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midas06
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02-14-2006, 10:59 AM
Post subject: O RLY owl died.
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San Diego, California (AP) -- Jonathan, the Snowy Owl made famous as the "O RLY" owl, has died in captivity in the San Diego Zoo.
The owl, which was 17 years old, died Tuesday afternoon after the sudden onset of pneumonia. He was young for an owl in captivity, however wild owls only live an average of 15 years.
David Phillips, executive director of the San Diego Zoo, said Jonathan had been in good health but started showing signs of lethargy and loss of appetite on Monday.
"This is a long sad day for us," Phillips said.
One of his handlers, Dale Richards, also said Jonathan died quickly. "We checked his respiration rate and it was a little irregular ... he wasn't doing too well," Richards told The Associated Press. "Early in the evening, he passed away."
The textual phrase "oh really?" was first popularized on the SomethingAwful forums. The phrase was initially one of many used during the FYAD sub forum’s fad of compressing words by removing unnecessary letters. While "O RLY?" is simply shorthand for "Oh, Really?", the most common image macro comes from 4chan, where for a short while, the word "repost" was word filtered to "owl". The Image macro and its attached phrase then spread rapidly throughout the Internet.
RIP.
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A conspiracy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY
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On February 8th, 2006, a hoax circulated around the internet claiming that the owl had died. The e-mail in the picture is a fake and the hoax has no credibility.
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JESUS TAKE THE KEYBOARD
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midas is the stupid.
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Smithers, use the amnesia ray.
You mean the revolver, sir?
Precisely.
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bigred
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Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
midas is the stupid.
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O RLY?
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LOL OPERATIONS
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a500lbgorilla
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JESUS TAKE THE KEYBOARD
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Originally Posted by bigred
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Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
midas is the stupid.
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O RLY? |
YA RLY
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Smithers, use the amnesia ray.
You mean the revolver, sir?
Precisely.
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midas06
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NO WAI
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Flush
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YEAH WAI
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>3
this is my favourite part of the post
it looks like angry boobs
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yay for patterns
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