Pictures with Captions
The internet is lately being overrun by pictures with captions. Most of these pictures features cats with bad grammar, but not all of them. For some unknown reason, some are incredibly, laugh-out-loud, tears-in-your-eyes funny. Most of the images are from 100 Top Internet Pictures by TheWalkingDude.[1]
Exhibit (A) below is an image that originated somewhere on the internets—most likely Something Awful or Fark (browse at your own risk/not for the faint of heart/your mileage may vary), but which indicates that it is possible for jingoism to be funny.
Eurofags: You'll Have to Whine Louder. America Can't Hear You from Up Here.
With the author unknown, it’s impossible to ascertain whether the caption is meant ironically or not. This author is assuming that it was and finds it hilarious.[2]
Exhibit (B) is probably an image from a manual for a stroller, dressed up with a single word, “Fail”. Isolated from the context of the rest of the manual, the graphic is bizarre. The word attached lays blame on the baby for not knowing how to use a stroller. Brilliant.
And then there’s the cats; photogenic animals, which seem to be captured in all sorts of interesting poses with easily anthropomorphized expressions on their faces and, most importantly, which lend themselves to easy photoshopping. Whereas we here at earthli are partial to bunny rabbits (as you can see by our logo). But, though this is cute as all get-out:
It’s not really all that funny.[3] However, these two pictures are much funnier:
Who knows why? Is it the screwed-up grammar? Is it the use of common internet vernacular? Is it the fact that Kitty has road rage?
[1] “The Walking Dude” is one of the many names of the major baddie in several of Stephen King’s books, in particular The Stand. It doesn’t mean anything, I’m just saying.↩
[2] It would have been just as funny with the epithet Eurofags, which treats homosexuality with as a derogatory remark, replaced by Euro-Sissies or something else, which would attack the manliness of Europeans without insulting homosexuals.↩
[3] “Nom, nom, nom” refers to the sound a rabbit makes when he destroys anything you hold dear in your apartment.↩