It’s Caturday, the best day of the week!
According to the infamous Urban Dictionary, cats will fall from the sky and you’ll receive a thousand sandpaper kisses.
Though Wikipedia seems not to have a Caturday page, it describes the Caturday Internet meme on the Lolcat page:
The first recorded use of the term “lolcat” is from the anonymous imageboard 4chan circa 2005. The word “Lolcat” is attested as early as June 2006, and the domain name “LOLcats.com” was registered on June 14, 2006. Their popularity was spread through usage on forums such as Something Awful. The News Journal states that “some trace the lolcats back to the site 4chan, which features bizarre cat pictures on Saturdays, or ‘Caturdays’.” Ikenburg adds that the images have been “slinking around the Internet for years under various labels, but they did not become a sensation until early 2007 with the advent of I Can Has Cheezburger?” The first image on “I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?” was posted on January 11, 2007, and was allegedly from the Something Awful website.” Lev Grossman of Time wrote that the oldest known example “probably dates to 2006,” but later corrected himself in a blog post where he recapitulated the anecdotal evidence readers had sent him, placing the origin of “Caturday” and many of the images now known by a few as “lolcats” in early 2005. The domain name “caturday.com” was registered on April 30, 2005.
There’s even a Russian version of Lolcats (with English translations below each picture) at lolkot.ru.
From Neatorama is this little blurb for their Cat Butts Magnet Set, for $10.95:
This is probably one of the strangest products we carry on the NeatoShop (and believe me, we carry a lot of strange stuff). Behold, the Cat Butts Magnet Set, a pack of 5 refrigerator magnets with pictures of felines from the non-cute end. It’s probably the perfect WTF gift for the cat lover in your life: Link
But wait, there’s more cat cuteness!
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