Laugh Out Loud Cats: The True History
LOLcats -- cute cat photos with ungrammatical but humorous one-liners -- are ubiquitous online. But today on Boing Boing tv, we explore their little-known historic origins in a comic strip from the early 1900s, created by the great-grandfather of Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. Guest analysts on today's BBtv: internet blowhard Paul Boutin, and Garfield expert Jesse Thorn. Special thanks to icanhascheezburger.
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i can never tell if these posts are serious or one elaborate joke put on by the boingboing staff. How could a comic writer in 1912 have possibly used "pwned" in its proper meaning of the word?!!??!1?
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Huh. I suspect this is closer to the truth than it realizes. I've long thought that LOLcats are a throwback (intentional or not) to that old timey comic strip, The Yellow Kid.
good one
'pwned' was a nice touch
@#3 It realizes. Look for all of teh Ape's old timey comics references in the archives and you'll see.
EVL ALLOWISHUS! TH BUKKITS, U STEALZ THM!
I LOLed big time at the video, Mr. Koford is definitely a funny guy and is going to have me quoting the "Aloysius! What?" line for some time.
I suspect that "pwned" wasn't being used to mean "owned", but rather "pawned", since he sold the kitty to a pawn shop.
The comic frequently drops vowels from words. Could it be that this was in fact the origin of the term that is in use today?
Glad to see one of the ones I own featured in the video.
Fark? bannination.com instead. Bacon and Clowns are superior, and has flavor.
Great use of the narrative to illuminate the historical!