Originally published at: Paintings of U.S. presidents holding large hams | Boing Boing
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trump can hold a ham with those tiny hands?
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“following a friend’s introduction to the concept of “larding” wherein one leaves a chunk of lard on an unsuspecting person’s porch for later discovery.”
wait, what?
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Seems like a rather ham-handed attempt at humor.
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US Grant - Hiding second ham under his jacket?
William McKinkey - Vampire? Hampire?
Woodrow Wilson - HP Lovecraft’s real father?
Lydon Johnson - Maddogging you. Try and take his ham, just try it.
Donald Trump - Strokes his ham like Ernst Blofeld stroked his cat.
Kind of interesting how nobody really smiled in portraits until the mid 1900’s. Warren G Harding might be smiling, but that looks more like a mocking Lannister leer, to me.
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Mmmmm, Ham!
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It’s a pig holding a hog. I don’t get it?
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Trump IS the ham.
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Rotten ham, no likey.
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For a number of these it is hard to tell who is holding who…
They’re pardoning the hams for the holiday.
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I have a really stupid question. Is this how hams used to look, all the way back to the time of George Washington? I mean, of course they’re always from that part of a pig so of course that’s how the inside would look. But did they have that kind of curved shape, and the kind of rectangular or triangular pattern that we put on hams when we prepare them today?
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I think it’s because:
A papier-mâchéd cornucopia obtained from a thrift store was used as a model for the hams which appear in the paintings.
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