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69 History And Classical Art Memes For People Who Prefer Their Humor With A Little Bit Of Culture On Top
It turns out that the existential dread you felt this morning has already been captured in extraordinary detail by painters who existed centuries before the internet existed. History is full of geniuses documenting the human condition in oils and gold leaf, and they had absolutely no idea they were making a canvas for memes for future generations.
The Instagram page @dailyclassicalmemes has made it their mission to unite the old masters with the modern experience, and the results are hilariously accurate. You can find a cherub looking like it has just read its emails and a maiden who knew the perils of modern dating way before things got weird. The art might have changed, but the feelings have been universal for as long as people have been able to document them.
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Annik Perrot 13 hours ago
He was à Hapsburg, so since he didn't have as prognathic à jaw as some of his relatives (see Charles V), he may have earned the nickname.
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Der Kommissar 4 hours ago
Having lived in Asia for a decade, I can tell you that some Asians think all caucasians look alike.
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I_Exist_=D 15 hours ago
Legends foretell of the Lightning Tail, a mythical and majestic animal with a love for eating oranges.
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Analyn Lahr 15 hours ago
She looks so defiant. Like she was told not to open and she's staring into the eyes of the person who told her as she does.
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Auntriarch 11 hours ago
No it makes you look evil. Not very evil, or slightly evil, but mid evil
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David Paterson 10 hours ago
"Kid" is a crass American neologism. Use "Kyd", the English playwright.
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Janissary35680 14 hours ago
Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger decide to star in a new three-part biographical movie about famous classical music composers. Stallone announces, "I'll play Mozart." Willis goes next and says, "I'll play Beethoven." Schwarzenegger shrugs and says, "OK, I'll be Bach."
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David Paterson 10 hours ago
I love the cat that has appeared here sometimes with the name of "Laundry".
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Analyn Lahr 16 hours ago
I think the three of them are skipping together hand in hand in some places
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Norm Gilmore 13 hours ago (edited)
But some of them can be very entertaining. On YouTube I've been watching Nats What I Reckon. Very sweary but in a funny way (not like Ramsey). Wont be everyone's cup of tea of course.. Edit - The Facebook ones that appear for me are sweary, YouTube is censored :-(
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Phantom Phoenix 14 hours ago
I'd apologise for disturbing you, but clearly you were disturbed well before I came along
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