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Can someone tell me why is this supposed to be funny? And especially so with pictures of cats?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

BAN TUOMAS

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

you are the worst troll in the history of a website that has let itself be terrorized by a fake 14-year-old girl and an oversexed writer for horror magazines

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

(and i don't even mean passantino)

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

It just is funny, Tuomas! I guess it's like slapstick humour, you either get it or you don't?

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

WAHT

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

How the hell is this trolling? I'm genuinely interested in the dynamics of humour behind this phenomenon. Is it that playing stupider than you are is funny? Also, it seems to be mostly an US/UK thing, or at least Finnish Internet users do this a lot less.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

It's like doing a wacky voice in the middle of a sentuence.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

MKIÄ

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/picardcat.jpg

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

retarded people are way funnier than those born without such gifts.

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

BREATHING AND WALKING AT THE SAME TIME: HOW IS IT MADE

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

But slapstick is easier to explain, because it's all about exaggerating real life ad absurdum. Whereas this thing seems to rely on assuming a role, and expecting that your audience will know it's a role, and not how you really write. Still, to me this doesn't fully explain the supposed humour of it.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

for me its just plain laziness and regularly spelled words is so 1998

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

(Several x-posts.)

I guess Danbunny and Mark G are closest to explaining it.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas, one day there will be a university course on said matter and you will have that long desired climatic eureka experience akin to Ron Jeremy popping on Jenna Jameson.

Something like that.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

are? im not a grammar buff either..ask skot if u need english lessons

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

The best thing about the English language is how breakable it is.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Then again, we might ask why retarded people are supposed to be funny in the first place?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's a bit like oranges. But not really.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't there sum study which said that even if letters are transposed in words in sentences that they are immed. recognized as th actual word,almost as quickly as if they were spelled correctly?

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://frank.harvard.edu/~jason/thoughts/real_genius.gif

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ask the Norweigans who terrorised Finn Kalvik!

I think Tuomas doesn't mean MY type of mispellings...

― Sarah, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh FFS, Tuomas, if you were a real woman, I'd ask you if IT WAS THAT TIME OF THE MONTH.
Lighten up (something or yourself), it's HUMOUR. If you really have to explain it, you're actually killing it.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm with Tuomas. I don't see anything remotely funny in this. It's just childish in-joke I'm-in-the-gang stuff.

― underpants of the gods, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

i spiloled cooffee on my dixxkciess
i spilled coffee on my Dickies

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh FFS, Tuomas, if you were a real woman, I'd ask you if IT WAS THAT TIME OF THE MONTH.
Lighten up (something or yourself), it's HUMOUR. If you really have to explain it, you're actually killing it.

I'm not talking about specific jokes... The dynamics of humour can and have been studied, I see nothing wrong with that.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

i also grew up reading jill johnston in th village voice
so she's partially to blame for some of my problems

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

for capitalization errors anyways

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell's wrong with childish in-jokey behavior?

*flashes bum* Look FOOL MOON

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I don't think retards themselves are considered funny (anymore), rather than non-retards acting in a retarded way, but also assuming their audience know they aren't really so. So it's the element of surprise and incoherence which is part of it's supposed funniness. Then again, this has become so popular that there's hardly any surprise in it anymore.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

i see nath is auditioning for a role in the big budget hollywood version of bjork&pdiddy.gif

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

tho i have to admit she does prove that ESL foreigners from dont have to be clueless herbs

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Nath, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, just that I don't get it myself, which is why I'm interested in why it works on some folks.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

it is funny because it makes words look dumb

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

LURK MOAR

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Actually, I don't think retards themselves are considered funny (anymore)"...u may be hanging out w th wrong retards....i do agree w th thingy that retarded behave has become some sort of "style" which is sick becuxx the OG tards aint gettin no royalties and shit...and i dont count the Besstie BOyzz or whatever

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Ethan, I think my brand of English is lost on you. A bit like Tuomas not realizing that retards have been replaced by Finish intellectual students/office works are joke of the day. (Tomorrow it'll be pregnant Belgian twits, I know I know.)

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

It is actually quite hard to explain why it is funny, based on the 'retarded' thing (as opposed to the 'engrish' aspect i.e. 'foreigners trying to write in english but not quite succeeding' which is funny for a number of reasons including farce (in this case the process of somebody trying to accommodate someone else by using their language, meaning well but making what often seem quite basic errors - to the point where you wonder how that mistake could be made intentionally (leading to the ironic/parodic style many of us on ILX indulge in these days) and surreal elements (the distortion and/or subversion of the language itself) and the attitude/tone behind the messages also (using all uppercase for dramatic effect tho the situation is actually quite trivial/mundane etc.).

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

James Joyce and Noize Boarders to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

danbunny: I think the study you're thinking of stated that misspelled words are instantly recognisable as long as the first and last letters are correct (see here...

― peteR, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

lolz at kitty vs. Jean Luc whinging about being turned into an upright hoover.

― kenan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

But seriously, Ethan, how are you? I mean, really.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas, teh the history of this predates the internet by decades.

for example: this.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

tho that explanation doesn't really factor in hax0r thing of replacing letters with numbers

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

so i was p[artially right..i jysut dont have tyme to get it all correct

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

or indeed M0leswurf

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Google Proof to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

HAY GUYZ

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Words are always waiting for yur tender touch
should u choose to touch them
they wrap their heads in dreams of your
ability to smudge them

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

there may be a practical reason to do with the nature of English itself as a language; that fact that English is multiple origin, and (therefore) has a huge vocab, parastises other languages and has irregular spelling and liberal grammar and word order means that things can be rendered in a similar but incorrect way to the *right* way and still make sense.

e.g. Rachel misspelling her name Archel then thinking or being told "That's a cool name, think I'll stick with it" and its similarities to Arch, archangel ect ect etc etc.

the fact that 'what' can be rendered 'wot' and still be understood.

the huge number of regional accents within the UK probably has a part to play too.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Noam Chomsy to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

k

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I think Stevem's analysis is the best so far... And even if the thing predates the Internet, I think it's become popular only through it, most likely because Internet is the first medium of everyday communication (as opposed to more formal media of newspapers and books) based on writing instead of speech.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

of course while I say that it all predates the internet, the internet has increased its incidence exponentially, coz all of a sudden you had a means for ppl to start communciating with each other by typing rather than speaking or writing en masse and at gr8 speed, so there were gr8r opportunities 2 get things wrong and any opportunity to abbrev. wd b readily pozd upon.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

tuomas dont you listen to rap music?

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Mis-spelling due to pronounciation vs mis-spelling due to bad typing, maybe.

― Sarah, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

No, he just reads your posts. A bit derivative, true, but it's a start!

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

has irregular spelling and liberal grammar and word order means that things can be rendered in a similar but incorrect way to the *right* way and still make sense.

Yeah, this probably one of the reasons it isn't so popular in Finnish, because Finnish has a regular spelling and homonyms are rare. Then again, even in English a lot of the misspellings aren't homonyms, are they?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I have it on v good authority that txting abbrevs like 'c u l8r' don't exist in Polish, which kinda proves my point....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, but it does in Dutch. I don't use it, but every 15 yr old pimply boy does.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

what is the Dutch version?

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Dutch is the closest extant language to English tho (well, actually it's Frisian, but....)

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

tuomas dont you listen to rap music?

Yeah, but in rap it isn't supposed to be humorous, is it? Ebonics is a whole different issue.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

arrrrgh that word

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00004W9KN.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone OTM, plus it implies a false or at least temporarily assumed earnestness, as do the all-caps. So even the hardest bitten, most cynical case can declare a baby panda "CUET" without sacrificing hard points.

― Laurel, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

3b0niXoR

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

DO NOT FEED THE FINNTROLL!


http://www.hogl.dk/pics/finntroll.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

auto-correcting software has a part to play, shurely?

I type 'nda' and 'teh' in Word, and hey! presto i get what i meant all along. So i continue to use 'nda' and 'teh' in other places too, doh!

I'd imagine that in many other languages auto-correct is not quite so well-advanced....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

if only tuomas had been auto-corrected

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost on infanticide c/d thread

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

i say WHATEVER, "THOMAS"

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I like Laurel's point about assumed earnestness, which would link this to postmodern irony... I.e. part of it's appeal is to make supposedly honest comments while at the same time staying cool and detached. That would also explain why I don't get it, since I'm not a big fan of pomo irony either.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

hows that working out for you

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I just like it because it (mainly the ultimate version - 13375p33K &/or antiorpese) looks funny. It makes me laugh.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I like "teh" because it has become such a cliche - that whole "look, ma, I am typing on teh modern INTERWEB!!!" thing.

Other than that, creative misspellings are a way of reinforcing your membership of a certain group, like slang.

Also, I just do not spell very well. This is partly due to mild dyslexia, and partly due to moving between UK and US spelling so much as a child I lost track of how things were spelled at all.

Mine only spelling tick is the use of the archaic "mine" as posessive before words starting with a vowel. I just like the way it looks and sounds.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

what the hell is it about continental europe having to find the deep philosophical underpinnings of some of the greatest stuff in history like sex and people falling over

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

funny cats are a feeling

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

what the hell is it about people using ILX to, like, ASK QUESTIONS??

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

it is funny because it makes words look dumb

aka visual puns, sight gags etc

― m coleman, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

i am sorry if i am standing in the way of tuomas' self-actualization through trolling

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

>:3

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

also ironic comment on post-literate internet culture

― m coleman, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Can you tell me where's the trolling part on this thread?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

^^^ trolling

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

i like 'roffle'

I think it's relaive lmao shd be rendered Le Mao.

never gonna happen tho....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Jess, what is your definition of trolling anyway?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

if we're going to anthropomorphize cats, why should we pretend that they have a good grasp of spelling or grammar!?

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

cats is cuet! and they cumbine wurds like innasent childs. awwwww, kiddens!

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

2nd:dyslexia

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

i like the way they μ

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Jess, what is your definition of trolling anyway?

from Europe

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Accusations of trolling are part of the same game as intentional misspellings. The latter says "I'm in the gang"; the former says "you're not in the gang".

― underpants of the gods, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

INTENSHUNAL MISSPELLINS IS LIEK BABYS TALK

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Formatting help

For entities: just give up.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I R TNY KITN is really unfunny tho. haet it.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/beconfidentatreyurp8.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

lol hi dere

― g-kit, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, dyslexia and autocorrect and fast typing is a different thing than doing this intentionally for a comic effect.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

A = dyslexia and autocorrect and fast typing

B = doing this intentionally for a comic effect

A enables, facilitates, encourages B

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yes to the fun linguistic ingenuity! It's children's-level manipulation of a language with tons of its own ambiguities and nonsensicalities. There's a lot of joy in it, and purporseful relaxing of sometimes fairly strict community standards of conduct (ie the one-upsmanship and zings and sarcasm etc).

― Laurel, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

b-but I R TNY KITN gdmit

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

o

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

what the hell is it about continental europe having to find the deep philosophical underpinnings of some of the greatest stuff in history like sex and people falling over


How cute. I really want to pinch your cheeks, Jess, but, alas, you lost all that weight. Let me know when it's back on and I'll cuddle you senseless.

Tuomas, in regard to trolling, he's looking too much away from him instead of doing introspection. If only he could, then he'd be OTM. It's like every typical American: they can't intellectualize.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/corncob.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/alanapost/HAPPYCAT/NaziHappyCat.png

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

things like 'waht' and 'hi dere' just remind me of Dr Nick Riviera so good on that basis alone.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/boldfatty.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

A enables, facilitates, encourages B

No doubt, but the dynamics of A are far easier to explain than those of B, which is why I was interested in the latter. And this thread has indeed offered many good explanations for B.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

My friend just mailed me a pic of her dead cat. It's staying with her until she buries it. :-(

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

"The first printed examples of O.K. can be found in the Boston newspapers of 1839 as part of a broader fad of forming and employing acronyms and initialisms, many of them barbarous. Other examples at the time included G.T.T. for "gone to Texas" and K.Y. for "know yuse". The general fad may have existed in spoken or informal written American English for a decade or more before its appearance in newspapers. O.K. was intended as a misspelling of "all correct"; in the first few years it was often published with this gloss. (Note that gloss indicates the spread of a new word.) The gloss was sometimes varied with degraded spelling such as "Oll Korrect" or even "Ole Kurreck". Deliberate word play was associated with the acronym fad and was a yet broader contemporary American fad. In this first phase, O.K. was spread with the acronym fad from Boston to other American cities."

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/ewok.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Text is now conversational. In this medium, the written word acts more like the spoken word. People are likely to try to do the same things with text that they do with speech, including producing a unique voice, adopting slang, and incorporating common affectations of their peers as a part of socialization, identifying with a group.

But you can't do things with text that you can do with speech, because you can't change pitch or timbre, roundness or articulation. In text you have a limited range of vowels and vowel combinations, but the human voice is capable of producing over one thousand different vowel sounds.

So you end up fucking around with what's available on the keyboard to accomplish what you've learned to do in conversation, including all of the little shortcuts and signs. You learn from reading and imitating others as much as you learn form common accidents that amuse.

Also, cat pictures are funny.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/12087.jpeg

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/walrusphone.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/_2.jpg

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Strongo has finally found the icanhascheezeburger site.

For those inclined to learn Dutch SMS-lingo: http://www.smstaal.nl/

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

seriously even seeing the font from image macros is enough to make me roffle anymore

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

salvia+nethack

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/2001982351398543517_rs.jpg
(for context)

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

here's a still form my cuzzins senior project film last year at Bard..awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5368/703/640/281765/000_0954.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5368/703/640/281765/000_0954.jpg

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't notice before, but "has a bucket" is an elephant seal, and the "has a cellular" is a walrus -- different aminals!

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

pinnipeds both

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod that Ewok cat is the grebtest thing ever.

― Matt DC, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

omg @ atreyucat

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

haha I hope bucket elephant seal has a parts 4-10 a la R Kelly

― nickalicious, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

he's goin over to the sink
cos the bucket is under the sink
and when he gets over to the sink
he looks under the sink
but under the sink... is no bucket
(no bucket)
(no bucket)

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

for me it's really all about the eternal ms. spelling on teh interweb


http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/tori-spelling/pictures/tori-spelling-picture-1.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gifhttp://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gifhttp://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gifhttp://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gifhttp://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gifhttp://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gifhttp://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gif

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

wtf is up with teh bucket?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

IT HAS A BUCKET THEN IS GETS STEALED WAHT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

there was, like, no character development at all leading up to the bucket debacle!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nastynets.com/secretstash/netacronyms_smaller.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

the line "I has a bucket" says a lot about teh charachter

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Tuomas,

Cats can't spell.

Yrs,

Nabisco

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/374075038_f3ec7a4c04.jpg?v=0

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

The latter says "I'm in the gang"; the former says "you're not in the gang".

THE GANG

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/noiservoirdogs.jpg

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

i like the little lesbo on the left

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I mean maybe in Finland people respect cats as their intellectual equals, but those of us in the rest of the world recognize their limited intellectual development, and find it cute and funny when they fall off of stuff or make weird reaction faces, and maybe imagine them having internal dialogue like "OH NOES I FELL OFF COWCH" or whatever.

Also cats aren't good with computers:

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/hax.jpg

Haha see the cat was doing a page layout and then somehow accidentally put a cat picture in there! And then he was like "oh man, how did that happen, I don't know how to use this computer!" But that text wound up on there too! Hahaha cats aren't smart enough to do page layouts, they make comical Lucille Ball-type errors!

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

to be fair, ppl do the same with ppl pics.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Orlando Bloom for President" <--- not funny!

does this really need any explanation other than oddly spelled words are funny to read? People who walk in an unusual way also make me laugh because it's not the way you are supposed to walk! And animals wearing hats (because they don't normally wear hats!)

― Slumpman, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hot-screensaver.com/wp-myimages/funny-cat.jpg

I am normally wearing hat

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

donkeys at the seaside wear hats.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

MAMA WEER ALL CRAZEE NOW!

― walterkranz, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

to be fair, ppl do the same with ppl pics.

Fuck being fair. Humor isn't about that.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

this humor is fair and rational, so now I will commence to laughing

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I am crying so hard laughing at newspaper cat that I have freaked out my dogs and am crying and everything.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

but why damnit WHY

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

[i]if we're going to anthropomorphize cats, why should we pretend that they have a good grasp of spelling or grammar!?

elmo argonaut on Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (2 hours ago)
cats is cuet! and they cumbine wurds like innasent childs. awwwww, kiddens!

elmo argonaut on Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (2 hours ago)
/[i]

most OTM posts not containing catpix

― stevie, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Newspaper cat xpost pile-up, no less!

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I do not want to deconstruct newspaper cat, because then it would not be funny. Part of why I find it funny is because I can't generate any situation which would have that as the end result, partly because the text doesn't go with the picture. Maybe it's the sense of despair, maybe it's just that particular cat's face (is he/she the same cat as the Nazi photo above?) I don't know. Please don't make me know, I might not laugh any more then.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

accentmonkey otm

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I can't generate any situation which would have that as the end result

Haha situation = cat is REALLY BAD with computers

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

like cat bad with computers + GRANDMA bad with computers

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

what do u mean, accentmonkey and edward? nabisco explained in crystal clear detail why it was funny, which was the funniest thing of all, it being kind of paradoxical and stuff

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas's question soften remind me of the woman in the James Thurber cartoon who sits in her armchair and looks up from her newpaper and over at her husband in the next armchair and asks "Who is this Hitler and what does he want?"

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Haha situation = cat is REALLY BAD with computers

How do you know it was a cat? It could have been the elephant seal putting an ad in to get his bucket back, for all you know.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

questions oftern

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever floats yr funnyboat!

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.cafepress.com/product/33209387_240x240_Front.jpg

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

ewwwwwwww

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

tuomas be runnin' this ILX ish.

― Eisbaer, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

also, WTF is that pic with the dog with no front legs? is that thing for REAL, or is it a photoshop thing?!?

― Eisbaer, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ihasacomputer.jpg

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

also, why to hate on 2 legged dogs?

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://cgi.4chan.org/f/src/tetkacat.swf

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

i love that, Edward III :D

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

thanks now I'm gonna be watching that for the next 3 hours

xpost

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

edward if you took that to 4chan you'd be king for like 8 minutes

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, elephantsealpaws. You are no good at layout.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

(nb i went there for the first time ever like last week so i'm at near-tuomas levels of out of it-ness)

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ihasacomputernooo.jpg

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

the elephat seal was better

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

nabisco, this is the original context of not-good-with-computers-cat

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421024.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421044.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421060.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421076.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421092.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421113.jpg

it seems sort of quaint now

― cankles, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

T Street, fuckjob!

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

HOLY FUCK THAT THING IS GREAT

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Garage (it's full of shit)

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

39th street way the shit up here

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

*more like SARS

― gff, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

a Cilantro or something, lol

― WilliamC, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

the elephat seal was better

yeah but now we know newspaper cat is an ilxor

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

goons goons goons

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

wonder what she posts as

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

marissa

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hahah TREES AND SHIT. That thing is great!

― Trayce, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~dbailey/gallery/image/elephant.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

This thread has brightened my day.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

walruses are far more regal than elephant seals:

http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/3802/11140/f/46524-Walrus-Attack-0.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42171000/jpg/_42171890_sealion_getty_416.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Looks like somebody farted in the tub.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

that walrus is clearly going to murder those ppls

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to see walrus (tub farter) wearing an ascot.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Growing Up Walrus is my favorite thing Animal Planet has ever aired.

Fuck a shark week, I want walrus week.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

rare photo of domesticaled baby walrus:

http://www.strawberrybonkers.com/walrus.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/43/89768504_42fe9e0ab2_m.jpg

"I SAID I WANTED A BURRITO, NONE OF THIS SCHOOLCHILDREN BULLSHIT."

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Wilford Brimley Walrus. My favorite kind.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7788/736657112ltf5.gif

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://lolwtfbbq.tripod.com/o_rly/thumbnails/600x450/aidsrly.jpg

― ken c, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Can I just throw a manatee into the elephant seal / walrus debate?

http://www.visitbradenton-manatee.com/images/picture_bradenton.jpg

― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

I heart Edward's rubbish-at-layout editor elephant seal. He rules the internet.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/i-has-sockses.jpg

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/they-be-stealing.jpg

― kingfish, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)


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