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The Internet has provided us with many wonders, from skateboarding dogs to Chuck Norris facts. Over the past year, though, one sensation has dominated the Web: LOLcats. Here's how it works: First you find a picture of a cat online, and then you add a caption that reflects the cat's point of view. Just remember that although cats can speak English, their spelling and grammar is not so hot. Once you're done, you have a LOLcat (laugh out loud cat). Since its founding in January 2007, show more icanhascheezburger .com (named after the most famous LOLcat of all) has been the center of the LOLcat world. I Can Has Cheezburger? collects 200 LOLcats from the enormously popular site, some classic and some new, in glorious and glossy full color. The book also highlights legendary LOLcat forms recognizable to fans everywhere (including "Do Not Want," "Monorail Cat," and "Oh Noes!"), and offers a guide to the finer points of LOLspeak. Packed with witty and endearing images and published into a proven cat-egory, I Can Has Cheezburger? is sure to delight feline aficionados and Internet nerds alike. show lessTags
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2below I found both of these books amusing. Different types and styles of humor but fun if you enjoy some silliness.
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I Can Has Cheezebuger? Is one of the most hilarious books since Confederacy of Dunces- also an astute observation of social commentary, while remaining puerile.
Funny, cute, adorable in places. The photos are excellent, and the captions are funny. Parts of it were more memorable than others, but on the whole, it was quite an enjoyable experience. Certainly worth reading, and recommended for any cat-lover.
It's great having a hardcopy of lolcats (years from now this will still be a conversation starter, whether it lives in a bathroom or on a coffee table), and I was majorly looking forward to receiving my solid dose of happiness-in-book-form in the mail. As expected, it is pretty entertaining, but as other reviewers have noted, it seems that somehow the funniest lolcats were not selected for the book. (Of course, there's no selection which would not engender this kind of resposne from some group of people, but even though I'm one of Those People who check icanhascheezburger.com several times a day [I bought the book, this shouldn't be surprising, OK?], there were several picture/caption combinations in here that made me just go, "wtf? I show more don't get it. At all.") The bigger complaint that I have with the book, however, is the presentation: it could do with being a tad bigger, and having some space around the pictures. As is, it is sometimes difficult to tell immediately whether or not the two facing pages are one big lolcat or two completely unrelated ones, and the result is a bit of information overload (and not in a good way, unfortunately). There are several pages on which the presentation is really well done; some space around the picture, a cute little (unrelated) drawing. A few pages are "instrucution manuals" or "classroom styles," teaching cats what such terms as "invisible" and "in ur" mean. (Though, again, these pages suffer from the page-size issue.) It's nice to see, in these cases, a presentation which isn't merely "paste picture from int0rnet into book."
Regardless of all these complaints, this LOLcat Collekshun is still a book of lolcats, and any fan of the meme will be happy to get a copy for Christmas or a birthday or a "just cuz." Srsly. show less
Regardless of all these complaints, this LOLcat Collekshun is still a book of lolcats, and any fan of the meme will be happy to get a copy for Christmas or a birthday or a "just cuz." Srsly. show less
Just what you expect, but it's pretty fun anyway. Except they left out THE BEST ENTRY EVER from one Ron Hogan, although in fairness, it was an otter, not a cat.
Only a cold-hearted person could look at these adorable cats and not smile, but a few of the captions could have been rewritten. Still, it was mostly humorous, and all the cats deserve, if not a cheezburger, then at least some kitty treats.
We got this for my brother-in-law for Christmas. *making sure he won't see this*
Of course I had to check it out first. I'd never heard of the LOLcatz, but this was very cute and funny. My favorites included the surveillance kitteh and the cats doing invisible things. Invisible kick to the gut anyone? Recommended for cat lovers. I also just had to subscribe to the feed at icanhascheezburger.com.
Of course I had to check it out first. I'd never heard of the LOLcatz, but this was very cute and funny. My favorites included the surveillance kitteh and the cats doing invisible things. Invisible kick to the gut anyone? Recommended for cat lovers. I also just had to subscribe to the feed at icanhascheezburger.com.
I'm a huge fan of the page -- I can't go more than a day without getting a LOLcat fix! That being said, the book is cute -- but without SO many of the classic pics I would have expected to see in "collekshun" like this one. Still fun, but wish they'd kept in some of the standards we've all LOLed over for years.
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Common Knowledge
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- 2008-10
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- Professor Happycat
- First words
- octopus cat is at rest
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I HATE LOLCAT CAPTION, PLZ STOP
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- Fiction and Literature
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- 818.5402 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English 20th Century 1945-1999
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- PN6231 .C23 .N35 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Wit and humor
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