Fun With Teh Catz
Posted on December 4, 2006 Posted by John Scalzi 51 Comments
Athena saw yesterday’s “I Has a Flavor” kitty and wanted to do something similar, and provided an amusing prop with which to get best results. We applied prop to cat, took photos, and then added our text. Here’s Athena’s:
And mine:
Frankly, the cat’s expression is what makes it work.
But it wouldn’t be any fun if you didn’t get a shot at it, so, here:
Feel free to add your own caption and post it up somewhere. If you want to come back and leave a link to your newly-captioned picture of our royally humiliated cat, that’s fine with me too.
That expression is precious. To me it says something along the lines of, “Why don’t you ever do this to the dog? The dog likes it.”
I AM ON UR SOFA
RULING UR PEOPLES
I AM ON UR SOFA
RULING UR PEOPLES
PAYBACKS IS HELL
PAYBACKS IS HELL
YOU SLEEP SOON
Did I miss a week somewhere? Where did the weird grammar and spelling trend start?
Did I miss a week somewhere? Where did the weird grammar and spelling trend start?
When queenie cat no have happy, no one have happy
“Between this and the bacon, I’m demanding a royalty check.”
I think it started at least as far back as “Modern English”, which is usually traced back to the time of William Shakespeare. (The timing is not at all coincidental.)
In terms of this specific and more recent spate of weirdness, my only-mildly-informed guess is that it’s a playful outgrowth of both IM shortcuts and African American Vernacular English (aka “ebonics”) via rap and hip-hop.
I think it started at least as far back as “Modern English”, which is usually traced back to the time of William Shakespeare. (The timing is not at all coincidental.)
In terms of this specific and more recent spate of weirdness, my only-mildly-informed guess is that it’s a playful outgrowth of both IM shortcuts and African American Vernacular English (aka “ebonics”) via rap and hip-hop.
Addendum: Oh yeah, I forget to add “Engrish” to the mix, via “All your base are belong to us”, etc.
I think it’s more “cats are not capable of grammar” than anything else.
Ahem. “Cats are not bother by HUMAN grammar” egotistical human.
Ahem. “Cats are not bother by HUMAN grammar” egotistical human.
(In oddly affected British accent)
I AM ON YOUR SOFA AND MY COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS QUITE SUFFICIENT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I MOST STRENUOUSLY RESENT ANY IMPLICATIONS TO THE CONTRARY. NOW, WILL YOU PLEASE, KINDLY REMOVE THE FUCKING TIARA?
They say you never hear the cat that gets you. I will come silently in the night.
We are NOT amused.
We are NOT amused.
Heh. I can just see some grammar cop pointing out an infraction to one or another of the queens of Britain, and being told in no uncertain terms that “We are the English language.”
Which of course is true, if one exchanges the royal “We” for a more we-the-people sort of “we”. While grammar rules and spelling and dictionary definitions and so on certainly have their place, the English language is what we say it is.
Umans, obvious r overstated…Tiara….Not!!
I’M WAITIN FOR U TO SLEEP
AND I’M POOPIN IN UR SHOOZ
I’M WAITIN FOR U TO SLEEP
AND I’M POOPIN IN UR SHOOZ
“I have as many ways to kill you as there are fake jewels in this crown.”
I wonder what the kitty version of “Allah Akbar” is? My guess is Sclazi will find out, soon.
“Tuna is master”?
I believe the standard feline response to all such offences against a cat’s dignity is:
IF I WAS BIGGER I’D EAT YOU
I believe the standard feline response to all such offences against a cat’s dignity is:
IF I WAS BIGGER I’D EAT YOU
WTFOMGBBQU!
PUT DOWN THE BACON OR I WILL CRAP IN YOUR BED.
PUT DOWN THE BACON OR I WILL CRAP IN YOUR BED.
My version of the picture can be found here.
(see, the joke is it’s a tiara? Bud-um CLASH!)
My version of the picture can be found here.
(see, the joke is it’s a tiara? Bud-um CLASH!)
mine.
mine.
And, a bonus photo, should anyone wish to add commentary to my cat.
NEEDS POOP. U BRUNG SAND TUB, K?
NEEDS POOP. U BRUNG SAND TUB, K?
A message from Shakespeare, who’s too damned male for any tiara:
http://kristophrenia.blogspot.com/2006/12/message-from-cat-in-honor-of-season.html
(Apologies for the heathen-ish non-linkage, my html is as basic as can be.)
You will pay. With salt.
“Don’t make me angry; you wouldn’t like it when I’m angry.”
Is the cat a Himalayan?
Is the cat a Himalayan?
THERE R P UNDR YR SEET
THERE R P UNDR YR SEET
I got home from work and was suckered into amusing myself with this.
Only I used my cat. All my underwares are belong to him.
(Disclaimer: Not Ghlaghghee. Might be her long lost brother.)
Is this a male cat? I ask because he doesn’t seem to be too pleased to be dressed in drag.
Bacon taped to fur
Now foolish crown on my head
Behold kitty rage
Human prints out draft
Many days of work is there
I shall pee on it
See my flowing river
Yellow and odiferous
Curdles bond paper
Bountiful as well
Overflows the paper pile
Shorts out computer
Dignity avenged,
I curl around your ankles
Demanding dinner
“Why are you standing there with that stupid camera? FEED ME! NOW!”
“Why are you standing there with that stupid camera? FEED ME! NOW!”
If you’re going to put a tiara on fonixkat, shouldn’t “Princess” be spelled
ghwrensesce?
“gh” from “hiccough,”
“wren” from, well, the bird,
“s” from “silly” (guilty as charged),
and “esce” as in “acquiesce to the kitty.”