Thursday, May 22, 2008
Why does the cat want a cheezburger?
Usually if someone has to explain the joke, the humor ends up being lost in the explanation; however, I am willing to risk that for the sake of clarification. I cannot understand what's funny, or even slightly humorous, about the "LOL Cats" phenomenon. What am I missing?
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Hmmmm. It IS tough to explain. However, I find much of the content humorous, so I'll try.
It's the confluence of cats as some sort of subhuman (occasionally, superhuman) beings, with a curious misspelled dialectic captioning (in most cases, supposedly typed out by the cats, or whatever other animal is pictured in the posting.)
Bad English & Cute Animals = Not Everybody's Cup Of Tea
There are also many in-jokes that have evolved over time, possibly indecipherable to the non-initiated. A walrus is supposed to have lost his "bukkit" and is constantly looking to find it. There is a ceiling cat and a basement cat (representations of God & Satan, white and black respectively.)
You're probably right in your first assumption, of course. If it has to be explained...
Thanks, Suldog! I guess it makes a little bit more sense now that I know the cats typed the slogans. I'm actually laughing now, but not because I get the joke- but because I still can't believe I can't wrap my head around the concept. :)
If you do wind up finding it funny (and it took me a while before "OK, this is funny" overwhelmed "this is stupid" in my head), make sure you check out the LOLCat Bible. Many answers are there.
My esteemed colleague Suldog provides a concise, erudite explanation, but I'm afraid I must disagree with him on the origins of ceiling cat. Since this seems to be a family blog, I'll leave it at that :-).
Perhaps you should keep Suldog in the dark too, as to perserve what little innocence he has left ;-)
but that doesn't explain why a cat would want a cheeseburger. is it because the word looks funnier than "toonafish"?
This cat thing might possibly be one of the most bizarre internet phenomena yet.
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