Suggestion: Been There Shaped History

This image IS of my doing, from my Times Like This comic. I give full permission to use it, if that clears up any legal BS.

Fixed the tag.

That image seems to be mostly text, for me at least.

I like it. Better than no image.

I like it, and while there's a good bit of text, the text and the image complement each other; neither would work alone.

Indeed; another vote for it on my part.

Count my vote for it.

How do we put it on the page? Vertically stacked or downsized?

Stacked vertically looks best to me.

I am skeptical of the claim that it's better than nothing. How does it illustrate the trope? Maybe I just don't get it.

It's very weak to me, and I'm not even sure I understand it. If it had been on the page, I might've called Keep Until Better Image Suggested, but as it isn't, I don't see a significant improvement to add it to the page.

edited 20th Nov '12 4:17:35 PM by AnotherDuck

Was Jefferson going to write "pursuit of Yankee Doodle" if not for the scene outside the window?

I like it.

Would someone who likes it please explain why?

I believe it'd have been "Life, liberty and property", wouldn't it? As per John Locke.

I meant in that comic's world.

I think what it's saying is that seeing the guy chasing the girl and the obvious fun they're having persuaded him to make the last thing "pursuit of happiness" as opposed to whatever he might've been thinking of at the time, if anything. It's not a slam dunk, but it works well enough for me.

I see it the same way as Wilbyr. What "Pursuit of Happiness" replaced (or even if he had anything he replaced it with) isn't relevant.

It is relevant in the sense that without something like that, it's really hard to understand. You have to know what the trope means already to figure it out. I think page images should be meaningful before someone reads the page it's on.

I disagree that what he was going to put, (if he was going to put anything at all) is relevant. The important thing is that the couple flirting cause him put down what we are familiar with it saying. And him thinking "Ok, how about..."And the Pursuit of Happiness..." strongly indicates that he had no intention of putting that particular phrase until he saw then.

edited 20th Nov '12 8:27:10 PM by Madrugada

"What we are familiar with it saying" is the Real Life equivalent of fanmyopia, though. It's not common knowledge outside USA. I only guessed what it was about because I know what the trope means.

I'm from the US and I still don't really get it.

Clock is set.

I'm from South Africa and I understand it.

He's writing the Declaration of Independence.

It also implies that the people outside inspired him to add that part to the Declaration.

I thought that the man outside was a time traveller due to his clothes and his hair, which would make sense for the trope.

edited 22nd Dec '12 4:00:40 PM by KarjamP

Alright, the clock's up and we really don't have enough of a solid consensus to go with the pic. Locking up.