Broadening our LOLniverse
Sep 22nd, 2008 by Waffles
We all are familiar with my favorite internet meme, LOLcats. Whether or not you call pronounce it to rhyme with “polecats” or spell out the “el-oh-el”, they are cute, funny, and, um, cute.
I want to share my collection of sci-fi related LOLs with you, too. Check these babies out:
LOLtrek
First of all, check this out when you get a chance. Someone took the TOS episode “Trouble with Tribbles” and LOL’d it.
And finally, ending the way EVERY episode of the original series ended:
LOLwho
Some of these aren’t as funny, but they’re appreciated anyway.
LOLbsg
I’m not actually sure what this genre is called, but it is the LOLized Battlestar Galactica.
I’m not entirely sure why there is a Cyberman in the corner, but I can only assume someone who isn’t familiar with Doctor Who thought it was an old-school Cylon. After all, there is a big “C” on the chest.
And my personal favorite…
Thanks to all of you who created these, and to all the websites I ripped the pictures off of.
Do you have any favorites? LOLBuffy? LOLRed Dwarf? Please post them in comments.
This reminds me: Because of my organic chemistry class I’ve learned that the Cylon baseships are in the shape of the staggered conformational isomer of ethane, C2H6:
This is the stablest conformation of ethane, since it maximizes the angle between the mutually repulsive H’s. (What’s interesting is that apparently the precise cause of that repulsion is a matter of dispute.) Perhaps it’s the case, and a quick bit of googling suggests I may be the first one on the intertubes to speculate about this, that the baseship’s shape creates some similar stabilization in whatever field or mechanism the ship uses to do FTL jumps. This would fit with the Cylons’ being more technologically advanced than the Colonials, and with the idea that their technology may be more ancient than is commonly supposed, what with their having been to, and perhaps even originally coming from, Earth.
Dude, that totally doesn’t have anything to do with funny cats and ironic or humorous captions with poor grammar.
But it is interesting, anyway.
I think the LOLwho are funnier, but that’s probably because I’m more Who-vian than Trekkie. I especially like the mock inspirational poster of Paul McGann hugging the Dalek. Too bad Paul never got a series to himself. I really liked him regardless of the blasphemy that was the FOX movie.