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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...
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a sad sad day for the internet
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