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Posted by Light The Fuse on Feb-12-2006 23:38:

The death of a legend

goodbye gentle hero

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Thursday, February 9th, 2006 Posted: 10:07 AM EST (1507 GMT)

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 "o rly?" was first popularized on the SomethingAwful.com internet discussion board. While "O RLY?" is simply shorthand for "Oh, Really?", the most common image macro comes from 4chan another popular internet discussion board. The Image macro and its attached phrase then spread rapidly throughout the Internet. The owl quickly became popular on 4chan, and then spread to many other community websites such as Fark...

http://goodbyeowl.ytmnd.com/

a sad sad day for the internet

Posted by MiSSyM on Feb-12-2006 23:40:

RIP

Posted by charlee on Feb-12-2006 23:49:

That is terrible.

Posted by MiSSyM on Feb-12-2006 23:58:

BIG HUG FOR CHARLEE

Posted by narcism on Feb-13-2006 00:12:

even tho the article is fake

Posted by MiSSyM on Feb-13-2006 03:35:

lol poor Owl

Posted by anarky on Feb-13-2006 07:24:

____
{o,o}
|)__)
-"-"-
O RLY?

Posted by aL_mAc on Feb-13-2006 09:01:

this owl thing was totally over my head..

still is, but i think im starting to get it (or not?)

Posted by FiK on Feb-13-2006 19:43:

quote:
Originally posted by narcism
even tho the article is fake

ahahaha

Posted by tathi on Feb-13-2006 21:32:

can someone photochop O RLY onto the missym gerbil pic

the world needs another silly mascot

Posted by MiSSyM on Feb-13-2006 22:17:

get fucked khunt

lol

Posted by Antistatic on Feb-13-2006 23:52:

what a sad, sad day

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Feb-13-2006 23:55:

to quote mr ballistic, you cvnts have issues.

Posted by tathi on Feb-14-2006 00:14:

quote:
Originally posted by MiSSyM
get fucked khunt

lol

i assumed you would have cherished the thought of being admired by thousands of internet nerds who'd have fantasies about having you crawl up their

Posted by MiSSyM on Feb-14-2006 01:27:

lol tathi you assumed WRONG!

Anyone who disrespects or violates or mistreats any sort of animal should be skinned alive & made to eat their own flesh!

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Feb-14-2006 01:34:

quote:
Originally posted by MiSSyM
Anyone who disrespects or violates or mistreats any sort of animal should be skinned alive & made to eat their own flesh!

got him!

edit jolz- i see enough dead things at work kthx

Posted by MiSSyM on Feb-14-2006 01:43:

lol you meanie

Posted by bec on Feb-14-2006 01:46:

http://goodbyeowl.ytmnd.com/

but the original wikipedia entry seems to have been edited since the ytmnd was made

quote:
Naturally, the identity of the O Rly owl is not known.

Posted by tathi on Feb-14-2006 01:57:

quote:
Originally posted by MiSSyM
lol tathi you assumed WRONG!

Anyone who disrespects or violates or mistreats any sort of animal should be skinned alive & made to eat their own flesh!

fuck i have the best comeback for this but i'd get violated by missym if i said it

and being spooned by her is something too disgusting to contemplate

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Feb-14-2006 02:05:

quote:
Originally posted by tathi
i'd get violated

ive never known you to turn down a good dose of violation

Posted by tathi on Feb-14-2006 02:06:

quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
ive never known you to turn down a good dose of violation

even i have standards mang

Posted by MiSSyM on Feb-14-2006 02:33:

lol i lub choo too Tathi