Trippin' Through Time

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Tripping' Through Time

A Lemmy community for historic art pieces overhauled into modern memes.

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submitted 10 months ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca

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[–] MrNobody@quokk.au 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

1 going on 30 with those bald spots.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reason might be that it weren't kids in the variant of the legend the painting is based on, but a kind of medieval travelling clerics on their way to Athens. Says so in the German Wikipedia.
Medieval paintings didn't care for realistic size comparisons, so might well have been misinterpreted as kids in later times.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe St. Nick half-assed the sign of the cross. So when the traveling clerics were resurrected, they got resurrected in fun sized.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

why is it called "fun" sized?

[–] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Because "lesser portion" doesn't hit the same.