# With apologies to grammar, what is ur opinion on "lolcats"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 17, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339 "2007-06-17T05:33:13Z")
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/1 "2007-06-17T05:33:13Z")
You know those captioned pictures of cats. They seem to pop up in all sorts of places on the net. Most widely known is the formula “I’m in ur \_\_\_\_\_\_ …”.
The site \<[http://icanhascheezburger.com/](http://icanhascheezburger.com/)\> updates new pictures daily, and I can’t get enough. I’m addicted. I feel like an idiot, but I can’t help but chuckle at them.
[Here](http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/schrodingers-lolcat1.jpg) is a good doper example, which is my desktop background. Stupid cat, gross misspelling, but funny reference to a quantum physics paradox.
So what do you think? Do you roll your eyes and ignore, or enjoy the silly humor?
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### Author:  [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/2 "2007-06-17T05:43:54Z")
I enjoy it, but they need to either be extremely cute or rather clever and creative to get a laugh from me. I think this is because I’ve seen 10000 pictures of a cat in the fridge with “in ur fridge, eating ur foodz” and it gets old.
The one you linked to (physicscat) isn’t bad at all…
Brendon Small
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### Author:  [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/3 "2007-06-17T05:49:04Z")
I don’t get them. Maybe it is because I don’t find cats cute. They are walking allergy balls to me.
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### Author:  [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/4 "2007-06-17T06:24:28Z")
I’ve never seen those before. The cats are cute…but, holy hell the captions make me want to break things.
I really, really hate cutsey captions, especially when they contain “cute” misspellings. (my family members are always sending out photos with the store bought word bubbles. …THAT ARE NEVER FUNNY.)
Take off the obnoxious captions and I would have looked at all the pictures. Are the captions part of the draw? Do you think they are funny?
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### Author:  [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/5 "2007-06-17T06:54:32Z")
I’m about half and half. I find about half of them funny, and half of them annoyingly stupid.
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### Author:  [@Ellef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellef)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/6 "2007-06-17T07:57:50Z")
I love that website! I can see why it would annoy some people, but there are some real comedy gems in among the cutesy stuff.
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### Author:  [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/7 "2007-06-17T09:25:25Z")
I find them funny, for the moment, but I reckon that, like many other Internet memes, they will become very very popular, very very overused and finally we won’t find them funny anymore. A bit like All Your Base Are Belong To Us.
Maybe it is the nature of humorous things like these that if you read it you spread it as much as you can, because we want to use its humorousness in our conversations, but when everyone does, we get tired.
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### Author:  [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/8 "2007-06-17T09:28:30Z")
I love them, for some stupid reason. You’re not alone **bigbabysweets2000**.
I’ve just found the cheezburger site, I’ve been visiting [www.dropline.net/cats](http://www.dropline.net/cats). There are a lot of duplicates between sites, but each has some very funny originals.
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### Author:  [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/9 "2007-06-17T09:49:55Z")
I saw that this was on one of the collection sites. Wonderful gag from a great webcomic. [XKCD](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/in_ur_reality.png). It’s “lolcat” related!
Brendon Small
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### Author:  [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/10 "2007-06-17T10:24:55Z")
[QUOTE=brendon\_small]
I saw that this was on one of the collection sites. Wonderful gag from a great webcomic. [XKCD](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/in_ur_reality.png). It’s “lolcat” related!
Brendon Small
[/QUOTE]
_That_ was funny.
As for the OP, I’m in the 1/2 & 1/2 crowd. There are a lot of repeats, a lot that I’ve seen uncaptioned (which I generally prefer), but a few that really make me laugh.
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### Author:  [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/11 "2007-06-17T11:54:47Z")
**bigbabysweets2000** , I am similarly addicted to icanhascheezburger. (And I liked the Schrodinger’s lolcat, too.)
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### Author:  [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/12 "2007-06-17T11:59:36Z")
I like them. They make me laugh. Or at least smile quietly. So I don’t care that they’re kind of stupid.
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### Author:  [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/13 "2007-06-17T12:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=brendon\_small]
I saw that this was on one of the collection sites. Wonderful gag from a great webcomic. [XKCD](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/in_ur_reality.png). It’s “lolcat” related!
Brendon Small
[/QUOTE]
On a similar note, here’s one from [The New Adventures of Queen Victoria.](http://www.gocomics.com/thenewadventuresofqueenvictoria/2007/06/03/) I like them, so far, but I’m always pretty late catching on to these things.
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### Author:  [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/14 "2007-06-17T13:39:30Z")
Maybe im just a huge geek but what i found hilarious was [LOLCODE](http://programming.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/06/07/1654251&from=rss)
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/15 "2007-06-17T15:10:36Z")
Once in a great while they’re funny, in an overabundance they are stupid. I’m careful not to look at them too much because of overloa.d
the physics ones is funny. And I like the bird one on the OP’s linked site, just because I like birds.
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### Author:  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/16 "2007-06-17T15:21:50Z")
My vote: Adorable and funny.
'Course, I melt with anything cat-related.
Adam
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### Author:  [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/17 "2007-06-17T15:26:41Z")
By the way, I urge the critics to check out the [Invisibles section](http://icanhascheezburger.com/tag/invisible/page/1/). If you don’t get a chuckle out of that, you have no soul. 😉
Adam
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### Author:  [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/18 "2007-06-17T15:30:01Z")
Count me as another one who likes them. I usually detest that sort of deliberate misspelling/IM speak, but it seems clear that the lolcats are often done with genuine humour and quite some cleverness at times.
Oh, yes, and some cute cats too. 🙂
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### Author:  [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/19 "2007-06-17T16:02:27Z")
Another reason to throw my computer out the window.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-apologies-to-grammar-what-is-ur-opinion-on-lolcats/408339/20 "2007-06-17T16:23:11Z")
I have to admit, I liked more of them than I thought I would. I think I liked about three on the first three pages. The ones I like are the ones like the physics ones - the ironically stupid ones making fun of the really honestly but unintentionally stupid ones.
Seems to be an internet version of the “Talking for the cats” game we like to play around here. Nothing like projecting your feelings onto a ball of fluff to avoid interpersonal conflict and responsibility for your own needs.
“Miz Kitty Fantastico says, ‘Clean my litterbox, Daddy!’”
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