Call me an insensitive bastard, but I hate getting forwarded "inspirational" and "funny" emails.
I realize the people who do the forwarding think they are being kind by sending me this stuff. They feel that because they find something hilariously funny or warmly comforting that everybody else will too, so they want to share it. Stories of lost puppies finding their way home against all odds. Sweet poems about how much Jesus loves you. Tales of people triumphing over adversity. Humorous accounts of children saying something embarrassing at the wrong time. It's all there for the forwarding, and it drives me nuts.
And the latest abomination to be cluttering my inbox?
LOLcats.
Which I'm guessing stands for "Laugh-Out-Loud Cats."
This phenomena of adding badly spelled and oddly phrased sayings to wacky pictures of cats has taken the internet by storm. Everybody just LOVES LOLcats! One of the most inexplicably popular seems to be this idiotic image...
And I just don't get it. I certainly don't find it "lough-out-loud" funny. Or even mildly amusing.
When I'm not being inundated with LOLcats in the blogs I read, they're being forwarded to me in emails several times a week.
I'm hoping that the fad dies out soon, because I'm really close to creating my own LOLcats to send to people...
Cat image stolen from Blogography.
Cat image stolen from Rippin Kitten.
Cat image purchased from iStock Photo.
Which is probably safer than my first idea of making "LOLpussys" out of something altogether different.
= ahem =
Meanwhile, back to my Hannah Montana addiction...
I'm slowly catching up on all the episodes thanks to nightly marathons of the show on Disney2. But I'm starting to get really confused on a few things...
Hmmm... I really should get back to work. Here it is 10:00, and I've got entirely too much to do before bedtime.
I'd have to say - my favoritest people who frequent my blog now and again - all either don't get LOLcats or absolutely hate them. And I don't get that. I laugh my freakin head off.
And the picture that kicked off a whole site (i can has cheezeburger) sends me reeling. That look on his face, like he sees the cheezeburger right there, and he's already pudgy, and his head is tilted just a little, eyes glazed and mouth open.
If I email you a lolcat, do you promise to make one and send it to me? :)
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Finally someone else who hates them fucking LOLcats!
I too have suffered with endless LOLcats in my inbox, posted on my Facebook, links via IM and peppering people's blogs. I hate REAL cats, so I have no idea why my friends continue to bombard me with fucking LOLcats!
Down with LOLcats and Down with Frangi-fucking-pani car stickers!
RMB
Posted by borysSNORC on January 21, 2008 | Reply
I am not a fan of cats, yet I am strangely amused by LOLcats.
Posted by Gecko Rock on January 22, 2008 | Reply
Dave -
what I don't get done by 10:00 doesn't get done. what a night owl you must be! (which explains why I'm caffiened-up and reading your blog at 5:45 a.m.)
Posted by Paul on January 22, 2008 | Reply
While I agree with your general sentiment on LOLcats, I ran across one which still makes me smile after having seen it hundreds of times before. Check the URL Link.
I'm with you, most of the time I don't get the joke with LOLCats. However, your cats did actually make me LOL (once I figured out what the hell they were supposed to be saying), so maybe you have a future as a LOLCats mogul.
You did see about the I Can Has Cheezburger folks going to Harvard, right? (Gotta be a sign of the Apocalypse.)
Posted by Caffeinated Librarian on January 22, 2008 | Reply
I think you need to come over and play the Hannah Montana trivia game my daughter got for her birthday with her. I don't know any of the answers but both my daughters know them instantly. I have watched almost every single episode with them and I still haven't thought about it nearly as much as you (and they) have! I wonder if you could beat them at the game!
Think of this way...
You are watching a show that's supposed to require no thinking. Take your 30 minutes and just not think while watching Hannah Montana; it should be relaxing enough.
Posted by ichi on January 22, 2008 | Reply
Thank you for saying it - I freaking HATE LOLcats, mostly because I'm annoyed by how much everyone else seems to love it.
Posted by Miss Britt on January 22, 2008 | Reply
This is why I totally puffy heart you...that last picture actually DID make me laugh out loud, and we all know that I too HATE HATE HATE the LOL Cats. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that I am annoyed by people that talk like that online, even without the pictures. Very annoyed.
Even though I've never seen a LOLcat email pic until now, I hate'm already. I also hate "pass along email jokes." They aren't funny! Thanks for exposing the joke frauds being perpetrated by the ignorant and throwing a damp, cold towel over the cat box.
Posted by bogup on January 22, 2008 | Reply
Dave, seriously, how much do I love you right now? I, too, don't get the LOL cats thing at all..and so many of my friends are NUTZ about them....but your kitten shitting on the cheeseburger haz me screaming with laughter. Like, my husband came running in wondering what waz up.
I heart LOL cats! They are my PC wallpaper at work!
Seriously, for every 20 that are meh, there's one that's frikkin' hilarious! The one I have on my desktop right now is a cat sitting on a blue car in front of a red garage in England, and it says, "I'm not sure what you yank cats are up to, but here in England we speak the Queen's English."
Hold on, I'll send it to you...
;)
I hate them as well. I am wildly attracted to you right now.
Posted by Mr. Fabulous on January 22, 2008 | Reply
I don't do those. I have plenty of cats to LOL at right here at home...and even they're not very LOLie most of the time.
Posted by Miss Ann Thrope on January 22, 2008 | Reply
I'm with Wayne and others here that like the LOL cats. I spend at least an hour a week browsing through the ICanHasCheezburger site. Not all of them are funny, but there's some that crack me up.
I think part of it is that we have 4 cats at home that do similar stunts and poses.
Posted by chillywilly on January 22, 2008 | Reply
The most annoying thing about lolcats is that it was started by a couple in Hawaii just because they got a pic or two of cats. They started the site in January of ?? year (maybe 06?) And by March of the same year they were making $20,000 a month off advertisers. I can't imagine what they're making now.
While I can't stand what the illiterate cats are "saying" I like to look at the animals, some are cute. And I'm not a cat person.
Yours however are funny. I think I missed something important here, WHY exactly is it you're watching the teenage girl. Nightly. Just curious. Whatever brought that on?
I don't get LOLcats either. Your idea of "LOLpussys," however, did make me laugh.
'Inspirational'/'funny' email forwards drive me crazy too. In some cases, it's like the sender expects good friend credit for forwarding that trash in lieu of any personal sentiment.
Okay, I'm not e-mailing this to you, so hopefully you won't kill me...
It's a tiny kitten! In a dollhouse bathtub! What more must I explain??
Wait, you're a 40 something man that likes to watch Hannah Montana. I don't have to defend myself to you. ;)
Posted by diane on January 22, 2008 | Reply
Hannah who??
As for the cat...looks like he gave up on trying to get a cheeseburger and just ate his owners instead. Yikes.
Posted by Robert on January 22, 2008 | Reply
Ugh, I hate those things. Glad to see there are people out there who share my sentiments.
Posted by Elizabeth on January 22, 2008 | Reply
i'll admit it here publicly.
i hate LOLcatz or whatever the hell they are called. i don't think they are funny. i know countless people who find them hilarious. why?!
not that i look down on them for finding them humorous...i just don't get it. it's like those 3D posters that were popular in the 1990s. i could never see the image and i just never got the big dealio about them.
shrug.
I think you are overanalyzing Hanna Montana a bit.
Also, I find a good 50% of the LOLcats pictures funny. Some of them are actually clever, unlike the ones you are recieving. I especially like yours.
Posted by kaelb on January 22, 2008 | Reply
OK, screw the cats however I totally support your HM addiction. I'm a closet addict and will watch an episode repeatedly. Sure, I use my daughter as an excuse but I'll watch it even when she isn't home.
No one has ever addressed how her mother died but Brooke was very opposed to the Loco Hot Cocoa. All I know is that Jackson mentions it in the third episode when he says to Miley, "It's been three years."
I need coffee before I can take on the other questions.
I think Robby Ray is robbing her blind because she couldn't even buy a zPhone in one episode. A zPhone for the love of PETE!
I hate LOL cats. My (much younger) brother insists that the moronic spelling is justified because it's part of a new type of "Internet literacy". I can't even type that without rolling my eyes and feeling nauseas. (Can you live in fear of what you disdain?)
However, your LOL cats, I am digging.
(I have no commentary on Hannah Montana because I'm way too addicted to all the teen shows on the N, to bother watching Disney as well.)
Posted by the weirdgirl on January 24, 2008 | Reply
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