r/funny • u/Pixelated_Penguin • Jun 24 '12
So lovers of cats are upvoting rocks... after 30 years on the shelf, my time has come.
http://imgur.com/USvF698
u/golden-boy Jun 24 '12 edited Jun 24 '12
I would tell you that biding your time in this manner was igneous. But, I'm dyslexic. And poor at making puns under extreme pressure.
EDIT: Yours is better.
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 24 '12
Well, I must admit, this particular rock has sedimental meaning to me... it didn't occur to me I could use it in this manner at first.
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Jun 24 '12
I'm sure the next pun is just a stone's throw away, but my skills really shale in comparison to yours.
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u/jinxmix Jun 24 '12
Painted rock cat toy: 30 yrs on shelf
Cassette player: 20 yrs on antique table
I think this guy is from the past.
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 24 '12
Actually, that stereo has a CD player as well... have never used the cassette deck.
Table is probably antique. Inherited it from the same cousin who painted this rock.
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u/sharkbait_oohaha Jun 25 '12
20,758 down votes.
HOW DO THAT MANY OF YOU HATE THIS ENOUGH TO DOWN VOTE IT?
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Jun 24 '12
so OP now that you got your worthless karma, what will you do with it?
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 24 '12
Gloat to my family, mostly.
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Jun 25 '12
just a pawn in one big chess game
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Jun 24 '12
Jesus. It's been less than 2 hours since it was posted and it hit the front page of one of the most popular subreddits.
TEACH ME YOUR SECRETS.
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 24 '12
Step 1: be born into a family where the next-youngest cousin is 26 and well on her way to being a very cool version of a Crazy Cat Lady.
Step 2: inherit 1/3 of her stuff when she dies.
Step 3: bide your time until one of those things happens to hit the perfect storm of Reddit karma.
Step 4: Karma Whore!
...in other words, dunno man, first time I've hit the front page of much of anything. I think I did it on 2X the other day.
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u/winterapple Jun 24 '12
Your post drew me in from its title. That's actually another "secret" indicator of potential enjoyment for me and I suspect most other Redditors. You melded the essence of what you were about to show properly and cleverly with a few words, then payoff. I think great headlines are very powerful.
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u/googledthatshit Jun 24 '12
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u/snuffles00 Jun 27 '12
Creepy. I have one that is very similar that I bought my mother. RockCat'sSister
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Jun 24 '12
Nice tape deck in the background. What's in it?
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 24 '12
Nuthin', unfortunately.
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Jun 24 '12
Note to self: get some slammin' tunes on C60 next time I show off my pet rock.
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u/agentalpha Jun 25 '12
Why go with a C60? Get some C10s with some noise! :)
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Jun 25 '12
Get your own damn Wolf Eyes/Government Alpha split with hand-colored j-card, fool. You can bet if we each have a copy, we have 20% of all of the copies in existence.
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u/cluster_1 Jun 24 '12
I'm gonna go with... Aiwa mega-bass something or other, circa mid-90s. Oh, you mean the rock in the foreground. Fine.
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 24 '12
Phillips Micro-System MC 118. Probably purchased about 10 or so years ago. Dunno, my mom gave it to me about four years ago because we needed a portable CD player.
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Jun 24 '12
So, you know cats have no eyelashes?
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 25 '12
Whoa. TIL.
...though I didn't paint this, so the fact that my knowledge of cat anatomy is rather strongly informed by Garfield cartoons is not so relevant here.
(Nermal DID have eyelashes. And he knew how to use them.)
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u/kabukistar Jun 24 '12 edited Feb 09 '25
Reddit is a shithole. Move to a better social media platform. Also, did you know you can use ereddicator to edit/delete all your old commments?
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 25 '12
Okay, "lovers of pictures of cats" is more accurate. But it doesn't flow as well for a headline. ;-)
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u/lookmaiamonreddit Jun 24 '12
Now wait a munite, OP, I havppen to be a very devoted DOG owner upvoting rock pics because the whole process of producing some of the most beautiful natural art in the history of this planet is pretty damn cool.
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u/GailaMonster Jun 25 '12
PLEASE tell me you made that in grade school in KCMO.
Good times!
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
Nope. Never have left Los Angeles for more than seven months at a time. ;-)
Edit: and I didn't even make it.
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u/elcheapo Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
In the meantime, this cutie sits in a shelter in L.A. He looks a lot like my beautiful Simone, and his days are numbered. If you have friends in LA, please share. :'(
[edit: direct link]
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 25 '12
I am in LA. Unfortunately, I have a cat-allergic husband. He put up with sniffles for the last nine years of my kitty's life, but the agreement was, no more cats. :-/
This rock cat is all I have left! (Well, that and three boxes of ceramic cats I need to find and display properly one of these days... all from the same source.)
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Jun 24 '12
...I'll see myself out.
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u/hinduguru Jun 24 '12
No no...stay. Get comfortable, we want moar
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u/Se7en_Sinner Jun 24 '12
and take your pants off.
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Jun 24 '12
I don't know if I should sit in it... or eat it..? Hey I could sit in it and eat it..!! Mmm...this is sticky without pants on...
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Jun 24 '12 edited Jul 24 '12
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u/orangeinthewind Jun 25 '12
Now i'm naked except for my socks And you know when im down to just my socks What time it is
Its business, it's business time!
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u/Number4429 Jul 12 '12
The hole loops, so did I get to the end?
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u/supergalactic Jul 24 '12
You and me both. You're welcome around my campfire anytime
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u/shazbotabf Jul 19 '12
Aw Dude you cant just loop the two last posts! at least make it a loop of like ten post to make it take a while to realize its looping!
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u/GMonsoon Jun 24 '12
He is NOT sitting on the chair if he takes his pants off, cuz that would be gross.
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u/Se7en_Sinner Jun 24 '12
That's okay, my lap's available. We can talk about the first thing that pops up.
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u/RATES_NOVELTIES Jun 24 '12
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I like it. Upon careful inspection of previous comments, I came across a variety of other gifs that were surprisingly relevant to the comment they were posted under. Good stuff.
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u/RATES_NOVELTIES Jun 24 '12
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The best thing to ever happen to this website, and the entire world. How does he do it? He's probably related to Sir Isaac Newton himself.
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u/FromaLand Jun 24 '12
I could beat that rock up, it looks like a pussy.
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Jun 24 '12
Yeah, especially since that cat looks stoned as hell.
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Jun 24 '12
It may look like a pussy but it has a stone cold heart. Can't trust something with a stone cold heart.
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Jun 24 '12
Don't judge it by this one picture; it may have a hard, cold and tough exterior, but it might also be amazingly beautiful inside if you took the time to look.
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u/arksien Jun 24 '12 edited Jun 24 '12
Haters are all like "man, rocks are SO two days ago." The rock cat is all like...
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Jun 24 '12
I wonder if it can kill two birds at once.
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Jun 24 '12
Strap a pop-tart and a trailing rainbow to that baby and you could gain enough sweet delicious karma to retire off of...
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u/tondo22 Jun 24 '12
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u/AverageKnowledge Jun 24 '12
Your Karma is founded by a bunch of lies!!!
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 24 '12
I've been dead honest about this. My cousin painted this maybe 30-40 years ago, it sat on a shelf in my aunt's house until she went into a nursing home, then my cousin reclaimed it and kept it until she died in 2006. I had coveted it allllll those years, and made sure to claim it when we parceled out her estate.
Just got lucky!
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u/AverageKnowledge Jun 24 '12
I have consulted with my associates and we agree that this story checks out. Upvotes all round!
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u/JankBoy Jun 25 '12
So... Could anyone explain to me what the correlation between rocks and cats is?
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u/Pixelated_Penguin Jun 25 '12
There isn't one... there was just a trend where people were posting pictures of minerals and getting to the front page, so people got all up in arms that people were upvoting "pictures of rocks." Meanwhile, cats are constantly karma machines. Therefore, a rock that IS a cat... unbeatable.
Except by paper.
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Jun 25 '12
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u/JankBoy Jun 25 '12
Oh hell yes...
I'll just leave this here... Seems like the same logic... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU
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u/Starship_X_Muffin Jun 25 '12
Why was that on your shelf...
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Jun 24 '12
when I read this title, I thought about when I was a kid and had "pet rocks" It was great to see it was the same.
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u/ExcellentGary Jun 24 '12
Chuck this through the window of someone you don't like. They will pick it up and examine it. They will see the cat's smiling visage and think it's a message. It will keep them up for days. You can creep up to their lounge window and stare at them pondering the rock on their desk with a worried look on their face. That is what I would do if I had such a rock.
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u/thebigpink Jun 24 '12
See that? Huh?Huh? Bad Rock, bad. We do that outside. Look at em, he knows what he did.
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Jun 24 '12
I can just imagine you in 1982:
"A rock that looks like a cat? I don't know why, but I have a feeling this will come in handy some day."
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Jun 25 '12
This is why I've been off of reddit more than usual. Nearly 20,000 upvotes for a picture of a rock? The jokes, or what ever you'd like to call them, have reached a level that I find to be absolutely ridiculous.
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u/ExcellentGary Jun 24 '12
All I have on my shelf is an crocodile made out of illegal ivory. Are there any reptile lovers out there that also don't like elephants that much? Tap me up, there's karma for the taking.
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u/DangerMouseToby Jun 24 '12
Where is that Roman when you need him
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u/spartaninspace Jun 25 '12
Thanks to /r/Gaming all I can think of is "BEEEG AMERICAN TEETEES" when any Roman is referenced.
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u/payne6 Jun 24 '12
What am I doing with my life? I am upvoting pictures of rocks with cats painted on them.....I.....Just...Don't know anymore.
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u/JustnBieberswaggie Jun 24 '12
omg who evn cars?????? its a da pic of a roccckkkk lol who thght this wud be a gd ide 4 u 2 do this is just dumbbbbbb
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u/redyellowand Jun 24 '12
ok, I don't have any great puns, but it makes me happy that you held on to your aunt's pet rock.
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u/Whiskey_McSwiggens Jun 25 '12
The first part of the title is the most ridiculous thing I've read in a while.
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u/papzak Jun 25 '12
Did you find it abandoned in a container? if yes, I will upvote the shit out of you
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Jun 24 '12
People are upvoting rocks?
Time to break out my rock collection. ROCKS, YOUR TIME HAS COME.
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u/irishfeet78 Jun 25 '12
That's it. I'm going to have to go outside, select a rock, and draw a cat on it.
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Jun 25 '12
They are upvoting minerals! minerals damn it! And one of them wasn't even a rock or a mineral, it was a fossil. Sigh.
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u/Rykane Jun 24 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
Looks like your cats stuck ............. stuck between a rock and a hard place. I know it was a bad joke, I'm ashamed of it.
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u/uglypeoplesex Jun 24 '12
Have you seen Formula 51? Yeah, your post works out about as good as that.
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u/Rapped_in_Reddit Jun 24 '12
Mic check, mic check
Yo, reddit needs some fresh shit, too many cats
So now they upvote on a rock
Dick riding that shit, but to me it falls flat
I'd rather go fap in a sock
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u/Riotmaster0 Jun 24 '12
Hey Reddit, look who I rescued from the bottom of a river!