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LOLs for the rest of the animal kingdom

soundofrain — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:50:20 +0000

My posts have been so serious lately. Time to lighten up.

More LOLcats

soundofrain — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:54:01 +0000

I’ve been thinking about why pictures of cats with funny captions is funnier than pictures of dogs with funny captions. Could be just my opinion as a cat-lover, but there’s a reason why icanhascheezburger.com was about cats before it included dogs. And why there’s a stuffonmycat.com and My Cat Hates You (home of Bad Cat, much funnier than Bad Dog or Bad Baby), and lots of others.

I think it has to do with feline dignity. They are small animals, but they have a big sense of themselves. Dogs are pack animals, used to submitting. Cats are more self-reliant. That makes some people hate them, but it’s one of the things I love most about them. And that self-reliance, and the accident of a face that, to us, looks dignified and aloof (or smug and snobbish, depending on who you are) makes for better comedy.

I’m not ready to quit, either.

I love LOLcats

soundofrain — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:23:46 +0000

I have to admit, I can’t get enough of pictures of cats with funny captions on them. These are also known, of course, as LOLcats.

I’m not ashamed of this, though I am a little embarrassed to add that I have devoted hours of my all-too-brief and precious lifetime, to making my way steadily through the archives at http://icanhascheezburger.com/.

Time spent laughing is time well spent. And in honor of that, here are some of my favorite LOLs.

That’s enough for now. More later.