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Hey, some of you guys might find this of help when creating lolcats:

"These images usually consist of a photo of a cat with a large caption characteristically formatted in an uppercase sans serif font such as Impact or Arial Black.[9]
The image is, on occasion, digitally edited for effect. The caption generally acts as a speech balloon encompassing a comment from the cat, or as a description of the depicted scene. The caption is intentionally written with deviations from standard English spelling and syntax,[9] featuring "strangely-conjugated verbs, but [a tendency] to converge to a new set of rules in spelling and grammar."
[10] These altered rules of English have been referred to as a type of pidgin[9] or baby talk.[11] The text parodies the grammar-poor patois stereotypically attributed to Internet slang.
Frequently, lolcat captions take the form of snowclones in which nouns and verbs are replaced in a phrase.[11]
Some phrases have a known source[12] while others seem to be specific to the lolcat form.
Common themes include jokes of the form "Im in ur noun, verb-ing ur related noun."[6] "I has a noun" pictures show a cat in possession of an object while "Invisible noun" show pictures of cats apparently interacting with said invisible object.[6]
"My noun, let me show you it/them" pictures are accompanied by cats apparently presenting or offering an object. Another common lolcat displays a cat with a specific look, which is described by adjective, and the text, "adjective cat is not amused"[citation needed] or "Your offering pleases adjective cat." A version of this is also stated as "adjective cat is adjective." "

From wikipedia, duh.
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If you disrespect your character, or play it just for laughs, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique.
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Cats are sooo funny.
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I'm not sure which I love more, the LOL Cats or the fact that manly Dave Buckman loves them so much.
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Alternate: Mmmm, Cheney poo smel gud on fingr.
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