Now its starting to creep me out, too.
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. "Wechecked 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 forums. The phrase was initially one of many used during the FYAD sub forum
O RLY?
ya rly
My initial reaction was "CHRIST, THANK YOU." Then I remembered that it's not his fault that morons worldwide find that him hilarious, which made me feel very guilty. Then, it occurred to me that this wouldn't have any effect on that, which made me feel absolutely stupid for even thinking that the poor owl's death could be a good thing.
So in conclusion, rest in peace (you freaking annoying bird, you).
RIP, friend, you were a true American hero.
So now that he's dead I can start an O RLY line of clothing without fear of copyright infringement?
Sure.
You can just ignore me when I wring your neck for it or something.
Rest in peace buddy...lol
I saw that a few days ago on 4chan, but I dismissed it as a hoax. Guess it wasnt.
Edit: Someone please remove all the assinine "O RLY"s from this thread before it gets out of hand.
Actually, I think they have O RLY shirts and hats
That is horrible, but he'll live on in the pictures. I mean, can any other owl make such a claim to fame?
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*Salutes my poorly made avatar*
You mean it's not a stuffed animal?
I'm not sure whether I should feel more sorry for the owl or the fact that someone used him to start such a retarded internet trend.
:( Poor guy.
o rly?
What a cute, happy owl.
They should stuff it and sell it on eBay.
I ****ING HATE THAT OWL AND EVERYTHING HE STANDS FOR! NO TO ABORTION!
HOAX.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_RLY?
[quote=Wikipedia]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.
http://i1.tinypic.com/nl63dl.jpg
http://i1.tinypic.com/nmn3hj.png
THANK THE LORD!
Great, now that god[COLOR="White"]d[/COLOR]amn word will become even more popular....
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NO WAI!
I know it's a hoax, but I just had to post this:
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v713/willeth/RIPLY.jpg[/IMG]
lol Aliens.
Not funny.
Except it's totally not an Aliens reference. That's why the space is there.
Even with the missing "E" it's still an Aliens reference to me :(
That's because you SUCK.
CORRECTION!: It's the image that sucks because it's not actually a reference to Aliens.
Which sucks.
It's a reference to DEATH, you big reject.
It's even more stupid than I first thought.
EDIT: OH, man, I can't believe I missed that. Yeah, cause the owl supposedly died. Ok. Yeah.
PROOF THAT YOU SUCK
SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WOOSH!
I was searching around the O RLY Owl website. This pic scared my sister ****less.
Now its starting to creep me out, too.
If I was going to woosh you, I'd have done it in post 25.
True. But it still would have applied to any of my posts.
You're just mad because you missed a perfect woosh opportunity.
Yes, that's completely true.
Obviously.
Yeah...I would have deleted that whole little conversation there.
In any case, I came across an owl today and it made me say ORLY
Wikipedia to the rescue.
I told my room mate about this, and his response without thinking about it was "Oh, really?", to which I responded YA RLY.
And yes, you can tell the difference when done properly.
The first time I saw the new Soul Calibur 3 character with the owl head, Olcadan, even I had to say "O, RLY?"