lolcats
Philosophy is often stated as the solution to the question of “what is the meaning of life?”. Of course, different schools of thought have different answers to the same, but I have often wondered about a bigger, and possibly a more important question – “why are lolcats not funny or cute to some?”
For people oblivious to the genius that are the lolcats, you know not what you have missed in life! To appreciate and enjoy lolcats is an art every human being must culivate, and the ones who do are often found to be the most content people in the world … that said … let me continue …
The problem obviously is my completely inability to fathom the perfectly fine fact that lolcats are just not funny (or cute) to some people! I mean, these cats are so freaking funny and so insanely and obnoxiously cute: the way they look, their actions, their immensely intelligent (not to mention sarcastic) outlook of the world … there have been times when I wish I could own a cat just by looking at a lolcat picture. But of course, I cannot go through the devastating trauma of my cat not being at par with the (celebrity) lolcats. So I refrain from the indulgence …
I think studying lolcats can easily be considered a profession of it’s own, there are websites dedicated to deciphering the complexity involved in each picture, dictionaries for the purpose of understanding the language, and what not. In fact, lolcats appear on the voip phones in my team … thanks to an ingenius programming hack by an awesome programmer in my group … so everytime a new lolcat picture appears at icanhascheezburger, my phone displays that picture. I almost cried the first time I saw this, almost …
Some examples:



Anyways, these are the absolutely essential websites you must visit, unless your voip (or cell phone) provides you with constant updates. I feel nothing but sorrow if you don’t feel the same about them as I do … :(
pictures and more: http://icanhascheezburger.com/
dictionary (for the noobs): http://speaklolspeak.com/



