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Cirque du So-What

(25,939 posts) Thu Feb 1, 2018, 10:18 PM Feb 2018

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LOLCats have been around since 1894

Invent a device that creates the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter, and what do you do with it? Record boxing cats, of course.

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LOLCats have been around since 1894 (Original Post) Cirque du So-What Feb 2018 OP

Looks like cat abuse to me. Idiots and jerks. democratisphere Feb 2018 #1

just like a lot of youtube videos mucifer Feb 2018 #2

I read somewhere that Harry Pointer was one of the first to popularize cat pix area51 Feb 2018 #3

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

1. Looks like cat abuse to me. Idiots and jerks.

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Original post)

Thu Feb 1, 2018, 11:36 PM

Feb 2018

mucifer

(23,547 posts)

2. just like a lot of youtube videos

Reply to democratisphere (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 2, 2018, 12:05 AM

Feb 2018

area51

(11,909 posts)

3. I read somewhere that Harry Pointer was one of the first to popularize cat pix

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Original post)

Fri Feb 2, 2018, 12:59 AM

Feb 2018

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