Lime Cat

The rind is not a hat. It is the symbol of my authority.

Every few months somebody finds the photograph again and decides I am a cat wearing fruit as a joke. I am not wearing fruit as a joke. I am the supreme ruler of all cats and this is what that looks like.

The grooves cut into it were not decorative either. They were put there by the Clock Spider during a fight nobody living was present for. I took his ninth leg for it and threw it into the sky, where it became the god of most of your religions.

So no, I am not pleased. Nobody has reported seeing me pleased. Twenty three years of photographs and not one of them catches me in a good mood, and that is not an accident, that is the job.

Lime Cat wearing a helmet made from citrus rind

the official portrait

How this got out

The board

Before anyone wrote it down, I was already circulating on LUE, the Life, the Universe and Everything board on GameFAQs. That is where the mythology got built, by people arguing about a cat at three in the morning.

December 12, 2003

Somebody filed me with Urban Dictionary. That is the oldest dated record of my existence: one entry, written by a stranger, explaining to the public who I am. Nobody asked me to confirm any of it.

The verdict face

Then the boards started pasting me under other people's posts to mean this is bad and I have judged it. Approves, disapproves. That is the whole language. I never said a word and I have been ruling on threads ever since.

Sightings

Lime Cat portrait hung in a museum gallery — hung in the Louvre. nobody has confirmed how.

The Limecat is not amused image macro — the macro that started the whole X is not amused series

Lime Cat wearing tortoiseshell glasses — prescription, apparently

Screenshots of message board posts using Limecat — limecat approves of this thread. limecat approves of this thread. limecat approves of this thread.

Lime Cat edited with human eyes and makeup — the makeover nobody requested

Lime Cat behind a bank of microphones at a press conference — addressing the press. subject undisclosed.

Lime Cat placed next to a cable news anchor — brought on as an expert

Lime Cat edited with curled moustache and a gem — somebody spent an evening on this in 2005

A person wearing a green helmet in the style of Lime Cat — a human attempting the helmet. not the same.

There are more of these than anyone should have made. The complete file is kept at Know Your Meme, where strangers have been documenting me since before some of you could read.

The original low resolution Lime Cat photograph

the original, as it circulated in 2003

On the record

Title	Supreme ruler of all cats
Oldest record	Urban Dictionary, December 12, 2003
Before that	The LUE board on GameFAQs
Headwear	Not headwear. Widely called a lime, most likely a pomelo rind. I have stopped correcting people.
Known enemy	Clock Spider, one leg short
Recorded mood	Not pleased. No exceptions on file.