That's awesome. LOL.

cigarette card from the early 1900s... LOL

Awesome. I just saw this literally minutes ago on icanhascheezburger.com and right now on Robot Chicken is the "Heathcliff vs. Garfield" skit. Kitteh overload.

shinjitsuism

Ok now that one was funny.

I thought the first LOLcat would have to be captioned something like this.

Men that own cats are gay
/Troll-fu weak tonight

For teh LOLcat lovers, todays xkcd:



/You damn rich biatches

shinjitsuism: Fantastic. my favorite lolcat ever

some_beer_drinker:
/fark dogs.
//not really

Yes really. Or at least any large dog that is allowed to run free and slobber on people by its owner.

In other news, cats have been on earth and loved by mankind before the written word.

jenniferfate: cigarette card from the early 1900s... LOL

Haha, that one's awesome; ichc should have that one too

Brubold: some_beer_drinker:
/fark dogs.
//not really

Yes really. Or at least any large dog that is allowed to run free and slobber on people by its owner.

I fail to see how farking it would help.

LordJiro: Brubold: some_beer_drinker:
/fark dogs.
//not really

Yes really. Or at least any large dog that is allowed to run free and slobber on people by its owner.

I fail to see how farking it would help.

Cows are too hard to find, need step ladder. Cats require too many band-aids, gauze.

Bah, dogs are superior.

/allergic to cats
//nothing of value was lost

I found the " text smiley face" " :) ;) :P" done on typewriter & what they meant in a 1938ish issue of Readers digest at a used bookstore in San Francisco. (Mc Donald's books on Turk) meaning Scott Fahlman did not invent it.

/ Micky Dee's once tried to sue the book store but it pre-dates them by about 20 years & they don't serve food so they lost.

Oh look, a thread about things that are not remotely funny on Fark!

Phoenix_M: I found the " text smiley face" " :) ;) :P" done on typewriter & what they meant in a 1938ish issue of Readers digest at a used bookstore in San Francisco. (Mc Donald's books on Turk) meaning Scott Fahlman did not invent it.

/ Micky Dee's once tried to sue the book store but it pre-dates them by about 20 years & they don't serve food so they lost.

What the F*** are you talking about?!

Do you mean that the ":)" typeset or whatever was used by McD's in 1958ish and McD's sued Reader's Digest for using the same typeset in 1938ish in a book that YOU found and McD's LOST the lawsuit because the bookstore you had found the book in also didn't serve food?!

/Dude, I might be hammered but your narrative is atrocious.
//And to think I can spell "narrative" and "atrocious" while blazing drunk and yet can't decipher what you're saying says a lot about you...and me.
///Namely that I shouldn't be posting on Fark while blazing drunk for fear of offending morons who can't even post a coherent statement.
////Apologies if I'm overreacting but then, did I mention that I'm DRUNK?!

LOL CATouche

For a little more from XKCD and LOLcats...

I_AM_M: In other news, cats have been on earth and loved by mankind before the written word.



/Not quite before the written word, but interning your cats in jars within your tomb does reek of obsession.

That's not a "LOLcat", that's just a "cat macro." LOLcats are the bastard offspring of modern-day cat macros, created by people who failed in a big way at understanding the humor behind the cat macro concept.

A few years ago there was a trend in cat (and other animal) macros to make the captions "Engrish," in the spirit of instruction manuals printed in China, and especially badly-re-translated English subtitles to foreign dubs of Western films (e.g., the infamous "DO NOT WANT" sub from Revenge of the Sith). A common method was to take an English phrase, run it via a web translator into one or two Asian languages before re-running it back into English.

As the modern cat macro threads became popular amongst denizens of certain internet forums, they predictably started catching on and becoming popular with the mindless masses of the general internet population (see typical YouTube comments for examples of the "wit" of the mindless masses), who tried to imitate them (the masses are all about bandwagon-jumping) but failed miserably to understand the original concept. Instead of merely adding captions that either were genuinely clever or funny in plain English, or in broken Engrish to suggest poor grasp of English by the animals' minds, they started constructing ridiculous amalgamations of "babytalk," deliberate complicated misspellings, "ebonic" affectations, etc. (which actually contradicts the original concept of how the captions are supposed to suggest DIFFICULTY grasping English, and NOT the ability to take the extra steps inherent in constructing cryptically misspelled and affectated language).

This doesn't imply that "LOLspeak" is descended from "Engrish" ... No9, it came from people who didn't understand the concepts that people were using for the original animal macros (Engrish being just one of the main components of the original captions; spelling out regional accents and slang was another). LOLspeak emerged from people thinking that you were just supposed to deliberately misspell words, and then it just got worse from there - elaborate misspellings that try WAY too hard, babytalk (not sure how that got involved, probably from misunderstanding some of the deliberate gross misspellings--a misinterpretation of a misinterpretation, if you will), bad ebonics-spelling, etc.

Wretschko: Phoenix_M: I found the " text smiley face" " :) ;) :P" done on typewriter & what they meant in a 1938ish issue of Readers digest at a used bookstore in San Francisco. (Mc Donald's books on Turk) meaning Scott Fahlman did not invent it.

/ Micky Dee's once tried to sue the book store but it pre-dates them by about 20 years & they don't serve food so they lost.

He's saying the book store is named McDonald's and the fastfood chain tried to sue them, but the book store was older so they won. It had nothing to do with the actual story he was telling about the text smiley faces.

What the F*** are you talking about?!

Do you mean that the ":)" typeset or whatever was used by McD's in 1958ish and McD's sued Reader's Digest for using the same typeset in 1938ish in a book that YOU found and McD's LOST the lawsuit because the bookstore you had found the book in also didn't serve food?!

/Dude, I might be hammered but your narrative is atrocious.
//And to think I can spell "narrative" and "atrocious" while blazing drunk and yet can't decipher what you're saying says a lot about you...and me.
///Namely that I shouldn't be posting on Fark while blazing drunk for fear of offending morons who can't even post a coherent statement.
////Apologies if I'm overreacting but then, did I mention that I'm DRUNK?!

Dire: That's not a "LOLcat", that's just a "cat macro." LOLcats are the bastard offspring of modern-day cat macros, created by people who failed in a big way at understanding the humor behind the cat macro concept.


Thanks, Dire.

I've always believed (unlike most Farkers) that humour is *created*, not repeated ot reposted,



It's a trap!



j

Dire: blah blah blah

tl;dr

I kept up for a little bit. LOLSpeak's not so bad...

In small doses. It was almost as if I were reading 4chan's /b/ board.

/head went BOOM!

Dire: *snip nerdrage*

You know what? You know those "mindless mass" you find yourself so much higher than? The worst of them, the most hardcore and obsessed, including even doddering aunt gertrude who takes polaroids of all 26 of her cats then scans them in and adds unfunny captions in MSPaint, manage to be funnier and take lolcats less seriously than you.

Think that may say something.

jraunimo

j

I've always believed that initialing one's posts is pretentious and unnecessary when it already comes stamped with their username.

spill_thrill: jraunimo

j

I've always believed that initialing one's posts is pretentious and unnecessary when it already comes stamped with their username.

Somebody at work puts their initials in the message whenever he checks in code. Drives me nuts. The farking thing already keeps track of who checked in what, you don't need to put your damn initials on everything.

/rant off

spill_thrill: jraunimo

j

I've always believed that initialing one's posts is pretentious and unnecessary when it already comes stamped with their username.


Except for 3Horn. He was the original, everyone else is just a poseur.

spill_thrill: I've always believed that initialing one's posts is pretentious and unnecessary when it already comes stamped with their username.

RFC 977

.

/I've always hated thread derailers.

great thread

Cats are dandy, and I guess I get to go have lunch again, now?

"In ancient Egypt felines were worshipped because the Egyptians thought they were funny."



"These vast cat heads were built underground, and seen by no one."

I think this one may be older...

I call photoshop. Cameras that old required people to sit absolutely still for minutes. No way this came from an older camera.