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“Kinda bored on a Wednesday morning, I guess I’ll go see what’s shown up in the ol’ RSS reader. Ah, the Humor folder. Really nothing in there but LOLcats from the I Can Has Cheezburger site, but I like cats, and the captions are often worth a smile… Delete… Delete… WAIT A FREAKIN’ MINUTE THAT’S GRADY!”

So that was my morning surprise. Yup, someone took one of my photos of my cat, posted it on ICHC, and over a dozen people have added LOLesque captions. And for whatever reason, one of them was posted to ICHC’s RSS feed and thus straight to my mailbox.

Although unintentional, that caption was particularly apt, too: Praying? No… Imagining this around your throat… Yes!

You can see them below and click for bigness, or just go to the photo’s index page on ICHC.

How do I know that’s Grady? Well, aside from knowing my own cat, I’m also a photographer and know my own pictures. The original was posted to Flickr here back in 2008. For more words and pictures about Grady, read my post after he died last year.

Interestingly, this isn’t the first time a photo of mine showed up on ICHC. Back in 2009, a coworker uploaded an embarrassing photo of an eagle that I’d taken on my trip to Scotland in 2002. You can see the resulting LOLpix and read my reaction in this blogpost. It provided a very handy template for this posting!

What I said then about the eagle pictures applies equally well to the LOLcats people have made of Grady: it’s a little slice of notoriety that I find amusing, and it’s interesting to see what captions other people have added to it.

I kinda wish he was here to see them…

Mise en scène: a tiny village in northern Scotland called Huntly, Thursday, May 28 2002. Seven DargonZine writers and one NPC follower pile out of a rental van for a tour and demonstration at the North East Falconry Centre.

After the show, I saw something that just screamed to be captured. Here’s how I wrote it up in my original travelogue, seven years ago:

On the way out, I caught a singularly amusing moment. One of the bald eagles had decided it might be fun to stand in the big water bowl I described above. So here’s the symbol of America, standing in a pool of water up to his knees, looking down as if to say “Goddamn, I’m standing in water! What the hell’s going on here? This is so humiliating! Somebody ought to do something about this…” I dunno, it struck me as hilarious, and still does.

The photo lived on my Scrapbook page for years, where I’d occasionally share it with friends.

A couple days ago, a former coworker pointed me here. Apparently he’d uploaded the photo to LOLcat central: ICanHasCheezburger. Beyond that, eighteen people have made up their own captions for it!

It’s a little slice of noteriety that I find amusing, and it’s interesting to see what captions other people have added to it.