Category: funny

If you like checking out sites that feature interesting or humourous pictures, chances are you’ve stumbled across this photo:

Click to see the photo on its source page.

I’ve always wondered what was going in the photo — often captioned in LOLcat-ese with something like “TIEM TO VACUME TEH KITTYNUTS” — and who took it. I had no idea that it was an award-winning photo:

La Shinda Clark, photographer at The Philadelphia Inquirer and 1995 Scholar, won third place for feature photos in the National Press Photographers Association 2003 Best of Photojournalism contest. In the photo, volunteer Cameron Tarzwell, 13, cleans loose hair that has been shaved from an anesthetized cat, Princess, in preparation for an operation. Tarzwell has been assisting a veterinarian for four years. The photo was one in a picture story on a spaying and neutering program in Chester County in Pennsylvania.

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Recommended Reading

• You can see more Giada di Laurentiis in my article featuring a photo shoot for Esquire.
• I also have a Nigella Lawson post, if that your thing.

It was bound to happen: having been translated into just about every living human language, it’s time to translate it into LOLcat-speak:

Photo created by Ted “Not a Blog” Stoltz.
Click the photo to see it on its original page.

The Internet’s Powers That Be reserved the domain names example.com, example.net and example.org for use in documentation, instructional manuals and the like as example domain names. If you visit them, you’ll get a terse matter-of-fact explanation of what those domains is for on an otherwise blank page.

At Tucows — the company where I hold the position of Technical Evangelist — we prefer to use the domain catmas.com as our example domain, and rather than use it to house a dull mostly-empty page, we take advantage of the fact that one of the Internet’s raisons d’etre is for sharing funny pictures of cats.

Catmas.com has been neglected for the past few months, but I’ve decided to give it a little jolt by publishing cat pictures on it on a more regular basis. If you ever need to use an example website or are jonesing for a cat picture fix, Catmas.com is there to help.

Pair these jeans with Chuck Norris toilet paper, and you’ve got the perfect Chuck Norris-themed present!

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.