That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 20, 2020

The Oath of the Tennis Court was a rushed affair because a doubles match was scheduled for 4 pm.

“I want $10,000 on Secretariat!” “What are the odds on Man o’ War?” “I’ll take $5,000!”

“All those who need to delice their wigs, raise your hands!”

And next on the auction block is the estate of the Duke d’Orelans. His trial is tomorrow, and the execution will be on Friday. Who would like to place the opening bid?

“It’s settled again for another year – no women, minorities or poufters.”

“All in favor of adopting rules for a more orderly Parliament raise your hand and yell like a banshee.”

19th century mosh pit…

Hey Fred! I found your lost “safety”! (anyone remember that?)

“Who ordered the pizza with anchovies?”

Annual convention of the international paper airplane enthusiasts.

Any questions? Yes, Steve in the back.

I have four-fifty – Do I hear five hunded?

The first rule of the Fight Club was that you weren’t supposed to talk about it!

Gentleman please, please, stop pushing. There is plenty of room on the artist’s side of the table.

No need to push — everyone will have a chance to sign up — we have plenty of these wonderful timeshares in Versailles [Indiana] left.

“Hi, Mom !”

My God! The Dukes are going to corner the entire frozen orange juice market!

Me,Me, Pick me!

Mon Dieu – white socks with a suit…it is clearly the end of everything !

All in favor of taking a bathroom break now, raise you hand.

“Messieurs! Messieurs! Vous commencez à ressembler à des Américains!”

“Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger……..

“Did you hear what Johnny Depp did?”

“No, but Amber heard.”

“O.K. How many want pizza rather than burgers?”

The Tennis Court Oath, 20 June 1879:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Couder_-_Le_Serment_du_Jeu_de_Paume,_20_juin_1789.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.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/couder_louis-charles-auguste.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=rK9FAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA121#v=onepage&q&f=false

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

http://www.sudoc.fr/151261784

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (the last has his résumé in English below the French), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here (3 times, with 1 repeat).

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/12/27?comments=visible

has the prior (the repeat, my comment there points to its first use; but, it includes no artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2495 (July 19, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

OR-DAH! OR-DAH!!!

The world just wasn’t ready for the “SIEG HEIL” in 1848

This brings back the memory of a log-ago college friend, who invariably referred to it as “The Tennis Coat Orth”.

You can’t see the evidence yet/ but the King would come to regret/ that the courts were available/ (and his court was assailable)/ for he’d let them remove the net.

Oh, my god!! Who farted?

And how many vote that we have our next meeting in the hospital’s COVID ward?

The guy on the far right isn’t gonna sign the oath no matter what and I have my doubts about the guy doubled over the chair in the center front.

HOLD ON guys i gotta go potty.

The Deputies, lacking a Chair/ were casting about in despair/ for nobody would serve/ but one vile little perv/ by the name of Robespierre..(and things took a turn for the worse when his detractors nicknamed him “The Tennis Court Oaf” ).

“Hi, Tom! Did you bring the whiskey?”

On 17 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume), vowing “not to separate and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established”. It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution. The Estates-General had been called to address the country’s fiscal and agricultural crisis, but they had become bogged down in issues of representation immediately after convening in May 1789, particularly whether they would vote by order or by head (which would increase the power of the Third Estate, as they outnumbered the other two estates by a large margin).