no i think that's called a bizarre misreading of a simple joke
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
as long as my "bizarre misreadings" of jokes are actually funnier than the other possible readings, I'm cool with it
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
h8 u so much whiney
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost you'd find the correct reading funnier if your heels weren't dug in tho
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
also you're reading is dumb and unfunny. "ralph equates being good at something as being viking at it, chortle".
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
oh boy "you're"
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I need to go get a haircut, but I will leave you with a link to one of my best-conceived threads: Which is more annoying: arguing about what people find funny or arguing about what people find sexy?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
egg on my face
which is funny because i have wasted perfectly good egg
you are totally egg on your face about scolding people for misreading jokes
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't see how not making any sort of sense makes something more funny, but fyi "it's funnier this way" is not ever a valid argument for whether something is a correct interpretation. ugh i now want to kill myself and everyone else here.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
lol ok to the next person who reminds us that arguing about what is funny is pointless: we know
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh i now want to kill myself and everyone else here.
okay now THIS is a board description
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
think people who misread this are too used to non-sequitur humour at this stage or something. "I'M VIKING AT SLEEP. IN WALKS FONZIE. FART."
― Jolyon Swagg (jim in glasgow), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
if you guys want to have a serious fit, read the 1000-post board.crewcial.org take on this
http://board.crewcial.org/thread/view/201813/
― eyes without afaik (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
jim u may have something there
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
lol hstencil never forget
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney is like our older cousin showing us filthy message board threads when we're 13
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the more i think about it the more option b absolutism is one of the weirdest awful human behaviors i never woulda learned of had it not been for internet message boards
― A B C, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus god why did i bookmark this abortion
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
a b c winning the devolution of the argument award
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i just can't believe this is an argument that has haunted the internet for years and not a 24-post thread on alt.tv.simpsons in 1995
― A B C, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
The next thread should be an argument about what Ralph really meant when he said "My cat's breath smells like cat food."
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
for ralph, "cat food" means "totally awesome"
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is not cat food
― iatee, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.richmolnar.com/Sounds/Homer%20-%20You%27re%20all%20nuts.wav
― iiiijjjj, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I bent my "Wookie"
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
lol!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://c2.api.ning.com/files/*K0CPt1rhrSSvi5mrSpSuDdXRTF4U5C6-Ma1FXvlc38_/wook17.jpg
― piping hot dish and a cup of chat (Stevie D), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I love all of you.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
also feeling sad I broke this promise:
I am NOT arguing about the Simpsons on the internet.
― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:25 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
But when you say "love"....
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
like I'm a worse person, now that I've argued about The Simpsons on the Internet, and one day my daughter will find this thread and think that I was a terrible person
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but prob cause you didn't understand a simple joke
― iatee, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
give it time, ILX will by the end of day have a pejorative adjective ending in "ist" for both supporters of Option A AND Option b.
― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
n/a to make amends you must raise your daughter to be a Viking irl
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
meaning raise his daughter to be awesome, or to be a literal Viking?
― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
she must be a viking at being a viking
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.mtbs.com/bkbz/kidwar/02_bg.jpg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
just gonna reaffirm that option B absolutists = pred ship denyers
: D
― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
dear god AaronHZ may be drawn to this thread if you mention the pred ship....
― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
ok i swore i wasn't going to get into this but lol @ the idea that ralph could come up with a fanciful and original metaphor such as "viking" being "something you are good at"
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:36 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
ftr I totally don't get this argument, when has ralph ever been aware of the import of anything he says. he's totally the kid you teach solecisms to who'll never question the meaning of it and always use it. someone taught one of the chinese tutors at my last job that saying "I'm really horny!" was a cool & american way of saying "I'm really happy!" and he went around for a week telling people he was really horny before someone broke it to him.
― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
and then afterwards he pooped right before showering....
― If You Ain't Gonna Wash It, I Ain't Gonna Eat It (Cattle Grind), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
So we need to assume that someone has already told Ralph that "viking" = "expert"?
― Sundar, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
not implausible if you know anything at all about the relationship between ralph and chief wiggum
― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
ok fine i mean that is remotely plausible/highly unlikely
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing here is i don't think ralph generally thinks of himself as being bad at school or specifically as having failed the task, so for me it doesn't really follow that he'd be pleased because he felt he was given another task he excelled at.
i also don't know if this is u&k or not, but part of the joke is that he's still got the worm in his mouth when he calls on miss hoover to tell her he ate his worm, and only then does he eat the worm. it seems for b to be correct the sequence should go: eats worm > realizes he screwed up task > requests new worm > denied worm, given new task > elated at viking capabilities re: new task. however, since he doesn't actually eat the worm until immediately before he says he ate the worm the first three steps are happening almost simultaneously and out of the correct order. there's no space for the "feel bad about failing task" to "feel good about mastery of new task" turnaround.
― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
timeline (minutes and seconds of show):
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder1.jpg
06:19: Ralph: Umm, Miss Hoover?
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder2.jpg
06:21: Hoover: Yes Ralph, what is it?
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder3.jpg
06:22: Ralph: My worm went in my mouth and then I ate it...can I have another one?
― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder4.jpg
06:26: Hoover: No Ralph, there aren't any more...[shaking her head] just try to sleep while the other children are learning.
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder5.jpg
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/slugbert/zapruder6.jpg
06:31 - 06:34: Ralph: Oh boy...sleep! That's where I'm a viking!
holy shit at this zapuder take down¿¡
― ⚡ You vike this. (dyao), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link