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<p>132.180.124.189: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1182<br /> | date = March 6, 2013<br /> | title = Rembrandt Photo<br /> | image = rembrandt photo.png<br /> | titletext = ::click:: Come back! You didn't see the one of Whistler's mother!<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> <br /> Rembrandt was a Seventeenth Century Dutch artist. Megan is claiming to show Cueball a photo of Rembrandt's parents at the time that his mother became pregnant (his conception). Since photography wasn't invented until the Nineteenth Century, it can't be a real photo, so Megan describes it as an artist's conception; that is, how an artist would imagine a photo of Rembrandt's parents having sex to look.<br /> <br /> The joke is the double entendre of 'artist's conception'; (1) Rembrandt's mother becoming pregnant with him and (2) the creation of the image.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Megan is holding a laptop. Cueball is sitting at a desk and turned around to face Megan.]<br /> :Megan: Hey, look - Rembrandt's parents having sex!<br /> :Cueball: ''Waugh!'' Why do you-<br /> :Cueball: ...Wait, how can there be a photo of that?<br /> :Megan: It's an artist's conception.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Language]]</div>

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