Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Lolcat/Megafaunal splice

This week, we take Lolmammothz in a new direction. The fundamental problem with creating new lolmammothz is that their creator is not really au fait with lolcat parlance: in the absence of standardised lolcat tropes (well, apart from that fluffy juvenile animal + illiteracy = amusement (apparently)), it's actually quite hard to generate a lolcat without a lolcat, if you see what I mean - the cat actually turns out to be the limiting factor.

So. We're going to try something new. I take a randomly generated lolcat from the interweb, and then I reconstruct it with the aid of a helpful megafauna. Today we're showcasing Dinotherium, also known as the terrible beast or hoetusker(no jokes please), the third largest land mammal ever to have existed, with an estimated weight of between five and ten metric tonnes, with a height of 3.5-4.5 metres. That's quite big. Their range covered Asia, Africa, and Europe. And that's just when they sat down (bah-dum-dum-tish!). Very sadly, they became extinct between 4-2 mya. According to a Nature article I once read, much debate surrounds the functionality of their downward-curving tusks, but I am happy to be able to clear this up once and for all by confirming that the tusk was actually used to go through your underwear.

So. Lolcat.
Lolcat courtesy of blog.totalvid.com



Lolmammoth (or rather, Loldinotherium)




What do you think, does it work? Positive feedback only, or you might just find a Dinotherium in your underwear drawer.

1 comment:

  1. Positive feedback only, hmm? So you can dish it out but you can't take it?

    This made me laugh.

    x

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