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There are plenty of unexpected pairings that turn out to go great together, like salt and caramel, chocolate and chili (please, oh please, add a piece of chocolate the next time you’re making chili and thank me later), or classical art and memes.
You probably already see where this is going, and you’re not wrong – today we want to shed light on some more masterpieces composed of classical paintings and 21st century quips. If you’ve seen our previous edition on the pairing, you know you’re in for a treat, and if you haven’t, wait not a second longer and scroll down to immerse yourself in the unique universe of classical subjects facing modern-day problems. Enjoy the giggle!
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troufaki13 11 months ago
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
keyboardtek 11 months ago
And our leaders are establishing a pro-Christian department to protect sensitive Christians from being offended when ever anyone pushes back on their plans to rule the entire country.
char 11 months ago
okay, yes, that's what's happening, but also, that is very much a thing that happened in history. today's problems aren't usually as new as we think they are.
Phyzzi 11 months ago
That sounds smart, I better report it before it offends someone.
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 11 months ago
And all caps when it's really, extra special "true"
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Floeckchen 11 months ago
Language and spelling have always been in a constant flux. Have you tried reading a text from the 16th century?
UKGrandad 11 months ago (edited)
Ironically, 'misspelled' is the now accepted misspelling of misspelt. And the title caption needs to end with a full stop.
Manana Man 11 months ago
I'm not sure about the history, but in current usage misspelt is British, misspelled is American.
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Rebecca last names are for losers 11 months ago
I disagree with this one. Gen-Z has Grammarly. 😂😂
Laura Williams 11 months ago
I'm able to read most of what they write but would it kill them to proof read for the spelling. Oh wait I just offended someone. Sorry for that.
Bryn 11 months ago
Did you check yours? There should be a comma after 'write,' the first sentence should end with a question mark, there should be a comma after 'oh,' and the 'for' should be 'about.' That's three errors. And if we count "Oh wait" as its own sentence, that's 5. Check yourself first.
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Pandora 11 months ago
Good news! With all those migrants now being deported, there's plenty of jobs available picking crops!
Multa Nocte 11 months ago
Yes, this I can't WAIT to see. As well as everyone whinging when the price of food goes up because they ran out all the cheap labour.
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Corvus 11 months ago
Isn't it amazing how the immigrants are simulataneously unwilling to work... but also stealing jobs? :P
winterwidow87 11 months ago (edited)
Yep it's a tale as old as time and it's not exclusive to the USA. In Europe as well far right parties gain votes by telling people immigrants are stealing their jobs, while also doing nothing all day and getting financial aids with taxpayers money. At least pick a lie and stick with it!
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Robert Millar 11 months ago
Kyle doesn't have a high school diploma, he has a reading age of eight years old.
David Campbell 11 months ago
I agree, we need to exploit those migrants, pick our f#@% crops, it sounds like the argument for slavery, if we end slavery who will pick our crops. We don't care about the people just our crops, you know how ignorant you sound?
okpkpkp 11 months ago
one Kenneth and one Kyle. Is my name next? I hope not. I do not want to become a meme.
Rich Black 10 months ago
i cant work at the Wendy's drive thru, because I don't speak spanish well enough . . .
It’s no secret that classical art is not something everyone enjoys equally. Some people might even say they find it difficult to understand. Memes, on the other hand, are pretty universal and easily digestible. With some minor changes, such as altering the text, for instance, or translating it to a different language, they can become relatable to a vast audience of internet users.
Having that in mind, it’s safe to assume that turning classical art into memes might make it more appealing to some people. Chances are, one might find it boring to roam a museum for hours, but they wouldn’t notice time fly by when browsing the same paintings on their phone, if they featured some amusing quips.
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Northlander72 11 months ago
"I'm off to Africa. Some millionaire Prince is giving me a lot of money."
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Feathered Dinosaur 11 months ago
The ones who didn't know aren't around to tell their story anymore
martin734 11 months ago
It' used to be called natural selection. It used to be that the stupidest among us got themselves killed and only the smartest lived long enough to procreate. Now we are at the stage where idiots get elected as leaders.
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Forrest Hobbs 11 months ago
Yeah, only: by the time you've learnt how to read, you've already learnt the stuff about detergent and glue... Haven't you? 😬
TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago (edited)
I can only recommend the documentary "Idiocracy" to see where it will lead us by not letting stupidity sort the idiots out
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 11 months ago
In the the words of the late, great James Gregory, "You know what that means, don't you? Somewhere, some nut..."
Laura Williams 11 months ago
Sadly they survived and sued. Now we have warnings not to do common sense things.
A study delving deeper into associations between emotions, museum visitors’ posts, and memes found that positive emotions predominated when it came to both – museum visitors and Instagram users interacting with artworks in the form of paintings or memes.
“According to our findings, people may have been surprised to encounter artworks that they had previously viewed as memes during both scheduled and spontaneous visits,” the study read in part.
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UKGrandad 11 months ago
And I'm a grammarian who can't abide seeing 'that does' when 'that' is referring to a person.
Kelly H. Wilder 11 months ago (edited)
They are medieval women. They are not persons; they are property. 😔 Edit: You are correct, medieval is horribly errant. I apologize for the error; I do know the difference in eras. Thank you for correcting the error. 😊
Load More Replies... Kat Alison 11 months ago
This. Be vegan and track every move you make if you want. Just don’t talk about it all the damn time.
G A 11 months ago
Every move the vegan makes is accompanied by smelly farts.
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Lady Lestrange 11 months ago
I have scratch marks all over my hands to prove that this is true.
LauraDragonWench 11 months ago
Easy solution: be like me, have social anxiety, and just don't leave the house. 🤪
pineapple87 11 months ago
I used to have a cat, now I have a small dog. It is very rare that I would need to pick the dog up when opening the door because unlike the cat, she does not try to escape.
nm (he/him) 11 months ago (edited)
Statue of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (685-631 BC). No relation with Persian nor Greeks.
Load More Replies...For Bored Panda’s previous edition on the ‘Classical Sarcasm’ project, a representative of the team behind it shared that it’s the everyday struggles that are depicted in the memes that attract so many young and old followers.
They continued to point out that in their opinion, the content they share helps internet users appreciate classical art more. "Surely, classical art was almost forgotten without social media! Every painting has a story behind it, and those stories are being told with every meme we make," they told Bored Panda back then.
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Grey Beard 11 months ago
Speaking of which, have you ever got halfway through a horse and thought "actually, it turns out I wasn't that hungry?".
Bettye McKee 11 months ago
I see the horse has a few tricks up his sleeve, figuratively speaking.
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manon M 11 months ago
Si seulement. Mais à 44 ans, je suis pas rassurée. Autant de mes choix que ceux des autres, j'assume 😅
Load More Replies... Deborah 11 months ago
Quote from George Bernard Shaw, I believe. Correct me if I mis-remembered. Thanks.
UKGrandad 11 months ago
But I bet he said 'a lunatic' rather than 'alunatic'!
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Laura Williams 11 months ago
I believe it. I'm one of the lunatics. P. S. There should be a space between a and lunatic.
Montanavanna 11 months ago
It is a soul school. There are lessons our soul can only learn here. We also chose to come here at this time to help humanity and Mother Gaia. Your mission is to find the thing that sparks you, fulfills you and allows you to share your light with the world. Go forth and find your thing! See you on the other side my friends, we can talk about how bananas our time here was.
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Floeckchen 11 months ago
Nah, like in Bollywood movies as soon as the music drops every single passenger instantly knew the choreography.
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Roxy222uk 11 months ago
I'm hoping someone can tell us the story behind this picture
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The representative of the ‘Classical Sarcasm’ team told Bored Panda last year that there’s no such thing as a ‘bad’ meme because every person looks at memes from a different angle. And they seem to look at a looot of them on a regular basis – some statistics suggest that the average millennial looks at 20-30 memes every day.
But just like memes, art is highly subjective, too. And there is no one way to look at one piece, as it might evoke different emotions to different people. So it’s no surprise that what people consider art differs from person to person as well.
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LauraDragonWench 11 months ago
"Wait, there was going to be flying involved? Would it have been before or after the se-?" "KENNETH!"
Chewie Baron 11 months ago
Why does Kenneth look like he’s Bill Hader’s long lost brother from The Californians?
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Lady Lestrange 11 months ago
I need my entire life's worth of willpower to wake up for ONE day. For ONE time.
Nuku Nyara 11 months ago
That's my work sleep schedule. I take a morning nap, get up and send the hubs off to work, then I get 2.5 hours evening nap before working the graveyard shift.😪
Karl der Große 11 months ago
I can't remember how I found out, but I know what laundry detergent tastes like. I bet you can say the same thing.
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Liz Butt 10 months ago (edited)
Yeah, her world is falling apart so I don't think that matters right at that moment.
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A survey carried out by YouGov found that the vast majority of the general public consider classical paintings art; as much as 92% of respondents said that they view Da Vinci’s iconic ‘Mona Lisa’ as art, 94% of them did Vettriano’s ‘Singing Buttler’, and 78% did Picasso’s ‘Guernica’. However, the modern kind of creations were not as widely accepted as art.
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stacey montebello 10 months ago (edited)
Just a note, the hand painted smutty romantic novel covers with the shirtless/ simi clothed dudes were all pretty much done by one artist, Elaine Duillo. Sadly she passed away in 2021 and that's one of the reasons that type of cover has suddenly started fading away. :(
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Bettye McKee 11 months ago
Thank you, Sister Felicia. May the Lord shine His light upon you this day.
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UKGrandad 11 months ago
And his lover. She was the wife of William Morris and the had a very Bohemian lifestyle, practicing 'free love' a century before the hippies thought they invented the concept. Jane was a talented embroiderer in the Arts and Craft style, William was primarily a textile designer and the leading proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement. As an aside, the box she's holding, which will have been designed and made by one of the Morris' circle of friends, would be worth a small fortune if it came up for sale today.
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While ‘Mona Lisa’ was clearly art in most people’s eyes, according to YouGov’s survey, only 42% of respondents put Andy Warhol's ‘Campbells soup can’ in the same category. Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ from 1998, as well as Marcel Duschamp’s ‘Fountain’ from 1917, didn’t make it to the list, either, as only 12% of respondents considered the latter two pieces art.
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Feathered Dinosaur 11 months ago
We don't care much for the doings of humans and stick to ourselves
Ozymandias73 11 months ago
Me on a regular basis. Knowing well and good I should/need to go to bed earlier. I plan on it. Say it to myself. But damn 1am comes quick.
Montanavanna 11 months ago
There is a phenomena known as the elementals. They are, mostly, protectors of the earth. Perhaps they are dinosaur ghosts as they are described as being incredibly large and ancient. Just an idea.
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UKGrandad 11 months ago
My favourite mnemonic for the order of the planets: Mary's Virgin Excuse Makes Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbour.
Rastilabo 11 months ago
Luke 2:5 "He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child."
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Kat Alison 10 months ago
Maybe that’s Ruth Zardo as a young woman. (Inspector Gamache novels.)
If you’re a fan who prefers to admire artwork from the comfort of their home, you might want to give Bored Panda’s category dedicated to all sorts of art a look next. But if it’s memes that you enjoy more than anything, you should probably head to the meme category instead.
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Teutonic Disaster 11 months ago
I first read it as "witch", what with her dark robe and all and yeah... also works, doesn't it (apart from a missing "she" at the beginning of the bottom text)
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therian-wolf(mutogen-demigen) 11 months ago (edited)
I think the burnt toast is a reference to the Glee episode grilled chesus! (watch glee it is hilarious!) *edit; I have been corrected, thank you for the correction!
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CD Mills 11 months ago
Close...This dude is wearing his own skin as a drape, he was just skinned alive. As a Non~Theist, I think it might be some saint or another. Just another reason I'm a Non~Theist, I want nothing to do with any group where this is cool.
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Tabitha 11 months ago
And a finger. Don’t forget the finger. Magic wand substitute.
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G A 11 months ago
Nope, some of my d***s mean I have to collect in person-they are on a List....
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Depressy spaghetti 11 months ago (edited)
One day you're young and carefree, and the next, you prefer water over soda and wine over beer (I've never drank beer though but i did get a taste it was repulsive).
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Featherking 11 months ago (edited)
Me too - us Swedes see pineapple on pizza as something normal. Which tells you a lot of what you need to know about us, I suppose.
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Multa Nocte 11 months ago
Please change this to "are resistant to new ideas"
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Cuppa tea? 11 months ago
Pineapple on pizza is delicious. I put few olives and sprinkle with oregano.
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keyboardtek 11 months ago
Such a heavy burden being told all through your youth that you have to be the savior of all humans in order to remove every human's original sin.
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Laura Williams 11 months ago
Getting rid of the evidence so your confusion is shared by others.
Load More Replies... Nuku Nyara 11 months ago
Now I want to start saving my receipts in order to craft little books that show my daily adventures in spending money I can't afford to part with 🤣🤣🤣
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Vikramaditya King 11 months ago
A well-known group of wealthy people are secretly controlling the world.
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Sillywaster Stayalone 11 months ago (edited)
Not those men in the back, they are just merry and satisfied in being surprised about nothing.
Lara Verne 11 months ago
Ok,ok, I'm on my third cup of coffee today and it's only noon. So what!
Laura Williams 11 months ago
Smile make your eyes wide and wave frantically. Walk up say hi. Scare them to even look in your direction. Works every time.
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LauraDragonWench 11 months ago
It takes days for my two lonely brain cells to meet back up in my cranium.
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Featherking 11 months ago
I also like the fancy cake she’s wearing on her head. Must take some focus keeping it there while walking.
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Nuku Nyara 11 months ago (edited)
It seems as though they want us to think that but the painter did a good job embellishing the joke area in question 🤣
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cj be like 10 months ago
this reminds me of a joke i saw in Peanuts once. 'Edith had refused to marry him because he was too fat. "Why not go on a diet?" suggested a friend. "You can't have your cake and Edith too."'
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Depressy spaghetti 11 months ago
I actually love doing my laundry, its the washing of dishes i cant stand.
Kitsune Nocturne 11 months ago
You're my polar opposite! For me, I like that I can get the dishes done in one go, and I dislike that laundry takes hours (or days, if I forget to move laundry over or hang it to dry) to complete. I think it's really interesting that people generally tend to either hate washing the dishes or doing the laundry.
Load More Replies... Deborah 11 months ago
When I lived in apartment with my own washer/dryer. I've gotten used to a laundry room where you have to pay to do your laundry, but the lack of a dishwasher is what still, after 5 years, gets to me.
Load More Replies... LauraDragonWench 11 months ago
My last load stays in the dryer until the next round of laundry a month or so later. (Single, don't go out, multiple sets of sheets, towels, and undies. 😂)
superfluous 11 months ago
For me it's dusting. I don't know if it's a sight thing or what, but I just dgaf until it rolls across the floor like tumbleweeds.
Lynette Vella 11 months ago
This is me when my husband tells me he'd like me to dust the baseboards when I clean.
Ashtophet’sRevenge 11 months ago
I love laundry, and fold into laundry baskets/hang, but the putting it away takes some time…
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Lawmom1966 11 months ago
What does everyone think those are really supposed to be be? Just curious….
Ashtophet’sRevenge 11 months ago
It’s white stiffened ribbon, probably tightly pleated, applied over the silk of the dress. I’m sure in person it looked good if a bit much to have ALL that trim…
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Tabitha 11 months ago
The reason they were able to pull off sitting up straight—-like our mothers always tried to get us to do—-was because of their corsets. Even relaxing, or sleeping sitting up, in a corset, you’re still propped up.
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BookFanatic 11 months ago
Yep. When I broke it off with my BF, his mom asked me what took me so long!
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Tabitha 11 months ago (edited)
Actually, the way I understand it is he wouldn’t condemn you at all, but those who openly advertise their faith in him will in half a heartbeat—-before heading off for six days of rampant and unrepentant sinning, while standing in stern judgment of everyone else, before supposedly being absolved of all of it for no other reason than they showed up at church on Sunday.
Montanavanna 11 months ago
My understanding is that the concept of salvation being tied to our behaviour was created by the church. The goal was to keep people tied to the church, giving regular tithings, controlling behaviour and not actually what God or source creator believes is our purpose here. We don't have to earn a backstage pass to salvation by living without "sin". We are here to grow our soul's understanding, grow as a being of light. Mistakes and so called sin are all a part of that growth. Very interesting stuff!
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Bettye McKee 11 months ago
I know that feeling. I'm feeling for you, but I can't quite reach you.
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Montanavanna 11 months ago
Happily Dino friend! Whatever is the most favorite thing for you to do out and about go and do that whenever you can. You will find people that are like minded and into the same. It is easier to be extroverted when your doing something you love. I find anyway.
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Col Prettyman 11 months ago
Did this once to a friend back in the 90's. Took her to a smash mouth concert new years eve 1999 and now she lives in my spare bedroom 🤣
LauraDragonWench 11 months ago
I definitely need someone to kidnap me, though it'll be a difficult job - they'll need to pry me away from my adorable kitties.
Featherking 11 months ago
And bless those strange extroverts, say I. An introvert adopted by an extrovert is a lucky - and happier - introvert.
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leendadll 11 months ago
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ver 5
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Multa Nocte 11 months ago
In all the little villages of France you can still find lavoirs (public washing areas). The idea alone of lugging your wash there and back home gives me a back ache.
Annik Perrot 11 months ago (edited)
Especially so since the lavoir is always near à stream or à brook, so generally at the bottom of the village. And the wash is a lot heavier when wet.
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Michael Largey 11 months ago
"And no sandwiches, thank you. Just some tartar sauce for everybody."
Michael Largey 11 months ago
People say that Jesus's greatest miracle was still having twelve close friends while He was in His 30s. I think this explains it.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 11 months ago (edited)
Refuse to cry at my funeral?? Over my cold, dead body!
Dakin Seligman 11 months ago
I want my funeral catered. Put out a spread, open bar and DJ. One last time with friends
Bettye McKee 11 months ago
If you have no tears left, you can decide how you're going to divide up my stuff.
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keyboardtek 11 months ago
My cortisol stress chemical rises every time my wife enters the room.
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LLP-roundincircles 11 months ago
There, there. Their intentions are questionable. But, they're not overtly evil.
Senjo Krane 11 months ago
Mine doesn't know the difference between two, too and to, let alone this, but I love him regardless.
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BarfyCat 11 months ago
The joke is that BMW drivers never use their turn signals (indicators)
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Annik Perrot 11 months ago
It's the headpiece of the traditional costume of the Alsacian women.
Load More Replies... Bettye McKee 11 months ago
I spent way too long trying to figure out what's on the front of her dress.
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Auntriarch 11 months ago
I sent one of these at new year, but the picture was of Joanna Lumley. Obviously.
nm (he/him) 11 months ago (edited)
To his favour he rebuilt Paris to the beautiful city that is today.
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char 11 months ago
Jimmy Mads: "so people can say whatever they want, and we're not gonna do anything about it, that seems fair, right?" Johnny Adams: "but- but what if they're mean to me?" Mads: "no, man, I said-" Woody Wilson: "but what if they're against joining a european war?" Georgie Wash: "i'm sorry, we're doing what? have you guys listened to a thing I told you?" Ikey Eisenhower: "but what if they're commies?" Mads: *flips the table*
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Tabitha 11 months ago (edited)
Then your Habsburg chin tells you the wrong goes much further back than you, but at least it’s all in the family (if you know…)
Niki 11 months ago
This is more or less a family tree issue. Or shall I say, a branch of the family issue. Except everyone's on the same branch, and the tree is sideways.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 11 months ago
If you are still arguing about something when 30 minutes have passed then you are already wrong.
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Tabitha 11 months ago
Bugles all the way! And right off my fingertips, to boot!
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UKGrandad 11 months ago
His left hand is holding brushes and an artist's palette.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 11 months ago
Please don't, living through it was bad enough without regurgitating it...........................
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Corvus 11 months ago
Don't forget to circle something that won't even be mentioned in the video.
TotallyNOTAFox 11 months ago (edited)
And a title that contains "Broke me, unbelievable, or the impossible"
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Feathered Dinosaur 11 months ago (edited)
Amateur. My problems started when I was still in the egg
Lara Verne 11 months ago
No, it started with certain fish that evolved to walk on land.
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Erla Zwingle 11 months ago
First of all, you're pushing me against the wall. Is this your Big Move?
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Forrest Hobbs 11 months ago
More like this, BP, please. I need distractions from the horrors of the world.
The Doom Song 11 months ago
I love these! More like this and less celebrities that literally no one cares about
Jay Scales 11 months ago
I wish the original paintings had a credit - I'd like to know more about some of them....
Charlotte 11 months ago
I found the religious discussion the most interesting part
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 11 months ago
More like this, BP, please. I need distractions from the horrors of the world.
The Doom Song 11 months ago
I love these! More like this and less celebrities that literally no one cares about
Jay Scales 11 months ago
I wish the original paintings had a credit - I'd like to know more about some of them....
Charlotte 11 months ago
I found the religious discussion the most interesting part
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