Smile!

Yes, smile! as you gaze upon Picasso's immortal scene of horror and despair, set amid one of the greatest Fascist atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. C'mon, everybody, smile! Don't be a Grumpy Gus! Later on we can all sing The Heffalump Song as we tour Treblinka.

I swear, every new day brings to light a new reason why anyone who ever held any kind of position in marketing should be immediately and involuntarily sterilized.

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Disclaimer: Image harvested by me from a late '05 issue of the Smithsonian. All rights reserved, to whoever wants them. Also, this post should in no way be construed to \ suggest that visiting Spain is not a worthy objective, far from it; lots to see in Spain, and I gather the people are reputedly nice--and besides, it is hardly their fault that the ad agency they hired turned out to be run by mental-asylum escapees.