ROFLgeddon

[liv]

Over at Making Light: LOLcatz in ur canon, pastichin ur potry. Some highlights from a long and hilarious thread:

Abi's original sonnet which started the game

Heresiarch's meta joke

Xopher's LOLhaiku

Kathryn's LOLcreation

Eric's ultra-abridged Kubla Khan

Abi again with P&P

Kathryn again with hypertext poetry

Heresiarch lives up to his handle with the LOLiad

Eris' utlra-abridged Grecian Urn

Abi's zombie kittehs

Abi's poetic commentary on the thread

Elise's paired translations (you need to read both her consecutive comments for the effect) into LOLcat and text adventure. So beautiful that they inspired me to look read the original poem, which turns out to be Edna St Vincent Millay.

nwhepcat's TS Eliot

But seriously, if you have many hours to spare, read the whole thread, it's fantastic.

I tried my hand at a couple too, and I'm putting them here mainly so that I can find them again easily in future. Read behind the cut if you want to see attempting to be witty in LOLcat verse. MasefLOLd:

o hai
i in ur nineveh qnqrme
i can has woodz
n elefanz teef
(S010m0n bilded u a tmpl
but monkees eated it)
board now
afk bo0ze

o hai
jo en ur barco
i can has j00ls
n $$
board now
afk sunb4thin

o hai
i in ur tramp st34m3r
i can has tr4sh
n d1rtz
(my chimnee iz pazted on yey)
board now
lol

And McgonaLOL:

o hai 1879
i in ur Scotland, ur friendly LOLfeline
LOL! Bridge shiny! River shiny too!
i can haz train? Choo-choo!
O NOES!!!1!! fateful day
invisible bridge! DO NOT WANT! peeps 4eva afk

invisible scansion, visible rhyme.
remembering kitteh remembers long time.
mah kitteh feetz needin support eg from buttresses
mah syllables needin work on stresses.
pastichin stanzas n stanzas n stanzas of similar stuff
o rly? no wai, srsly, STFU, enuff!

I'm really feeling I ought to write some real poetry now, if only to convince myself (and the Making Light crew if I come up with something of exceptionally high quality) that I can in fact scan when I put my mind to it.

Comments

[darcydodo]

You get props strictly for the brilliant contrivance of "McgonaLOL." Discussion question: does lolcat style perhaps actually improve McGonagall's poetry?

[liv]

Thanks, I'm glad at least part of it was funny. And I probably have improved the original a bit, it's almost impossible to scan quite as badly as Mcgonagall does.