I never cared much for this LOLcats craze, but LOLthulhu almost won me over…and now, at last, we have a truly appropriate subject for stupid captions on random pictures.
Oh I ♥ LOLcats. When I first discovered them it was like being seven years old again: I had such a giggling fit I could hardly breathe. They are totally, utterly puerile. And yet it is because they puncture the pomposity or seriousness of an image so effectively that they are such an excellent tool for rationalism. Maybe we should be posting them on billboards and hoardings.
I wonder – are there any non-Christian LOLtheists? For instance, “I’S IN UR MAKKAH, ROCKING TEH KA’ABA”?
Peter Barbersays
I don’t understand the “nom nom nom” thing. What’s that about?
“Nom nom nom” is the sound lolcats make when they’re eating. Should I be ashamed to know that? :)
Carliesays
I admit to a bizarre fascination for lolcats. I even have the grammar pretty well down. (Yes, there are rules that have emerged.) When I introduced my 9 year old to them he spat ice cream all down his shirt, he was laughing so hard.
The loltheists have good concept, but they aren’t so great yet. Need more entries to up the ante. I am seriously thinking about printing out the platypus to put on my wall, though.
Bunjosays
IT INTERESTIN 2 CONTEMPLATE AN ENTANGLD BANK, CLOTHD WIF LOTZ DA
PLANTS OV LOTZ DA KINDZ, WIF BIRDZ SINGIN ON TEH BUSHEZ, WIF VARIOUS
INSECTS FLITTIN BOUT, AN WIF WORMS CRAWLIN THRU TEH DAMP EARTH,
AN 2 REFLECT DAT THEES ELABORATELY CONSTRUCTD FORMS, SO DIFFERENT FRUM
EACH OTHR, AN DEPENDENT ON EACH OTHR IN SO COMPLEX MANNR, HAS ALL
BEEN PRODUCD BY LAWS ACTIN AROUND US. THEES LAWS, TAKEN IN DA LARGEST
SENSE, BEIN GROWTH WIF REPRODUCSHUN; INHERITANCE WHICH IZ ALMOST IMPLID
BY REPRODUCSHUN; VARIABILITY FRUM TEH INDIRECT AN DIRECT ACSHUN OV TEH
EXTERNAL CONDISHUNS OV LIFE, AN FRUM USE AN DISUSE; RATIO OV INCREASE
SO HIGH AS 2 LEAD 2 STRUGGLE 4 LIFE, AN AS CONSEQUENCE 2 NACHURAL
SELECSHUN, ENTAILIN DIVERGENCE OV CHARACTR AN TEH EXTINCSHUN OV
LES-IMPROOVD FORMS. THUS, FRUM TEH WAR OV NACHUR, FRUM FAMINE AN DEATH,
TEH MOST EXALTD OBJECT WHICH WE R CAPABLE OV CONCEIVIN, NAMELY, TEH
PRODUCSHUN OV TEH HIGHR ANIMALS, DIRECTLY FOLLOWS. THAR IZ GRANDEUR IN
DIS VIEW OV LIFE, WIF ITZ SEVERAL POWERS, HAVIN BEEN ORIGINALLY
BREATHD INTO FEW FORMS OR INTO WAN; AN DAT, WHILST DIS PLANET HAS
GONE CYCLIN ON ACCORDIN 2 TEH FIXD LAW OV GRAVITY, FRUM SO SIMPLE
BEGINNIN ENDLES FORMS MOST BEAUTIFUL AN MOST WANDERBL HAS BEEN, AN
R BEIN, EVOLVD.
Big caption, no picture, but it still works for me.
Carliesays
Early Darwin: Peacock’s tail – DON’T LIKE!!!
Later Darwin: Oh, girlz like. K.
I did like the “Invisible Jesus” a couple of pages in. That had a bit of bite to it.
B. Dewhirstsays
As they say, Hell for the company.
Better to burn than serve a tyrant. That I may have the courage of my convictions if I’m ever asked to recant.
oh hai, u gotz 2 luvz teh kittehs 2 luvz teh lolcatz!!1!
Erinsays
If we’re all wrong, I’d still rather hang out with you irreverants for all eternity than all those Jebus freaks saying “I told you so…”
inkadusays
LOLCATS is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment — because my sanity has a flavor, nom nom nom.
ANd, here’s a little LOLCATS trivia: The phrase DO NOT WANT! Originated from an english dub of the chinese translation of Star Wars episode 3. At the end, where Anikin is yelling “no!” his Chinese-translated, english-dubbed parallel-universe LOLVader is yelling “DO NOT WANT!”
Is it that story truely the source of the phrase? Who cares.
kthxbai
Dr Paisleysays
Thanks for the link and laughs. And what should iTunes pop up with whilst I am there? Teh Dandy Warhols, Godless. You should adopt it as your theme song here.
Jesus: Dis my body. Dis my blood.
Peter: Dude, WTF? Ur made of bread+wine?
J: LOL, no. I make a funnee. Not wine, I am made of win!
P: I think you has enough wine. Ur baked!
CortxVortxsays
I’d have to say, based on pure confluence of gestures and body language, that “OH NO YOU DI’INT” is the funniest.
Hank, Darren and NoAstronomer, in no particular order – except maybe the order in which you replied? – thanks. I’d never never heard lolcats eating before and my two IRLcats* make more of a slurping smacking noise. Think I’ll try and teach them to go “nom nom nom” instead – oi, not mai fud u fleebags!
Hey, thanks for the link. We’re big fans of yours. As for the burning in hell bit, well, you know, everything has an upside and a downside.
Heh.
Chrissays
My ISP refuses to admit that loltheist.com exists (keeps returning DNS errors). Coincidence or censorship?
Squiddharthasays
For the science fiction nerds in the crowd, there’s LOLbots…
Alverantsays
I loved LOLcats since I first found out about it. But that’s probably because I’m a cat person. It’s low humor, but it’s fun and it makes that ridiculous geek speak to good use.
Ithika says
You forgot about LOLscience!
AL says
loltheist.com is made out of concentrated win.
astromcnaught says
Interesting how the LOLscience one has the most broken links.
Hugo says
LOLtheist! hahah I’ve found a new favorite site.
LOLscience some are just too difficult for me ;)
J Green says
Turn up that heat Mr. Myers
Peter Barber says
Oh I ♥ LOLcats. When I first discovered them it was like being seven years old again: I had such a giggling fit I could hardly breathe. They are totally, utterly puerile. And yet it is because they puncture the pomposity or seriousness of an image so effectively that they are such an excellent tool for rationalism. Maybe we should be posting them on billboards and hoardings.
I wonder – are there any non-Christian LOLtheists? For instance, “I’S IN UR MAKKAH, ROCKING TEH KA’ABA”?
Peter Barber says
I don’t understand the “nom nom nom” thing. What’s that about?
Hank says
Lolscience – ha! Sweet sweet matlab.
Subjective as humor is, I can’t say I found loltheist that much fun.
Raptor jesus on the other hand…
Hank says
Peter Barber: It’s the sound of eating.
ERV says
The look on this birds face has had me laughing for a week now.
Darren says
“Nom nom nom” is the sound lolcats make when they’re eating. Should I be ashamed to know that? :)
Carlie says
I admit to a bizarre fascination for lolcats. I even have the grammar pretty well down. (Yes, there are rules that have emerged.) When I introduced my 9 year old to them he spat ice cream all down his shirt, he was laughing so hard.
The loltheists have good concept, but they aren’t so great yet. Need more entries to up the ante. I am seriously thinking about printing out the platypus to put on my wall, though.
Bunjo says
IT INTERESTIN 2 CONTEMPLATE AN ENTANGLD BANK, CLOTHD WIF LOTZ DA
PLANTS OV LOTZ DA KINDZ, WIF BIRDZ SINGIN ON TEH BUSHEZ, WIF VARIOUS
INSECTS FLITTIN BOUT, AN WIF WORMS CRAWLIN THRU TEH DAMP EARTH,
AN 2 REFLECT DAT THEES ELABORATELY CONSTRUCTD FORMS, SO DIFFERENT FRUM
EACH OTHR, AN DEPENDENT ON EACH OTHR IN SO COMPLEX MANNR, HAS ALL
BEEN PRODUCD BY LAWS ACTIN AROUND US. THEES LAWS, TAKEN IN DA LARGEST
SENSE, BEIN GROWTH WIF REPRODUCSHUN; INHERITANCE WHICH IZ ALMOST IMPLID
BY REPRODUCSHUN; VARIABILITY FRUM TEH INDIRECT AN DIRECT ACSHUN OV TEH
EXTERNAL CONDISHUNS OV LIFE, AN FRUM USE AN DISUSE; RATIO OV INCREASE
SO HIGH AS 2 LEAD 2 STRUGGLE 4 LIFE, AN AS CONSEQUENCE 2 NACHURAL
SELECSHUN, ENTAILIN DIVERGENCE OV CHARACTR AN TEH EXTINCSHUN OV
LES-IMPROOVD FORMS. THUS, FRUM TEH WAR OV NACHUR, FRUM FAMINE AN DEATH,
TEH MOST EXALTD OBJECT WHICH WE R CAPABLE OV CONCEIVIN, NAMELY, TEH
PRODUCSHUN OV TEH HIGHR ANIMALS, DIRECTLY FOLLOWS. THAR IZ GRANDEUR IN
DIS VIEW OV LIFE, WIF ITZ SEVERAL POWERS, HAVIN BEEN ORIGINALLY
BREATHD INTO FEW FORMS OR INTO WAN; AN DAT, WHILST DIS PLANET HAS
GONE CYCLIN ON ACCORDIN 2 TEH FIXD LAW OV GRAVITY, FRUM SO SIMPLE
BEGINNIN ENDLES FORMS MOST BEAUTIFUL AN MOST WANDERBL HAS BEEN, AN
R BEIN, EVOLVD.
Big caption, no picture, but it still works for me.
Carlie says
Early Darwin: Peacock’s tail – DON’T LIKE!!!
Later Darwin: Oh, girlz like. K.
I did like the “Invisible Jesus” a couple of pages in. That had a bit of bite to it.
B. Dewhirst says
As they say, Hell for the company.
Better to burn than serve a tyrant. That I may have the courage of my convictions if I’m ever asked to recant.
— Brian
Dan says
That platypus one damn near lethally cracked me up. I’ll be giggling about that all day, I think.
Milo Johnson says
oh hai, u gotz 2 luvz teh kittehs 2 luvz teh lolcatz!!1!
Erin says
If we’re all wrong, I’d still rather hang out with you irreverants for all eternity than all those Jebus freaks saying “I told you so…”
inkadu says
LOLCATS is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment — because my sanity has a flavor, nom nom nom.
ANd, here’s a little LOLCATS trivia: The phrase DO NOT WANT! Originated from an english dub of the chinese translation of Star Wars episode 3. At the end, where Anikin is yelling “no!” his Chinese-translated, english-dubbed parallel-universe LOLVader is yelling “DO NOT WANT!”
Is it that story truely the source of the phrase? Who cares.
kthxbai
Dr Paisley says
Thanks for the link and laughs. And what should iTunes pop up with whilst I am there? Teh Dandy Warhols, Godless. You should adopt it as your theme song here.
NoAstronomer says
My wife and I both agree that the ‘nom nom nom’ thing originally comes from Sesame Streets Cookie Monster.
Alan says
And let’s not forget the marvelous lolsecretz.
Carlie says
Ok, Alan, putting my fav site postsecret together with the guilty pleasure of lolcats just made my day.
Rey Fox says
Actually, it’s spelled “lolwut?”.
Becca says
Try LOLTheorists: http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/
page through the archives- some of them (well, only some) are really good.
(besides, I had to enter a comment to enter the Comment Contest – I don’t ever have anything substantive to add.)
Akitagod says
Holy shit — so much for a productive Friday! :P
DustPuppyOI says
I like this one. There could be a good series on it like: “IM IN UR KONKREET”, “IM ON UR TOAST”, “IM UR OIL STAIN”, etc.
Then of course, there’s the now famous LOLTrek.
David Marjanović says
Oh man. Bunjo wins a shiny new intarweb for comment 13.
My jaw joints hurt.
David Marjanović says
Oh man. Bunjo wins a shiny new intarweb for comment 13.
My jaw joints hurt.
BenA says
This is easily my favorite…
Jeff says
“We are so going to burn in hell.”
I never did like the cold.
Owlmirror says
I CAN HAS EUCHARIST?
http://loljesus.wordpress.com/
Jesus: Dis my body. Dis my blood.
Peter: Dude, WTF? Ur made of bread+wine?
J: LOL, no. I make a funnee. Not wine, I am made of win!
P: I think you has enough wine. Ur baked!
CortxVortx says
I’d have to say, based on pure confluence of gestures and body language, that “OH NO YOU DI’INT” is the funniest.
— CV
soteos says
dawkins ez teh pwnzor
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/3/3b/Legorobot006.jpg
Mongrel says
Well there’s always the LOLCat Bible project, started after a graphic designer got bored (here)
Peter Barber says
Hank, Darren and NoAstronomer, in no particular order – except maybe the order in which you replied? – thanks. I’d never never heard lolcats eating before and my two IRLcats* make more of a slurping smacking noise. Think I’ll try and teach them to go “nom nom nom” instead – oi, not mai fud u fleebags!
* In Real Life
LOLTheist says
Hey, thanks for the link. We’re big fans of yours. As for the burning in hell bit, well, you know, everything has an upside and a downside.
Heh.
Chris says
My ISP refuses to admit that loltheist.com exists (keeps returning DNS errors). Coincidence or censorship?
Squiddhartha says
For the science fiction nerds in the crowd, there’s LOLbots…
Alverant says
I loved LOLcats since I first found out about it. But that’s probably because I’m a cat person. It’s low humor, but it’s fun and it makes that ridiculous geek speak to good use.
Rich says
I sent in a couple:
http://loltheist.com/2007/09/29/and-dont-forget-any-loose-change/
http://loltheist.com/2007/09/29/beggars-cant-be-choosers/