Outside the Beltway

‘Casually Pepper Spraying Cop’ Meme

Steven L. Taylor · Monday, November 21, 2011 · 5 comments

Via NPR: ‘Casually Pepper Spraying Cop’ Meme Takes Off.

I expect many of you have already experience this on Facebook or elsewhere. Two examples from the NPR story:

Spraying the Declaration of Independence (John Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence").

Spraying in the park ("A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by George Seurat).

Others from my FB feed:

FILED UNDER: US Politics, Facebook, meme, NPR

About Steven L. Taylor

Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter

Comments

Franklin says:

Monday, 21 November 2011 at 20:50

Good stuff!
11B40 says:

Monday, 21 November 2011 at 21:21

Greetings:

I enjoy a bit of humor now and then, but I can still tell the difference between peaceful and passive-aggressive.
de stijl says:

Monday, 21 November 2011 at 22:23

If I had any Photoshop skillz I would totally do a “Casually Pepper Spraying The Last Supper”, and as a meta-critical comment on people who diss his stuff, a “Casually Pepper Spraying A Jackson Pollack Painting”.
OzarkHillbilly says:

Tuesday, 22 November 2011 at 08:21

thanx Steve. I needed that.
mattatat says:

Tuesday, 22 November 2011 at 16:00

Oh man when I saw that picture I knew it was going to be 4chan bait and sure enough here we are..

There is actually already an image of casually pepper spraying cop in the last supper..