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11/21/2008
A Different Adam & Eve
Posted by: BlackKnight @ 2:53 PM
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Advertisement,Humor,Religion,Video
I came across this advertisement at random and thought it was quite amusing.
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11/16/2008
Lolcats
Posted by: Phylaras @ 4:21 PM
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Animals,Humor
I love lolcats. If you don't know about them...then you must live under a rock. Anyway, here's a great article explaining the lolcat universe with ceiling cat, basement cat. Jay Dixit, the writer and senior editor at Psychology Today, focuses on why it is that these strange images have such a hold on us, especially the sad lolcat and lolrus pics. Here's a quote: To try to understand, I turned to Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker's brilliant cartoon editor. After all, a lolcat is just an image with a caption -- in other words, a cartoon.The first reason sad lolcats can be so powerful, Mankoff suggested, is their comedic structure. The meaning of a lolcat is rarely straightforward -- rather, there's a punch line of sorts, a layer of meaning you have to think about for a moment in order to grasp. So the punch line, the same thing that makes the lolcat funny, is what makes it sad. You could call these tragic strips. A second major factor in the poignancy of the sad lolcat, I would argue, is the use of animals. The comic form is generally a prophylaxis against sentimentality. By articulating profound feelings through cats and marine mammals speaking garbled English, we're able to shroud genuine emotions in pseudo-irony -- which means those animals can evoke deeper emotions without fear of mockery or cheapness.
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