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I’M IN UR NEWSPAPER WRITIN MAH COLUM. No, seriously, that's the headline. Bless you, Houston Chronicle.
The origin of LOLcats is murky at best. From what I can tell based on various blog posts — the most authoritative at LinguisticMystic.com, written by a Colorado linguistics student — they may have evolved from a practice called Caturday, in which cat lovers posted photos of their felines with funny captions on Saturdays.
The article also interviews the creators of ICanHasCheezburger.com and mentions "In Ur X, Y-ing Ur Z" and lolcode. And they wonder why newspapers are dying.
The origin of LOLcats is murky at best. From what I can tell based on various blog posts — the most authoritative at LinguisticMystic.com, written by a Colorado linguistics student — they may have evolved from a practice called Caturday, in which cat lovers posted photos of their felines with funny captions on Saturdays.
The article also interviews the creators of ICanHasCheezburger.com and mentions "In Ur X, Y-ing Ur Z" and lolcode. And they wonder why newspapers are dying.
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