I don't think you see this too often. It is my first. An LOL cat used in an actual commercial advertisement, in this case for an esoteric software development tool on a techie web site:
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LOL Cat Ad
Posted on: July 6, 2008 2:27 PM, by Greg Laden
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I saw a lolcat-style advertisement for an outdoor center not too long ago-- printed in a newspaper, in fact. A bit surreal.
Posted by: Rin | July 6, 2008 3:30 PM
Who would have thought that internet memes would start to bleed into real life?
Posted by: Sudo | July 6, 2008 5:56 PM
Posted by: tincture | July 6, 2008 11:31 PM
Is it LOLcode?
Posted by: Evan | July 6, 2008 11:44 PM