Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 14, 2014
June 13, 2014
June 15, 2014
Transcript:
Pig: How come if you look at photos of people from the 1900s, almost nobody is ever smiling? Goat: Well, Pig, that's a complex question, but I suppose it's because-- Rat: They had no Super Bowl, Netflix, or Cheese Puffs. Pig: Of course. Goat: No. Not "of course." Rat: There was no happiness before that.
It’s because smilling wasn’t the in thing to do in photos at the time. It seems to have been a hold over from protraits, though it would also have to do with the time it took to actually have a photo taken. Rats idiotic idea doesn’t hold when you consider that folks were smiling in photos by the 1940s, which was LONG before the Super Bowl and Netflix (hey Rat, try a better way to get your movies).