That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 02, 2020

“’Let’s go to Paris,’ you said. ’There’s plenty of work for people with artistic training,’ you said.”

For some reason floor stripping didn’t catch on as a sport. Then someone put the bottle at the other end of the room and rolled a ball towards it. More bottles were then added and the rest is history.

Then they called it bowling.

“Ok, I guess we should have ordered the company work shirts with 2-day shipping.”

“I don’t care what your buddy Huck Finn said, this job sucks!”

Gustave got stuck in the corner. The model couldn’t get in and he couldn’t get out. So this is what we get.

whenever anyone asked how they were doing the boys just said, oh, we’re scraping by…

These guys thought they were going to be working for an early all-male strip club…

Still, sometimes housewives would pay extra for them to strip themselves as well as the flooring..

But they were still just scrapping out a living

Giving French polishing a new meaning.

Tell me again about the rabbits, George.

It’s a little late to be telling me you think she meant the other room.

Did you just rip one off? Warn me before you do it again! That one was so foul it belongs in the gutter!

Not what they thought they’d be doing when they applied to be male strippers.

Wax on, wax off – I thought mr. Miyagi was going to teach us karate.

First they strip, then they dance. (you need a good floor for ballet, after all)

“I didn’t think that THIS is what the gym meant by floor exercises!”

I voted for Sanders…but they ain’t been invented yet.

Pierre thought, “One more glass of zis wine, and I hit him with zis hammer.”

“I majored in German Literature- why do you ask?”

By ICE we’re relentlessly hunted/ and we know that you’re feeling affronted/ we’re illegals,and thus/you feel threatened by us/and we’ve taken these great jobs you wanted….

“Tell me the unvarnished truth. Has this exercise really improved my abs?”

“Oh no!” she says, “wall-to-wall carpet is so gauche” she says. “You and your buddies can hand scrape these floors in no time” she says. You’re still by buddies, right?

Had to do that to a barracks floor, used bayonets to scrape off a few years of DND wax

The Floor Scrapers: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Caillebotte_-_The_Floor_Planers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this drawing. First Other versions entry has strip coloration.

 

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

https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/caillebotte_gustave_1848_1894 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=23 

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/archives/archives/article/gustave-caillebotte-1848-1894-4135.html 

http://www.all-art.org/impressionism/caillebotte1.html 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/c/caillebo/biograph.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-caillebotte 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/gustave-caillebotte/biography 

https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/exhibitions/pdfs/2015/caillebotte_brochure_Blueline%20copy.pdf 

http://totallyhistory.com/gustave-caillebotte/ 

https://www.topofart.com/artists/biography/Caillebotte/ 

https://www.simondickinson.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/CAILLEBOTTE.pdf 

http://hoocher.com/Gustave_Caillebotte/Gustave_Caillebotte.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 14 works by him have been used here (16 times, with 1 different caption repeat, plus this repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/11/11?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there had the same artist info URLs).

Continuing, …

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/03/13?comments=visible 

has the first time this appeared here, and while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 29 hyperlinks and 3 embedded images remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative. References in the title URL and its 3rd Other versions point to the mentioned videos.

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1170 (March 12, 2015) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“You know, when they told me I’d get to see strippers up close, I was looking forward to it…”

That’s hilarious!

Chippendales rehearsing?

Heaven help you if you start praying.