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

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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

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...

I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link

BTW, wookiee should have two e's.

I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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.

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.jpg
The "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

so badly want to lock and delete this thread about 23 hours from now, but i am resisting total mod abuse

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

run up a huge bar tab while you're at it, drink like a viking

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


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