That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 28, 2018

François started twerking when the Queen entered the room.

All the writers of the M*A*S*H* finale thought their ideas were soooo great.

“Finally! Here’s the cake with the stripper inside.”

Henry regretted pulling Floyd’s finger.

It was a special night at the Freemasons Meeting and Reginald was instructing the wives the proper way to ride the goats.

“You put your right arm in……”

7th attempt to get a portrait with everyone’s eyes open.

Only those with the shapeliest calves were allowed to sit in the front row.

Casting call for ‘1776- The Musical’ Broadway revival.

Among the demi-monde Hannah and her sisters were considered quite daring, but no one expected them to take on the entire Congress of Vienna!

Arrogant French aristocrats flagrantly violating fire code limits on number of occupants per square foot of room space

Excellent page about this painting at www4.ncsu.edu/~kimler/hi322/salon.html. It includes a guide that shows who all these people are, including the woman at the right, Madame de Geoffrin—it’s her salon. By the way, unlike several of the other people in the painting, she did not wind up at the guillotine. She died of a stroke in 1777.

But they are all bewigged!

I need you all to buy a time share before we get to our free dinner.

The Emperor’s Tweet writers planning tomorrow morning’s screeds.

Wouldn’t this be more fun with some entertainment?

The Marquise of Lafayette busts a move.

Reading of Voltaire’s “L’Orphelin de la Chine”, In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin or In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salon_de_Madame_Geoffrin.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting. The strip coloration image comes from the Summary inset image.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/lemonnier_anicet-charles-gabriel.html 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/l/lemonnie/biograph.html 

http://correspondancefamiliale.ehess.fr/index.php?1434 

all have info about this artist (the last in French; again, Chrome can automatically translate), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2027 (August 27, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

WAITING FOR THE LONG PANTS STORE TO OPEN.

“When did he say he was coming?”“Soon… umm..Who are we talking about?”