Back to work now, but this first

[dianeduane]

I love LOLcats (check out ICanHasCheezburger.com for examples of what these might be, if you don't know). The artform of captioning cat pictures has its own language. (If you don't know a little about this kind of thing, you may as well not bother reading any further here, as the joke to come will hinge on it. The Wikipedia page on LOLcats has a little data. Or see Anil Dash's entry here.)

Anyway, I laughed myself silly when I came across what can only be considered a LOLVader. A most inadvertent one. Look below the cut...

(EDIT: Or don't: it seems I was a little late to the party on this one.) (snort)



A couple of years ago, Jeremy in Shanghai picked up a most unusual ripoff DVD of Star Wars III (the translation of the title of which came out, in this weird dub, as "Episode III, the Backstroke of the West"). The subtitles are... unique. I encourage those of you who love mangled translation to look at them all.

But this is the one that reduced me to helpless laughter for some minutes. Darth Vader (né Skywalker) is producing a great, anguished, (theoretically-) heartwrenching cry of "Nooooooooooooo!" And how does it come out?

Comments

[barberio.livejournal.com]

I think this is actually where the 'Do Not Want!' meme originated. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Do+not+want!

[dduane.livejournal.com]

(LAUGHTER)

The circle closes. Or: boy ,was I late to the party on this one!

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, my one contribution to the world of Lolcats, was of course a bad pun in latin.

[anamin.livejournal.com]

Are you a member of cat_macros? There are lots of cat macros over there.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

LOLcats is addictive. I have great problems now going into a burger place, I keep wanting to say "I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER PLZ?" Or at work, fixing software bugs, "IM IN UR CODE FIXIN UR BUGZ". It's good to know where the "DO NOT WANT" phrase came from...

IM IN UR CODE FIXIN UR BUGZ

[zargon.livejournal.com]

If your place is anything like mine, just stick it liberally in comments. No one reads those anyways! :)

Re: IM IN UR CODE FIXIN UR BUGZ

[shmuel.livejournal.com]

Are you, perchance, acquainted with LOLCODE (http://lolcode.com/home)?

Re: IM IN UR CODE FIXIN UR BUGZ

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I wasn't, I am now. OMG IZ RLY CRAZY! The discussions about it are wonderful...

Re: IM IN UR CODE FIXIN UR BUGZ

[flexor.livejournal.com]

I came across one... disturbing word on that page.

LOLBIBLE

"I'M FLOATING ON UR WATERZ, CREATING UR WORLDZ"

Someone Has Too Much Time On Their Hands(tm)

Re: IM IN UR CODE FIXIN UR BUGZ

[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

You Asked For It(TM)...

lolbible

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

I have been very tempted...

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[zargon.livejournal.com]

I am a *HUGE* commentor. I even use, like, *REAL* punctuation and capitalization and all those weird ungeeky things.

Okay, I was wrong, there was this one time (not at band camp) where I did make some rather snarky pointy-haird-boss comment and that was "corrected". So I guess that occassionally the comments do get read. Oh well.

See how important comments are, even LOLCODE has 'em!
http://lolcode.com/examples/little-number

Re: IM IN UR CODE FIXIN UR BUGZ

[keristor.livejournal.com]

YA RLY! I do as well, recently I removed one line (an assert) and replaced it by 7 lines of comments explaining how an assert was really not the right thing to do there because the code already had recovery to handle it gracefully. I switch between two modes, I either think the code is really obvious and doesn't need comments (I realy hate it when ++i; has a comment like "add 1 to i"), or if it isn't then I write an essay (yes, full capitalisation and punctuation and complete sentences).

Our code has to go through review before being submitted, so I can't get away with too much snark (or even a boojum), but I am often tempted.

I have totally fallen in love with "CAN HAS STDIO?" and "BTW"...

Re: IM IN UR CODE FIXIN UR BUGZ

[zargon.livejournal.com]

I think I've completely hijacked the original thread here.

I've never fully understood asserts. If you are checking for something being wrong, then you'd bloody well better *DEAL* with it, in a properly graceful way, otherwise, what's the point? And if you are only checking for it in DEBUG mode, what happens when it fails in RELEASE mode?

So snark a bit. Most review processes are pretty boring otherwise.

So, um, where do you work and are they looking for Java programmers?
:)

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely agree about asserts. They are useful in debugging if you want to know immediately if there is an error, typically one which means that it is impossible to continue (things like a null pointer where it should never be null), but they are way over-used. As in this case, where it was indeed a situation which shouldn't happen but it could, and as a result the whole thing stopped with the assert instead of continuing and handling it properly. (The problems of testing with a 'debug' version and then releasing with debugging off is another kettle of finny things.)

I have never used an assert in my own code (as in code written for myself rather than for pay)...

I'm in the UK, and the company have a recruitment freeze at the moment...

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[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

::awed::

The IZ/YARLY/NOWAY statement is *genius*

::swoon::

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[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

Occasionally, the translator reads them. I remember fondly the bit of $BigNameSoftwareHouse code that said "Holy cow! Where does this come from?" -- and a bit further down, "I have no idea what this does."

(Usually, comments are not included in the language resources sent to the translator. But there are exceptions.)

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[zargon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen those. I remember (fondly?) one guy describing how the only comments he found in one piece of code he had to deal with was a great big ASCII skull and crossbones. Ouch!

[germankitty]

My favorite lolcat at the moment is this (and it fits neatly with the general theme of your post, too):



Click to enlarge

[kayshapero]

Wow - one would usually expect an undifferentiated wet grey blur with claws erupting at random at this point.....

Snicker....

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Here's one I made earlier

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

Then there's the automated Journal LOLCats, which takes the headings from public journal entries and cat pictures from Flickr and creates cat macros from them. Once in a while it's hilariously dead on.

[sdn.livejournal.com]

i love lolcats also. note icon, which i call a "lolmat."

[scarfman]

If you'd enjoy Doctor Who themed "cat macros", there's ihasatardis (to which I'm myself an occasional contributer). I think there's one for Star Trek too.

[tysolna]

You beat me to it! :D

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember DD submitting a lol!Master there herself a while back. :)

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

And then there's LOLtTrek. (http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/)

[genmaicha.livejournal.com]

I adore lolcats. :)

[shodoshan.livejournal.com]

You might enjoy these LOLVaders too:
Come to the dark side, we have cookies (http://www.flickr.com/photos/shodoshan/113589610/in/set-72157594488986338/)
and
I made you a cookie, but I eated it (http://www.flickr.com/photos/shodoshan/362855693/in/set-72157594488986338/)

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Yes, the mangled subtitles of pirated DVDs have made for many a night of amusement with friends.

I especially liked one of The Da Vinci Code that I picked up in Thailand. I didn't think the movie was that great, but the subtitler had translated Holy Grail as, alternately Holy Grill and Holding Grill. For a family big on barbecueing, this was pure gold. :D

[odette-river.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! I watched a really good version of The Da Vinci Code in Malaysia. The subtitles were quite similar...

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Now I'm really regretting not spending more time flipping through the wares at those streetside vendors in Bangkok. My thinking was that I hadn't flown thousands of miles to buy pirated DVDs, but methinks I overlooked the potential for hilarity there.

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Oh, you definately missed out. There's this great thing they have now too, where they have eight movies on one disc. All that poorly-subtitled lolarity packed into one sliver of silver. It's great. :)

Fun to watch with friends.

[odette-river.livejournal.com]

I have a good pirated version of the second Pirates of the Carribean movie...the subtitles are what makes it great. When Elizabeth says "He elected to stay behind" (or something like that), referring to Jack, the subtitles say "He's staying behind because he's drunk." Possibly the best subtitle I've ever read.

[azurelunatic]

At work, when confirming to a customer that a domain had been returned to his account, I let him know, "I'm in your domain control center, seeing your domain." It was a legitimate way of letting him know that it was visibly back! He called me on it. I utterly lost all pretense of professionalism and cracked up with him. (That particular call could have been a customer service disaster for reasons beyond my control, so I was glad we were laughing.)

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

There's also heroes_macros, for fans of that particular show.

I recently started a new job at a pet supply store, and when I told my chatroom friends about it one of them asked if I would be the one gluing the captions to the cats or the one handing out the cheezburgers. I iz flooent in lolcat, but no had chance to use at werk.

I loved reading LOLcode.com!

[lilvalkrie.livejournal.com]

I was amused to find that it's an amusing spoof of programming syntax... like the stuff I make up when I feel like speaking to people in lilvalkie-code

lilvalkrie-code reads like this little bit I call my "chainmail.exe"

chainmail_response(email)
{lilvalkrie.verify_chainmail_threat (this.email) = answer
if answer = 'yes' then
lilvalkrie.sends (this.email, this.email.sender)
lilvalkrie.sends (collection(chainmail, all), this.email.sender)
else //comment:answer is 'no'
lilvalkrie.reads (attachment)
lilvalkrie.sends (thanks, this.email.sender)
end if }

kthxbye :)