ZOMG MySpace vs iTunes

You acknowledge the post was comprised of sub standard communication used by inept twits and teens (I'm paraphrasing here) yet you make fun of the adults who didn't understand it? It was amusing at best, but the humor was lost on the core audience. Not all jokes hit their mark, oh well. Though this post, really hit the mark on creating a dialog.

By the way, what is LOL cats?

Well, my point is that youth culture always has its own language. Whether you were a teenager in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, or 21st century, there's a lingo that you share with your peers that exists solely to make adults shake their heads and look at you as if you're from outer space.

And then we adopt half of those words and their spellings into our common language.

Don't be surprised if in 30 years, we're all saying "realz" instead of "for real."

And to answer your question: LOLcats are the odd Internet phenomenon in which pictures of cats are captioned with a language that has been dubbed "kitty pidgin" so that it appears the cats are saying something cute and relevant to the image. An example would include a cat looking hopeful, with the caption, "I can haz cheezburger?"

It started on 4chan (a very odd website in the first place) and spread from there. It's actually quite an old phenomenon (in Internet terms, meaning about 10 years), and some claim they were doing it in newsgroups before it became common on 4chan, though the person responsible for starting it has yet to be tracked down (and beaten).

Come on, guys! I'm in my late 30s, and I know about it! Do you only frequent the Wall Street Journal and SophisticatedLaceDoilies.com or are you actually on the Internet for any length of time?

It's actually winding down now. The charm has worn off, and so Erica-- and others-- use the combination of kitty pidgin and txtchat (or whatever you want to call the abbreviated English kids use on their mobile phones when text messaging each other) to "take the piss out of them". as the Britons say.

Now, using that when you're not a member of that community is a way to underline that people like that make us crazy, and that the Internet is a source of much madness and stupidity.

And hey-- My generation had such gems as "Gag me with a spoon" -- We all have our embarrassing generational lingo.

Twenty-three skidoo!