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
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
fundamental right to bear arms reinforced by possibility of vikings imo
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
now why would any country guarantee its citizens the right to a supply of bear arms xp
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/17d2/timesnewviking.jpg
THE LONGSHIP APPROACHETH, LOAD YER MUSKETS
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
This is or will be a 1000+ thread
hope you guys never see the far side's "cow tools"
― Sock Puppet Pizza Delivers To The Forest (Sock Puppet Queso Con Concentrate), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
you're revolutionizing my thinking about vikings, but that doesnt change the popular archetype bro
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Gary Larson has explained cow tools, thank god.
― Mordy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
oh so now were falling for the idea of "authorial intent"?
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
of course part of being a fundamentalist "B" grouper means u think that there is only one worthwhile interpretation so
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
(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
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah laugh now but when the vikings are at your doorstep and all you have to defend yourself is a throw pillow you'll be wishing you had listened now
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://financialmarketer.com/files/capital_one.jpg
^ ralph, being a viking at making responsible credit decisions
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 8:27 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
tbf half this thread is ppl going 'cant believe we're arguing about this'
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:30 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/130039976_3c633b7276.jpg
^viking ralphing at this whole argument
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.3simplerules.com/images/digging.jpg
^ deej arguing
― am0n, Thursday, 29 April 2010 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Option-"A"-ers worse than anti-vaccinators
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Ralph: I'm a brick!
Ralph: I'm happy and angry
Ralph: I look like cable TV!
Ralph: I'm a unitard!
Ralph: I'm Idaho!
― am0n, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Ralph is Idaho, or as its postal abbreviation state to the delight of bearded Viennese at the turn of the last century, the ID. Makes you think.
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
lol Abbott
― horseshoe, Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
XD
― rapping about space and shit, floatin’ around in an orgy of screen savers (gbx), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
if you wait 2 hours or so between coming back to this thread, it becomes a kind of random topic generator
― Oh boy, rap! That's where I'm a mic king! (m bison), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
deej sounds literally insane and i worry about him
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
um I think that everyone who posted to this thread sounds pretty fucking insane tbh. I showed snippets to my friend and she was dumbfounded that somebody was trying to argue about Ralph Wiggum with postmotherfuckingmodernism. Seriously, guys. What the fuck.
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
stevie d, bad news--you are insane
― vikings: name your reasons why they are so bad and hated (call all destroyer), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread makes me regret the fact that later today I will be in NYC.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
argument #4316 against A: if you're making the joke that Ralph excels at sleeping, you don't muck it up by piling on a joke that the majority of the audience will not even register about Ralph inventing slang.
#4317: the emphasis would be on *I'm* in Ralph's delivery of the line. but it ain't.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp dude I figured that out when I was like 9 and watching QVC as much as Nickelodeon.
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know the "bum / lips" thing though, so, y'know, English.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 29 April 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/UK_shipping_forecast_zones.png/400px-UK_shipping_forecast_zones.png
Maybe Ralph is referring to the Shipping Forecast, where, of course, 'Viking' is a metaphor for "moderate or good, occasionally poor".
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
omg you fucking ppl
and I mean that (mostly) with love, of course
― Aqua Backrat (ENBB), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2433/neverland3ko1.jpg
― Aimless, Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
how many of Team A are trolling?
does ILX have 9/11 truthers too?
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ the backpatting abt how much smarter ilx is than other message boards bcuz so many of our loudest are "B" evangelicals
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread makes me regret the fact that later today I will be in NYC.― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy)
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy)
loooooool
― ksh, Thursday, 29 April 2010 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
No the backpatting is because we only have a handful of people who would ever troll/honestly defend A.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 29 April 2010 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link
thats exactly what im saying? minus your backpatting
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Thursday, 29 April 2010 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/52516825/544703
― am0n, Thursday, 29 April 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:25 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark
Our two statements are totally different; are you high?
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 29 April 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
But the joke is not just that he excels at sleep, it's also that he thinks a "Viking of sleep" is a proper way to describe oneself. The humor comes both from the form and the content. And The Simpsons isn't really famous for it's straightforward and pleasing-the-majority humor, is it? There are many Simpsons jokes that the "majority" probably doesn't get immediately. For example, when Mr. Burns first answered the telephone "A-hoy hoy!", I'm pretty sure the majority of viewers only thought he has a funny way of answering the phone, and didn't get that it was a historical joke.
Also, many people (including me) in this thread have noted that they immediately interpreted Ralph's line as "excelling in sleep". And in the poll linked to above, 35% of the answerers thought so too. So it's not like it was some super-complicated gag that only a handful of people got.
No, the emphasis is on the word "Viking", but that doesn't prove it either way. When he says "That's where I'm a Viking!", it could be the same as saying "That's where I'm the best!". He just wants to emphasize the "best" part, it's perfectly common.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 April 2010 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
idgtt
― g.w.f.nagl (cozen), Thursday, 29 April 2010 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
There are many reasons to ephasize words in a sentence other than to indicate that you.think you're the best.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 29 April 2010 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Why is it that the Viking of Sleep people are willing to accept that the Viking in Sleep crew interpreted the line differently, but so many of the Viking in Sleep folks accuse us of being trolls? Makes you guys look kinda bad.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 April 2010 10:05 (fourteen years ago) link