LOL That's a hoot.
Thanks John. Dave S On 4/23/05, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I finally found the Calvin & Hobbes strip I'd been looking for. > It's in Scientific Progress goes "Boink" (on page 23, for > those Robert Rankin fans among us ...) > > Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? > Didn't they have colour film back then? > > Dad: Sure they did. In fact those old photographs *are* in > colour. It's just the *world* was black and white then. > > Calvin: Really? > > Dad: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the > 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too. > > Calvin: That's really weird. > > Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction. > > Calvin: But then why are old *paintings* in color? If the world was > black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way? > > Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane. > > Calvin: But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't > their paints have been shades of grey back then? > > Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did > in the '30s. > > Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too? > > Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember? > >
