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.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
no one cares
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 April 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I've read just about every post imaginable in this thread. I stayed up without sleep last night, even avoiding showers or going to work. I missed my band's gig tonight so I could take more time to ponder. I turned down three opportunities at hot under the covers action so I could wrap my head around it. I then ingested some of the most highly illegal drugs known to mankind, and a little gasoline.
And I still have no idea what the fuck dyao is talking about. Answer B, stop listening to Pink Floyd and smoking up so much. Next you'll be telling me Everybody Poops is an anarchist screed about bucking conformity.
― Pippi Longstockings (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Friday, 30 April 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
But Ralph is like the guy from Memento, he can't remember anything that happened more than 10 seconds ago, now he's onto something new, taking a nap. And like everything else, he's exuberant: Naps are great. In naps you get to be a viking excel at something.
fixed. BTW, I know we're long past actually discussing this in any productive way but I do have one more wrinkle to throw in, which is that the Simpsons is/was written by committee, with a lot of the material getting added in during script reviews/dry runs and such. So, assuming even 1/6 of the population instinctively hears this joke as being an "A" joke, it's entirely possible at least one of the people who laughed at it and kept it in the script was, in fact, a Sleeper Of Vikings.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 April 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
1029 new answers
you guys
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
MY EYES TASTE LIKE BURNING
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Friday, 30 April 2010 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I do not know what to do with the quickness with which I go from a detached and superior "lol that thread is still at the top of the page" to having to restrain myself from attempting the 1000-word post that makes B absolutists come to Jesus
― A B C, Friday, 30 April 2010 03:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Next you'll be telling me Everybody Poops is an anarchist screed about bucking conformity.
Everybody Poops (In My Viking Hat)
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 30 April 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Ralf is a concrete thinker. He is does not use metaphors consciouslyat all. Therefore, he doesn't mean that he excels at something. He means he is literally a viking. However, he is wrong to think he is literally a viking. He is only a metaphorical viking, as sleep images are metaphors. Therfore, he has the capacity to create metaphors, but not the insight to know that is what he is doing: and what he is doing is creating an unconscious metaphor for a state in which he excels.
― moley, Friday, 30 April 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
do i know what rhetorical means??
― ways t'burg (electricsound), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the song that never endsit goes on and on my friends
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like people have been looking at this all wrong, trying to use other words in place of 'viking' to demonstrate the stupidity of one version or the other, but OK, think about this, A folks --
if the teacher told Ralph to go to lunch, and he said "oh boy, the cafeteria -- that's where I'm a viking!" or if she told him to go to recess and he said "oh boy, the playground -- that's where I'm a viking!" would you have laughed? would that have made ANY fucking sense to you? really think about this and be honest.
― Dennis Parrotin' (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I lol'd
― I Think Ur a Viking (dyao), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link
to be fair, some dude, the "excels" interpretation counts on it being something really lame and effortless - the idea of Ralph thinking he's really good at it is the joke. So going to the cafeteria doesn't really make sense.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 April 2010 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, that was kind of confusingly thought-through, b/c obviously going to the cafeteria is kind of effortless, but do you get what I'm saying here? Like it matters that he's excelling at the one thing at the one thing where it's almost impossible to imagine someone being *bad* at it through any conscious choice of their own. Being a viking at it isn't even conceivable, unless you're Ralph and you're bad at everything but people praise you for your ability to sleep well!
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 April 2010 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I love this thread. It's where I'm a viking.
― moley, Friday, 30 April 2010 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Being a viking at it isn't even conceivable, unless you're Ralph Doctor Casino/dyao/etc.
― Dennis Parrotin' (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Like, I think if the "dream" theory is going to turn on issues of Ralph supposedly having these issues with bullies (wtf??? when was it ever part of Ralph's character that he gets picked on, or notices if so??) and working them out by being triumphant in his dreams, then I think it's fair enough that the "excel" theory can work on the notion that Ralph doesn't get praised for a lot of things (VERY PLAUSIBLE, RALPH IS A GRADE-A MORON) and takes a simple pride in the one thing that someone (Hoover? his parents?) have told him he does well at - - "you're a regular viking at sleep, Ralphie!"......
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 April 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
it doesn't turn on that at all. the idea of a little kid having fanciful dreams doesn't actually require that they need be an escape from or refutation of his waking life. you're overthinking this.
― Dennis Parrotin' (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
and again, your theory operates on the premise that there is some unseen person in his Ralph's life who coined "viking at sleep," which is a much bigger stretch.
― Dennis Parrotin' (some dude), Friday, 30 April 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link