Intentional misspelling on the Internet.

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Can someone tell me why is this supposed to be funny? And especially so with pictures of cats?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

BAN TUOMAS

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

you are the worst troll in the history of a website that has let itself be terrorized by a fake 14-year-old girl and an oversexed writer for horror magazines

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

(and i don't even mean passantino)

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

It just is funny, Tuomas! I guess it's like slapstick humour, you either get it or you don't?

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

WAHT

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

How the hell is this trolling? I'm genuinely interested in the dynamics of humour behind this phenomenon. Is it that playing stupider than you are is funny? Also, it seems to be mostly an US/UK thing, or at least Finnish Internet users do this a lot less.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like doing a wacky voice in the middle of a sentuence.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

MKIÄ

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/picardcat.jpg

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

retarded people are way funnier than those born without such gifts.

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

BREATHING AND WALKING AT THE SAME TIME: HOW IS IT MADE

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

But slapstick is easier to explain, because it's all about exaggerating real life ad absurdum. Whereas this thing seems to rely on assuming a role, and expecting that your audience will know it's a role, and not how you really write. Still, to me this doesn't fully explain the supposed humour of it.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

for me its just plain laziness and regularly spelled words is so 1998

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

(Several x-posts.)

I guess Danbunny and Mark G are closest to explaining it.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Tuomas, one day there will be a university course on said matter and you will have that long desired climatic eureka experience akin to Ron Jeremy popping on Jenna Jameson.

Something like that.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

are? im not a grammar buff either..ask skot if u need english lessons

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The best thing about the English language is how breakable it is.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Then again, we might ask why retarded people are supposed to be funny in the first place?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a bit like oranges. But not really.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't there sum study which said that even if letters are transposed in words in sentences that they are immed. recognized as th actual word,almost as quickly as if they were spelled correctly?

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://frank.harvard.edu/~jason/thoughts/real_genius.gif

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Ask the Norweigans who terrorised Finn Kalvik!

I think Tuomas doesn't mean MY type of mispellings...

― Sarah, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh FFS, Tuomas, if you were a real woman, I'd ask you if IT WAS THAT TIME OF THE MONTH.
Lighten up (something or yourself), it's HUMOUR. If you really have to explain it, you're actually killing it.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm with Tuomas. I don't see anything remotely funny in this. It's just childish in-joke I'm-in-the-gang stuff.

― underpants of the gods, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i spiloled cooffee on my dixxkciess
i spilled coffee on my Dickies

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh FFS, Tuomas, if you were a real woman, I'd ask you if IT WAS THAT TIME OF THE MONTH.
Lighten up (something or yourself), it's HUMOUR. If you really have to explain it, you're actually killing it.

I'm not talking about specific jokes... The dynamics of humour can and have been studied, I see nothing wrong with that.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i also grew up reading jill johnston in th village voice
so she's partially to blame for some of my problems

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

for capitalization errors anyways

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

What the hell's wrong with childish in-jokey behavior?

*flashes bum* Look FOOL MOON

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I don't think retards themselves are considered funny (anymore), rather than non-retards acting in a retarded way, but also assuming their audience know they aren't really so. So it's the element of surprise and incoherence which is part of it's supposed funniness. Then again, this has become so popular that there's hardly any surprise in it anymore.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i see nath is auditioning for a role in the big budget hollywood version of bjork&pdiddy.gif

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

tho i have to admit she does prove that ESL foreigners from dont have to be clueless herbs

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Nath, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, just that I don't get it myself, which is why I'm interested in why it works on some folks.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

it is funny because it makes words look dumb

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

LURK MOAR

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Actually, I don't think retards themselves are considered funny (anymore)"...u may be hanging out w th wrong retards....i do agree w th thingy that retarded behave has become some sort of "style" which is sick becuxx the OG tards aint gettin no royalties and shit...and i dont count the Besstie BOyzz or whatever

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Ethan, I think my brand of English is lost on you. A bit like Tuomas not realizing that retards have been replaced by Finish intellectual students/office works are joke of the day. (Tomorrow it'll be pregnant Belgian twits, I know I know.)

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

It is actually quite hard to explain why it is funny, based on the 'retarded' thing (as opposed to the 'engrish' aspect i.e. 'foreigners trying to write in english but not quite succeeding' which is funny for a number of reasons including farce (in this case the process of somebody trying to accommodate someone else by using their language, meaning well but making what often seem quite basic errors - to the point where you wonder how that mistake could be made intentionally (leading to the ironic/parodic style many of us on ILX indulge in these days) and surreal elements (the distortion and/or subversion of the language itself) and the attitude/tone behind the messages also (using all uppercase for dramatic effect tho the situation is actually quite trivial/mundane etc.).

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

James Joyce and Noize Boarders to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

danbunny: I think the study you're thinking of stated that misspelled words are instantly recognisable as long as the first and last letters are correct (see here...

― peteR, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

lolz at kitty vs. Jean Luc whinging about being turned into an upright hoover.

― kenan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

But seriously, Ethan, how are you? I mean, really.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Tuomas, ~~teh~~ the history of this predates the internet by decades.

for example: this.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

tho that explanation doesn't really factor in hax0r thing of replacing letters with numbers

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

so i was p[artially right..i jysut dont have tyme to get it all correct

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

or indeed M0leswurf

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Google Proof to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

HAY GUYZ

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Words are always waiting for yur tender touch
should u choose to touch them
they wrap their heads in dreams of your
ability to smudge them

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

there may be a practical reason to do with the nature of English itself as a language; that fact that English is multiple origin, and (therefore) has a huge vocab, parastises other languages and has irregular spelling and liberal grammar and word order means that things can be rendered in a similar but incorrect way to the *right* way and still make sense.

e.g. Rachel misspelling her name Archel then thinking or being told "That's a cool name, think I'll stick with it" and its similarities to Arch, archangel ~~ect ect~~ etc etc.

the fact that 'what' can be rendered 'wot' and still be understood.

the huge number of regional accents within the UK probably has a part to play too.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Noam Chomsy to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Stevem's analysis is the best so far... And even if the thing predates the Internet, I think it's become popular only through it, most likely because Internet is the first medium of everyday communication (as opposed to more formal media of newspapers and books) based on writing instead of speech.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

of course while I say that it all predates the internet, the internet has increased its incidence exponentially, coz all of a sudden you had a means for ppl to start communciating with each other by typing rather than speaking or writing en masse and at gr8 speed, so there were gr8r opportunities 2 get things wrong and any opportunity to abbrev. wd b readily pozd upon.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

tuomas dont you listen to rap music?

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Mis-spelling due to pronounciation vs mis-spelling due to bad typing, maybe.

― Sarah, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

No, he just reads your posts. A bit derivative, true, but it's a start!

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

has irregular spelling and liberal grammar and word order means that things can be rendered in a similar but incorrect way to the *right* way and still make sense.

Yeah, this probably one of the reasons it isn't so popular in Finnish, because Finnish has a regular spelling and homonyms are rare. Then again, even in English a lot of the misspellings aren't homonyms, are they?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I have it on v good authority that txting abbrevs like 'c u l8r' don't exist in Polish, which kinda proves my point....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, but it does in Dutch. I don't use it, but every 15 yr old pimply boy does.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

what is the Dutch version?

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Dutch is the closest extant language to English tho (well, actually it's Frisian, but....)

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

tuomas dont you listen to rap music?

Yeah, but in rap it isn't supposed to be humorous, is it? Ebonics is a whole different issue.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

arrrrgh that word

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00004W9KN.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Everyone OTM, plus it implies a false or at least temporarily assumed earnestness, as do the all-caps. So even the hardest bitten, most cynical case can declare a baby panda "CUET" without sacrificing hard points.

― Laurel, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

3b0niXoR

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

DO NOT FEED THE FINNTROLL!

http://www.hogl.dk/pics/finntroll.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

auto-correcting software has a part to play, shurely?

I type 'nda' and 'teh' in Word, and hey! presto i get what i meant all along. So i continue to use 'nda' and 'teh' in other places too, doh!

I'd imagine that in many other languages auto-correct is not quite so well-advanced....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

if only tuomas had been auto-corrected

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost on infanticide c/d thread

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i say WHATEVER, "THOMAS"

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Laurel's point about assumed earnestness, which would link this to postmodern irony... I.e. part of it's appeal is to make supposedly honest comments while at the same time staying cool and detached. That would also explain why I don't get it, since I'm not a big fan of pomo irony either.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

hows that working out for you

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I just like it because it (mainly the ultimate version - 13375p33K &/or antiorpese) looks funny. It makes me laugh.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I like "teh" because it has become such a cliche - that whole "look, ma, I am typing on teh modern INTERWEB!!!" thing.

Other than that, creative misspellings are a way of reinforcing your membership of a certain group, like slang.

Also, I just do not spell very well. This is partly due to mild dyslexia, and partly due to moving between UK and US spelling so much as a child I lost track of how things were spelled at all.

Mine only spelling tick is the use of the archaic "mine" as posessive before words starting with a vowel. I just like the way it looks and sounds.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

what the hell is it about continental europe having to find the deep philosophical underpinnings of some of the greatest stuff in history like sex and people falling over

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

funny cats are a feeling

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

what the hell is it about people using ILX to, like, ASK QUESTIONS??

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

it is funny because it makes words look dumb

aka visual puns, sight gags etc

― m coleman, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i am sorry if i am standing in the way of tuomas' self-actualization through trolling

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

>:3

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

also ironic comment on post-literate internet culture

― m coleman, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Can you tell me where's the trolling part on this thread?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^ trolling

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i like 'roffle'

I think it's relaive lmao shd be rendered Le Mao.

never gonna happen tho....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Jess, what is your definition of trolling anyway?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

if we're going to anthropomorphize cats, why should we pretend that they have a good grasp of spelling or grammar!?

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

cats is cuet! and they cumbine wurds like innasent childs. awwwww, kiddens!

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

2nd:dyslexia

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the way they μ

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Jess, what is your definition of trolling anyway?

from Europe

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Accusations of trolling are part of the same game as intentional misspellings. The latter says "I'm in the gang"; the former says "you're not in the gang".

― underpants of the gods, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

INTENSHUNAL MISSPELLINS IS LIEK BABYS TALK

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Formatting help

For entities: just give up.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I R TNY KITN is really unfunny tho. haet it.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/beconfidentatreyurp8.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

lol hi dere

― g-kit, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, dyslexia and autocorrect and fast typing is a different thing than doing this intentionally for a comic effect.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

A = dyslexia and autocorrect and fast typing

B = doing this intentionally for a comic effect

A enables, facilitates, encourages B

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes to the fun linguistic ingenuity! It's children's-level manipulation of a language with tons of its own ambiguities and nonsensicalities. There's a lot of joy in it, and purporseful relaxing of sometimes fairly strict community standards of conduct (ie the one-upsmanship and zings and sarcasm etc).

― Laurel, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

b-but I R TNY KITN gdmit

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

what the hell is it about continental europe having to find the deep philosophical underpinnings of some of the greatest stuff in history like sex and people falling over

How cute. I really want to pinch your cheeks, Jess, but, alas, you lost all that weight. Let me know when it's back on and I'll cuddle you senseless.

Tuomas, in regard to trolling, he's looking too much away from him instead of doing introspection. If only he could, then he'd be OTM. It's like every typical American: they can't intellectualize.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/corncob.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/alanapost/HAPPYCAT/NaziHappyCat.png

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

things like 'waht' and 'hi dere' just remind me of Dr Nick Riviera so good on that basis alone.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/boldfatty.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

A enables, facilitates, encourages B

No doubt, but the dynamics of A are far easier to explain than those of B, which is why I was interested in the latter. And this thread has indeed offered many good explanations for B.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

My friend just mailed me a pic of her dead cat. It's staying with her until she buries it. :-(

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"The first printed examples of O.K. can be found in the Boston newspapers of 1839 as part of a broader fad of forming and employing acronyms and initialisms, many of them barbarous. Other examples at the time included G.T.T. for "gone to Texas" and K.Y. for "know yuse". The general fad may have existed in spoken or informal written American English for a decade or more before its appearance in newspapers. O.K. was intended as a misspelling of "all correct"; in the first few years it was often published with this gloss. (Note that gloss indicates the spread of a new word.) The gloss was sometimes varied with degraded spelling such as "Oll Korrect" or even "Ole Kurreck". Deliberate word play was associated with the acronym fad and was a yet broader contemporary American fad. In this first phase, O.K. was spread with the acronym fad from Boston to other American cities."

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/ewok.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Text is now conversational. In this medium, the written word acts more like the spoken word. People are likely to try to do the same things with text that they do with speech, including producing a unique voice, adopting slang, and incorporating common affectations of their peers as a part of socialization, identifying with a group.

But you can't do things with text that you can do with speech, because you can't change pitch or timbre, roundness or articulation. In text you have a limited range of vowels and vowel combinations, but the human voice is capable of producing over one thousand different vowel sounds.

So you end up fucking around with what's available on the keyboard to accomplish what you've learned to do in conversation, including all of the little shortcuts and signs. You learn from reading and imitating others as much as you learn form common accidents that amuse.

Also, cat pictures are funny.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/12087.jpeg

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/walrusphone.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/_2.jpg

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Strongo has finally found the icanhascheezeburger site.

For those inclined to learn Dutch SMS-lingo: http://www.smstaal.nl/

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

seriously even seeing the font from image macros is enough to make me roffle anymore

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

salvia+nethack

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/2001982351398543517_rs.jpg
(for context)

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

here's a still form my cuzzins senior project film last year at Bard..awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5368/703/640/281765/000_0954.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/5368/703/640/281765/000_0954.jpg

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

i didn't notice before, but "has a bucket" is an elephant seal, and the "has a cellular" is a walrus -- different aminals!

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

pinnipeds both

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Ohmigod that Ewok cat is the grebtest thing ever.

― Matt DC, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

omg @ atreyucat

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

haha I hope bucket elephant seal has a parts 4-10 a la R Kelly

― nickalicious, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

he's goin over to the sink
cos the bucket is under the sink
and when he gets over to the sink
he looks under the sink
but under the sink... is no bucket
(no bucket)
(no bucket)

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

for me it's really all about the eternal ms. spelling on teh interweb

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/tori-spelling/pictures/tori-spelling-picture-1.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

http://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gif http://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gif http://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gif http://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gif http://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gif http://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gif http://bonaldi.thehold.net/chiz/onoz_omg.gif

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf is up with teh bucket?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

IT HAS A BUCKET THEN IS GETS STEALED WAHT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

there was, like, no character development at all leading up to the bucket debacle!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.nastynets.com/secretstash/netacronyms_smaller.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

the line "I has a bucket" says a lot about teh charachter

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Dear Tuomas,

Cats can't spell.

Yrs,

Nabisco

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/374075038_f3ec7a4c04.jpg?v=0

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The latter says "I'm in the gang"; the former says "you're not in the gang".

THE GANG

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/noiservoirdogs.jpg

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the little lesbo on the left

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean maybe in Finland people respect cats as their intellectual equals, but those of us in the rest of the world recognize their limited intellectual development, and find it cute and funny when they fall off of stuff or make weird reaction faces, and maybe imagine them having internal dialogue like "OH NOES I FELL OFF COWCH" or whatever.

Also cats aren't good with computers:

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/hax.jpg

Haha see the cat was doing a page layout and then somehow accidentally put a cat picture in there! And then he was like "oh man, how did that happen, I don't know how to use this computer!" But that text wound up on there too! Hahaha cats aren't smart enough to do page layouts, they make comical Lucille Ball-type errors!

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

to be fair, ppl do the same with ppl pics.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

"Orlando Bloom for President" <--- not funny!

does this really need any explanation other than oddly spelled words are funny to read? People who walk in an unusual way also make me laugh because it's not the way you are supposed to walk! And animals wearing hats (because they don't normally wear hats!)

― Slumpman, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.hot-screensaver.com/wp-myimages/funny-cat.jpg

I am normally wearing hat

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

donkeys at the seaside wear hats.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

MAMA WEER ALL CRAZEE NOW!

― walterkranz, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

to be fair, ppl do the same with ppl pics.

Fuck being fair. Humor isn't about that.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

this humor is fair and rational, so now I will commence to laughing

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I am crying so hard laughing at newspaper cat that I have freaked out my dogs and am crying and everything.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

but why damnit WHY

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

[i]if we're going to anthropomorphize cats, why should we pretend that they have a good grasp of spelling or grammar!?

elmo argonaut on Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (2 hours ago)
cats is cuet! and they cumbine wurds like innasent childs. awwwww, kiddens!

elmo argonaut on Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (2 hours ago)
/[i]

most OTM posts not containing catpix

― stevie, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Newspaper cat xpost pile-up, no less!

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I do not want to deconstruct newspaper cat, because then it would not be funny. Part of why I find it funny is because I can't generate any situation which would have that as the end result, partly because the text doesn't go with the picture. Maybe it's the sense of despair, maybe it's just that particular cat's face (is he/she the same cat as the Nazi photo above?) I don't know. Please don't make me know, I might not laugh any more then.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

accentmonkey otm

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't generate any situation which would have that as the end result

Haha situation = cat is REALLY BAD with computers

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

like cat bad with computers + GRANDMA bad with computers

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

what do u mean, accentmonkey and edward? nabisco explained in crystal clear detail why it was funny, which was the funniest thing of all, it being kind of paradoxical and stuff

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Tuomas's question soften remind me of the woman in the James Thurber cartoon who sits in her armchair and looks up from her newpaper and over at her husband in the next armchair and asks "Who is this Hitler and what does he want?"

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha situation = cat is REALLY BAD with computers

How do you know it was a cat? It could have been the elephant seal putting an ad in to get his bucket back, for all you know.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

questions oftern

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Whatever floats yr funnyboat!

― nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.cafepress.com/product/33209387_240x240_Front.jpg

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

ewwwwwwww

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

tuomas be runnin' this ILX ish.

― Eisbaer, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

also, WTF is that pic with the dog with no front legs? is that thing for REAL, or is it a photoshop thing?!?

― Eisbaer, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ihasacomputer.jpg

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

also, why to hate on 2 legged dogs?

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://cgi.4chan.org/f/src/tetkacat.swf

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i love that, Edward III :D

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks now I'm gonna be watching that for the next 3 hours

xpost

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

edward if you took that to 4chan you'd be king for like 8 minutes

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, elephantsealpaws. You are no good at layout.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

(nb i went there for the first time ever like last week so i'm at near-tuomas levels of out of it-ness)

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ihasacomputernooo.jpg

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

the elephat seal was better

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

nabisco, this is the original context of not-good-with-computers-cat

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421024.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421044.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421060.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421076.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421092.jpg
http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1452-1174421113.jpg

it seems sort of quaint now

― cankles, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

T Street, fuckjob!

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLY FUCK THAT THING IS GREAT

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Garage (it's full of shit)

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

39th street way the shit up here

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

*more like SARS

― gff, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

a Cilantro or something, lol

― WilliamC, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

the elephat seal was better

yeah but now we know newspaper cat is an ilxor

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

goons goons goons

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

wonder what she posts as

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

marissa

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahah TREES AND SHIT. That thing is great!

― Trayce, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~dbailey/gallery/image/elephant.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread has brightened my day.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

walruses are far more regal than elephant seals:

http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/3802/11140/f/46524-Walrus-Attack-0.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42171000/jpg/_42171890_sealion_getty_416.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. Looks like somebody farted in the tub.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost)

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

that walrus is clearly going to murder those ppls

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I would like to see walrus (tub farter) wearing an ascot.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Growing Up Walrus is my favorite thing Animal Planet has ever aired.

Fuck a shark week, I want walrus week.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

rare photo of domesticaled baby walrus:

http://www.strawberrybonkers.com/walrus.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/43/89768504_42fe9e0ab2_m.jpg

"I SAID I WANTED A BURRITO, NONE OF THIS SCHOOLCHILDREN BULLSHIT."

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Wilford Brimley Walrus. My favorite kind.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7788/736657112ltf5.gif

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://lolwtfbbq.tripod.com/o_rly/thumbnails/600x450/aidsrly.jpg

― ken c, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Can I just throw a manatee into the elephant seal / walrus debate?

http://www.visitbradenton-manatee.com/images/picture_bradenton.jpg

― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I heart Edward's rubbish-at-layout editor elephant seal. He rules the internet.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/i-has-sockses.jpg

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/they-be-stealing.jpg

― kingfish, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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