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	<title>Comments on: Image Macros:  Intro to LOL Cats</title>
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		<title>By: lasina</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5233/comment-page-1#comment-126314</link>
		<dc:creator>lasina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the cats are like LOL to me and i love cats bt i kill them fun and eat them! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the cats are like LOL to me and i love cats bt i kill them fun and eat them! :)</p>
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		<title>By: Stephen</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5233/comment-page-1#comment-45748</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t forget the lolruses! :)

hamsterinthewheel.com/fatalfury/walrus-bucket/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t forget the lolruses! :)</p>
<p>hamsterinthewheel.com/fatalfury/walrus-bucket/</p>
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		<title>By: emby,mollusc,bethbee and caz</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5233/comment-page-1#comment-40526</link>
		<dc:creator>emby,mollusc,bethbee and caz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>EMBY: da mew is a mew is a mew is amew is a mew is ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew! arnie isv a mew baby and she mews all day and poos all night YAYAY!
MOLLUSC:Monorail cat...FULL SPEED AHEAD!
BETHBEE:Cute Mews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CAZ:...Im surrounded by weirdos!!!!!
cool catz</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EMBY: da mew is a mew is a mew is amew is a mew is ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew! arnie isv a mew baby and she mews all day and poos all night YAYAY!<br />
MOLLUSC:Monorail cat&#8230;FULL SPEED AHEAD!<br />
BETHBEE:Cute Mews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
CAZ:&#8230;Im surrounded by weirdos!!!!!<br />
cool catz</p>
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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5233/comment-page-1#comment-25988</link>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>omg i love the fix it one! its so cute!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>omg i love the fix it one! its so cute!</p>
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		<title>By: trinlayk</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5233/comment-page-1#comment-22121</link>
		<dc:creator>trinlayk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and the 4chan /b/ guys stole the photos from other people violating THEIR copyrights... 

Slapping a caption on a photo is not enough of a change to transmit the ownership. 

If it&#039;s not YOUR photo, be sure to get PERMISSION from the photographer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and the 4chan /b/ guys stole the photos from other people violating THEIR copyrights&#8230; </p>
<p>Slapping a caption on a photo is not enough of a change to transmit the ownership. </p>
<p>If it&#8217;s not YOUR photo, be sure to get PERMISSION from the photographer.</p>
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		<title>By: B</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5233/comment-page-1#comment-16006</link>
		<dc:creator>B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow...Be careful where you give credit because the credit for the vast majority of these photos goes to 4chan. More specifically the /b/ forum on 4chan, and those guys don&#039;t take it lightly when people take credit for their creations. 

For those that don&#039;t know, 4chan is an imageboard where users are NOT required to register or provide any personal details. They have many forums, but by far the most popular is the /b/ forum which is currently sitting around 30,000,000 posts.

Anyway, back to the cat issue, almost all of these images (from my experience I&#039;d say 70-90% of them) came from there (as well as many other popular internet memes) where its tradition to post &quot;Caturday&quot; pictures every Saturday. 

If you are easily offended by ANYTHING, do not go there. There are no rules (other than anything that breaks laws like child porn or terrorist threats), and mixing that with anonimity has created a beast with no shame that can and does post the most horrid stuff you can imagine.

As for the part to be weary about, they are prone to &quot;raid&quot; websites that use their creations without credit. For instance subeta.com started using a version of &quot;longcat&quot; on their avatars and thus started a very long attack on their web servers that brought down the site multiple times and cost the site a lot money in extra bandwidth fees from their provider. The users have also spawned multiple spinoff sites such as 7chan and 420chan that also participate in the &quot;raids&quot;.

For more info read here: 
wikipedias article on 4chan and the /b/ forum.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow&#8230;Be careful where you give credit because the credit for the vast majority of these photos goes to 4chan. More specifically the /b/ forum on 4chan, and those guys don&#8217;t take it lightly when people take credit for their creations. </p>
<p>For those that don&#8217;t know, 4chan is an imageboard where users are NOT required to register or provide any personal details. They have many forums, but by far the most popular is the /b/ forum which is currently sitting around 30,000,000 posts.</p>
<p>Anyway, back to the cat issue, almost all of these images (from my experience I&#8217;d say 70-90% of them) came from there (as well as many other popular internet memes) where its tradition to post &#8220;Caturday&#8221; pictures every Saturday. </p>
<p>If you are easily offended by ANYTHING, do not go there. There are no rules (other than anything that breaks laws like child porn or terrorist threats), and mixing that with anonimity has created a beast with no shame that can and does post the most horrid stuff you can imagine.</p>
<p>As for the part to be weary about, they are prone to &#8220;raid&#8221; websites that use their creations without credit. For instance subeta.com started using a version of &#8220;longcat&#8221; on their avatars and thus started a very long attack on their web servers that brought down the site multiple times and cost the site a lot money in extra bandwidth fees from their provider. The users have also spawned multiple spinoff sites such as 7chan and 420chan that also participate in the &#8220;raids&#8221;.</p>
<p>For more info read here:<br />
wikipedias article on 4chan and the /b/ forum.</p>
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		<title>By: tommy</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5233/comment-page-1#comment-10679</link>
		<dc:creator>tommy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ceiling cat is definitely the funniest.  I think he watches me!</description>
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		<title>By: gosha</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5233/comment-page-1#comment-10651</link>
		<dc:creator>gosha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The one with the fridge and the foodz is the best, but the ceiling cat and the invisible bike are pretty good too. Genius.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The one with the fridge and the foodz is the best, but the ceiling cat and the invisible bike are pretty good too. Genius.</p>
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		<title>By: phil</title>
		<link>http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/5233/comment-page-1#comment-10643</link>
		<dc:creator>phil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;ll find a huge number of these if you do a search on &quot;harbl&quot;. Also, there&#039;s an enormous number of examples built around the &quot;I&#039;m in your aaa, bbb-ing your ccc&quot;. As for the fractured English, I think it&#039;s just that pets don&#039;t have a real firm grasp of spelling and grammar.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;ll find a huge number of these if you do a search on &#8220;harbl&#8221;. Also, there&#8217;s an enormous number of examples built around the &#8220;I&#8217;m in your aaa, bbb-ing your ccc&#8221;. As for the fractured English, I think it&#8217;s just that pets don&#8217;t have a real firm grasp of spelling and grammar.</p>
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