This has gone too far!

I must protest. Now we've got LOLCnidarians. What's next? LOLChoanaflagellates? LOLPriapulids? LOLLichens? This is MADNESS.

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In before "Sparta!"

IM IN UR FORUMS
MAKING COMMENTS

LOL

LOLLoriciferan:
Im in yor interstitia
Bearin yor corset

...I'll keep working on it...

By Sven DiMilo (not verified) on 17 Oct 2007 #permalink

Ok,ok, you specifically asked for it....I present: LOLLICHEN

You can protest all you want, PZ, but I have a graphics program with text insert and I know how to use it.

Besides, I was framing science to make it cool. What's wrong with that....

Oh, nevermind.

LOLPriapulids? Priapulids are already LOL. So who was the genius who came up with "dick shaped worms' as a name?

What would you call it?

By Sven DiMilo (not verified) on 17 Oct 2007 #permalink

LOLPriapulids would be fun, maybe allow some interesting 'shrooms for variety since it's always nice to include fungi.

I now have the incredible urge to make my online botany students do a topic-relevant lolplant for this week's discussion post, and award points based on how much it makes me laugh.

So who was the genius who came up with "dick shaped worms' as a name?

Lamarck named Priapulus ('little dick'), though Linnaeus had previously used Priapus ('dick'). And as for how he came up with the name, you just need to look at a priapulid and all will be clear.

THIS IS SPARTA!

By kaifīgais kants (not verified) on 17 Oct 2007 #permalink

Why can't people use proper English?! The pictures may be funny, but the text is criving me dazy.

By Grammar Snob (not verified) on 18 Oct 2007 #permalink

The point is, people use proper English. LOLCats (and, apparently, LOL-your-clade-of-choice-s) have their own language.

By ShavenYak (not verified) on 18 Oct 2007 #permalink

Ha! There's a programming language based on the LOLCats meme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
UP VAR!!1
VISIBLE VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP[6]
KTHXBYE

The suggestion in that link of a kitty pidgin Bible. or Shakespeare, led me to embark on this complete waste of time:

LOLDanes:
I can has be? I can has not be.
I'm in ur question.
Slingz and arowz? Rajus 4tune?
Do not want.
I'm in ur C of troubles,
Taking up ur armz
I can has end them? 2 die, 2 sleep
No No can has sleep can say byebye
Hart-ake, 1,000 shucks
That flesh can has, a constipation
Can sez yes, do want.
2 die, 2 sleep, can has dreemz?
Can has rubz?
I'm in ur long napz
Shuffling off ur mortal coilz.

The LOLcnidarians got pharyngulated. Bandwidth exceeded.

By David Marjanović, OM (not verified) on 18 Oct 2007 #permalink

David, I had my bandwidth doubled, so LOL Cnidarians are available again at least for a short time. My hosting account was apparently intended for more mundane things like advertising hardware stores, etc.

THIS IS SPARTA!

By kaifīgais kants (not verified) on 17 Oct 2007 #permalink

The LOLcnidarians got pharyngulated. Bandwidth exceeded.

By David Marjanović, OM (not verified) on 18 Oct 2007 #permalink