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
ha not until you just posted
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
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!"
― Dennis Parrotin' (some dude), Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
V few of them iirc.
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Flush this question out
― Aimless, Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Mordy, Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yes. who was ilx fighting in WWI again?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 29 April 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
The vikings.
― Walter Melon (Abbott), Thursday, 29 April 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
think you mean the excels ats
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 29 April 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuckin' biplanes all with wigglepuppies on 'em.
― huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Thank God. I need to know!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
so badly want to lock and delete this thread about 23 hours from now, but i am resisting total mod abuse
― Matt Daemon (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
for now
― Matt Daemon (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
do this & send the receipts for the dinner you take your family out to tonight to me
run up a huge bar tab while you're at it, drink like a viking
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
uh the phrase is "The Bar? That's where I'm a Viking!" actually
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
dude you don't know what you're dealing with here
― rapping about space and shit, floatin’ around in an orgy of screen savers (gbx), Thursday, 29 April 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
right or wrong, granny danger always comes across like a humongous cock
― Gifted Unlimited Display Names Universal (deej), Friday, 30 April 2010 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link