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Is it just me, or is the bashing getting too easy? The jokes almost writes themselves now.
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When George W. Bush became a “born-again” christian, he became very attached to a painting entitled “A Charge to Keep” (1916) by W.H.D. Koerner, and eventually bought it.
With the help of Harper’s Magazine, the truth about it is revealed now, and it looks like Mr. Bush should have spent just a couple of minutes more checking the history behind the painting, before buying it.
The painting looks like this:
This is what Bush thinks about it:
“I thought I would share with you a recent bit of Texas history which epitomizes our mission. When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly charging up what appears to be a steep and rough trail. This is us. What adds complete life to the painting for me is the message of Charles Wesley that we serve One greater than ourselves.”
The true meaning of the painting (or illustration, I might say) by Wilhelm Heinrich Dethlef Körner (I kinda understand why he shortened it a bit!):
“The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled ‘The Slipper Tongue,’ published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: ‘Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught.’”
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Do you know the difference between Arial and Helvetica?
Now you can check it out in a quiz.
(I scored 8/10)
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- an interesting WikiPedia-article about how physics in cartoons differ from “real life” physics. Manga is a whole different chapter, but fun to read, none the less.
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