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LOLParrots?

Category: LOLStuff
Posted on: July 8, 2007 10:11 PM, by Shelley Batts

Ok, I tried to hold off, but this danged 'LOLCats' craze finally won me over to the Dark Side. It all happened when I *somehow* ended up at I Can Has Cheeseburger, the evil evil site that started it all (or was that Fark?), and when ostensibly just there to "see what all the fuss is about" I actually laughed out loud. A few times. Now, like most silly, inane, and ridiculous stuff, I was intrigued. How could something so stupid and simple elicit a laugh? Could you assign captions to anything and make it humorous (like some fellow bloggers did with creationist practioners?).

So, bored and in need of a laugh, I thought I'd try my hand at LOLParrots, cause, well, it doesn't seem like people are doing that quite yet. Maybe I'll do another LOLParrots, maybe not, but hey, here it is.

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Yeah, icanhascheezburger is pretty hard to resist. And I dig the lolparrots. Good idea!

Posted by: Jon | July 9, 2007 12:47 AM

I want one...

Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | July 9, 2007 1:28 AM

Oh good Lord, it's spreading... =) Is durn shaym parrots no has harbls.

Maybe you could try making a series of O RLY? YA RLY, and NO WAI! parrots.

Posted by: Hai~Ren | July 9, 2007 8:06 AM

The link in your post seems to point to a top-level domain squatter. Ha, that's what you get for spelling "cheeseburger" correctly. The page seems to actually be at http://icanhascheezburger.com/ .

Posted by: Warren | July 9, 2007 11:55 AM

Oh noes! Daz link all fixd now. Datz wut she gits fore nut leetin me speelz it.

Posted by: LOLParrot | July 9, 2007 1:25 PM

I think the SomethingAwful forums started the whole image macro craze with Happycat (http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Happycat)

And yes, they are pretty funny. Glad you made a category for it! :)

Posted by: Zachary Tong | July 9, 2007 8:27 PM

I love it! I made one and posted it on my blog:

http://trichloroethane.blogspot.com/2007/07/lolparrots.html

Posted by: Rabbit | July 11, 2007 12:12 AM

Rabbit, thats great! I need to include some Greys in LOLParrots for obvious reasons.

Sorry for the hiatus, at my grandfather's funeral and little/no internet here. I'll get back to posting ASAP.

Posted by: Shelley | July 12, 2007 12:14 PM