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In the never ending saga of lolcat scholarship (no snark please), our very own brownpau has gracefully snuck into the swaddling canon of of lolcat literature.
posted by bigmusic to MetaFilter-related at 11:10 AM (56 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite

(no snark please)

You keep using that phrase. I don't think it'll have the effect you think it will.
posted by loquacious at 11:15 AM on May 21, 2007

im in ur metatalk braggin about my friends.

(way to go brownpau!)
posted by Stynxno at 11:18 AM on May 21, 2007

What's a swaddling canon?
posted by languagehat at 11:18 AM on May 21, 2007

Swaggering?
posted by chrismear at 11:19 AM on May 21, 2007

Twenty b—

Heeeeeey, do you think I can delete a Slate photo?
posted by cortex at 11:20 AM on May 21, 2007

brownpau is great and is getting married soon! This is especially important because faith and chastity are important to him apparently! Many cheers for brownpau!
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 11:22 AM on May 21, 2007

I don't think they know what a macro is, either in the SA sense of the Word/compy sense.
posted by jessamyn at 11:24 AM on May 21, 2007

" I modified the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and amended the steps taken pursuant to it." (Iraq is an emergency for another year - macro).
posted by acro at 11:32 AM on May 21, 2007

I LOLD!
posted by hermitosis at 11:41 AM on May 21, 2007

Yeah, I just saw that an hour or so ago, I literally lol'd! Way to go brownpau.
posted by Firas at 11:42 AM on May 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

I'm so tired of this "lolcat" business but brownpau is a classy guy so I support his increasing power in the media.
posted by cmonkey at 11:47 AM on May 21, 2007

Quick, seal him in lucite and hang him on the "Metafilter's own" wall of fame!!
posted by boo_radley at 11:48 AM on May 21, 2007

The LOL cat generator linked at the end of the "essay" is dangerous, indeed.

Very dangerous.
posted by joseph_elmhurst at 12:00 PM on May 21, 2007 [2 favorites]

Swelling, I would think.

How does one pronounce 'lolcat'?
posted by gleuschk at 12:14 PM on May 21, 2007

I pronounce it like an abbreviated form of 'Lowell'. With a 'cat' at the end. Rhymes with 'polecat'.
posted by ND¢ at 12:18 PM on May 21, 2007

Hm, I would've said "rhymes with wall cat".

Soda, pop, or coke?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:20 PM on May 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Indeed, dangerous.
posted by MrMoonPie at 12:35 PM on May 21, 2007 [2 favorites]

There's a 1% opacity goatse embedded into that lolpresident macro. Just so you know.
posted by brownpau at 12:43 PM on May 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

(Actually there isn't, but I totally should have.)
posted by brownpau at 12:44 PM on May 21, 2007

I never thought lolcats were funny. Everything changed when I saw monorail cat.
posted by M.C. Lo-Carb! at 12:55 PM on May 21, 2007

This canon, it swaddles?
posted by everichon at 1:10 PM on May 21, 2007

Congrats brownpau!
posted by jonson at 1:15 PM on May 21, 2007

Nice work bp!
posted by Salmonberry at 1:24 PM on May 21, 2007

_l^{o^{l^Z}}
posted by taosbat at 1:39 PM on May 21, 2007

What's a swaddling canon?

What's a baby mortar?
posted by grobstein at 1:39 PM on May 21, 2007

Has LOLCats jumped the shark now that Slate has covered it? Damnit.
posted by k8t at 1:52 PM on May 21, 2007

Dangerous, but possibly inspiring.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 1:59 PM on May 21, 2007

lolcats is like so many other memes, 1 in 1,000 is funny, but when they are funny they are really funny.

Although, myself, I kind of like LJ's cat_macros group since they tend to be able to have a little more freedom with language than cheeseburger.

But damn, I like pictures of cats doing goofy shit. I can't help it.
posted by smallerdemon at 2:01 PM on May 21, 2007

I just about died laughing at that stupid "lolrus". And—uh oh, here I go again...
posted by Khalad at 2:01 PM on May 21, 2007

i has a domain
posted by brownpau at 2:04 PM on May 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

They do seem to be getting less side-splitting. One has to go all postmodern or subtle to create a comical or edgy effect anymoar.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 2:09 PM on May 21, 2007

bp!

my muse!
posted by dios at 2:10 PM on May 21, 2007

meh. beepee forgot to change dumbyuh's tie.
posted by quonsar at 2:20 PM on May 21, 2007 [2 favorites]

your mews, surely?
posted by patricio at 2:39 PM on May 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

I only LOLed at monorail cat. Then it stole my budget.
posted by achmorrison at 2:56 PM on May 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

They do seem to be getting less side-splitting.

Because they're coming from the Internet at large, who seem to think it's enough to misspell a caption to make it funny. The best ones came from 4chan, Something Awful, and so on, where the requirements for "funny" are a lot more subtle.

Longcat isn't funny because he's long, he's funny because he's longcat.
posted by mendel at 2:59 PM on May 21, 2007

I so wanted to make a lolcats with a cat at a monitor with an AskMe page showing "I has a question! (I has kittens! Want names!)" and another with a MeTa page showing "Noooo they be stealin' my question!" protesting its deletion. But it didn't work out.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 3:01 PM on May 21, 2007

*waiting for george bush to ride and invisible bike.*
posted by shmegegge at 3:04 PM on May 21, 2007

Come on! Can we have img back? Please?
posted by absalom at 3:18 PM on May 21, 2007

Guys, let's set up a schedule for MeTa lolcat posts. WSho goes tomorrow?
posted by ORthey at 3:33 PM on May 21, 2007

Ah, here's a great example of what I was talking about above, how lolcats have lost their impact as the 4chan/SA influence has dropped: compare this image from icanhascheezburger with this one.
posted by mendel at 5:04 PM on May 21, 2007

brownpau is getting married? Damn, another dream dashed!
Congratulations anyway, dude.
posted by madamjujujive at 6:40 PM on May 21, 2007

I'm swaddling my cannon.
posted by jonmc at 6:57 PM on May 21, 2007

Vewy, vewy danger-poo.
posted by rob511 at 7:15 PM on May 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Ha! Was wondering if anyone else had noticed this. Awesome, brownpau.
posted by Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson at 7:29 PM on May 21, 2007

mendel, I'm curious which one is the 4chan/SA version of the images you linked to. I have a definite sense of which one is funnier; however, I don't know if my sense of humor is more akin to 4chan/SA or to the internet at large.
posted by Mister Cheese at 7:39 PM on May 21, 2007

FAIL
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:06 PM on May 21, 2007

FAIL is funnier; it has to be the 4chan one.
posted by jonson at 8:36 PM on May 21, 2007

FAIL is good, but nothing beats halp!
posted by Mach5 at 10:31 PM on May 21, 2007

...tired...

FAIL, halp!, tired: halp beats FAIL & tired wraps 'em all.
posted by taosbat at 11:16 PM on May 21, 2007

Oh, duh, sorry. The "Cheez" one is cheezburger's, the FAIL one is my own doing. It's not from 4chan because it's not caturday yet.

I'm sort of amused that even with the lolcat buildr, the "Cheez" one used the wrong font for motivational posters! There is no way cheezburger could have come up with INVISIBLE BIKE or MONORAIL CAT.

Also, for those of you who are at least slightly familiar with 4chan memes: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. If they'd only known...
posted by mendel at 10:03 AM on May 22, 2007

Ah, I thought the FAIL one was funnier too. It's like the Cheez one is waaaay over thought and explained too much by the accompanying text.

Hmmm...
posted by Mister Cheese at 10:15 AM on May 22, 2007

It's ok: I do everything wrong.
posted by taosbat at 10:28 AM on May 22, 2007

I don't quite understand. Could someone let me know how to go about applying for the lolcat scholarship?
posted by ODiV at 12:25 PM on May 22, 2007

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