Cheezburger in Paradyze

First, I would like to admit that I had a naughty dream about David Cook last night. This was my third one. I have problems well beyond yesterday's post.

Now that that's off my chest, I wanted to share a bizarre internet phenomenon I discovered today.

Is anyone familiar with the site icanhascheezburger.com? They have pictures of cats and things with "funny" captions. I see these images all over Facebook and MySpace and never knew where they came from. But apparently there is a depository at icanhascheezburger.

Now, I totally get why someone would want to have a picture of a cat with a slogan. I remember the "Hang In There" poster from the guidance counselor's office as well as anyone. But what I don't understand is why all these slogans are grossly misspelled.

Maybe I'm not the demo, but I really don't get why something is funnier if it is spelled weird. Anyone?

The pimped spelling is called "LOLspeak," which leads me to believe its origin is based in text messaging. But as a die-hard T9 user, text messaging has actually made me a better speller. You can only spell tomorrow with one r so many times before wanting to throw your phone out the window.

But maybe the Gossip Girl generation can't be bothered to use T9 to learn how to spell. Maybe it's cool to jack up the English language. Maybe running spellcheck on my email makes me a tool. I am really at a loss.

I stumbled across a terrible movie the other day called Idiocracy. It's about the future. Everyone is an idiot, Starbucks peddles hand-jobs, and everything is misspelled. I think icanhascheezburger is the beginning of the end.