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    <title type="text">Culture Making Articles items tagged tragedy</title>
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      <title>LOLCat&#45;tharsis</title>
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			<b><p>Nate</p>: </b><em>?Wait, the dogs in New Yorker cartoons aren't just dogs that have gotten smart by reading the New Yorker??</em><br />

<div class="author" style="font-size: -1">"<a href="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/the-tragedy-of-the-lolcats/">The Tragedy of the LOLcats</a>," a <a href="http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/the-tragedy-of-the-lolcats/">NYTimes.com Ideas Blog</a> post, 17 November 2008</div><hr />		
		<p><b>Internet |</b> The meaning of LOLcats, <a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/15/pathos_lolcats/index.html">explained</a> by a Psychology Today editor: “Just as the dogs in the New Yorker cartoons don’t represent actual dogs, these cats don’t represent cats at all, but people. By using cats, <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/">icanhascheezburger</a> can access themes more tragic and poignant than it could using people.”&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/15/pathos_lolcats/index.html">Salon</a>]</p>
		
	
			
			
			

		
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