July 22, 2007

• I can has flavr?
• The descendant of the Laugh Out Loud Cats cartoonist, Adam Koford, also draws, and for $20 will draw a custom monkey for you, and I am mildly SHOCKED that nobody has paid for a MonkeyFilter Monkey yet. (I might pay for 1/4th of a MoFi Monkey, but I want others kicking in some dough)
• This stuff is nothing short of freakin' genius.
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• Debunked.
• *cough*
• > Debunked. Was it really necessary? Who bunked this story in the first place?
• Is anything on MoFi necessary?
• Sheer genius.
• Yeah, they're actually pretty good. I like the old school style.
• I thought it was more than a bit wierd that feline leetspeak was around in 1912, so I too did a bit of Googling. There was nothing about Aloysious other than the link above and this post. Ape Lad, the guy who sells prints of the comic and custom pictures of monkeys, however, seems pretty well known as a photoshop expert. Do you suppose he might have scanned an actual old comic strip and photoshopped in new dialogue??? Those strips are pretty detailed, and would have taken a long time to create, so $20 a pop wouldn't compensate him for his time creating, if he spent any.
• I think this one is my favorite. They do look more like scans than original drawings, don't they?
• Ok, I'll admit that I hadn't read many of the strips when I went off to prove that this was bullshit. Going back to look at more, however, led to to one that said "I've upgraded your RAM." So, I'm either humor impaired, or sheer (as in see-through) genius.
• On lack of preview, TUM for the win.
• I think FiftyPoints has my vote.
• I'm with mct - I thought I was going to choke when I saw that picture.
• Anybody who spent more than 30 seconds thinking the Laugh Out Loud Cats were really being claimed as genuine 90-100-year-old comickery obviously never heard of Apelad and doesn't quite understand the Intarwebs. (Rule #17: "There are four possibilities for everything you see on the Web, (1) it's true, (2) it's an error, (3) it's a scam or (4) it's a put-on. The Truth is outnumbered 3 to 1.)
• Is there a misused preposition in the natural reading of "I must express my astonishment of your claim"? Or is the reading that makes all prepositions correct the more natural one? I always want to left-recurse when parsing English, because it is generally right-branching, but I'm not a native English speaker.
• of. at. to. at? I think at.
• Towards, even.
• quite.
• It is a widely held myth that the song "Yankee Doodle" originated as a tune sung by the British mocking the Colonial troops, later to be adopted by the Americans in spite. Some others will assert that it originated as the tune to a nursery rhyme. The truth is it was originally written by my great-great-great-great-fairlygood-great-great-reallysplendid-mediocre-great grandfather Reverend Johann in 1683 as a simple mnemonic device for remembering all of the prepositions in the English language: With on for after at by in (Yankee Doodle went to town) Against about of near between (Riding on a pony) through over up off down out to (stuck a feather in his cap) Beyond among around into (and called it macaroni) Still within without upon (Yankee Doodle keep it up) From above across along (Yankee Doodle Dandy) Toward before behind below (mind the music and the step) Beneath beside during under (and with the girls be handy) Gegenuber
• +1 Reverend John (must memorize)
• I'm sorry, call me a fourteen-year-old, but the goddamn monocle just keeps cracking me up.
• That's it, I'm debunking path.
• ReverendJohn: Please supply a link of someone performing that.
• MCT, you're a fourteen-year-old.
• What's fourteen in lolcat years?
• Depends. Some flavrs age better then others.
• Absalom - from the "Be careful what you wish for" file: The preposition song, as performed by RJ.
• RJ as in yerself? Bravo!
• Yup, RJ as in me. "Now, Monkies... " whirred teh Reverend (he didn't know that MCT was in fact a lolcat, and wouldn't have cared if he had), "I present you with a simple choice! Either die in the vacuum of space, or ..." he paused for melodramatic effect, "tell me how good you thought my song was!"
• Is that fellow in the monocle kitfisto's dad, by any chance?
• Microphone nearer mouth than guit next time, but otherwise VG! Audio engineer: obsessive
• Your song made me want to stab youth organizations and gold miners. It was very relaxing.
• * applause *
• So, I learned that song in 7th grade from Sister Paul Anne at Our Lady of Perpetual Help school. She did include the caveat that it wasn't actually complete and there were 'a few, rarely used' words missing. I just looked up prepositions at wikipedia, and was shocked to find how many were missing after I deleted the ones from teh song from the list: * aboard * absent * alongside * amid * amidst * amongst * as * aslant * astride * atop * barring * besides * but * despite * except * failing * following * inside * like * mid * minus * next * notwithstanding (also used postpositionally) * onto * opposite * outside * past * plus * regarding * round * save * since * than * throughout * till * times * underneath * unlike * until * via So, FWIW, call it a 'incomplete list of prepositions' song, if you like
• This is a good example of the child abuse conducted by Catholic schools.
• *knuckle rap*
• I'm not Catholic, and we had to learn Fifty Nifty United States. Torture abounds in all classrooms.
• "by Ray Charles?" THE Ray Charkes?
• *rubs ear while remembering Sister Mary Torture
• No, sadly, a different Ray Charles. "In May of 1944, Chuck Offenberg changed his name to Ray Charles. It would be 10 more years until the "other" Ray Charles changed his name from "Ray Charles Robinson" to Ray Charles." A picture and a bit more info on Mr. Charles
• A different Ray Charles?!? Fuck. I've taught that song to fifth graders, and have apparently been giving them bad information. Whatever. "Wakko's America is far superior anyway, since it helps one memorize the states AND capitals.
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