I have clearly spent far too much time looking at LOLcats.
In trying to clear a massive backlog of New Scientist magazines from my house, I was reading a little too quickly yesterday when I reached this snippet at the end of a page:
At first reading, I thought the headline was a question from a pilot uncertain about his/her future career prospects.
Hah hah!
Me too..
Possibly deliberate, then!
That’s what I thought too…maybe we are all spending too much time reading lol cats and such :)
Without a doubt. I wonder if we can sue them for damage to our mental capacity?
LOL I thought that too, but that was prefaced with your title and mention of LOLcats. I wonder if others would read it that way if that wasn’t the case?
I read it too. But then I showed it to my cat, who said: “Stupid humans. You need to read up on Greek mythology and NASA’s activities the next time you’re on the Internet box. Now let me sleep, it’s the middle of the day!”
OK, I clearly don’t know how to embed an image. Link instead.
Nice! My concentration span’s obviously shot by Lolcats and co, because I glanced at the headline, didn’t understand it and skimmed right down to the comments thinking I’d figure it out there rather than engage brain for half a second to actually think. Your point proven, I think!
(put the name of the image between exclamation marks)
I can’t see a big future for LOLrockets, alas.
Ares is an anagram of Arse. In which case its tendency to ‘vibrate violently’ is not surprising. Why didn’t they go all the way and call it Uranus ?
Alyssa, it really wasn’t a fair test, was it?
Eva, I showed it to my cat too, but she just fell off the sofa. Again.
Ken, nice one! (and thanks, Bob, for embedding it)
Henry, what about careening out of control? Not to mention crashing in a populated area…
Joanna, my attention span is so short that I didn’t even see your comment!
Yes, I fear that serious thought and delayed gratification may be a thing of the past.
Mmmm, cheeseburgers.
You have become assimilated to the British way, Jenny! That’s cheezburgers with a very Americanized Z!
I’ll trust Jenny’s spelling over those krazee kittiez..
It’s truly frightening how powerfully the LOLCats writing style burns into the brain. I would have read it just like you, Cath. Eat your heart out James Joyce, this is much deeper stuff.
Sabbi, very wize.
Brian, pass it will. Just like that Yoda-grammar phase that had the teachers at my primary school so worried.