LOLCats Of The Serengeti

Om nom nom nom (Savage Chickens)

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LOLcat Taxonomy

Teh LOLcats Theme Song

The LOLfather

LOLcat Taxonomy

LOLcats have, apparently, grown into their own species. T-shirt scientist Kari Fry breaks down the genus.

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I Can Has History

The Lolfather

Teh Lolcats Theme Song

I Can Has History

This is only a small segment of I Can Has History, a ridiculously large LOLcats family tree and includes a couple of my faves, Invisible Sandwich Cat and Invisible Bike Cat. If you know some that are missing, you spend way to much time on the interweb, and I don't say that lightly. (Link via Urlesque)

Update: Seems the server is down or all the sites linking to it crashed it. I mean real sites, not me. I'll check every so often and send out on Twitter if/when it comes back.

Previously on Popped Culture...
Teh Lolcats Theme Song
The LOLFathter
Hungry Cat Iz Eatin Yer Penshun

Go To Sleep, TTC...

On Thursday, OGLE, a rider on Toronto's transit system posted a photo of a ticket booth collector enjoying a deep snooze at work, then sent it out on Twitter. It then went viral. It showed up in my feed a few times that day, I laughed and passed it along. By the next morning it was all over the media, gracing front pages and websites.

The TTC sprung into damage control, vowing to investigate, while the ticket collector's union went the unusual route of blaming the photo taker: "It is very discouraging that the picture taker and, apparently, other customers, made no attempt to determine if there was anything wrong with this TTC employee," said Bob Kinnear, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union.

"A simple knock on the glass might have determined if the collector was, in fact, asleep, or whether he was unconscious as a result of some medical problem."

He's clearly not  dead, just enjoying a good nap. The interweb responded (above, via @boyreporter) and soon the now dubbed TTCSleeper started showing up everywhere...

Ahh, it's so nice that Homer finally found a compatible work buddy. Lenny and Carl are great, but they don't know how to relax. Sector 7G has never been in better hands. (Oswald Cobblepot! via Keadin)

                           

indigirl had another explanation for the incident — perhaps he wasn't snoozing, but just having his brain remapped. Is the TTC a Dollhouse?

Meanwhile JakenBear still wasn't sure that the ticket collector wasn't dead and cast a new Weekend at Bernies sequel. Yay.

The Death Star trash compactor? Wow, that guy can sleep though anything.

I'd never noticed the TTCSleeper in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks before, but he does fit in rather well.

And once there was a TTC Sleeper Last Supper this meme was in full force. From Hugh Elliott at wheniwas19. See more photoshops at Mondoville.

Beware of social media, folks, it can bite you in the ass. Funny too.

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Suddenly Last Supper
Breakfast Hawks
Teh Lolcats Theme Song

The Lolfather

I can has offer you can't refuse? From designer jimiyo at TeeFury.

I know I've been posting a lot of tees recently, but they seem to be at the forefront of the kind of pop culture jokes I love. Sadly TeeFury only sells shirts for a 24-hour period, for some reason and I have no idea of they do reprints.

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The Frogfather
The Reinfather
Teh Lolcats Theme Song

Hungry Cat Iz Eatin Yer Penshun

Read more and submit your own at the simply, and obviously named, LOL FAT CATS. Ya, take that bankers. No, wait, stop already!

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Teh Lolcats Theme Song
The Ennui of Henri
The Cat Came Back

Teh Lolcats Theme Song

Did the Lolcats need a theme song? Do we need lolcats? Silly question, needs got nothing to do with it! You will want to look away, but you won't be able to. How nobody thought to use The Cure's Lovecats before, I don't know. Robert Smith must be rolling in his grave.

From the twisted minds at rathergood.com. I would have used their embed, but autoplay of this song isn't something that anyone should be subjected to.

Link via Neatorama