Unused and Probably Unusable

I didn't want to go down this road. Like most folks interested in language and linguistics, I read Language Log, and like most folks aware of internet memes, I'd visited I Can Has Cheezburger, which was first discussed on LL in a post titled Kitty Pidgin and Asymmetrical Tail-wags. As discussed, LOLcats involve image macros, i.e. pictures of [cats] with text that fits a meme or macro overlaid. Text of the form "I can has X?" or "I'm in your X, Ying your Z" or whatever. Only spelled worse, and with bad grammar. Intentional misspellings and bad syntax, that is. Engrish and worse. See the useful wikipedia page on Lolcats for more information.

Anyway... it didn't stop at cats. As Mark Liberman of LL recently pointed out, there are PhiLOLsophers. There's pictures out there of any given cute or uncute thing, with images of the same sort overlaid.

And... I had to jump in.

Here follow my contributions. Is it LOLlaw? LOLlawyers? Or can someone come up with something better?

The best three first, and then one that didn't come out as well. Click for larger versions. No rights reserved. Please credit Unused & Probably Unusable.

A local Philly piece of history:


From Hamdan v. Rumsfeld:


Thurgood Marshall on the steps:


And the first version of the above, with a different caption:


All images made with ROFLbot, http://wigflip.com/roflbot/.