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They get the last LOL

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There’s been a certain amount of hatin’ on the lolcats lately. But check out this Business Week article on blogs that make money (Cheezburger is the third one in the slideshow). BW estimates Cheezburger is pulling in $5,600 a month in ad revenue.

Now, that’s not a spectacular amount of scratch for the big blogs (witness some of the others on the list), but Cheezburger only started in January of this year. And it’s entirely driven by user submission. Who’s LOLing now?

My promise to you, my faithful minions: I will never sell out. Not unless I really, really need the money.

Comments


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: July 19, 2007, 5:25 pm

Man are we ever in the wrong business.


Comment from Lokki
Time: July 19, 2007, 5:32 pm

I no can haz fame & fortune?


Comment from whitishrabbit
Time: July 19, 2007, 5:43 pm

Pfft. Just a bunch of pussies.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 19, 2007, 6:23 pm

lolcatbutthole.jpg


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: July 19, 2007, 7:21 pm

$5600/mo will put the rug-rat thru prep school or pay for that really hot mistress – y’know, the one you’ve always wanted? IMHO, that is officially NOT chicken feed.

Is that the cat you air-started the other day, Weas?


Comment from whitishrabbit
Time: July 19, 2007, 7:23 pm

I sure hope he’s talkin about air-puffing.


Comment from Gnus
Time: July 19, 2007, 9:14 pm

For $5600/mo I’d puff-start a cat several times a day.

McGoo, how ya doing?


Comment from Paul Sunstone
Time: July 20, 2007, 4:25 am

Glad you’re not going to sell out, Weas. The blogosphere needs more people with your integrity. You’re an inspiration to all of us!

This comment brought to you by the Acme Latex Love Doll Corp. Proud sponsors of all of Sunstone’s comments.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 20, 2007, 5:43 am

Paul Sunstone! It sounds like somebody’s secret identity. Is it real?

I knew a woman who changed her last name to Thunder. And another one who changed her last name to Startling. They had really ordinary first names, which made it funnier. I’d tell you what they were, but I just discovered both women are Googlable.

Small internet.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: July 20, 2007, 7:49 am

Gnus,

Doin’ ok. Tired of opiates. Trying to find chairs that are comfortable – for the next 4 weeks. Thx for asking.

Also tryin’ to catch up/keep up with Weasel & Co.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 20, 2007, 8:47 am

Tired of opiates! -=THUD=-


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: July 20, 2007, 9:15 am

Well, I’ve already had discussions with the houseplants vis-a-vis the other household appliances, and ceiling fans – one, anyway – vis-a-vis viet nam, and I’m getting tired of listening to the Doors – even though none is in the stereo system at the moment.

“Acme Latex Love Doll Corp.” – now this is a company a man can get behind. Or in front of. Or any position he wants.

Wasn’t there a love-doll water race or sumpin somewhere? You had to use your love-doll as a boat or flotation device.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 20, 2007, 9:18 am

Oh, dear. I remember that. The thing about the love-doll lady is, she always looks so surprised. Like that Home Alone kid.


Comment from Gnus
Time: July 20, 2007, 10:54 am

Didn’t one of the contestants get disqualified for using his doll as something more than a flotation device? Lost his errr… grip, or something.

Any fool knows cold water will do that.


Comment from jwpaine
Time: July 20, 2007, 1:13 pm

I still remember the text I saw in an ad in Hustler magazine about a zillion years ago for one of those Suzy Creamcheese inflatable love-dolls:

“Lick me, suck me, fuck me–but respect me!”


Comment from Paul Sunstone
Time: July 20, 2007, 3:40 pm

Shrewd Weasel! “Paul Sunstone” is indeed my secret identity. Please tell no one of this!

McGoo, I believe you’re thinking of the 2005 Great Lakes Bangathon in which the Acme Love Doll Model #1085 (the model with the self-flaring nostrils) was paddled to victory by Steven Thork and later married.


Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: July 20, 2007, 4:41 pm

I don’t know why but the LOLCats crack me up. It just works for some really weird reason.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 20, 2007, 5:48 pm

Yes, the lolcats crack me up, too. The good ones, anyhow. And it’s so frustrating: I’m sitting on a giant pile of cat pictures and I can’t for the life of me write funny lolcat captions. I’ve tried. Whatever it takes, I haven’t got it.

This makes me sad 🙁


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: July 20, 2007, 6:33 pm

That’s the very one, Paul! Thanks.

They don’t make ’em like the ol’ ’85 anymore.


Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: July 20, 2007, 11:14 pm

I think its that I could imagine a cat typing something like that. Thinking they are all clever but barely able to manage the language and coming across goofy.


Comment from stevo
Time: July 21, 2007, 4:07 pm

I believe lolcats is another indication that society as we know it is about to crumble. lolcats + lingerie football + backyard wresting ppv = Roman-like societal death.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 21, 2007, 5:05 pm

Oooh, stevo — another blog from China. I love those…

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