That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 21, 2019

“No, Your Imperial Majesty, I hadn’t thought about putting a glass pyramid outside the Louvre.”

Architects present the first (rejected) version of the stairway to heaven she’s considering buying.

“This will be the food court where we will sell fried fish and turnips. One new vendor that may have a chance is called New York Les Frites.”

Well, Your Majesty, we were never asked for something like that in a bathroom remodeling, but we can include the armrests and the cup holder in the toilet.

“It’s called a “Mall”. It’ll have 150 stores."

Longest game of Pictionary ever.

Ancestry.com started out making house calls……

Bill Gates, trying to get investors, demonstrates how Windows will work.

Today’s chapter of “How I Beginneth Relations with Thou Matron” (“How I Met Your Mother”).

Premarital counseling, circa 1850. “After the bride has been helped into her voluminous flannel nightdress and the groom has donned his long cambric nightshirt, they will be escorted to the chambre matrimoniale. The clergyman will say a blessing and the candles will be doused, and the new bride may then begin submitting to her husband.”

…and we will bring you the latest in sports after this message from our sponsor….

“And this, my friends, will be installed lastly at the Winchester House. Sarah calls it, ‘The Door to Nowhere’.”

The first Door to Door salesman.

Does it include “The Wall?”

Introducing the Org. Chart, “That’s you on top, sir.”

Can no one here read the bottom line?

I call it “Door”

The Completion of the Louvre. The Emperor Approving the Plans Presented by Monsieur Visconti.: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Napol%C3%A9on_III_et_Visconti.JPG

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

https://www.proantic.com/en/display.php?mode=obj&id=280589 

http://www.askart.com/artist/Ange_Tissier/11075626/Ange_Tissier.aspx 

both have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (the full bio at the 2nd can be read for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. Since he was one of Napoleon III’s official (portrait) painters, French books have more about him 

https://books.google.com/books?id=aZVxAdQyE-oC&q=Tissier&pg=PA256#v=onepage&q=Tissier&f=false 

for example; but, unfortunately automatic translation of those isn’t currently available (can’t translate images of text). 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 #2163 (March 20, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Why the great Paris bank robbery of 1865 failed.

Here’s the diagram of your horn lesson for today, Your Majesty:

You blow thru here

The music goes ’round and around

Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho

And it comes out here.

—Tommy Dorsey

“And this small room is an innovation we are calling a toilet.”

“Oh, Henry, the new house with a built-in abattoir sounds most amusing.”

“..easy-to-clean vinyl coating, and a 20-year warranty on all moving parts..”

I ask for fine art and you bring me THIS? Just who is this “Picasso” person, anyway? He’s no better than that Warhol fellow.

no! the TV is not hi def, and you may have some distortion due to the back lit candles.

Oh darling I love it! My very own she-shed.

…..I’ll give you $500 or you can have what’s behind Door #1.

I see the paintings are sequential. Yesterday, we had the wedding. Today, we have selecting the furniture.

“Sir, do you mean to tell this court, and your betrothed, that this artist’s sketch is not an actual representation of yourself caught in a compromising position with the woman in the blue dress, who is at present standing right behind your bride-to-be?”