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First of May posted:My cat's breath smells like cat food. No you see, "smells like cat food" means rather undesirable It's a metaphor, Ralph is well read and is not describing the quality of his cats breath directly
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Dec 5, 2020 07:31
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Ralph is dreaming about his cat eating food, actually
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Dec 5, 2020 08:37
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Jestery posted:No you see, "smells like cat food" means rather undesirable No no no, someone in the Metafilter thread already made a clear determination on this: felix betachat in 2007 posted:Wow, this is strange. Because just the other day, I realized that when Ralph utters his famous line in "Lisa's Rival", he isn't actually using "smells" as an adjective, but as a participle. He means to be saying that his cat's breath contains the olfactory capabilities similar to those of catfood. Someone please dig up a Usenet thread from 1997 with heated debate over the meaning of "That's where I'm a viking."
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Dec 5, 2020 09:00
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Jestery posted:No you see, "smells like cat food" means rather undesirable No Ralph means his cat's breath smells poorly, just as poorly as cat food. Coming up with adequate comparisons is where Ralph's a viking
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Dec 5, 2020 09:29
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Dec 5, 2020 12:42
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Android Apocalypse posted:I can't believe the Simpsons thread is about to be undone by dreams of Vikings, of all things. 
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Dec 5, 2020 13:55
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Lurdiak posted:The people getting this basic joke wrong have given me a genuine headache. You have hurt me by how dumb you are. Understanding Simpsons jokes is where you're a Viking.
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Dec 5, 2020 14:18
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Dec 5, 2020 14:19
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Just empty quoting as a place holder until I figure out a simpson's quote about never go on reddit.  
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Dec 5, 2020 15:23
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Most people first watched the Simpsons while their brains were still forming. At that age when you don't understand a joke you subconsciously try and build meaning to make sense of it. Kids thinking "that's where I'm a Viking" was some kind of idiom makes a lot of sense, even if it's hilariously wrong. I thought cromulant was a real word for years.
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Dec 5, 2020 15:44
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Isn't it in the dictionary now?
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Dec 5, 2020 15:54
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No, no, no, the meme thread has NOT disbanded!
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Dec 5, 2020 15:54
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Ooh, he disband thread good.
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Dec 5, 2020 16:07
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See the real problem is not that some people don’t understand that when Ralph says “Yay, sleep! That’s where etc.” he means that he looks forward to dreaming about being a Norse raider; that much is obvious to any thinking person. The real problem is that even those who DO understand what the joke clearly means are parsing it wrong—it’s not “That’s where I’m a Viking” but instead “That’s where I’m a-Viking”, because to go-a-Viking means to go pillaging, raiding, etc. “Viking” is a participle or gerund; one who does it is properly a “Vikingr”. I hope someone was probated for that blunder.
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Dec 5, 2020 16:27
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lol viking posting is good
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Dec 5, 2020 16:29
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End the age of Vikings posting! Begin the age of Denver Broncos posting!
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Dec 5, 2020 16:36
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I'm at least 20% certain that dubs got this wrong. Good lord do dubs screw up jokes.
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Dec 5, 2020 16:44
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The problem with the viking dream interpretation is that it just isn't very funny a joke that Ralph dreams of being a viking and is excited about it. The interpretation that he is using a strange idiom he made up to declare he is good at sleeping is funny on two levels. One, it's funny that Ralph considers himself good at sleeping as if it's a skill. Two, "that's where I'm a viking" as a way to describe yourself as being good at something is just inherently funny unless you're some kind of weirdo and is the sort of thing that Ralph, who is shown repeatedly to be on his own wavelength separate from everyone else, would come up with.
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Dec 5, 2020 17:00
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Is this "just trolling" too?
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Dec 5, 2020 17:04
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ikanreed posted:Is this "just trolling" too? I never troll when it comes to viking posting
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Dec 5, 2020 17:09
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 I dug through Google Groups' Usenet archive and, though they did have plenty of results for the Ralph quote in 1997, it was just dozens of threads where people reposted their favorite Ralph quotes without discussion. Just post upon post where people wrote slight variants on the same list everyone else had posted. The internet of the past is a primitive place. Not a lick of combinatory value to be found!
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ikanreed posted:Isn't it in the dictionary now? I think it's in quite a few of them. Embiggen definitely is.
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Dec 5, 2020 17:11
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I think there's this divergence because either way it's a loving weird thing to say, even for Ralph. Like I get it, he dreams of being a viking. What I think is so interesting is how much hatred the one side always seems to show.
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Dec 5, 2020 17:12
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Teddybear posted:No, no, no, the meme thread has NOT disbanded! 
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Apollodorus posted:See the real problem is not that some people don’t understand that when Ralph says “Yay, sleep! That’s where etc.” he means that he looks forward to dreaming about being a Norse raider; that much is obvious to any thinking person. The real problem is that even those who DO understand what the joke clearly means are parsing it wrong—it’s not “That’s where I’m a Viking” but instead “That’s where I’m a-Viking”, because to go-a-Viking means to go pillaging, raiding, etc. “Viking” is a participle or gerund; one who does it is properly a “Vikingr”.  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dec 5, 2020 17:59
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Baron von Eevl posted:What I think is so interesting is how much hatred the one side always seems to show. Christ no kidding. This isn’t dollars in dues, this isn’t even boating v. voting accidents, there’s one obvious correct answer to those and it’s in the scripts. This...it’s just a different interpretation of what turned out to be an ambiguous joke. I don’t understand why the Viking-dreams-only crew is so up in arms about it  Bug Squash posted:Most people first watched the Simpsons while their brains were still forming. At that age when you don't understand a joke you subconsciously try and build meaning to make sense of it. Kids thinking "that's where I'm a Viking" was some kind of idiom makes a lot of sense, even if it's hilariously wrong. I was 13 when Lisa The Vegetarian first aired. I don’t know if this helps or hinders your theory.
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Dec 5, 2020 18:13
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csammis posted:Christ no kidding. This isn’t dollars in dues, this isn’t even boating v. voting accidents, there’s one obvious correct answer to those and it’s in the scripts. This...it’s just a different interpretation of what turned out to be an ambiguous joke. I don’t understand why the Viking-dreams-only crew is so up in arms about it It's not ambiguous, though, that's the crazy part.
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Dec 5, 2020 18:18
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think there's this divergence because either way it's a loving weird thing to say, even for Ralph. Like I get it, he dreams of being a viking. What I think is so interesting is how much hatred the one side always seems to show. Very fine people on both sides
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Dec 5, 2020 18:20
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csammis posted:Christ no kidding. This isn’t dollars in dues, this isn’t even boating v. voting accidents, there’s one obvious correct answer to those and it’s in the scripts. This...it’s just a different interpretation of what turned out to be an ambiguous joke. I don’t understand why the Viking-dreams-only crew is so up in arms about it 
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Dec 5, 2020 18:24
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Vikings come from where? Scandinavia. And what do we find under Scandinavian bridges? Trolls. We're through the envelope here, people.
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Dec 5, 2020 18:28
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I'm a viking and so's my wife!
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Dec 5, 2020 18:29
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The viking = idiom people managed to craft a much funnier joke using only their brainpower, we should respect and perhaps fear them
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Dec 5, 2020 18:36
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Bug Squash posted:Most people first watched the Simpsons while their brains were still forming. At that age when you don't understand a joke you subconsciously try and build meaning to make sense of it. Kids thinking "that's where I'm a Viking" was some kind of idiom makes a lot of sense, even if it's hilariously wrong. How is Simpsons brain formed. how joke get cromulent.
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Dec 5, 2020 18:38
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The Chad Jihad posted:The viking = idiom people managed to craft a much funnier joke using only their brainpower, we should respect and perhaps fear them Their understanding of comedy smells like cat food.
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Dec 5, 2020 18:47
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The Chad Jihad posted:The viking = idiom people managed to craft a much funnier joke using only their brainpower, we should respect and perhaps fear them https://frinkiac.com/video/S01E08/wG9764gn48P2bbFKhFy0xmioNTs=.mp4
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Dec 5, 2020 18:49
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The Chad Jihad posted:The viking = idiom people managed to craft a much funnier joke It's more of a season 15 joke
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Rarity posted:It's more of a season 15 joke Valuable because of scarcity? Edit: Rare means scarce. I think I need some lunch. gleebster fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Dec 5, 2020 |
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