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LOLcat Fever Sweeps the Internet

A new form of entertainment and communication currently sweeping the Internet is simple, funny and mind-numbing. It's called "lolcats," or images of cats with poor, grammatically-unsound exclamations attached to them, reports Globe and Mail. For example, one cat exclaims, "IM IN UR FRIDGE EATIN UR FOODZ."

Arguably the most famous involves a cat asking, "I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?," an irreverent question that also serves as the URL for a site at which users submit similar such photos.

The source of the "lolcats" phenomenon is the ease of user participation - anyone with a camera and a cat can participate - coupled with the humor. Dubbed "kitty pidgin," it has spun off to pictures of walruses, Star Trek and George W. Bush ("I HAS A BUDGET?").

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