Ceci n'est pas un president

[MineralMan]

[Hekate]

1. Surreality!

[MineralMan]

2. I remember the first time I saw that painting.

It was in a class in high school. The teacher held up a print of it and asked the class what they thought. Being the class smartass, I raised my hand. After being recognized, I simply said, "Of course it's not a pipe. It's a drawing of a pipe." From the teacher's expression, I could see that I ruined his afternoon. He had to go on to some other subject. Apparently, he thought he would get to explain that to his stupid high school students. Haha!

Had I thought about it for another couple of seconds, I would have said it in French. "C'est une image d'une pipe." That would have been even better.

Teachers hated me sometimes.

[lapucelle]

3. Vraiment formidable!

Or as my more blasé students love to say in their newly learned slang:

ouais

[Voltaire2]

4. Misses Magritte's point, but amusing.

It would be better with a straight picture of Twitler looking all presidential. At that point both Magritte's statement about perception and the political criticism of the status of a fraudulent president are in play.

[elleng]

5. Non