' fluency in English is questioned but had an amazing time.