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Bed Bath And Beyond Coupon — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:54:06 -0000

Then it squeezed out all the blood in my heart, hissed at me, and walked away.

In short, if I had a working heart left, it would be totally upset by that picture. :(

But I also looked at the walrus picture and giggled like crazy.

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Laura Chamberlain — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:03:18 -0000

The cat under the streetlamp broke my heart, punched it, smacked it, hit it with a baseball bat, cut with a chainsaw, and even nibbled at it a little.

Then it squeezed out all the blood in my heart, hissed at me, and walked away.

In short, if I had a working heart left, it would be totally upset by that picture. :(

But I also looked at the walrus picture and giggled like crazy.

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Marnie — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:54:29 -0000

Annie...Hope that your spirits have lifted by now...sorry that your not a cat person... those four "love sponges" need some diversity...how about adding a cat to your menagerie...not just any cat but a "Siamese" cat...love my two...Sammie knows the sound of my car and greets me at the door raising up and pawing my leg...and folks say cats are too independent??...not my experience....I'd be suspicious of "Sonny" boy and his "inturakchun"...beware... ;-) ...loved Iyabo Asani's remark..."Use laughter and creativity to be that more authentic part of yourself."...Cheers to all who read this...Marnie

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Blaire — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:49:09 -0000

Joanie
Speaking of way too literal....I think you misunderstood. I love Christmas. I love it because I dont let myself get manipulated by unrealistic expectations. Anti Christmas simply meant refusing to buy into the "perfect Christmas" fantasies that simply cause disapointment. I dont hate the season of "love, joy and celebration." I was offering lighthearted coping tips. Reality: Many people see this as a season of commercial bloat, lonliness and depression. And uh...Joanie...Christmas celebration began over four thousand years ago, centuries before the birth of Christ.

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Iyabo Asani — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:48:00 -0000

Hello there, this is my first time to your site. I found it by the referral from Shannon Paul's site.

You know this year, I had a very different Thanksgiving and the holidays are taking on new meaning for me. I was honest with my family this year about who I am, not who I think they want me to be and I really did not care about their reaction.

My family is a very educated uptight bunch of folks and it would not be P.C. to fall out laughing over sites like Icanhazcheeseburger.com.

To fix the holiday blues, I recommend everyone focus on being more authentic. You may not be able to be fully authentic, but just be a little bit more authentic. See how that works with you.

Use laughter and creativity to be that more authentic part of yourself.

Happy holidays.

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Danna — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:44:46 -0000

I've looked at their loldogs site too, and although they're funny and I love dogs, the lolcat site always makes me laugh more. I wonder why...perhaps because cats take themselves so seriously? I don't know.

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Megan Cordero — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:20:42 -0000

The cat looking in the oven ... LOL funny!

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Sean Carmody — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:36:51 -0000

It took me a while to stop laughing and compose myself sufficiently to write a comment. That lolrus caught me entirely by surprised...the funniest thing I've seen in ages. And it works on so many levels!

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whatsnext — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:40:15 -0000

What great writing ann!
I often wonder what's so funny on LOLcats when the captions make the cats look stupid. BUt "the dog looks pissed" is hilarious and cheered me right up for some bizarre reason.

the "he said he would meet me" is a heart breaker, and so is your description of missing someone we loved. we all have that....

thanks for a wonderful read, as always.

can't wait for your book.

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Joanie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:50:25 -0000

Blair, Blair, Blair. You scare me at times. Please enjoy your retirement.

1. Just because I watched Michael Phelps on TV doesn't mean that I expect to swim 5000 meters. Or 2, for that matter. Way too literal. I was inspired, however to train for my first triathlon at the age of 49.

2. I am down with that.

3. "Anti-Christmas"? Yes, let's boycott the birth of the Savior because you hate a season of love, joy and celebration. A 'raging' luau's going to fix THAT!

4. Yes, overcommercialization is ubiquitous . So to your point, we should all hate Mother's Day?!

5. I'll give you that one too. Sunlight boosts spirits. Just go outside if you can, not to a booth.

And LOLcats, is funny, you haters! Ann is right. Relating to the human condition is humorous, poignant and ridiculous...enjoy it.

Joanie

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Lori — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:26:59 -0000

With each of your posts I read, I get a little more scared - we think way too much alike! LOL

I love that site. It just sets any day right. :))

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Shelley Greenberg — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:22:29 -0000

Hi Ann. :)

Thanks for this - you really got me thinking now about the philosophy behind Lolcats. And here I was thinking they were just for fun!

It's true though - the reason we like them so much is not so much because they're cats, but because we've personified them with human qualities - and it's those simple human blunders and hopes that really make for the success of Lolcats. I'd even offer that the same would hold true if it had been Loldogs (well, that actually exists now) or Lolpandas or some other animal (though I must admit that cats can be the silliest and most expressive of the animals but then again, I'm a cat person).

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The Franchise King — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:31:52 -0000

Ann,
I am a Dog dude. Had a cat. I don't like their tude. Of course, they are easier to have as pets, cuz they do their own thang.

If their was a site like the Cheezburger one for dogs, I would probably frequent it as a respite for the everyday ups and down of life.

Anyway, great writing. {as usual}

Now, back to MY funky mood.

RUFF.

Joel Libava

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Larissa Gaston — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:18:49 -0000

I think feeling melancholy during the holidays is normal. It's okay to miss people we love - we love them after all.:)

I've personally never gotten into LOLcats, but "He said he would meet me."...that one hurt (sniff).

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Shelley — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:59:19 -0000

Note to self: Don't send Blaire to Ann's blog again... ;]

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Nedra — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:11:51 -0000

Though I never much got into the LOLcats thing, my guilty pleasure is its sister site the Fail Blog (failblog.org), which points out the absurdities of life (and often of marketers). Guaranteed to make you laugh if you get tired of cats.

BTW, that last pic was apparently miscategorized and clearly should have been in the lolsealz site. :-)

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Leah — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:24:32 -0000

I think I might be the lone voice of dissention, but I do enjoy the holidays. Winter's my favorite season (strange and unnatural, yes, I know, I've heard) because I love staying in with a cuppa cocoa and a movie or hitting the ski slopes or snowmobile trails equally.

Until this year, my Christmases were simple (because I was living happily at home and still in school). Then my boyfriend's parents got divorced, and mine just did this past June. Last Christmas morning, my mom welled up and said that it was the last Christmas we'd all have together because I was planning to move out in the summer/fall. Now I know it's the last we had as a single family unit in the house I've lived in since 7th grade.

So as much as I've loved the holidays in the past, it's going to be difficult this year. Given all that, though, I'm doing my best to remain cheerful and hopeful that the Christmas season is more than just family drama, but a time to celebrate what we have and be glad. I dare you to listen to the music from The Nutcracker ballet and try not to dance. It's much harder than it seems!

And on a happier note, there's nothing better on a Monday morning than an RSS reader full of LOLcats, LOLdogs, Pundit Kitchen (that's the government one, with a happily liberal slant), and ROFLrazzi (the celebrity site, generally formatted like the motivational posters found in offices everywhere). The Cheezburger family of sites makes me smile like an idiot, and that's just what I need sometimes.

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Michelle / chelpixie — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:00:40 -0000

Giggling and awwwwing.

Indeed this day on particular, it's good to laugh and good to remember, but especially good to realize that being vulnerable to sadness and hurt makes us human. There's love that goes along with being human that we're lucky to experience.

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Kirk Petersen — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:52:01 -0000

I'm astonished by how many commenters say they have never seen LOLcats before.

My favorite was "Her eyes not down here."

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David Niall Wilson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:36:34 -0000

I believe that Lolcats are probably the single most ingenious development on the Internet. Think about it. When web pages (personal pages) first proliferated, the biggest complaint was that everyone put up their "My Cat Fluffy" pages and clogged the bandwidth and search engines.

Now, decades later, not only are they still hogging bandwidth, but they have their own site, an international following, and are almost the only consistently funny "watering hole" on the net. I have literally fallen out of my chair laughing at some of them and...I have contributed. I have made (to date) over 80 lolcats, and will continue to make them because they make others smile, and I like that:

You can view my lolcats at:

DIS PLACE

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Blaire — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:16:45 -0000

As a recovering social worker, I can tell you that the holidays were our biggest nightmare. Suicide, child abuse, domestic violence, all of it skyrocketed starting in late November. And you want to know why? Because people watch Miracle on 34th Street like its a documentary. They stare longinly at the pictures on Christmas cards and believe that those families are real. (You know the ones with the glistening perfectly browned turkeys and smiling grandmas and adoring siblings.) Now I realize that I should be using this space to tell Ann that her post was brilliant (and it was) but instead I am going to give in to my social worker compulsion to save everyone from holiday hell.
Please, I beg all of you who get depressed this time of year to listen to me carefully.
1. I promise you, cross my heart, that not one of those families are real. Not the ones on cards, not the ones in movies and not the ones in Touched by an Angel. They are fake. They are airbrushed just like the models with no cellulite. To compare your life to theirs and come up wanting is like measuring your swimming skills against a mermaid. Say it with me "THEY ARE NOT REAL." These are manufactured images designed to make me go buy more stuff to try to reach a nirvana that does not exist. I promise.

2. Tell everyone and I mean everyone in your life that in an effort to reduce your carbon footprint or to do your part against the recession, you are ONLY accepting donations of catfood/dogfood to the local animal shelter as gifts this year. NO exceptions. Do you know how good it feels to have the shelter send you a thank you card for fifty pounds of dry catfood sent in your name? You'll be wishing Christmas was every month.

3. You must rage against the dying light. Hold a
hawaiian luau party. Throw a Mexican fiesta. Have a party where everyone has to wear a bridesmaid dress so that they can get a second use out of that peach cobbler fluff pair of shoes. Call it the "Anti Christmas Christmas Party" and you will be shocked at the number of people who show up at your house and wont leave. They hate Christas too.

4.Do NOT let hallmark or any other corporate entity manipulate your emotions. Every time you see one of those commercials, cards, pictures, etc.. just repeat the words of Emerson outloud "That is TOTAL bullshit, most people live lives of quiet desperation." (loose quote)

4. Winter is sad, summer is not. Go right now to the tanning bed and throw caution to the wind. Get some wrinkles. Trust me, it's just not possible to be depressed with a tan.

I could go on but I accept that this is a comment section and I have overstepped my boundaries.
Anne, you made us laugh and that is the ultimate weapon against the holidays. Good job.

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Claudia — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:14:33 -0000

Ann,
Once again, you use humour as a direct connector between you and us, at least me, to deeper emotions. It acts like a "magic opener". You give to see beauty, in you (so much!) and us. Did you ever think about becoming a dentist?? !

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Becky Mochaface — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:22:08 -0000

I love that site! While I do like the cheezburger pics, I agree it is the ones that have more feeling and depth to it that I'm most drawn to.

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Christian Gulliksen — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:17:25 -0000

At first I thought you were making this up. Swear to god.

These lolcat people kind of scare me.

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Gavin Heaton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:09:03 -0000

You are such a great storyteller, Ann! But that is exactly what draws us to lolcats ... it is the space between what we see before our eyes and the short word stories that let us enter a different world.

That's what it is like here ... Ann's world. And when you share this with everyone, it reminds us of our own lives, our own tragedies and triumphs. And in that gift, the space between us all shrinks just a little bit more ;)