An odd but hilarious rabbit hole, courtesy of this French history podcast:

https://thesiecle.com/episode48/

Most notoriously, in 1831 the cartoonist Charles Philipon published an image depicting Louis-Philippe’s head as a pear. Put on trial for insulting the king, Philipon defended himself by telling the court that Louis-Philippe so resembled a pear that an “artist could quite easily have drawn the parallel unintentionally” — and then demonstrated it by drawing a four-panel caricature in which a drawing of the king’s face morphs into a pear.

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

My face when I took mushrooms at the family picnic cuz I thought it was gonna be boring.

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