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[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!

[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...

[germankitty]

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



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[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.

[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]

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 :)