Proving beyond a doubt the profound social and geopolitical significance of a dog honking a car horn, a video posted Monday on your Lost Coast Outpost has since gone viral, racking up more than a quarter million views on YouTube and getting featured by such esteemed institutions as Time, the New York Daily News and Britain’s Mirror Online, among dozens of other sites.

As the Mashable Velocity Graph creeps upward, feel free to relive the historic occasion by watching the video again (below). Oh, and for anyone concerned about the dog’s wellbeing, his name is Wolfie, his owner left him inside for only a few minutes, and she reports that, in general, he’s spoiled rotten. Perhaps that’s because he knows how to demand what he wants.

Your Outpost correspondent got contacted by a number of licensing companies asking for rights to the video. We signed with one that gives us (meaning me) a 70-30 profit split, meaning I get 70 percent of all revenue generated by the vid.

A company representative said that, for every thousand people who view it on YouTube, I’ll get somewhere between 25 cents to a dollar, so chances are my days here at the Outpost are numbered. Got my eyes on a nice palace in Dubai.

Also, a woman from ABC World News Tonight interviewed me yesterday and said the video would “probably” be featured on that evening’s broadcast. Alas, the coveted “and finally tonight” segment instead featured this story about an airman hoping to reunite with a girl he saved during Hurricane Katrina. Whatever, am I right?