That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 05, 2020

“All right, who’s job was it to bring the beer?”

“Father, I would like to confess something, but this may not be the right place to do it.”

Oooooo the prooot cabbage rolls have given me a bad case of the toots!

Every now and then, in any large gathering, there are those brief cessations of talk, that seem to occur just when someone needs to pass some gas, just a little noisily. This was one of those moments…

If it’s hookers you want, the guy in the frock looks like a real goer…

Portrait of the first gathering of oppressed husbands, they all arrived without their wives knowing about it.

The convention of Williams deciding if they are to allow William back in after that incident.

Oh sorry, I’d like you to meet General Hooker and his entourage…

middle-aged men practicing their poses…

There are hookers but they’re all male.

Sausage fest.

The 2019 Illuminati Ball or “old white men” for old white men.

Hans is wondering how this guy got in – it’s so obvious he doesn’t fit in.

it is a parliament of whores . . .

“No, I said that there would be fishermen here” (with apologies to David Brin)

MiB annual reunion.

Republicans discussing minority rights. aka should John Green be lowed to join their country club.

Calvin, age 40 and his No Girls Allowed Club.

Maybe this “Congress” idea of yours would work better if we had chairs. And Wifi.

You could pretty much publish this today with a caption of “2020 Republican Presidential Convention.”

A nice, long, reasonably high-quality article devoted to this one specific painting! O rare avis! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Danish_Constituent_Assembly

“Gentlemen! Attention please! In precisely 5 minutes we will begin the “LOCK HER UP” chant followed by “FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS!” Are there any questions? And you there – Jones – NO LIMPING!"

These Danes appear rather jolly/ and they’re pretty well fed, by golly/ they’re waiting for Helen/ with her overripe melons/ to dispel any melancholy …

At any moment the Orange Emperor will make his grand entrance to the applause and adulation of his all-white, all male, and all rich synchophants and minions.

“It never fails. I find a cool little restaurant, then everybody discovers it.”

The Danish Constituent Assembly: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grundlovgivende_rigsforsamling_-_Constantin_Hansen.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this huge painting. File history (12/30/14) has strip coloration image.

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

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=1681 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/h/hansen/biograph.html 

https://my.meural.com/artists/684  

https://prabook.com/web/constantin.hansen/2506634 

https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/VisWeilbach.do?kunstnerId=64&wsektion=alle 

https://arkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/articles/the-decoration-of-the-vestibule-at-the-university-of-copenhagen-frue-plads 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 6 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/03/13?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs, the second of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2464 (June 4, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Slow and steady, son. The hookers will be coming soon.”

Item number one on the agenda: Do women have rights?

A gathering of Trump’s Supporters entitled: A Confederacy of Dunces

I’m sorry. We only have 2,989 chairs. I’m afraid you will have to stand …

Wow, a virus could rack up a lot of points in a hurry here.