I can has brain back?

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I have clearly spent far too much time looking at LOLcats.
In trying to clear a massive backlog of New Scientist magazines from my house, I was reading a little too quickly yesterday when I reached this snippet at the end of a page:
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At first reading, I thought the headline was a question from a pilot uncertain about his/her future career prospects.

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18 Responses to I can has brain back?

  1. Richard P. Grant says:
    October 6, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    Hah hah!
    Me too..

  2. Cath Ennis says:
    October 6, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    Possibly deliberate, then!

  3. Anna Vilborg says:
    October 6, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    That’s what I thought too…maybe we are all spending too much time reading lol cats and such 🙂

  4. Cath Ennis says:
    October 6, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    Without a doubt. I wonder if we can sue them for damage to our mental capacity?

  5. Alyssa Gilbert says:
    October 6, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    LOL I thought that too, but that was prefaced with your title and mention of LOLcats. I wonder if others would read it that way if that wasn’t the case?

  6. Eva Amsen says:
    October 6, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    I read it too. But then I showed it to my cat, who said: “Stupid humans. You need to read up on Greek mythology and NASA’s activities the next time you’re on the Internet box. Now let me sleep, it’s the middle of the day!”

  8. Ken Doyle says:
    October 6, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    OK, I clearly don’t know how to embed an image. Link instead.

  9. Joanna Scott says:
    October 6, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    Nice! My concentration span’s obviously shot by Lolcats and co, because I glanced at the headline, didn’t understand it and skimmed right down to the comments thinking I’d figure it out there rather than engage brain for half a second to actually think. Your point proven, I think!

  10. Bob O'Hara says:
    October 6, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    (put the name of the image between exclamation marks)
    I can’t see a big future for LOLrockets, alas.

  11. Henry Gee says:
    October 6, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    Ares is an anagram of Arse. In which case its tendency to ‘vibrate violently’ is not surprising. Why didn’t they go all the way and call it Uranus ?

  12. Cath Ennis says:
    October 6, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Alyssa, it really wasn’t a fair test, was it?
    Eva, I showed it to my cat too, but she just fell off the sofa. Again.
    Ken, nice one! (and thanks, Bob, for embedding it)
    Henry, what about careening out of control? Not to mention crashing in a populated area…

  13. Cath Ennis says:
    October 6, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    Joanna, my attention span is so short that I didn’t even see your comment!
    Yes, I fear that serious thought and delayed gratification may be a thing of the past.

  14. Jennifer Rohn says:
    October 6, 2009 at 8:38 pm

    Mmmm, cheeseburgers.

  15. Cath Ennis says:
    October 6, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    You have become assimilated to the British way, Jenny! That’s cheezburgers with a very Americanized Z!

  16. Sabbi Lall says:
    October 7, 2009 at 2:48 am

    I’ll trust Jenny’s spelling over those krazee kittiez..

  17. Brian Clegg says:
    October 7, 2009 at 11:18 am

    It’s truly frightening how powerfully the LOLCats writing style burns into the brain. I would have read it just like you, Cath. Eat your heart out James Joyce, this is much deeper stuff.

  18. Cath Ennis says:
    October 7, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    Sabbi, very wize.
    Brian, pass it will. Just like that Yoda-grammar phase that had the teachers at my primary school so worried.

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