January 10, 2008
The next craze, IMHO Cats
Surely you've heard of LOL Cats. If not, the concept is simple. You take a picture of a cat doing something that could be construed as hilarious, then give it a caption in a weird pidgin-like English, the structure of which has already been debated by Mark Liberman here.
I'm going to attempt to take this another step. Why do cats have to be child-like and mischievous? Can't they contribute to serious scientific and political discourse? I think so. (In fact, I'm apparently not alone. A recent posting on cheezburger shows that cats can also have the same kind of acid-induced psycho-trips that Arthur Clark evidently did, as shown here.)
So, my contribution here is IMHO cats. IMHO is internet slang for In My Humble Opinion. IMHO cats don't shy away from expressing controversial opinions. Examples are below:
And last, Carrie Munson expressing an opinion first suggested to me by Mary Beckman:
I CAN HAZ NSF?
Posted by: Erdem at January 10, 2008 02:10 PMOoh, I like this. It has this nice "The moar you know~♪" sort of feel to it.
Posted by: Ryan at January 13, 2008 04:13 PMI want more pics of my son. It is the only way i can see them a t work, please?????
Posted by: nancy at January 28, 2008 08:22 AM