For those who didn’t understand my Friday post Spring, Pleez? I used the fractured syntax from Lolcat graphics occasionally found on the Internet in my photo. The Wikipedia article on Lolcats has a history of the genre. The I Can Has Cheezburger? site has examples.
I’ve never quite understood why LOL cats use such fractured syntax. I’ve always felt that if cats would deign to speak to us lowly human beings they would use the snooty accents once common to BBC announcers, with impeccable grammar.
Readers of Jeph Jacques’ comic Questionable Content, confronted by the challenge of “post-modern LOLCats,” attempted to stretch the genre in various ways (only some of which really seemed post-modern to me, but still). My favorite, I think, was a picture of a snow-capped and craggy Himalayan mountain with the caption “INVISIBLE BICYCLE” — but the image which I swiped for posterity that had sufficient relevance to make me post this message was this genius one.