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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

and both of them are judging you

[–] PugJesus 21 points 2 months ago

He looks intense as fuck. The cat looks like they'd open the door high on catnip and invite you in for a glass of milk when you were just there to drop off the mail.

[–] Skymt 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And I judge them back. You should not look like sour milk when getting a portrait!

[–] Snowclone 12 points 2 months ago

He was just bummed they wouldn't give his cat a noble laureate for helping him realized language is also an expectation of received meaning and not just intended meaning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is actually his happy face.

[–] Skymt 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

To honour his work, in Mérida, Yukatán, Mexico, a memorial has been erected modelled based on that photograph.

memorial

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[–] Daviedavo 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What?!? Mexico has carbonite freezing technology? When did this happen?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Obviously George Lucas has licensed his patent to the Mexican government.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Aw, will to live empowered for another day after seeing the cat statue part.

[–] galanthus 9 points 2 months ago

And he was always fighting publishers to have her listed as co-author.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They both look like smart guys.

[–] spittingimage 3 points 2 months ago

Clearly they have both learned things mankind was never meant to know.