That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 02, 2021

They ended up in the tank of your car.

The first painting of nude bathers.

Pulling a “duck face” on your selfie apparently goes way back.

What the F*%&^? Is that what they thought dinosaurs looked like back in the 19th century? That looks like a cross between a kangaroo and a toad taking a bathroom break.

Eunice despised her mother-in-law, which is why she didn’t tell the old bag she had just relieved herself in that part of the pond.

Worst-Club-Med-Ever!

Darrell has a drinking problem.

Be sure to gargle as you rinse! Otherwise, everybody will say you have swamp breath.

a trachodon pauses to ponder the meaning of the approaching ball of fire…

At times, old Darrell’s salacious/ at others, he’s actually gracious/ but whatever his mood/ be he sober or “stewed” / you can’t say he isn’t Cretaceous.

Nothing to do with the painting, but I got a sidebar ad that said “CPAP sale” which morphed into “crap sale” in my head.

That must be a Kardashiasaur.

“Come along or we’ll miss the bus.”

Shouldn’t the painting year be 1897 BC?

Say, dear, what’s the name of this park again…Jurassic?

“If I only had wings…”

It’s a Duck-billed Squatasaurus

It’s the ancestor of Jar Jar Binks.

Hurry up Percy, or we’ll be late for the King’s Costume Ball.

Moments later, the Lady of the Lake appeared, presenting Daryl with a sword that once he beheld it he turned purple, and he began singing, "I love you, you love me’ And he renamed himself Barney the Great.

Hang on, I am sure I can find the contact lens that fell out

Hurry up Maude, it’s starting to rain and the Ark is starting to fill up.

Jurassic Park Beach Resort never seemed to work out. However, Disney Resorts have refined the idea on a smaller scale.

That epoch was epic!

As she sat on the bank, Harriet pondered the future. “Someday,” she thought, “this will all be transformed into a shopping mall … Maybe by then someone figure out how to create a pair of pants that doesn’t make my ass look big.” Such an impossible dream, she sighed quietly, and shuffled off to eat more water weeds.

HAROLD: I just had a premonition, Maude. In a billion years, right here where we stand, they will be debating whether or not we ever really existed! BUT INCREDIBLY, this place will be named for the pick-up line I used on you!

MAUDE: Oh yeah. That lame “because you’re the only Ten I See”. I gotta quit those fermented berries…

They must be going shopping. You know how us guys are.

This is not what I meant by “draining the swamp.”

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjHsIWJ_pHvAhXaKM0KHdBDAvEQyCkwAnoECAMQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DX53ZSxkQ3Ho&usg=AOvVaw2wH0MbGVVf8YD0445AV2pI

Props to Charles Knight for finding the live models.

Nigel! Leave the fish alone! You know we are vegetarians.

Hadrosaurus mirabilis (Trachodon): 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knight_hadrosaurs.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this painting.

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

https://prabook.com/web/charles.knight/3738057 

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1658 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/dinosaur-leidy-knight/ 

http://www.charlesrknight.com/Biography.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. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2653 (March 1, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

First Dinosaur: “Wait a minute. I am really thirsty and need a drink!”

Second Dinosaur: “I don’t think you would want to drink there, if you would look around and see what I just left.”

I grew up loving the Charles Knight dinosaur paintings in the World Book Encyclopedia (published by Field Enterprises); I was in grad school *1987) when I got to see the originals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. I forget when the Field Enterprises – Field Museum – Marshall Field connection clicked. Sometime between my first and third visits (2008) they remodeled the prehistoric section, including removing the old murals and displaying photos of them with related fossils and more current reconstructions.

Jar Jar Binks and friend in an earlier life.

A young Hadrosaurus named Boris/aspired to a spot in the chorus/with his seventh rejection/ said he, with dejection/ “we’re reptiles. They’ll always ignore us.”

The problem, of course was his tail/ There were dance moves he just couldn’t “nail”./ You may master the song/ but a tail twelve feet long/ pretty much guarantees that you’ll fail !

So ends the sad story of a young “boy’s” dream of Broadway, and how cruel biology forced him to settle for a career in actuarial science – not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Oil came from tiny plankton that died out long before the dinosaurs.

I never want to hear that old joke again about why the DUCK billed the Dinosaur!! :>)

Mispelled Darrel (hehehe)

Charles R. Knight. University of Wyoming. Interesting person with quite a few credits….