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

Ralph: This is my swing set. This is my sandbox. I'm not allowed to go in the deep end. That's where I saw the leprechaun!
Bart: Right, a leprechaun.
Ralph: He told me to burn things.

guys let's not forget about this thread

whiney would have wanted it that way

Whiney got sb'd? What for?

always seemed like a reasonable dude to me.

Viking was a random choice by Ralph based on a recent dream. Another day he would've said pirate, lawyer, board admin etc.

I wish he had said "Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a lawyer" because then Vikings would brag about how they are so lawyer at being Vikings and maybe I would be more proud of my career choices.

Scalia thinks he's some kind of viking I bet.

Oh boy, strict constructionism, that's where I'm a Viking!

^^^lol

how does mordy come in after several posts point out that vikings were explorers & that the obvious interpretation isnt just 'excels' but more like 'explores' as in he's a frontiersman, an adventurer, in the world of sleep? that he excels at exploring a dream world of sleep.

i still think that it makes sense to interpret it like option A & once again, that really the ambiguity is intentional, that the joke is meant to imply both A&B, simultaneously, and that they dont contradict each other

next person to come into the thread on some HEY GUYS VIKING DOESNT MEAN EXCELS should get a double sack whack

can't someone just rope the relevant Simpsons' writer into posting here

Vikings not known for being particularly excellent at anything, sorry

except that there is no reason for anybody to think of Vikings as asskickers at anything in particular - they rolled over for Christians almost immediately - maybe they sailed to Canada but we'll never know 'cause they didn't do shit there - appreciate your will to peacemake deej but option A is seriously moronic unless you equate being ancient & getting pwn3d by Xian invaders as "asskicking" - it's like - if he'd said "oh boy, sleep, that's where I'm Chechen!" then I'd guess we wouldn't be having this argument, but the Chechens could kick several Viking nations' asses and still clock out at five sharp

lololololol deej

Clearly this debate won't end until someone kidnaps David S. Cohen and tortures the truth out of him.

(x-post with Shakey, haha!)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0169326/contact

Is anyone here on "IMDb Pro", apparently you can't get the contact information without?

Texts liberal producers of meaning aside, I really don't think we need to ask the writer what he meant. It's kinda obvious. Not that his opinion is the final word on the matter, but c'mon.

the writer dude was already quoted upthread - I know actually reading the thread is an alien idea to you Tuomas - but seriously - anybody who thinks the Vikings were tough needs to have his head examined - last time I checked Vikings bleed the same as anybody - a thirty ought six will fuck up a Viking before he can call on Freya or whoever - they're just fat guys - fuck Vikings imo

Yeah, I checked the video with David Silverman, but he didn't write that episode, and in the interview he only says "I'm pretty sure David Cohen meant...", not "I know for a fact that David Cohen meant...". So obviously he doesn't know for sure what Cohen intended with the line, it's just his interpretation.

roflcopterz

ladies and gentlemen, your graduate level exam in how to troll has arrived in the flesh, and he is in the full bloom of his powers

take notes would-be trolls

Ad hominems don't weaken my argument.

― Tuomas, 28. huhtikuuta 2010 21:50 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what I'm making are called ad Vikinems

Maybe literal ad hominems don't, but figurative ad hominems can weaken your argument, such as, "Insults, that's where I'm a viking."

the writer dude was already quoted upthread - I know actually reading the thread is an alien idea to you Tuomas - but seriously - anybody who thinks the Vikings were tough needs to have his head examined - last time I checked Vikings bleed the same as anybody - a thirty ought six will fuck up a Viking before he can call on Freya or whoever - they're just fat guys - fuck Vikings imo

― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:02 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol @ your a-peoples-history-of-vikings steez, theres a reason immigrant song is about vikings & not the irish dude

We weren't being pompous ... We did come from the land of the ice and snow. We were guests of the Icelandic Government on a cultural mission. We were invited to play a concert in Reykjavik and the day before we arrived all the civil servants went on strike and the gig was going to be cancelled. The university prepared a concert hall for us and it was phenomenal. The response from the kids was remarkable and we had a great time. "Immigrant Song" was about that trip and it was the opening track on the album that was intended to be incredibly different.

lol try again, immmigrant song is about english guys smoking weed and getting w/hot Icelandic ladies

In a 1970 radio interview, Plant jokingly recalled:
We went to Iceland, and it made you think of Vikings and big ships... and John Bonham's stomach... and bang, there it was - Immigrant Song![1]

Plant didn't get his own joke - the joke in immigrant song is that Vikings think they're tough but can't even find Winnipeg on a map - RIP Vikings & their jokes

Vikings not known for being particularly excellent at anything, sorry

http://www.frantarkenton.com/images/fran.jpg

except that there is no reason for anybody to think of Vikings as asskickers at anything in particular - they rolled over for Christians almost immediately - maybe they sailed to Canada but we'll never know 'cause they didn't do shit there - appreciate your will to peacemake deej but option A is seriously moronic unless you equate being ancient & getting pwn3d by Xian invaders as "asskicking" - it's like - if he'd said "oh boy, sleep, that's where I'm Chechen!" then I'd guess we wouldn't be having this argument, but the Chechens could kick several Viking nations' asses and still clock out at five sharp

― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:54 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

A++++++

thkng you 4 username JD

all those dudes the vikings raped and pillaged, if only they had used their thirty ought sixes instead of waiting for the christians to bail them out

fundamental right to bear arms reinforced by possibility of vikings imo

under my government the right to give a Viking the business end of your rifle if he removes his helmet in a lady's presence will not be abridged

now why would any country guarantee its citizens the right to a supply of bear arms xp

http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/17d2/timesnewviking.jpg

THE LONGSHIP APPROACHETH, LOAD YER MUSKETS

This is or will be a 1000+ thread

hope you guys never see the far side's "cow tools"

you're revolutionizing my thinking about vikings, but that doesnt change the popular archetype bro

Gary Larson has explained cow tools, thank god.

oh so now were falling for the idea of "authorial intent"?

I think my favorite part about this is how this debate is that this is the closest we've come so far to proving that brain viruses can exist a la neal stephenson's snow crash

lol I wanted to bring that up but felt it would only do harm xp

I think my favorite part about this is how this debate is that this is the closest we've come so far to proving that brain viruses can exist a la neal stephenson's snow crash the rampaging effects of syphilis.

I don't think cow tools could ever be as divisive as sleep Viking, it's just vague, there aren't two definite interpretations that would divide folks like here.

of course part of being a fundamentalist "B" grouper means u think that there is only one worthwhile interpretation so

I know two things; the literalist reading of the Bible is the correct one and Ralph is dreaming of being a Viking in his sleep.

Yeah, maybe. I'm definitely a Viking of Sleep man, but I'm not saying I don't see any point in Viking in Sleep crew's argument, I just feel it doesn't work as well.

(x-post)

Jesus I can't believe this thread hit like 850+. I go to class for one fucking afternoon and come home to this