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So you all think locavore is a terrible word?
How 'bout this terribly awesome word: lolcavore.
It's a portmanteau of lolcat and locavore, of course. A reader of the blog Language Log came up with it and Photoshopped this lolcat-style image to go along with it: "I could not help misreading locavore/localvore as being prefixed by lol-, and then could not help but apply appropriate text to a photo... resulting in the pic."
All you locavore haters, heads-up: The woman in the photo is Jessica Prentice, the coiner of the term you loathe. [via Talley Sue]
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5 Comments:
I'm sorry, but anything that reminds me of the term loco or our favorite community member LoCo, has to have some redeeming value in my book, but not too much. Now if they just used the word loco, I'd be happy.
Good find, Adam.
PerkyMac at 3:07PM on 04/24/08
Right on, Adam. I'd so be a locovore. Maybe we should all become one in the hopes of coining a new word--we could eat a diet based solely on outrageous foods--haberno peppers eaten like apples, fried spiders, monkey brains. It'd be, literally (for you Language Loggers), awesome.
caviarandcodfish at 4:11PM on 04/24/08
I've never found the humor in the lolcat stuff, but this is so, so great.
darbyalycen206 at 4:48PM on 04/24/08
Don't thank me, thank Talley Sue. She's the one who hipped me to this a couple months ago. I've been sitting on it since.
I would say that Andrew Zimmern would immediately be inducted into the locovore hall of fame.
Adam Kuban at 10:36PM on 04/24/08
If she had used the etymologically correct "vicinivore", this picture would never had existed and my life would be somewhat less amazing but I'm still a hater.
drastic at 5:44PM on 04/30/08