Okay, I groaned at the McCartney one too. 😎😎😎
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7 comments:
the German version of the lyrics, "Komm, gib mir deine Hand", needs no alteration to fit the picture perfectly
DeepSeek tells me about the Keith pic:
The short answer is that the blackletter Latin text in the background is almost certainly not a direct scan from an original manuscript—it is most likely a synthetic, AI-generated pastiche of medieval script.
The image you shared belongs to a well-known strand of "Medieval Keith Richards" memes, and the most widely circulated version traces back to an AI-generated artwork. Here's what the evidence shows:
The image is AI-generated. The NightCafe creation page for "Medieval Keith Richards" describes it as an image of Richards "playing a lute in a richly decorated illuminated manuscript," rendered "in the traditional style of medieval manuscript illumination". It was generated on January 27, 2025, using the Flux Schnell AI model. Because the entire image is a machine creation, the text in the background is part of that generated composition, not a photograph of a historical document.
AI models learn from real manuscripts. These image generators are trained on vast datasets that include authentic medieval manuscripts. This allows them to produce letterforms and layouts that feel historically plausible—using the dense, angular strokes of blackletter (Gothic) script and Latin-like phrasing. However, the output is a probabilistic approximation, not a faithful transcription of any single source.
The meme genre often uses real manuscript imagery. It's worth noting that many "medieval" memes do use genuine historical sources. The broader Medieval Tapestry Edits format, for example, frequently draws from the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry or the 13th-century Morgan Bible as raw material for jokes. There is even a common meme template that uses a real Latin colophon—a scribe's note reading "Tu lector quicumque ad cuius manus hic libellus obuenerit…" ("Whoever you are, reader, into whose hands this book has chanced…")—which is a genuine manuscript text.
So, while the visual language of the background is grounded in real medieval manuscript traditions, the specific text behind Keith Richards in this meme is a modern, AI-generated imitation rather than a reproduction of an original historical page.
Yes, and one can be assured that Keith's lute is tuned in Open G.
Another good batch! Maybe substitute a banjo for the bagpipes?
The Debbie Harry pic needed no caption.
Smart combination of images., a silent movie laugh so to speak
Okay, the lute tuned in open G cracked me right up., Alzo. 😎
Yes, very funny comment, Alzo :-)
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