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<\/span>Let’s talk about lolcats<\/a>. Lolcats, or cat macros, are a subset of image macros<\/a>. They’re pictures of cats with captions typed across them. In essence they’re the “Hang In There Baby” posters gone feral.<\/p>\n

Anil Dash has a great post about them<\/a>, in which he identifies a number of lolcat subclasses and discusses kitty pidgin, the mangled English used in many lolcat pictures. Kitty pidgin is surprisingly regular, which I suppose means, as Anil Dash puts it, that cats can has regular grammar.<\/p>\n

<\/span>A number of sites collect lolcat pictures, among them I Can Has Cheezburger<\/a> and Meme Cats<\/a>. If you browse through those sites, you’ll quickly get a feel for how lolcats work. If you’re inspired to make your own, remember: use Impact or Arial Black, and put a black outline around white letters.<\/p>\n

While this is nice and all, I quickly realized that there are no long-form lolcat works. The closest is Spatch’s wonderful Cat Town<\/a>, and it’s only a relative to lolcats. That set my fevered brain to spinning: what would a lolcat story look like? What if lolcats had a TV channel? What kind of shows would be on it?<\/p>\n

The answer is clear: they would show Star Trek.<\/p>\n

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And thanks to Gunther Schmidl for the “Invisible Klingon” suggestion.<\/p>\n

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