That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 20, 2021

“He did it.”

Danilo; the first to use the “finger gun” gesture.

“Did you do that? Shame! Shame on you!”

“Walk that way.”

“O.K., I may not be the postman, but I’ll ring the bell twice anyway! (maybe just a little too old?)

“You get a carriage and you get a carriage and you get a carriage…!”

She was hoping some low square cut cleavage would get some attention since she hadn’t much else to look at, but MOM made her put on a white blouse under it.

“Io sono con Stupido !” (I’m with Stupid)

Boy, he looks like a barrel of laughs, doesn’t he?

Tommaso had painted this guy / with an incomplete trophy nearby. / He’d treasure his great / “Fickle Finger of Fate” / when DaVinci had taught it to fly.

“I’m hanging with Stupid”

Here , kid. Pull my finger.

Barnum showing us the way to the Great Egress.

“Please exit thru the Gift Shop”

Upscale sign pointing the way to the men’s room

We’re doing Okay for the nonce/ (it’s stability everyone wants)/but I sense an upheaval/ in matters medieval/ – what you might call a Renaissance./// Society’s warp and weft/ have developed a notable “cleft”/ though injustices linger/ (and in spite of my finger)/ I think that we’re moving Left.///I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve/ and they’ll take a good while to achieve/ but I’ve placed my reliance/ on Reason and Science/ though a few for the “feudal” will grieve.

Always look on the (b)Right side of life!

Whatsa matta you?

Go to your room and clean it until I can no longer smell it from the living room!

[ANY politician with a bad issue]…my predecessor….

I’m just saying, the painting might come out better if you would just open THOSE curtains as well.

The buck stops there.

still from an unreleased fellini comedy about the salem witch trials, la strega pazza, starring peter boyle…

Stop blaming the dog, for that miasmic fog, we all know that he who smelt it, is the one who dealt it, now make haste and go to the bog. ( A pale imitation of Linguist I know, but we can’t all achieve the heights of greatness)

Did that ever work for anybody ever when they were at school? I mean when the teacher asks a question and is looking in your direction and you have absolutely no idea, so you point at the guy in front of you?

“My Cousin Vinnie”, 1520. “Your Honnah, dese two youts..”

I wonder what would happen if I stick my finger in this light socket..

He used the middle finger for the yearbook!

Pull my finger…PROOOOOOT!

Melcher, there’s the door. Use it!

" See, Luigi, this is what happens when you leave the gun and take the cannoli! "

Joel Greenberg.

He was caught doing the booger flick.

Clearly portraits were the stock in trade for many painters. The faces are down pat, but the rest of the body is frequently not in perspective. This man, for example, is portrayed with a really small left thumb and forefinger.

Portrait of a Man: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_a_Man_MET_EP1534.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. File history has strip coloration image.

https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/tommaso-lunetti_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ 

has info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2711 (May 19, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

It was like this before the surgery.

Elaborate art gallery sign directing the way to the restrooms.

“Dammit Doc! That Viagra is putting lead in the wrong pencil!”

Jonathan Pryce pointing to his plethora of awards.

From the look on his face someone took him up on it and he messed his drawers!

“We’re number one…

… meh, OK, maybe not so much"

and I thought “Shit eating grin” wasn’t until the 17th century. Boy, was I wrong!

“Please lower your pants and lean over the table”