Anthropologists are going to ask, why did people way back in the early 21st century find these mangled and misspelled captions so funny? U can haz undRstand lolcats?...So let's check the Wikipedia article. Well, that explains "no soap, radio." Wikipedia explains lolcats here: ".... See also: cuteness."
...Why did the bar girls who told us these jokes fall about laughing at them? They admitted it made no sense. The line about soap and radio was just some sort of internal private lolcat for them. Until today I never knew why, but now I do, because after I posted the first version of this it was only an hour before a Language Log reader pointed me to the Wikipedia article...
SEE ALSO: This one. This too. And this.
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Jeremy Bentham -- original LOLCAT.
Ah, Jeremy Bentham--now we see what his pursuit of pleasure got him.
Puts me in mind of cuteoverload. I love it with its kittehs, dewds, and head tilts. Best eveh:
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2007/06/eef_looks_could.html
lolcats: I laughed till I cried.
Paris Hilton. More Paris Hilton, please.
Your readers are demanding it.
Children speak in broken English, and children are cute, therefore broken English is cute.
Remember "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"?
Hell, go further back than that--remember Jose Jimenez?
Even FURTHER back--remember blackface? (Well, probably not because most of us weren't alive when that was common, but you get the idea.)
lolcat is the modern version of people laughing at "I'se gwine da fix up'a din-dins!"
One of my LJ buddies found a lolgods community, and I myself suggested he start a lolsaints group, giving him the example of St. Lawrence on his gridiron saying im in ur kitchens warmin my bunz.
Even Slate had a story on the lolcats. I think that the phenomenon has already jumped the shark, or will in the next month or so.
time to start an lolshark group
So if LOL is a cat, then is ROFLMAO a panther?
Halojones: One word: Borat.
Don't forget www.ytmnd.com (the Brian Peppers lolcats are the best).
Did someone ask for more Paris?
http://hiltoncryface.ytmnd.com/
moar paris plez?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags
/lolparis/
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