Friday, October 2, 2009

LOLcat Invasion

I'm sure many people have seen a LOLcat somewhere on the web, the most popular one being "I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER" written underneath it, but one has to wonder.. where did the LOLcat come from? Where did it start? And... LOLcat... has it's own wiki page... I kid you not! Here's alittle from it:

A lolcat is an image combining a photograph, most frequently of a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncraticcaption in (often) broken English—a dialect which is known as "lolspeak" or "kitty pidgin" and which parodies the poor grammar typically attributed to Internet slang. The name "lolcat" is a compound word of the acronymic abbreviation "LOL" and the word "cat".[1] A synonym for "lolcat" is cat macro, since the images are a type of image macro.[2] Lolcats are designed for photo sharing imageboards and other internet forums.
The term lolcat gained national media attention in the United States when it was covered by Time,[3] which wrote that non-commercialized phenomena of the sort are increasingly rare, stating that lolcats have "a distinctly old-school, early 1990s, Usenet feel to [them]".

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Of course LOLcats have their own website: http://www.icanhascheezburger.com
It was made by Eric Nakagawa after he discovered the first LOLcat image.

LOLcats even have their own world, were Ceiling cat and Basement cat were born. "Ceiling Cat" and the corresponding "Basement Cat" (a black cat who lives in the basement) have been said to represent God and Satan in the lolcat universe.

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 I do find it quite amusing to go to their website and browse the pictures. It's fun to do when you want to procrastinate!  LOLcats also have a website that is devoted to their language and will teach you the Lolspeak
http://speaklolspeak.com/

Here are some examples:
Bakun-Cheezburger - A cheezburger enhanced with a few slices of crispy bacon. This is so good that eating over 400 of these will make kitteh tummies asplode from teh yummy goodness!
Balentymz dae - Valentines day

 Basement Cat - archenemy of Ceiling Cat

pawleetishuns - politicians

snoffee - (verb) unfortunate incident which can occur when laughing at a lolcat whilst drinking coffee. frequently results in the distribution of second-hand coffee onto computer monitor and keyboard.


sinkcat - A cat who loves to lie, sleep, sit, play or just be cyoot in da sinkz.

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All in all, you gotta love the lolcats. Yes it's silly and sometimes you can't understand what the hell they are saying, but it's just pure fun. Nothing wrong with looking at cute pictures of cats doing silly things.










 

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