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Traditional English Landscape Painting

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This two-panel meme uses a homophone pun based on the famous opening line of Charles Dickens' *A Tale of Two Cities*, which originally begins "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". The top panel features a traditional 19th-century-style oil painting of an English rural village with half-timbered cottages, overlaid with the text "It was the best of shires" -- "shires" refers to the rural counties of England, and replaces "times" from the original quote. The bottom panel features another similar traditional English countryside painting, overlaid with the text "It was the Worcestershires", a pun that sounds nearly identical to "the worst of times" from the original line, referencing Worcestershire, an English county famous for Worcestershire sauce. A bottle of Worcestershire sauce is edited into the horse-drawn cart in the bottom panel to emphasize the joke. The original title of the meme was "Twas the worst".

It Was The Best Of Shires, It Was The Worcestershires

This two-panel meme uses a ho…

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