by Christyl Rivers

Created on: August 26, 2010   Last Updated: September 21, 2010

 Cats Rule, Dogs Drool; LOLcats in a Cats Cradle of Civilization history revealed.

We love cats!  This is the reason why LOL cats, Laughing Out Loud Cats, is so popular.  If you ever had a cat, or rather, if you have ever been owned by a cat, you have seen some really funny stuff.  Cats are funnier than dogs because their natural dignity and haughty superiority is easy to disparage by unworthy humans.  And they are cute.

For those of you who have been cat- napping under a rock, LOL Cats is an Internet phenomenon that posts great photos of cats with cat spelling, cat antics, cat culinary expertise,  cat shenanigans, and cat values.  It is morphing still, with more and more cat history, cat histamines, and cat hissy fits, every day. 

 A long time ago, the Egyptians mummified cats for their ever-lasting grain protection prowess.  Even in the afterlife, cats are better at rodent control than human zombies are.  In fact, in the coming zombie apocalypse, I will have my cats at my side when zombies attack.  That's just common sense.

After being worshiped as Bast, aka Bastet, in the middle east, cats went on to catch rats in the middle ages and prevent plague.  The church could not deal with anyone having real power in the world, so cats became scapegoats, and many were burned alive and hanged. In protest the cats sneaked out to the barn and withheld LOL cats from humankind for another 500 years.

Too bad, for all those people who had their homes overrun by rats, and the fleas carried by those rats that brought Black Death.  But no one had much access to the sacred papyrus scrolls that held the truth of kitties, and , well, ashes, ashes, all fall down.  In protest cats sneaked out to the barn and withheld LOL cats from humankind for another 500 years.

Later came the invention of Jazz, which morphed like a cat out of a paper bag into Rock and Roll.  Every one who was anyone became a cool cat, or a cool kitty.  They were so hep they soon graduated to hippies, and thus cats brought the idea of peace.  As the embodiment of serenity personified in the way they nap, it's funny we didn't catch on sooner. .  But once Make love not war became the motto of an age, cats settled down for another well earned nap.

Also born, and or continuing in popularity, were Felix the cat, Top Cat, Sylvester the cat, Garfield, Josey and the Pussy Cats, Barbara Streisand as a Cat, Bill the Cat, and apologies

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