This afternoon Gleek climbed into my lap as I was browsing the lol cats at icanhascheezburger.com. She was instantly entranced with the amusing animals. I scrolled through the pictures so she could see them all. Then she started reading the words in the captions. At first she was thrown off by some of the odd spellings and pronunciations, but a couple of them had her giggling so hard that she nearly fell off my lap. She demanded to see all of them. We clicked through a couple of pages until my patience was wearing thin. There is only so much lol humor I can take in a single sitting.
In order to appease Gleek’s continuing demands for more, I printed out two of her favorites so that she could share them with her siblings. That was the first error. Gleek returned with Patches in tow. Then I had two kids demanding more lol cats. I printed out a third page to get them to let me work for awhile. That worked for a time. But shortly Gleek was back in my office. She had put the words of the captions to the tune of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” and now serenaded me with lol cat humor. All the kids thought this was the height of humor and cleverness. The song has been sung repeatedly throughout the afternoon. The show has even been taken on the road to perform for the neighbors.
Tonight at bedtime Gleek was making a plan to print out ALL of the lol cat pictures and sing them. We’re going to have an operatic length Ring of the Lol Cats.
Oh dear. I’m not sure if I should post this or not, but just in case you need to stave off more demands for lolcats, there’s an unofficial song for these things that filker Tom Smith () has written.
(The song is also available here.
Best of luck with the felines of bad spelling!
My daughter (7 years old) had really been taken by LOL cats as well. As Miriam is just learning to read, I was a little worried about the misspellings but my Mom, an elementary school teacher, said that the sounding out is useful.
Another site that she really likes is APOD: Astronomy Pic of the Day. She’s really caught the astronomy bug from there.
“I can haz cheezburger, I can haz cheezburger, I can haz cheezburger, nom nom nom nom!”
[to the Ride of the Valkyries, of course]
One of my favourites has a white rabbit and the caption “Hoppy bunny has run out of hoppy”.
Oh, you have the patience of Job…
I love LOLCATS too, but only in small doses…
Well, it’s either that or introduce them to the lolcat bible… That might be a slightly different approach than would be acceptable at sunday school, though.