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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2472 Joined: 1 Nov 2007     | ...Thats awesome. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 982 Joined: 21 Feb 2008    | So it's not our generation.... |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2472 Joined: 1 Nov 2007 | I just had an image of ancient Egyptian carving of a cat in a cagewith the words "Epic Fail" in hieroglyphs underneath. |
Muckraker  Posts: 340 Joined: 25 Feb 2008  | By Jov! This will be the day you tell your grandchildren how you were there when they found the oldest Lolcat! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2264 Joined: 3 Aug 2008     | Actually, they originated back to the Egyptian times. ...That was me attempting to be interrlec- interllec- inter... er...Clever. |
On the Record  Posts: 5496 Joined: 7 Feb 2008   | wait what? I am really confused... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1363 Joined: 6 Feb 2008    | sad to think the origional lolcat hasnt been bettered, just suffered from butchered grammer & spelling. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 778 Joined: 27 Aug 2008 | I love this, I really do. Who wants to bet that some time soon we'll find a mudkip or something in a tomb, with some dead guy desperate to show us it? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1006 Joined: 4 Dec 2007  | Yeah, didn't the basic gist of cats and blurbs of text originate in ancient Egypt? I mean, surely they had at least one image of a cat saying to a man bowing to him, "I am hungry" or "Where are my food offerings?" Wouldn't that technically be the first lolcat? |
Senior Editor  Posts: 1516 Joined: 9 Jan 2007   |
Congratulations, you just made me lol (sans cat). :) |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 12878 Joined: 30 Jan 2008  |
You mean like this? |
BANNED  Posts: 2499 Joined: 19 Aug 2008   | Hahah, nice. So humans have always thought it funny to make cats look weird :P User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1388 Joined: 6 Nov 2008  | Awesomeness in its purest form. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 482 Joined: 23 Nov 2007   | I thought they originated as a comic strip, the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats: |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2932 Joined: 16 Aug 2008    | Wow, the worlds oldest Lolcat...Wow....It's amazing... |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 540 Joined: 17 Sep 2008  | Ahaha, I loves me some lolcats :P |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1204 Joined: 2 Mar 2008 | Oh god, which is funnier, the worlds oldest lolcat, or the worlds pseudo oldest Mudkips... hmmm. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 876 Joined: 27 Aug 2008    |
Nah, lolcats come from a 4chan meme called Caturday, every saturday pics of cats were posted on 4chan. Like shoop da woop, mudkips, chocolate rain, over 9000, the rickroll and many other internet fads it started as a meme on the website before becoming mainstream. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 434 Joined: 19 Sep 2008   |
Exactly what I was thinking. I feel slightly disappointed. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1355 Joined: 13 Oct 2008 | OH GOD, EVEN THE PREVIOUS GENERATIONS WEREN'T IMMUNE TO THE HORROR OF THE LOLCAT....AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! |
Beat Writer  Posts: 207 Joined: 22 Jul 2008 | Apparently back then type was smaller and had better copy editing. Vintage. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 664 Joined: 16 May 2008  | I thought this was a joke to begin with... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1437 Joined: 13 Sep 2008   | ...Damn awesome. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 52 Joined: 24 Dec 2008   | It's rather funny, our ancestors seem to have millions of ways to fuck with us. IT'S A GOD DAMNED CONSPIRACY I TELL YOU! |
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World's Oldest Lolcat Found
Historians have discovered the world's oldest Lolcat, but are sad to report that it's not any funnier than the rest of them.
Discovered in a Seattle antiques store by Tracy Angulo, the old-time Lolcat is actually a postcard that dates back to 1905, featuring a dress-wearing cat sitting in a high chair. "What's delaying my dinner?" the cat wonders as she cranes her neck ever so slightly in the direction of the kitchen and the source of her impatience. It seems that even 100 years ago, it was awfully hard for a cat to has cheezburger.
It may not be comedy genius, but proper spelling and grammar aside, it's very much a Lolcat, and true fans even have a shot of owning their very own: The very same postcard was recently auctioned by a U.K.-based seller on eBay, where it sold for only $1.50.
(Full disclosure: Okay, I admit it, Lolcats are funny.)
Source: I Can Has Cheezburger
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