OK, I can’t lose readership that I don’t even have, so I will go ahead and admit publicly that I like “lolcats.”
(Also, I really need to demonstrate that I really am capable of discussing something other than politics and Proposition 8…)
I learned about “lolcats” on Salon.com.
“Lolcats,” if you don’t know, are photos of animals — cats, mostly — with captions that people create. They submit their captioned photos to this web site. The captions (most of them, anyway) are to be written in a way that the animals themselves might have written them, so spelling and grammar are tweaked, and very apparently there are “lolcat” conventions, such as “Ai” for “I,” “hai” for “hi” and “sry” for “sorry.”
Some of the “lolcats” are funnier than others, and I like it when animals besides cats make appearances (I’m more of a dog person than a cat person), but I find the web site addictive despite the fact that it’s heavy on the pus — er, cats.
Here are some “lolcats”:
And my favorite “lolcat,” of course:
