Brilliance, in brief

[womzilla]

From a late May thread on Making Light encouraging people to heights of LOLCAT and L33T pastiche, this sublimity from Julie L:

I iz tyg4r burn1nz br1t3
In yr f0r3stz 0f t3h n1t3
WHUT da m4x l33t h4ndz 0r 3y3z
Fr4m3z0rd mah f33rfl 5mmtryz?

In yr sekr1t d33pz n skyz
In yr b4s3 pwnin yr guyz
C4n iz I t3h w4r3z b1n h4xt?
C4n I h4z sum pr0n plzthx?

Tyg4r iz l33t burnz0r d00d
1ns1de yr b4s3 34tin yr f00d.

I did :-), this wrk 2 C.

Updated to add:

I should hae knewn Geoffrey Chaucer would gets inuolued. "I CAN HATH CHEEZBURGER?" at "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog":

No thyng hath plesed me moore, or moore esed myn wery brayne than thes joili and gentil peyntures ycleped “Cat Macroes” or “LOL Cattes.” Thes wondirful peintures aren depicciouns of animals, many of them of gret weight and girth, the which proclayme humorous messages in sum queynte dialect of Englysshe (peraventure from the North?).

Comments

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

I'm entranced. I think I love the author.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

She also wrote my other single favorite contribution to the thread (so far, anyway--I'm only half-done):

Ringtone #3 -> nekk1d skycl4d 3lf l33tz!

Ringtone #7 -> dw4rfs whut B4lr0g kan 33tz

Ringtone #9 -> m0rt4l n00b guiz g3tz k1llz

Ringtone #1 -> h4x0r w1t h1z m4d sk1llz

ROFLin ins1de ur b4s3 txtin 0n yr f0ne

STFU suxx0r n00bage coz j00 4ll b1n pwnd.

[jester-uk.livejournal.com]

Wow. How to make lolcats funny.

[time-freak.livejournal.com]

what is a lolcat? that is very cool.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Lolcats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcats) are the latest internet phenomenon: pictures (usually of cats) with captions in a weird broken English full of phonetic misspellings and odd grammar. There's a dense vocabulary of recurring jokes and phrases--"Do not WANT" and "I can has?", as well as "invisible" pictures where it looks like the cat is defining the shape of an invisible object. The best source for lolcats that I know is I Can Has Cheezburger? (http://icanhascheezburger.com/), which I recommend reading from the "Last" page to the present because of the development of running gags. Lolcats were not the origin of "I'm in UR whatever, whatevering your whatever", but they definitely incorporated them.

This particular bit I quoted is more like L33T (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet), a fake language made by substituting numerals and punctuation for letters and using some hacker-speak. The thread freely mixes Lolcat, L33T, text messaging, and other sources. ("All your base are belong to us" shows up frequently.)