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

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.

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.

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Oh boy, eating my ass! That's where I'm a Viking!

ugh

the horn helmets are ass-eating utensils

hook your feet in behind them, kind of thing? i can see that.

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.

in a sense, then, Ralph is consuming the seeds of his own - and the world's - destruction.

gross

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).

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").

I thought they still used the phrase "drinking horn" due to the tragedy that is rampant alcoholism.

"horn" in "drinking horn" is actually an acronym - the full phrase is "drinking hell of rum nuts"

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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

ONE EYED TROUSER WORM

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?

it's never been one of my favorite ralph lines

"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.

can cats eat Eleanor Roosevelt? I don't think she'd be having any of it.

xp

I agree- anyone that tries to limit what can be considered as smelling of 'cat food' is an enemy to free thought.

my cat's bræth smells like cat fjord

is there anything in the world, then, that doesn't smell like cat food?

Friskies

viking food

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!

your mom smells like cat food

thanks!

given a sufficiently motivated cat that can work a food processor, that is true

is there anything in the world, then, that doesn't smell like cat food?

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.

1000 fucking posts in this bitch

an unending ring of cat

a la human caterpillar.

argh nooooooooooooo

a-yo waiting for my paycheck

cat gets ringworm, ralphs

dyao, dyao

dyalight come and me wan go hoooooom

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

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The "trickster" with a hardon for fire!

RAGNAROK!

Oh, so this thing is still going on, huh?

ha not until you just posted

i almost want to count and see what percentage of those thousand posts are people going "800 posts!" or "i can't believe you guys are still posting!"

V few of them iirc.

Flush this question out

Don't misread my tone! I wasn't expressing dismay. I love that it's still going, tho I find it kinda suspicious that the evil option A people have all tried to divert our attention with their Cthulhu nonsense. Did you know that were it not for the Option A'ers, ILX would have won World War I?

yes. who was ilx fighting in WWI again?

The vikings.