Comments on: lolpau

lolpau

bigmusic — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:10:35 -0800

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.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:15:57 -0800

(no snark please)

You keep using that phrase. I don't think it'll have the effect you think it will.

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:18:18 -0800

im in ur metatalk braggin about my friends.

(way to go brownpau!)

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:18:54 -0800

What's a swaddling canon?

By: chrismear

chrismear — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:19:36 -0800

Swaggering?

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:20:18 -0800

Twenty b—

Heeeeeey, do you think I can delete a Slate photo?

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:22:17 -0800

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!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:24:13 -0800

I don't think they know what a macro is, either in the SA sense of the Word/compy sense.

By: acro

acro — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:32:00 -0800

" 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).

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:41:31 -0800

I LOLD!

By: Firas

Firas — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:42:53 -0800

Yeah, I just saw that an hour or so ago, I literally lol'd! Way to go brownpau.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:47:30 -0800

I'm so tired of this "lolcat" business but brownpau is a classy guy so I support his increasing power in the media.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:48:02 -0800

Quick, seal him in lucite and hang him on the "Metafilter's own" wall of fame!!

By: joseph_elmhurst

joseph_elmhurst — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:00:48 -0800

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

Very dangerous.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:14:54 -0800

Swelling, I would think.

How does one pronounce 'lolcat'?

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:18:02 -0800

I pronounce it like an abbreviated form of 'Lowell'. With a 'cat' at the end. Rhymes with 'polecat'.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:20:55 -0800

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

Soda, pop, or coke?

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:35:06 -0800

Indeed, dangerous.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:43:48 -0800

There's a 1% opacity goatse embedded into that lolpresident macro. Just so you know.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:44:40 -0800

(Actually there isn't, but I totally should have.)

By: M.C. Lo-Carb!

M.C. Lo-Carb! — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:55:38 -0800

I never thought lolcats were funny. Everything changed when I saw monorail cat.

By: everichon

everichon — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:10:11 -0800

This canon, it swaddles?

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:15:09 -0800

Congrats brownpau!

By: Salmonberry

Salmonberry — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:24:05 -0800

Nice work bp!

By: taosbat

taosbat — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:39:00 -0800

_l^{o^{l^Z}}

By: grobstein

grobstein — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:39:52 -0800

What's a swaddling canon?

What's a baby mortar?

By: k8t

k8t — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:52:55 -0800

Has LOLCats jumped the shark now that Slate has covered it? Damnit.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:59:15 -0800

Dangerous, but possibly inspiring.

By: smallerdemon

smallerdemon — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:01:17 -0800

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.

By: Khalad

Khalad — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:01:51 -0800

I just about died laughing at that stupid "lolrus". And—uh oh, here I go again...

By: brownpau

brownpau — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:04:58 -0800

i has a domain

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:09:50 -0800

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.

By: dios

dios — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:10:45 -0800

bp!

my muse!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:20:59 -0800

meh. beepee forgot to change dumbyuh's tie.

By: patricio

patricio — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:39:46 -0800

your mews, surely?

By: achmorrison

achmorrison — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:56:56 -0800

I only LOLed at monorail cat. Then it stole my budget.

By: mendel

mendel — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:59:15 -0800

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.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:01:48 -0800

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.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:04:37 -0800

*waiting for george bush to ride and invisible bike.*

By: absalom

absalom — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:18:17 -0800

Come on! Can we have img back? Please?

By: ORthey

ORthey — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:33:41 -0800

Guys, let's set up a schedule for MeTa lolcat posts. WSho goes tomorrow?

By: mendel

mendel — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:04:55 -0800

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.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:40:50 -0800

brownpau is getting married? Damn, another dream dashed!
Congratulations anyway, dude.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:57:19 -0800

I'm swaddling my cannon.

By: rob511

rob511 — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:15:22 -0800

Vewy, vewy danger-poo.

By: Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson

Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:29:51 -0800

Ha! Was wondering if anyone else had noticed this. Awesome, brownpau.

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:39:43 -0800

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.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:06:37 -0800

FAIL

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:36:25 -0800

FAIL is funnier; it has to be the 4chan one.

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Mon, 21 May 2007 22:31:52 -0800

FAIL is good, but nothing beats halp!

By: taosbat

taosbat — Mon, 21 May 2007 23:16:52 -0800

...tired...

FAIL, halp!, tired: halp beats FAIL & tired wraps 'em all.

By: mendel

mendel — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:03:28 -0800

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...

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:15:00 -0800

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...

By: taosbat

taosbat — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:28:04 -0800

It's ok: I do everything wrong.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:25:03 -0800

I don't quite understand. Could someone let me know how to go about applying for the lolcat scholarship?

By: y2karl

y2karl — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:35:08 -0800

First, get neutered.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:30:54 -0800

LOLMASONS