Soda company to put LOLcats on bottle labels

MSN.com ^ | April 14, 2008 | Daniel Terdiman

[stylecouncilor]

I can has a break?

OK. I love Icanhascheezburger.com, and LOLcats in general, as much as the next guy. Truly. I have spent hours, in aggregate, laughing myself to tears on the site.

But when I ran across an item on the site on Tuesday morning announcing that it is teaming up with the trendy micro-soda company Jones Soda to run a contest to put LOLcats labels for root beer and other flavor sodas, I had to ask myself if someone was maybe huffing a little too much catnip.

LOLcats, of course, are the whimsical combinations of silly pidgin English phrases and funny pictures of cats or other animals. And Icanhascheezburger.com is the lion in the LOLcat kingdom. And I even think Jones soda can be pretty good.

The two outfits are teaming to find the highest vote-getting LOLcats in a special contest, the top five of which will adorn special bottles of the soda.

But I just don't quite see the connection between LOLcats and the soda buying community. It's not that I don't think that a lot of people who buy Jones soda also enjoy LOLcats. It's just that I'm not sure how well they translate onto a soda label. It would be one thing if the LOLcat choices were specifically about soda in some way, but because they're going to be the top-five vote-getting choices from Icanhascheezburger.com's contest, they will likely be about walruses without buckets, or tigers pretending to be monorails.

[LongElegantLegs]

[RepublitarianRoger2]

OK, thanks. I’ve seen those cat pictures around but never knew the origins. They’re mildly amusing.

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<img src=”http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/funny-pictures-caterpillar-cat-butterfly.jpg";

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[Tennessee_Bob]

[Yorlik803]

whenever I have a bad day, I look at the LOLcats...it always puts a smile on my face

[jy8z]

If they put the oldies on there, it’s going to get tired very fast.

[RikaStrom]

here you go

[RikaStrom]

That is my absolute favorite LOLcat. I printed it out and have it posted in my office.

[The SISU kid]

Feline ping....

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[Arrowhead1952]

Kittie thread ping.

[CAluvdubya]

Iz ready for Miz Fields cookies!

[JoJo Gunn]

Basically, you take a picture of a cat and type like an AOL’er over it. It’s a real knee-slapper for about, oh, say 5 seconds?

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking.

[DeLaine]

[Lady Jag]

IT WON'T WORK.

[Slings and Arrows]

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[KoRn]

ROFL!!!!!!