you can lead a huhtikuuta, but you can't make it drink
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
HI DERE is wrong about me - I am the man on the street, I just walked in here & met this guy Tuomas talking shit and was appalled
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
but you're like, 60?
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
that qualifies as "older ILXor" around here
hakuna matada
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost oh - yeah, I'm 58 - made my first million explaining jokes to Finns but now that I'm retired it's just a hobby
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
met this guy Tuomas talking shit and was appalled
Tuomas this should give you a clue - "a paul"
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
FTR I am enjoying Tuomas, Dyao and Fetchboy's increasingly convoluted delving into the mysteries of Ralph. Just so long as it's settled that 'A' voters are disgusting savages who need to be permabanned.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
A people's argument againt B: it's not as funny; the Simpsons is too clever of a show to have an obvious literal joke like that
B people's argument against A: it makes no sense to automatically leap to the conclusion that Ralph is making a metaphor, this is not how jokes are constructed and no one in the history of earth has ever used that saying (hi deej, wipe away the foam from your mouth). Sleep=dreaming=fantasy land, this is a well-established theme known by anyone on the planet including mentally-challenged schoolchildren.
A people's argument is way flimsier, relies on too many leaps of logic and assumptions. Also, Tuomas rapes babies.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.chron.com/tubular/archives/Ouroboros.png
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh boy, eating my ass! That's where I'm a Viking!
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
the horn helmets are ass-eating utensils
hook your feet in behind them, kind of thing? i can see that.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
by the way, the fact that Ralph eats a worm before going to sleep is significant. the word 'worm' comes from the Old Norse word 'orm'. in Norse mythology, Jörmungandr was one of three children of Loki, and took the shape of a serpent, or 'wyrm.' depictions of Jörmungandr commonly portray him as being so massive that he is able to encircle the Earth by clasping his own tail. when he lets go, likely during Ragnarok, the world will end.
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
in a sense, then, Ralph is consuming the seeds of his own - and the world's - destruction.
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
gross
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
But at the ehd of vol. 2 of Marvel's Thor, Thor imitates Odin and hangs upside down from Yggdrasil for nine days, and thus reaches Odinsleep. And in his Odinsleep he finds out how the Asar of Asgard can escape the endless cycle of Ragnarok->rebirth->Ragnarok->rebirth of the world - and indeed they escape it. It should be obvious, then, that sleep is the realm of transgressive ideas, and within sleep Ralph/Odin tries to escape the endless cycle, the worm that bites his own tail (which, incidentally, just went up his nostril).
― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Btw, real Vikings didn't have horned helmets, it's just that archeologists assumed the horns they found were part of a helmet, when in fact they were what Vikings drank booze from (which is why Nordic people still use the phrase "drinking horn").
― Tuomas, Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought they still used the phrase "drinking horn" due to the tragedy that is rampant alcoholism.
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"horn" in "drinking horn" is actually an acronym - the full phrase is "drinking hell of rum nuts"
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/975/975962/line-o-rama-ralph-wiggum-20090423033812157-000.jpg
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
increasingly the A people are sounding like creationists who are just so shocked at how unwilling the scientific community is to take their theories seriously
― Thug Motivation 102: The Weinspiration (some dude), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link
ONE EYED TROUSER WORM
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Just curious, to the people that think a literal interpretation of the joke is implausible or lacks humor, what do you think of the "My cat's breath smells like cat food" line?
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
it's never been one of my favorite ralph lines
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"I bent my wookie", OTOH...
BTW, wookiee should have two e's.
My cat's breath smells like cat food is an ontologically nuanced statement. Essentially, everything eaten by a cat is 'cat food' and so there is actually no way Ralph could be lying in the construction of this assertion. Had the cat eaten pee, bullets, turkey gravy, an apple, Eleanor Roosevelt... and smelled of any of those things, Ralph would be irrefutably truthful.
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
can cats eat Eleanor Roosevelt? I don't think she'd be having any of it.
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
xp
I agree- anyone that tries to limit what can be considered as smelling of 'cat food' is an enemy to free thought.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
my cat's bræth smells like cat fjord
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
is there anything in the world, then, that doesn't smell like cat food?
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Friskies
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
viking food
― peter in montreal, Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I always just assumed cat food was slang for a really awesome scent, akin to bee's knees. Mmmm mom this meal is straight cat food! You're the best!
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
your mom smells like cat food
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks!
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
given a sufficiently motivated cat that can work a food processor, that is true
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, theoretically speaking, nothing really smells like cat food (except things created, labeled, packaged, or intended as Cat Food) until they've been eaten by the cat.
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
1000 fucking posts in this bitch
― one of your top-tier posters! (history mayne), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
an unending ring of cat
a la human caterpillar.
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
argh nooooooooooooo
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
a-yo waiting for my paycheck
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
cat gets ringworm, ralphs
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
dyao, dyao
dyalight come and me wan go hoooooom
― ampersand (remy bean), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Of course there are. But Granny Dainger's argument was that because Ralph put the emphasis on the word "Viking" and not the word "I'm", that would automatically be a proof against the "Viking of sleep" interpretation. And I just wanted to point out that it isn't necessarily so: there are many ways to interpret Ralph's emphasis.
― Tuomas
If it were option (a)/"excels", he would've accented "That's", surely
― too dancy, rocking, jazzy, funky or american (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://quizilla.teennick.com/user_images/P/poet/1034803328_sAlixloki1.jpgThe "trickster" with a hardon for fire!
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
RAGNAROK!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, so this thing is still going on, huh?
― Mordy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link