That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 15, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  over 5 years ago

    The Romans learned marching with a torch while celebrating the wine festival was not such a good idea.

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    Strob Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Jenny knew how to fire up the band in more ways than one.

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    Papared25  over 5 years ago

    Diana openly carried a torch for her beloved Augustus. She was mortified later when she discovered it was just a figure of speech.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Everyone was making such a big deal of it because June taught her husband to put the seat down on the toilet.

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    garcoa  over 5 years ago

    She led all the street musicians out of the town and then locked the gate.

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    Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 5 years ago

    She’s keeping a close eye on the guy carrying the amphora of Falernian…

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    jbrobo Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Try as they might,but they couldn’t get the cobra to come out of the basket

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    ccomebacktour  over 5 years ago

    The PIED PIPPER’S mother !

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    Ubintold  over 5 years ago

    Must be all the people who got their refunds.

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    aerotica69  over 5 years ago

    Really guys, it isn’t the Olympic torch. I was just going to burn the chariot of my lying, cheating husband.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 5 years ago

    But people pay taxes every day.

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    ptnjbrown  over 5 years ago

    She takes her music everywhere. Even to the outhouse after dark.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 5 years ago

    The annual procession from Home Depot to the temple of the god of grout. The urn contains hydrogen peroxide.

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    Another Take  over 5 years ago

    Hester Prynne regretted the day she convinced the town folk that there was a better way to punish her for her indiscretions than that damned Scarlet Letter.

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    lagoulou  over 5 years ago

    Early form of stalking…

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 5 years ago

    The Vintage Festival

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1871_Alma-Tadema_Das_Fest_der_Weinlese_anagoria.JPG 

    (best viewed using Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

     

    http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/alma-tadema_sir_lawrence.html 

    http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/alma/alma_bio.htm 

    https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=25 

    http://www.all-art.org/history400-1.html 

    https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp00090/sir-lawrence-alma-tadema 

    http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/694/lawrence-alma-tadema-dutch-1836-1912/ 

    https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/a/almatade/biograph.html 

    https://www.wikiart.org/en/sir-lawrence-alma-tadema 

    http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/tadema/index.html 

    http://www.avictorian.com/alma-tadema_lawrence.html 

    https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/8 

    http://www.hoocher.com/Sir_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema/lawrence_alma_tadema.htm 

    all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. The artrenewal.org URL may have more artist info by the end of the week. So far, 15 works by him have been used here. 

    https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/08/15?comments=visible 

    has the prior. One artist info URL has been added to the list in my comment there.

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2180 (April 14, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

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    gileshead  over 5 years ago

    Looks downright mournful! Rejoice! You’re experiencing one of the three certainties of life: Death, Taxes and Boredom!

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    Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 5 years ago

    “Hey, you on the far end. Yeah, you! That was supposed to be F#, not F natural. You ruined the whole thing!”

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    Linguist  over 5 years ago

    Messalina was thrilled with her new public relations firm, – Augustus, Silvanus, Sexto, & Ogilvy – who were making her a household name in Rome.

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    MissScarlet Premium Member over 5 years ago

    She was really dreading telling the commission that they only got two urns full from the annual harvest.

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    d1234dick Premium Member over 5 years ago

    the local ladies didn’t like the new girl and shot herb with pea shooters.

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    PoodleGroomer  over 5 years ago

    There were some cute bargains in the annual school loan indentured slave auction.

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    rmremail  over 5 years ago

    It’s all fun and games until they set fire to the sacrificial alter.

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    CougarAllen  over 5 years ago

    Look where you’re going, young lady! That’s how the cathedral caught on fire!

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