Lolbrarians
December 28, 2008 6:23 PM Subscribe
I'm a librarian, like many on MeFi. Laughed my head off.
posted by malusmoriendumest at 6:39 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by malusmoriendumest at 6:39 PM on December 28, 2008
Loljumpedtheshark.
posted by crossoverman at 6:42 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by crossoverman at 6:42 PM on December 28, 2008
NOM DE PLUME is my favorite lol-anything of all time. I laughed for five minutes straight the first time I saw that.
posted by danb at 6:44 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by danb at 6:44 PM on December 28, 2008
I do not approve of this.
posted by the dief at 6:50 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by the dief at 6:50 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
Yeah, um, that "I iz doin' dis" crap is still racist thnks.
Using pictures of pukey-cute cats instead of white men wearing shoe polish on their face doesn't suddenly absolve you of being offensive.
posted by Zambrano at 7:10 PM on December 28, 2008
Using pictures of pukey-cute cats instead of white men wearing shoe polish on their face doesn't suddenly absolve you of being offensive.
posted by Zambrano at 7:10 PM on December 28, 2008
Hey, has anyone here read that Descartes' Error book, or the other one by the same guy on Spinoza?
sorry
posted by fleetmouse at 7:10 PM on December 28, 2008
sorry
posted by fleetmouse at 7:10 PM on December 28, 2008
You're not supposed to LOL in a library. Luckily (I suppose) this didn't make me want to.
posted by aubilenon at 7:28 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by aubilenon at 7:28 PM on December 28, 2008
Yeah, um, that "I iz doin' dis" crap is still racist thnks.
please explain, because it would seem like you're way off, here.
posted by Hat Maui at 7:31 PM on December 28, 2008 [10 favorites]
please explain, because it would seem like you're way off, here.
posted by Hat Maui at 7:31 PM on December 28, 2008 [10 favorites]
moar liek NOM NOM NOM DE PLUME
(I had to)
posted by Donnie VandenBos at 7:38 PM on December 28, 2008 [5 favorites]
(I had to)
posted by Donnie VandenBos at 7:38 PM on December 28, 2008 [5 favorites]
please explain, because it would seem like you're way off, here.
That's the guy that drops that turd in every lol-related post. It doesn't get any less stupid each time he posts it.
posted by dead cousin ted at 7:39 PM on December 28, 2008 [8 favorites]
That's the guy that drops that turd in every lol-related post. It doesn't get any less stupid each time he posts it.
posted by dead cousin ted at 7:39 PM on December 28, 2008 [8 favorites]
Yeah, um, that "I iz doin' dis" crap is still racist thnks.
RYECHUSS INDIGNASHUN - UR DOIN' IT RONG.
posted by bashos_frog at 7:45 PM on December 28, 2008 [14 favorites]
RYECHUSS INDIGNASHUN - UR DOIN' IT RONG.
posted by bashos_frog at 7:45 PM on December 28, 2008 [14 favorites]
Yeah, um, that "I iz doin' dis" crap is still racist thnks.
please explain, because it would seem like you're way off, here.
Actually, to be fair, when I first encountered the LOLspeak phenomenon, I thought it was kinda racist, too. But clearly, the people who make LOLcats (and other LOLthings) don't mean it that way, so I guess I don't really think about it anymore.
But yeah, I kinda see where they're coming from.
posted by Afroblanco at 7:46 PM on December 28, 2008
please explain, because it would seem like you're way off, here.
Actually, to be fair, when I first encountered the LOLspeak phenomenon, I thought it was kinda racist, too. But clearly, the people who make LOLcats (and other LOLthings) don't mean it that way, so I guess I don't really think about it anymore.
But yeah, I kinda see where they're coming from.
posted by Afroblanco at 7:46 PM on December 28, 2008
Racist? Moar like speciesist.
posted by Sailormom at 7:58 PM on December 28, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by Sailormom at 7:58 PM on December 28, 2008 [2 favorites]
I think it's full of succeed. At leaat, I did a little chuckle, here and there. Should have been You're Deweying It Wrong, though, for utter library lolz.
[NOT LIBRARIANIST]
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:06 PM on December 28, 2008 [3 favorites]
[NOT LIBRARIANIST]
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:06 PM on December 28, 2008 [3 favorites]
Nom de Plume was perfection.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:08 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:08 PM on December 28, 2008
Anyone who thinks that this inane meme is racist in any way seriously needs to examine their own preconceptions and attitudes first. Where does that even come from? It's like those people who see the Virgin Mary in their grilled cheese sandwich.
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 8:12 PM on December 28, 2008 [10 favorites]
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 8:12 PM on December 28, 2008 [10 favorites]
It's like those people who see the Virgin Mary in their grilled cheese sandwich.
You promised you wouldn't tell anybody! I trusted you. Besides which, it was a grilled Reuben. Big difference there.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:25 PM on December 28, 2008
You promised you wouldn't tell anybody! I trusted you. Besides which, it was a grilled Reuben. Big difference there.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:25 PM on December 28, 2008
I don't really get how lolcats are racist - maybe it's possible, but someone will have to explain it to me.
The joke is basically: cats who talk with silly grammar. If it were about a racially-charged steryotype animal, like a monkey, that would be one thing. If someone made a cat talk with African American Vernacular English, or a specific dialect, I could see that as being racist. But does any person or ethnicity says things like "nom nom nom" and "I can haz cheeseburger?"
The pictures that aren't specifically pointing out funny visual imagery (invisible bike!) seem to be saying that cats are cute, not stupid (can I plz has dis shiny device: some people say 'dis', but as a sentence it has no resemblance to anything a normal person would say and is generally meant to be adorable.)
So, in my eyes the only connection is that some racists characterize some races as not being able to talk "properly" due to some inherent stupidity. And the lol-cat meme says cats are kind of stupid and silly and if they could speak english they would do so in a silly manner (one that is not reflective of any individual dialect, note, except that of the internet.)
So there is the "speak properly" + "unintelligent?" angle perhaps going on, but they seem independently evolved - I also think the larger joke in lolcats is about cuteness, sillyness, and the way children talk amplified up a bit. I can haz plate of beans naow?
posted by Solon and Thanks at 8:37 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
The joke is basically: cats who talk with silly grammar. If it were about a racially-charged steryotype animal, like a monkey, that would be one thing. If someone made a cat talk with African American Vernacular English, or a specific dialect, I could see that as being racist. But does any person or ethnicity says things like "nom nom nom" and "I can haz cheeseburger?"
The pictures that aren't specifically pointing out funny visual imagery (invisible bike!) seem to be saying that cats are cute, not stupid (can I plz has dis shiny device: some people say 'dis', but as a sentence it has no resemblance to anything a normal person would say and is generally meant to be adorable.)
So, in my eyes the only connection is that some racists characterize some races as not being able to talk "properly" due to some inherent stupidity. And the lol-cat meme says cats are kind of stupid and silly and if they could speak english they would do so in a silly manner (one that is not reflective of any individual dialect, note, except that of the internet.)
So there is the "speak properly" + "unintelligent?" angle perhaps going on, but they seem independently evolved - I also think the larger joke in lolcats is about cuteness, sillyness, and the way children talk amplified up a bit. I can haz plate of beans naow?
posted by Solon and Thanks at 8:37 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
My fellow librarians,
Let us face facts. Librarians and libraries are, as a rule, not funny. While there have been, are, and will of course be exceptions to this rule, they are breathtakingly rare. If you are a librarian and have made somebody else laugh at a library joke, it almost certainly was another librarian, which doesn't count. The fact that this website is one of the "better" library-related attempts at humour I have ever encountered says far more about how lame library jokes are than it does about this any humour-related attributes this site may or may not possess.
If you are a librarian and you are considering making a library-related joke, the odds are good that its subject matter falls under one of the four following categories:
a) Library patrons; ain't they the darndest?
b) Library circulation/cataloguing systems; ain't they the darndest?
c) Library management; ain't they the darndest?
d) Librarians; ain't we the darndest?
e) The Dewey Decimal System; you sure can rhyme "Dewey" with alot of few things!
a) is an admittedly rich vein for humour; the only problem is that any jokes of this nature made in public have to be sanitized to Dave Berry-esque levels of PG safeness, lest we lose our jobs. b) could not possibly be funny - even theoretically - to anyone who does not work in a library, and if you work in a library and think they are funny you can't possibly know how wrong you are. Jokes about c) are watered-down versions of stuff Dilbert was doing 15 years ago, and better, and...I can't think of a worse thing to say about them than that. As for d), well...there are only so many jokes you can make about sexy/wild-'n'-crazy/eccentric/aggressive librarians, and the quota was filled back around the time someone came up with the original "Conan The Librarian" quip. And anyone who makes an e)-related pun at this point should be taken into the stacks and shot.
So, please, I beg you; if you are a librarian and are thinking about making a library-related joke, please reconsider. Most jokes about libraries have been scientifically proven to make both the teller and audience less funny, so every time you tell one you're making the world a worse place to live. We are proud, driven, intelligent people, capable of so much...just not of making good jokes about libraries. So, for the love of God, please...won't somebody please think of the non-librarians?
Yours in desperation,
The Card Cheat
posted by The Card Cheat at 8:42 PM on December 28, 2008 [16 favorites]
Let us face facts. Librarians and libraries are, as a rule, not funny. While there have been, are, and will of course be exceptions to this rule, they are breathtakingly rare. If you are a librarian and have made somebody else laugh at a library joke, it almost certainly was another librarian, which doesn't count. The fact that this website is one of the "better" library-related attempts at humour I have ever encountered says far more about how lame library jokes are than it does about this any humour-related attributes this site may or may not possess.
If you are a librarian and you are considering making a library-related joke, the odds are good that its subject matter falls under one of the four following categories:
a) Library patrons; ain't they the darndest?
b) Library circulation/cataloguing systems; ain't they the darndest?
c) Library management; ain't they the darndest?
d) Librarians; ain't we the darndest?
e) The Dewey Decimal System; you sure can rhyme "Dewey" with a
a) is an admittedly rich vein for humour; the only problem is that any jokes of this nature made in public have to be sanitized to Dave Berry-esque levels of PG safeness, lest we lose our jobs. b) could not possibly be funny - even theoretically - to anyone who does not work in a library, and if you work in a library and think they are funny you can't possibly know how wrong you are. Jokes about c) are watered-down versions of stuff Dilbert was doing 15 years ago, and better, and...I can't think of a worse thing to say about them than that. As for d), well...there are only so many jokes you can make about sexy/wild-'n'-crazy/eccentric/aggressive librarians, and the quota was filled back around the time someone came up with the original "Conan The Librarian" quip. And anyone who makes an e)-related pun at this point should be taken into the stacks and shot.
So, please, I beg you; if you are a librarian and are thinking about making a library-related joke, please reconsider. Most jokes about libraries have been scientifically proven to make both the teller and audience less funny, so every time you tell one you're making the world a worse place to live. We are proud, driven, intelligent people, capable of so much...just not of making good jokes about libraries. So, for the love of God, please...won't somebody please think of the non-librarians?
Yours in desperation,
The Card Cheat
posted by The Card Cheat at 8:42 PM on December 28, 2008 [16 favorites]
Why are there so many librarians on MetaFilter?
posted by philosophistry at 8:46 PM on December 28, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by philosophistry at 8:46 PM on December 28, 2008 [2 favorites]
So I take it you didn't like the zombie librarian?
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:47 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:47 PM on December 28, 2008
And look how she thanks every single commenter individually, instead of a cold, impersonal "thank you everyone". That's very thoughtful.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:49 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:49 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
There are many proper targets for humor and librarians are not among them.
Now if we are talking sexual fetish I would see the point.
posted by Iron Rat at 8:50 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
Now if we are talking sexual fetish I would see the point.
posted by Iron Rat at 8:50 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
Well, as for the LOLcats/racism thing... at first, some of the "LOLspeak" seemed like a parody of AAVE. But once again, it's obvious that people who make LOL-stuff obviously don't mean it in a racist way, so I generally don't think about it anymore.
posted by Afroblanco at 8:50 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by Afroblanco at 8:50 PM on December 28, 2008
> So I take it you didn't like the zombie librarian?
No. Leaving aside the non-relevant fact that zombies are really played-out, this is a pretty good example of what I'm talking about. First, you've got the tortured play on the word "library" - admittedly, a bit of a departure from "Dewey" - ("li-braaaaaainns") awkwardly wedged in there. Second, the subject chose the AACR2 as the book shoved into her head, which will only be "funny" to fellow librarians; no-one else will know what it is. If anyone asks she will have to explain why she chose that particular book, and if you have to explain a joke...Third, the subject has mistakenly assumed that the juxtaposition of the stereotypical librarian (female, glasses, hair up, kitschy animal pin, shushing) and a zombie is inherently amusing; librarians are quiet, non-violent and physically unremarkable, whereas zombies are...well, not. That's the joke.
Seriously, I'm only trying to help.
posted by The Card Cheat at 9:03 PM on December 28, 2008
No. Leaving aside the non-relevant fact that zombies are really played-out, this is a pretty good example of what I'm talking about. First, you've got the tortured play on the word "library" - admittedly, a bit of a departure from "Dewey" - ("li-braaaaaainns") awkwardly wedged in there. Second, the subject chose the AACR2 as the book shoved into her head, which will only be "funny" to fellow librarians; no-one else will know what it is. If anyone asks she will have to explain why she chose that particular book, and if you have to explain a joke...Third, the subject has mistakenly assumed that the juxtaposition of the stereotypical librarian (female, glasses, hair up, kitschy animal pin, shushing) and a zombie is inherently amusing; librarians are quiet, non-violent and physically unremarkable, whereas zombies are...well, not. That's the joke.
Seriously, I'm only trying to help.
posted by The Card Cheat at 9:03 PM on December 28, 2008
I thought LOLcat-speak was making fun of L33t-speak.
posted by nonreflectiveobject at 9:03 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by nonreflectiveobject at 9:03 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
Why are there so many racists on MetaFilter?
posted by cmoj at 9:06 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by cmoj at 9:06 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
Hey, has anyone here read that Descartes' Error book, or the other one by the same guy on Spinoza?
You mean Damasio's Ego?
posted by cogneuro at 9:06 PM on December 28, 2008
You mean Damasio's Ego?
posted by cogneuro at 9:06 PM on December 28, 2008
I thought LOLcat-speak was making fun of L33t-speak.
And I always thought LOLcat-speak was a parody of the way little children talk. E.g., "I made you a cookie but I eated it". Not surprising, seeing how a lot of cat lovers think of their cats as their kids, in a way. Especially when you look at the downright clumsy, silly antics of some cats. If they could talk, they would use some infantile, cutesy-wootsy manner of speech. That's where LOLcat-speak came from. I have honestly never heard someone say it was racist, and it sounds like a real over-reaching way to say "I am sick to death of this stupid memery." Which would be a fully understandable senitment.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 9:10 PM on December 28, 2008 [5 favorites]
And I always thought LOLcat-speak was a parody of the way little children talk. E.g., "I made you a cookie but I eated it". Not surprising, seeing how a lot of cat lovers think of their cats as their kids, in a way. Especially when you look at the downright clumsy, silly antics of some cats. If they could talk, they would use some infantile, cutesy-wootsy manner of speech. That's where LOLcat-speak came from. I have honestly never heard someone say it was racist, and it sounds like a real over-reaching way to say "I am sick to death of this stupid memery." Which would be a fully understandable senitment.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 9:10 PM on December 28, 2008 [5 favorites]
moar liek NOM NOM NOM DE PLUME
*ahem*
posted by gnome de plume at 9:12 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
*ahem*
posted by gnome de plume at 9:12 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
It's like those people who see the Virgin Mary in their grilled cheese sandwich.
posted by PareidoliaticBoy
I laughed even harder at this than at NOM DE PLUME.
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:15 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by PareidoliaticBoy
I laughed even harder at this than at NOM DE PLUME.
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:15 PM on December 28, 2008
Why are there so many librarians on MetaFilter?
Sorry about that. I had a terrible accident involving a "spell of attraction" involving a first edition printing of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, a stripy cat and a sensible navy-blue button-down cardigan. I was trying to turn something resembling a sigil into something resembling an ansible before the explosion, and, well, I don't really remember much else after that.
Ever since then the librarians keep coming - which isn't as good of a thing as you'd think it might be. Apparently I now owe overdue book fees for that Coleridge poem in a seemingly infinite number of parallel universes, including some variants where the check out date is older than our local known universe. I've had one such interdimensional stack-shuffler claim I owed "The weight of the sun in gold or the forfeit of true love - which ever comes first."
As I've long suspected from the way librarians seem to communicate instantly with other librarians without regard nor care for geography or time and space - it turns out that it is indeed very likely that what we know as "librarians" in our world are merely the segment that protrudes into our dimension, and that there is really only one librarian. The Great Librarian - devourer of souls, destroyer of worlds, builder and shusher of entire civilizations.
*trembles in fear*
posted by loquacious at 9:16 PM on December 28, 2008 [15 favorites]
Sorry about that. I had a terrible accident involving a "spell of attraction" involving a first edition printing of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, a stripy cat and a sensible navy-blue button-down cardigan. I was trying to turn something resembling a sigil into something resembling an ansible before the explosion, and, well, I don't really remember much else after that.
Ever since then the librarians keep coming - which isn't as good of a thing as you'd think it might be. Apparently I now owe overdue book fees for that Coleridge poem in a seemingly infinite number of parallel universes, including some variants where the check out date is older than our local known universe. I've had one such interdimensional stack-shuffler claim I owed "The weight of the sun in gold or the forfeit of true love - which ever comes first."
As I've long suspected from the way librarians seem to communicate instantly with other librarians without regard nor care for geography or time and space - it turns out that it is indeed very likely that what we know as "librarians" in our world are merely the segment that protrudes into our dimension, and that there is really only one librarian. The Great Librarian - devourer of souls, destroyer of worlds, builder and shusher of entire civilizations.
*trembles in fear*
posted by loquacious at 9:16 PM on December 28, 2008 [15 favorites]
Fun Fact: Lovecraft fans outnumber librarians on Metafilter 10 to 1.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 9:20 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 9:20 PM on December 28, 2008
Why are there so many librarians on MetaFilter?
Because Metafilter is somewhere near the center of the L-space continuum.
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:21 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
Because Metafilter is somewhere near the center of the L-space continuum.
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:21 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
I R liberryan. I haz 5 kittehz! I LOL'ed. I approve this post!
posted by Lynsey at 9:54 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by Lynsey at 9:54 PM on December 28, 2008
Fun Fact: Lovecraft fans outnumber librarians on Metafilter 10 to 1.
AND WITH STRANGE AEONS EVEN OVERDUE FINES MAY DIE.
posted by GuyZero at 9:56 PM on December 28, 2008 [5 favorites]
AND WITH STRANGE AEONS EVEN OVERDUE FINES MAY DIE.
posted by GuyZero at 9:56 PM on December 28, 2008 [5 favorites]
Monorail kitteh made be laugh.
AND WITH STRANGE AEONS EVEN OVERDUE FINES MAY DIE.
LOLcraft.
posted by SPrintF at 10:15 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
AND WITH STRANGE AEONS EVEN OVERDUE FINES MAY DIE.
LOLcraft.
posted by SPrintF at 10:15 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
Why are there so many librarians on MetaFilter?
They are all followers of jessamyn the Anarchist Librarian (you're very welcome, jess, but I didn't pay for it, just suggested it), which I find kind of ironic since I didn't think Anarchists had leaders, but the Libertarians went gaga over Ron Paul so what do I know?
And the next time you wonder if LOLspeak is a racist take on African-American vernacular, just picture the same words coming out of the mouth of Cletus from The Simpsons. Yup, LOLCATS are White Trash. (Although they really are most similar to 3-Year-Old-Speak of all American Ethnicities)
And NOM Sawyer was almost as good as NOM DE PLUME (which didn't need any more NOMs, thank you). From earlier pages, I also recommend:
THEY'Z ALPHABETIZED, U HAPPY NOW?
i nap periodically
LIBRARIANZ GET ALL TEH LADIEZ (a lolbuffy crossover)
You Know What We Do When a Book's Overdue (I am SO repurposing that pic)
Ceiling Librarian...
And for a full collection of library-based funny (and comics characters with the ugliest noses), see Unshelved.
posted by wendell at 11:01 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
They are all followers of jessamyn the Anarchist Librarian (you're very welcome, jess, but I didn't pay for it, just suggested it), which I find kind of ironic since I didn't think Anarchists had leaders, but the Libertarians went gaga over Ron Paul so what do I know?
And the next time you wonder if LOLspeak is a racist take on African-American vernacular, just picture the same words coming out of the mouth of Cletus from The Simpsons. Yup, LOLCATS are White Trash. (Although they really are most similar to 3-Year-Old-Speak of all American Ethnicities)
And NOM Sawyer was almost as good as NOM DE PLUME (which didn't need any more NOMs, thank you). From earlier pages, I also recommend:
THEY'Z ALPHABETIZED, U HAPPY NOW?
i nap periodically
LIBRARIANZ GET ALL TEH LADIEZ (a lolbuffy crossover)
You Know What We Do When a Book's Overdue (I am SO repurposing that pic)
Ceiling Librarian...
And for a full collection of library-based funny (and comics characters with the ugliest noses), see Unshelved.
posted by wendell at 11:01 PM on December 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
OH HAI DO U KNOW U HAS OVERDUE BOOKZ? I CAN HAS LATE FEES NOW? LOL!!!
posted by Auden at 11:16 PM on December 28, 2008
posted by Auden at 11:16 PM on December 28, 2008
The "I REJECT YOUR MARC RECORD AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN" was one of the few I thought was really funny, and that is as a non-librarian who has never used that software.
But then again I'm one of the few librarians who make jokes involving the Library of Congress classification system. I think that qualifies me to agree with The Card Cheat on multiple levels.
posted by grouse at 11:28 PM on December 28, 2008
But then again I'm one of the few librarians who make jokes involving the Library of Congress classification system. I think that qualifies me to agree with The Card Cheat on multiple levels.
posted by grouse at 11:28 PM on December 28, 2008
Er, one of the few non-librarians. I am not a librarian. Just wanted to make that clear again.
posted by grouse at 12:23 AM on December 29, 2008
posted by grouse at 12:23 AM on December 29, 2008
Why are there so many racists on MetaFilter?
See, I can't even tell if that's parody any more.
Internets, you have ruined me.
please explain, because it would seem like you're way off, here.
He's just a common or garden troll. Fat jokes, dumb anti-american stereotypes, a little fag-bashing and so on are his stock in trade. This is just another arrow in the ol' quiver.
posted by rodgerd at 12:27 AM on December 29, 2008 [4 favorites]
See, I can't even tell if that's parody any more.
Internets, you have ruined me.
please explain, because it would seem like you're way off, here.
He's just a common or garden troll. Fat jokes, dumb anti-american stereotypes, a little fag-bashing and so on are his stock in trade. This is just another arrow in the ol' quiver.
posted by rodgerd at 12:27 AM on December 29, 2008 [4 favorites]
dude! , from out very own anil, Cats can has grammar.
beside, everybody knows that cats speak with a gnomish german accent by way of liverpool. if you mean racist against european sounding twits, then unLOL away.
geez.
posted by liza at 1:34 AM on December 29, 2008
beside, everybody knows that cats speak with a gnomish german accent by way of liverpool. if you mean racist against european sounding twits, then unLOL away.
geez.
posted by liza at 1:34 AM on December 29, 2008
Cats can has grammar.
I love how I have to enable scripts on four domains to view any of the 2 or 3 paragraphs of text on that, and even then it didn't render correctly. I ended up just viewing the source code. Lame.
posted by loquacious at 1:57 AM on December 29, 2008
I love how I have to enable scripts on four domains to view any of the 2 or 3 paragraphs of text on that, and even then it didn't render correctly. I ended up just viewing the source code. Lame.
posted by loquacious at 1:57 AM on December 29, 2008
I love how I have to enable scripts on four domains to view any of the 2 or 3 paragraphs of text on that, and even then it didn't render correctly. I ended up just viewing the source code. Lame.
But at least it has a professional-looking white background!
[/captainobvious]
posted by aihal at 2:39 AM on December 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
But at least it has a professional-looking white background!
[/captainobvious]
posted by aihal at 2:39 AM on December 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
I swear, I will never stop laughing at the Michael Gorman "I R SRS LIBRARIAN" jpeg. Ever. Also, Evilsevier.
posted by stet at 6:29 AM on December 29, 2008
posted by stet at 6:29 AM on December 29, 2008
I'd just like to say: I'm just happy that a picture of my daughter made it to a post on the blue.
posted by griffey at 6:57 AM on December 29, 2008
posted by griffey at 6:57 AM on December 29, 2008
sage
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 7:24 AM on December 29, 2008
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 7:24 AM on December 29, 2008
Zambrano, you're that one guy that's at every party, aren't you?
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:24 AM on December 29, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:24 AM on December 29, 2008 [2 favorites]
Thank heavens no one has told the archivists about MeFi ... we'd be in SERIOUS trouble then!
posted by aldus_manutius at 7:30 AM on December 29, 2008
posted by aldus_manutius at 7:30 AM on December 29, 2008
Talking to cats in a silly voice is racist. Yes it is. Yes it is. kittykittykittykitty.
posted by Artw at 9:15 AM on December 29, 2008
posted by Artw at 9:15 AM on December 29, 2008
I swear, I will never stop laughing at the Michael Gorman "I R SRS LIBRARIAN" jpeg. Ever.
Ditto.
This was my contribution, way back when.
And it's true, librarian jokes are, as a rule, not funny. I wish they were but they often aren't. I give talks to librarians often, and I like to think they're humorous [we can laugh at ourselves better than we can get people to laugh at our jokes about ourselves] but it's really interesting why this humor doesn't really get outside the high walls of the profession and I think it's a sort of telling thing about the profession generally. That said, I like some of these only because I'm happy when librarians make an effort to show their funny dork side, even if it's not that funny.
posted by jessamyn at 9:30 AM on December 29, 2008
Ditto.
This was my contribution, way back when.
And it's true, librarian jokes are, as a rule, not funny. I wish they were but they often aren't. I give talks to librarians often, and I like to think they're humorous [we can laugh at ourselves better than we can get people to laugh at our jokes about ourselves] but it's really interesting why this humor doesn't really get outside the high walls of the profession and I think it's a sort of telling thing about the profession generally. That said, I like some of these only because I'm happy when librarians make an effort to show their funny dork side, even if it's not that funny.
posted by jessamyn at 9:30 AM on December 29, 2008
Needs more orangutan.
posted by Ella Fynoe at 10:21 AM on December 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Ella Fynoe at 10:21 AM on December 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
loquacious: I love how I have to enable scripts on four domains to view any of the 2 or 3 paragraphs of text on that, and even then it didn't render correctly. I ended up just viewing the source code. Lame.
I also got a big grey box in Firefox, but View -> Page Style -> No Style made it readable (with a peachy 1996-ish layout).
posted by hangashore at 10:23 AM on December 29, 2008
I also got a big grey box in Firefox, but View -> Page Style -> No Style made it readable (with a peachy 1996-ish layout).
posted by hangashore at 10:23 AM on December 29, 2008
Heh. Firefox gave me the page but with a box overlayed across the top paragraph, IE gave me nothing. Maybe it looks nice in Safari? The HTML of the content is quite nice, so it should render well if all the scripts and styles and junk were stripped out (and there isn't anything there that should be requiring so much code).
(I'm sure Anil Dash is really appreciating getting a drive by code critique.)
posted by Artw at 10:39 AM on December 29, 2008
(I'm sure Anil Dash is really appreciating getting a drive by code critique.)
posted by Artw at 10:39 AM on December 29, 2008
Librarians + peeps = endearingly dorky result
posted by woodway at 4:28 PM on December 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by woodway at 4:28 PM on December 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
>And I always thought LOLcat-speak was a parody of the way little children talk.
Here's how H.H. Munro thought cats talked:
Major Barfield plunged in heavily to effect a diversion.
"How about your carryings-on with the tortoise-shell puss up at the stables, eh?"
The moment he had said it every one realized the blunder.
"One does not usually discuss these matters in public," said Tobermory frigidly. "From a slight observation of your ways since you've been in this house I should imagine you'd find it inconvenient if I were to shift the conversation to your own little affairs."
The panic which ensued was not confined to the Major.
"Would you like to go and see if cook has got your dinner ready?" suggested Lady Blemley hurriedly, affecting to ignore the fact that it wanted at least two hours to Tobermory's dinner-time.
"Thanks," said Tobermory, "not quite so soon after my tea. I don't want to die of indigestion."
"Cats have nine lives, you know," said Sir Wilfred heartily.
"Possibly," answered Tobermory; "but only one liver."
posted by acrasis at 5:19 PM on December 29, 2008
Here's how H.H. Munro thought cats talked:
Major Barfield plunged in heavily to effect a diversion.
"How about your carryings-on with the tortoise-shell puss up at the stables, eh?"
The moment he had said it every one realized the blunder.
"One does not usually discuss these matters in public," said Tobermory frigidly. "From a slight observation of your ways since you've been in this house I should imagine you'd find it inconvenient if I were to shift the conversation to your own little affairs."
The panic which ensued was not confined to the Major.
"Would you like to go and see if cook has got your dinner ready?" suggested Lady Blemley hurriedly, affecting to ignore the fact that it wanted at least two hours to Tobermory's dinner-time.
"Thanks," said Tobermory, "not quite so soon after my tea. I don't want to die of indigestion."
"Cats have nine lives, you know," said Sir Wilfred heartily.
"Possibly," answered Tobermory; "but only one liver."
posted by acrasis at 5:19 PM on December 29, 2008
> Librarians + peeps = endearingly dorky result
Okay, I laughed at that photo of the incredibly red-faced woman having a heart attack upon seeing the Peeps having sex, but in my defence teh funny has nothing to do with libraries per se.
posted by The Card Cheat at 5:27 PM on December 29, 2008
Okay, I laughed at that photo of the incredibly red-faced woman having a heart attack upon seeing the Peeps having sex, but in my defence teh funny has nothing to do with libraries per se.
posted by The Card Cheat at 5:27 PM on December 29, 2008
I'm going to print some of those and hide them in my local library (acid free paper and all that, don't take my card).
loquacious: "I love how I have to enable scripts on four domains to view any of the 2 or 3 paragraphs of text on that, and even then it didn't render correctly."
I had to enable 9 domains (15 total including sixapart and dash) just to have quant something cover all the text with that white box. Then I found out who Anil Dash is. That made me laugh as much as the goofy cats.
Goes back to poking wordpress with a stick.
posted by blink_left at 10:31 PM on December 29, 2008
loquacious: "I love how I have to enable scripts on four domains to view any of the 2 or 3 paragraphs of text on that, and even then it didn't render correctly."
I had to enable 9 domains (15 total including sixapart and dash) just to have quant something cover all the text with that white box. Then I found out who Anil Dash is. That made me laugh as much as the goofy cats.
Goes back to poking wordpress with a stick.
posted by blink_left at 10:31 PM on December 29, 2008
Yeah, I tried a few tweaks in Firefox, then I said fuckit, guess he doesn't want it to be read.
posted by cavalier at 6:17 AM on December 30, 2008
posted by cavalier at 6:17 AM on December 30, 2008
The Anil Dash page was completely blank for me. Ctrl + U and turning on word wrap revealed the text.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 10:54 AM on December 30, 2008
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 10:54 AM on December 30, 2008
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