That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 15, 2019

Arttu, being the perfectionist, wanted to hit that stone exactly in the right spot.

Little Ivan’s first “Paint By Numbers” birthday present – “The Gulag”.

The original rock concert.

Didn’t you say that the Soviet Union was the paradise of the workers?

“How many times do I have to tell you that I’m sorry and that I promise not to hit you again?”

Hi – um, not Ho, um,LOW!

Frans tried using Thor’s hammer, not realizing that he wasn’t worthy.

Next time I raising my hand for sickle work.

“After work I’m gonna get hammered”

“If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the mornin’…wait..I DO have a hammer ! We ALL have hammers !”

Working on the Scandinavian pyramids.

The traditional Finnish practice of vasara tasapainotus: balancing hammers on large rocks.

“That spider was quick! Did you get him?”

Back in the USSR, you don’t know how lucky you are boy…

Dude! You are totally rock-blocking me!

Those new fiber optic lanterns sure make it bright down here.

“Still won’t gong. Let’s try another shape.” ~ First Bell Makers of The Realm

The Norskies in Duluth tell much funnier Finlander jokes.

This is what happens to Finns who refuse to take a sauna!

Forced to work at the rock pile on a diet of lutefisk and aquavit.

♪Working in a coal mine, going down down down♪ ♪It’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mines♪ ♪You dig 16 tons and whadaya get♪ Hey Sven. How come all the good mining songs are about coal?

He claimed he was “pure Finnish” stock/ and to be a “chip off the old block”/ but that was all crap/his mother was Lapp !/ He was merely a PIECE of the rock.

“All I said was ‘Mr. President, that might not be such a good idea,’ and here I am.”

“When I nod my head, hit it.”

Esa was disappointed by the swingers’ lifestyle.

Harkonnen asked him what he was dune, but Paul’s stony reply was to warn him to leto it go!

the true secreat behind the pyramids , Russia was underground supplying the Egyptians with cut stone.

“no, i like the trini lopez version better…”

Crushing it.

Kaarlo didn’t realize that Sedrik’s idea of getting stoned involved a 20 lb sledgehammer.

Casting call for “The Anvil chorus”. Ingmar thought he had a good chance of making it tothe movie version.

Reposting the accidentally deleted (by me) comment

Stone Breakers or In the Stone-Quarry: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pekka_Halonen_-_Kivi_katkaisijat.jpg 

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

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2975 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/halonen-pekka 

https://curiator.com/art/pekka-halonen 

https://www.uv.es/capelo/Pekka_Halonen.html 

http://www.thearttribune.com/Two-exhibitions-in-Helsinki-Pekka.html 

http://www.alternativefinland.com/art-pekka-halonen/ 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 4 works by him have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/05/24?comments=visible 

has the prior work (my comment here includes 2 additional artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2265 (August 14, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.