That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 28, 2017

1975 Gene Wilder auditioned for Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance.

“Can I breath now? This cummerbund is killing me.”

The little known Epaulet shortage of 1840

There’s one version of this in an oval frame, as seen at tierneystravels.blogspot.com/2013/08/june-29-2013.html (scroll down to it) and another in a rectangular frame as seen at

https://www.google.com/search?q=john+partridge+1840+albert&safe=off&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS724US724&hl=en-US&prmd=misvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZo8e89KvVAhXHLmMKHfFMD4oQ_AUICigC&biw=1366&bih=909&dpr=2#imgrc=j3UUmKxsNYoDCM:

That’s not the Prince Albert who was Queen Victoria’s consort. That’s his cousin, Prince Albert von Bling.

Want to see my piercings?

He’s the one in a can right?

He got some of those medals for catching running refrigerators.

2 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Albert_-_Partridge_1840.jpg

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.avictorian.com/Partridge_John.html

has info about the artist.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1761 (July 27, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

“Heckuva job, Brownie!”

Looks like he’s stuck his head through a hole in the background.

Jared Kushner’s official uniform as Trumpion Ambassador to Russia.

Gene Wilder in his favorite costume.

you can tell that this one was photoshopped…

“..and I’ll be yours in buttons and bows..”

He’s secretly thinking, “I gonna kill Vickie for making me wear these damned white bows from her wedding dress!”