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Throughout the week, I’ve looked at Image Macros: Intro to LOL Cats, “Invisible” LOL Cats, “I Can Has Cheezburger?” LOL Cats, and I’m in Your X, Y’ing Your Z. Today the series wraps up with some unusual Image Macros that have caught my eye.
“Bucket” Image Macros are based on this deeply evocative two-panel image:
It loses a bit when scaled down like this — check out a larger image at ihasabucket.com. (You know you’ve got a successful Image Macro when your entire site is just the image.) Also note that “Bucket” Image Macros are sometimes called “LOLrus” after the walrus (sea lion?) in this image.
More unusual (and awesome) Image Macros after the jump.
Pictured at left is a true Image Macro, from the Wikipedia page on Image Macros — this is the ROFL Waffle. This image can be used in place of a typical text-based “ROFL” (Rolling On [the] Floor Laughing) text reply, to liven things up. Also recommended for waffle fans. (See also: Waffle House Fun Facts.)
Do Not Want is a genre of Image Macros based on incorrect subtitles in a pirated DVD version of Star Wars: Episode III (read the whole, long story) — in a scene where Darth Vader yells “Nooooo!” the DVD subtitles read: “Do not want.” Animals seem not to want lots of things, most notably fruits and vegetables. Here are some examples:
Relevant to My Interests has something to do with animals posting on web forums. (I’d like to see which forums are truly relevant to their interests, actually.) See:
And, finally, here’s a treat. Fine Art Image Macros add text to famous paintings for a bizarre cross-century artistic mashup. For example:
Okay, one more, which seems to somehow tie all this together. Historical Image Macros:
Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed this week of Image Macros — I sure have! Special thanks to all those who created these images…whoever you are.
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Maybe it’s just my passion for all things cat, but I’ve had the cat that says “I made you a cookie, but I eated it” hanging over my desk for about 6 months now.
posted by Johnny Cat on 4-20-2007 at 10:55 am
i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/keenertrain/halt.jpg
I like this one a lot.
posted by Jeremiah on 4-20-2007 at 12:04 pm
I had a hunch from yesterday’s post that you would feature the walrus today… that’s my favorite of all!
posted by Miss Cellania on 4-20-2007 at 12:54 pm
With the possible exception of the huge manatee.
posted by Miss Cellania on 4-20-2007 at 12:55 pm
There’s a huge manatee? I gotta get Googlin’!
posted by Higgins on 4-20-2007 at 6:26 pm
These are highly amusing, thanks for sharing these with us guys!
There’s a picture that I found (I forgot where) that was inspired by the “I has cheesburger” macros. It has a cartoon character giving another cartoon character a frilly paper heart saying “I has love. Now you can has love, too. Is gift.” It popped into my head the second I saw the macros here.
posted by heather on 4-20-2007 at 10:49 pm
A lot of these images come from the forums at 4chan. macrochan.org has the ultimate collection of them; the “browse” feature there has a complete and totally amazing taxonomy of all of them.
posted by Undertoad on 4-21-2007 at 10:16 am
I just read Grant Morrison’s WE3 comic books and the cyborg animals in it actually talk like that, “Boss fix tail”, “Gud man say! ‘Wait!’ 4 man.” “4 feet gud, 2 feet badd” Oops, wrong story…
posted by Marie on 4-23-2007 at 3:57 pm
Ha, thanks for the mad linkage, this made a huge spike of hits when it was posted :D
posted by Rob on 4-26-2007 at 11:07 pm
The animal with the bucket is a female elephant seal, not a walrus.
posted by bryn on 10-15-2007 at 10:10 am
this rocks
posted by david on 2-8-2008 at 8:47 am