Joi de Vivre

[doodab]

One of the problems of working from home with clients in another country is there is no reason to get out of bed. Apart from going down the pub.

FTFY

[HairyArsedBloke]

I've never been one for laying in bed. Also at my age, my bladder won't let me.

The only rule I have is that I don't 'properly' get up in the dark.

[OwlHoot]

Unfortunately the picture is out of date. These days you can’t even smile for a passport photo. Your picture is also older than when passports were introduced. Passports were introduced during World War I . Prior to that people just travelled without boarder restrictions be it a chat with the customs officials.

The other day I was half watching one of those WW2 documentaries on Sky (absolutely a last resort, but there was nothing else on) and they were interviewing some old dear who survived the allied bombing of Cologne.

Now it must be easy enough to cobble together a documentary like that, just by stringing together a load of archive footage, and have some old buffer waffling a commentary. (That must be why they churn out so many - Piss easy, and dirt cheap.)

But whoever made this must have been the most crassly stupid unobservant imbecile hack ever, because hanging right behind the old lady in plain view was a huge poster of a painting of three people with their knockers out.

I say people rather than women because their faces were just out of shot (which made the painting ever more hypnotically distracting), and the figures looked comically scruffily dressed and might even have been guys wearing false boobs.

I have a vague recollection of some famous Dutch painting called something like "The Three Clowns", and I wonder if that was a copy.

EO, if you are an arts buff, does that ring a bell?

[OwlHoot]

Bumped, because I'd really like to know what that painting was.

Anyone? Or are we all a bunch of Phillistines?

[Paddy]

Bumped, because I'd really like to know what that painting was.

Anyone? Or are we all a bunch of Phillistines?

Don't know however, take a look at this one. Fantastic lighting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ge...pelaarster.jpg

[doodab]

http://www.artinthepicture.com/paint...-Three-Clowns/

It's not that one.

[HairyArsedBloke]

The gezza is Jack Falstaff. He's the one that mucks about with the future Henry V, when he is Prince Hal. (This bit I know)

The artist is Eduard Von Grutzner. (This bit I googled)

Edit: It's called "Falstaff mit Handschuhe"

[HairyArsedBloke]

Don't know however, take a look at this one. Fantastic lighting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ge...pelaarster.jpg

I like that one.

[OwlHoot]

I like that one.

WHS - Infinitely superior to "60s carpet" modern art rubbish.