Have you visited WRAL's updated pet section lately? You haven't? Go visit! You'll find the new pet of the week, a pet advice column, and more.
And if you're a cat person, or a small-fuzzy-animal person, I also invite you to check out I Can Has Cheezburger? at http://icanhascheezburger.com/. It's full of Lolcats!
What's a lolcat? A lolcat is a cat picture that has been captioned in a certain way. The Lol stands for laugh-out-loud; the pictures are usually funny (or supposed to be funny.) Further, Lolcats have developed a standard vocabulary -- kind of a pidgin English or standard notation for what the cat is doing. Often Lolcats will be captioned with a variation of "I'm in ur x, y'ing ur z." Blogger Anil Dash has outlined lolcat grammar in his post cats can has grammar.
I don't want to overthink this -- it's just a bit of Sunday Cuteness, after all -- but I do want to note that since lolcat grammar does have consistencies, it can be replicated. This means that many lolcats are not lolcats at all, but lolguineapigs, lolmice, and lolsnails.
And lol'ing can jump outside cute-animal pictures entirely. There's now loltrek ("Oh hai I has tribble"), lol80s, and lolquantumphyics.
This is barely the tip of the loliceberg; to find more funny pictures just go to Google and search for lolcat. Two warnings though. First, some lol* sites are definitely not safe for work. Second, if you read enough lolcat sites you will start talking in lolcat. It'll wear off eventually, but you don't want to be shopping for groceries and answering your cell phone this way: "I'm in ur Harris Teeter buyin ur eggs."
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