Archived comment by Maria:
Somehow I'm not suprised that something like that would be spraypainted outside the units..

Archived comment by kat:
oh, you know. whichever charge will squeeze the most cash out of me.

isn't that how everyone does it?

Archived comment by Arlene:
Certainly, Kat. What would you like to be sued about? Alienation of Affection? Emotional distress? Take your pick.

Archived comment by kat:
>>>by fair_n_hite_451 on 2002-04-10 13:33:06

So, was the spray paint blue I wonder?

I'm thinking the "Go Homo Sapians" author might have had something against Smurfs.
>>>

actually, i think it was green. i saw it when i was in berkeley the week before. i'm glad Eve caught it, hehe.

okay, so i'm a little late with this comment, y'all have probably moved on to more recent things. sue me. :)

Archived comment by Bael:
Heh. I like that. Wish I could find that one around here.

Archived comment by Obsidiana:
"It takes a viking to raze a villiage."
-Seen on a bumpersticker

Archived comment by Denise:
This is a thinly veiled insult directed at Randy Moss.

-or-

The Indoeuropean word �vaagh�, which means bluster. So, perhaps it's code? And some sort of social commentary about the folks that reside at Unit 3?

Archived comment by Matt:
Actually Cory, mead (namelink) and honey beer are two entirely different things. Beer needs hops and there are no hops in mead; it's only honey, water, and yeast. Mead also has an alcohol content far above beer: more like wine. Plus, when you drink an entire bottle of mead, it's an experience unlike anything else. A friend of mine described it as, "You're totally aware that what you're doing is a bad idea, but you're powerless to stop yourself." My experience was a little harder to describe than that, but that's the basic idea. I get my mead from Beverages & More (in the dessert wine section, unfortunately), a Bay Area institution.

And in case anyone cares, the sack Falstaff drank in Henry IV part... I... is mead with a higher honey content.

Mead and honey wine are also two different things.

Archived comment by gunge:
Lief Ericson, I believe.. back in 1000 AD? or 1100? somewhere around then. But his right hand man Al got drunk and they screwed up the battle plan. When they ran into the natives they raped their horses and rode off on the women.. oops.

Archived comment by fair_n_hite_451:
... and Vikings discovered North America, long before that upstart Christoph Colomb. Of course, they settled in Newfoundland .... which explains a lot.

Archived comment by David.:
And the word itself likely derives from Norse vikr, meaning bay or inlet. 'Cos that's where they came from, or spent most of their time, or something.

"How many Vikings does it take to light a torch?" "Why bother with a torch--there's a monastery just over the next hill!"

Archived comment by Bael:
Viking is a bit of a misnomer. I believe (and please speak up if I'm wrong) that "to go viking" was a phrase describing the activity of going around pillaging anybody too far from home to return the favor(and trading with anyone willing to deal with them after said pillaging)during certain seasons when they weren't needed at home on the farm. Verb form: To go viking.

Archived comment by Cory:
Regardless of who the Vikings were, it's still damned funny to think of them drinking their Mead (honey beer) from helmets. While rowing a boat. While in battle. While pillaging. While burning. While trading.

Or maybe they mean the sports team...

Archived comment by Da Fuzzy:
Jade,

Well, the so-called "Vikings" were actually a
large number of Germanic peoples from the areas
now known as Denmark and Skandanavia. It's a
little hard, in fact, to decide who specifically
is or isn't a "Viking."

For example, a clan of Skandanavians known as
the Rus spent a couple of centuries sailing down
the Volga, trading their way to northern Persia
and raiding when the trading didn't go well.
Eventually, their trading posts grew into
villages and the whole region took the name of
their clan ... "Russia."

So, the question is, at what point did the Rus
cease being Vikings and become Russians?

-Da Fuzzy (who is, himself, decended from
"Vikings", and it shows).

P.S. Due to hysterical accounts written in
raided monestaries, few people realize that most
"Viking" peoples spent more time trading than
fighting.

Archived comment by Saint:
Jade: Vikings did not wear horned helms.

Archived comment by Jade:
I'm still waiting to read a post with some real viking info, I doubt that'll happen though, no one seems to know that much about vikings.

Archived comment by Faithful Lurker:
You are so right, EGM. It's especially bad when the viking, in his cups, forgets that most basic of raider rules: "Pillage first, THEN burn."

Bloody tragic.

Archived comment by Amdijefri AI Anon:
Not "Al", sillies. "AI" as in "Artificial Intelligence". What's the world coming to when seeing "Homo sapiens" doesn't cognitively prime the ambiguous letterform "AI" for interpretation as "Artificial Intelligence?" Aren't you sapiens supposed to be the ones with fast, massively parallelized pattern recognition?

Archived comment by fair_n_hite_451:
So, was the spray paint blue I wonder?

I'm thinking the "Go Homo Sapians" author might have had something against Smurfs.

Archived comment by Evil Gingerbread Man:
It's a sad thing when a good viking gets a little too attached to the ale. Their raping and pillaging skills go right down, they're always out of synch when pulling at the oars because they're too busy pulling at the flask. They often end up having to sell their horned helms, just to get their next keg of sweet, honey lager.

Archived comment by Saint:
I take it the Unit 3 Residence Halls are where Vikings meet to discuss the pain of being related to an alcoholic?

Archived comment by David.:
No no NO. Not an alcoholic Viking (a tautology anyway), but a Viking named Al. Specifically, one who will be here soon. (Obviously, Anon can't stand for "anonymous" because we already know he's named Al.)

Archived comment by tom:
but not only being a viking, but an alcoholic viking.

so do we comment on the spelling here, too?

Archived comment by fair_n_hite_451:
I've been looking for a support group for those saddled with the burden of living with a Viking. Man, you Californians have all the bases covered.

fp!