That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 25, 2019

“So, what is the artist trying to say here?”

This is simply a linguistics example illustrating that “bear” and “bare” are homophones.

Eric suddenly felt self conscious about his shortcomings.

“Eww, what’s that on the floor behind you, mister?” / “Beat it kid, I think I hear your mother calling you.”

The man who decided to bear all.

The naked and the dead… sounda like a good title for a book…

That’s actually a good idea. Cover up your dangling part before poking the big dog with a stick.

Covering himself in the flag, LITERALLY !

Lesbos? We don’t need no stinkin island Lesbos.

“(BEEP!) Who let the kid in?”

These Turkish Baths are amazing, but the rug smells like wet dog.

The weather here in San Francisco is so warm we don’t need any clothes."

“Just watch us, Jimmy. Just watch us.”

“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel !”

Who do we know that likes to get ‘it on’ with the flag?

In the air, there’s a certain tension/ that the media seldom mention/ there’s nothing to wear/ but they don’t seem to care/ at the Child-molesters’ Convention.

Remember Junior, when you wrestle with dogs it is always wise to cover your dangly bits.

“Wash Day” at the Vatican ain’t what it use to be.

The German title is “Der Fahnenträger“ – “The Flagbearer.” So what’s up with the bear, the kid and the gay couple in the background? Inquiring minds are finding a distinct dearth of information out there in web-land.

I’m giving this resort a very low ranking on Expedia.

“Joey, do like movies about gladiators?” “You ever seen a grown man naked?”

His problem is that his flag is at half mast.

Hey! How come there isn’t any fat guys? Fake !!

Get him! He desecrated our flag!

FLAGPANTS: A little puzzle for you Tommy. If in the land of blind people, the one eyed man is King, who would be King in the land of naked people? Tommy? Any guesses? TOMMY: Umm, that dude over there? FLAGPANTS: Tommy you idiot…

Clearly, the dining room skimps on food.

From the coffee table book “Maxwell Parrish: Those ‘Other’ Magazines.”

Full frontal nudity (very airbrushed though) of a man, and then a man with a flag draped way too obviously over his you-know. Weird.

“This meeting of the Man / Boy Love Association will come to order! And get your paws off my drapes!”

The standard bearer: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Thoma_Der_Fahnentr%C3%A4ger_1892.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly ledger paper size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/thoma_hans.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=5026 

http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104005692 

https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artists/hans-thoma/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/t/thoma/biograph.html 

http://www.hans-thoma.com/ 

http://www.safran-arts.com/42day/art/art4oct/art1002.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate if needed), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 7 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/05/06?comments=visible 

has the prior one (including my reply, my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2251 (July 24, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Don’t complain to me. You said you wanted clothes and so I killed you some. It’s not like there’s a Target around the corner, you know.

His freak flag is definitely not flying free.

What flag is this/ that proudly flies/ above this band/ of naked guys ??/ What banner bold/ slyly conceals/that part which/ when this giant kneels/ doth scrape the floor ?/T’is NOT his heels… ( it needn’t ALWAYS be a limerick !)

When they run out of bath towels at the Fire Island Hilton.

Dressing for the weather in Europe. It is 40+C this week.

Dieter wasn’t patriotic. He just had a lot to be modest about.

This is probably the most astonishing fine brush technique I’ve ever seen in an artist who’s clearly stoned out of his mind.

When I realized that not ONE of these nudes was female,my interest flagged instantly.

Fredrick, not wanting to be called a child sex Predator, hid himself in the flag, his two friends didn’t notice the kid and keep on hugging.

Tom Cruise…the college years.

They shushed up the kid who claimed, “The Emperor has no clothes”, and then the Emperor ordered everyone to buy their clothes from his tailors.