That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 04, 2021

Odysseus even got lucky when he was shipwrecked.

Why is it that all the nude beach promotional pictures show hot 20 year olds, but when you get there it’s all overweight middle aged guys airing their junk?

“Oops, I must of got the wrong day for men’s bath time.”

William Paxton usually used his wife as a model. But maybe not this time, though.

Olaf thinks he’s discovered paradise. Who’s gonna tell him?

“Dude, get over here! This bar’s full of girls! Oops.”

Melodrama much? It’s one guy. Put a towel on and tell him off.

owel boy on the Island of Lesbos, Greece!

Spring Break!

The All-nude production of Pirates of Penzance, Frederick’s discovery.

Odysseus struggled ashore. / Nausicaa spied him and swore, / “You echo our nudity, / proving your crudity.” / Wet wash was then hurled, which he wore. /// The Ithacan, now in a quandary, / became much more thoughtful and pondery. / “I may endlessly roam, / but can never reach home / while draped in the handmaidens’ laundry.”

See what he has in his hand? A bush! Must be a bush whacker…

He’s using that old lame excuse about looking for his lost ball as an excuse for showing up. Little does he know that Alice (she in the right front — with a very nice front) is about to unleash a 99 mph fastball to his groin…

When later our hero unravels / the tale, to his wife, of his travels. / He leaves out these cuties, / (each one of them beauties), / and thereby eliminates cavils. /// Odysseus drolly regales / all Ithaca soon with his tales / of Ilium, of course, / that huge wooden horse, / and the single round eye he impales. /// Of Nausicaa, though, and her girls / who glowed in his mem’ry like pearls, / he said not a thing. / It took Homer to sing / of them in the wine-dark sea’s swirls.

Auditions for “Naked and Afraid”

Wait! Is that….Godot??!?

And it was right about at this time that Tony woke up and realized he was living in fourth floor walk-up apartment in Newark.

“Oh look, here comes our first customer.”

And now they’ve got Three balls.

“Hey everyone it’s nude Friday.”

Now Steve, that’s one we can enjoy all weekend.

Looks like good wax jobs!

“I knock the likes of you up all the time.”

promo still for girls gone wild – spring break in phaeacia…

So, what is Paxton’s painting supposed to be about? So glad his “Seated nude with sculpture” wasn’t used – it would be so open to misrepresentation.

Odysseus (say what you will)/ navigated with consummate skill/ but he seems not to be in/ the wine dark Aegean/ it seems he’s arrived in Brazil…

Amazingly, just after this painting was finished, the artist was admitted to a sanitarium for exhaustion, and died shortly thereafter.

The girl on the far right thinks she’s Superman. Either that, or she’s worried about getting shot.

“Hey, Eloise! Here come some more balls you can play with.”

Nausicaa – and seven other women with identical bodies.

Well look at Neptune, the big he-man……hiding behind a rock!

“You’re late, mister. We’ve started the orgy without you.”

Shooting the commercial for Lady Schick razors was interrupted by the old hippie surfer who lived next door.

“Dammit, I’ve got nymphs again. Better call Orkin.”

Oh look girls, it’s Aqualong Man!

Chill! The Government says I get to join this swim competition if I choose to.

My kind of pool party!

Just when you thought that women’s beach volleyball outfits couldn’t get skimpier

“Despite the high cost of living and taxes, there’s a reason people still move to California.”

I can assure you, we do not have your pants.

“Whoa, somebody get Asclepius on the phone! My nymph lode is swelling!”

“Welcome to the Isle of Lesbos. Now go away.”

Nausicaa: 

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

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/1010 

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31974 

https://www.askart.com/artist/William_McGregor_Paxton/23608/William_McGregor_Paxton.aspx 

http://thebostonschoolofpainting.blogspot.com/2011/06/william-mcgregor-paxton.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about the originally attributed artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 6 works by him or a follower have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/04/26?comments=visible 

has the prior by him (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2720 (June 3, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Gilligan’s elder brother, Shamus, was also shipwrecked. But he was the fortunate son.

“Excuse me, ladies! I’m here to deliver a pizza!”

To be honest, this painting looks like it was intended to hang in the bay of a 1947 gas station. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. They can’t all be Bouguereau.

“Oooohh what a lucky man, he was”….

AQUAMAN WAS SUNNING PEACEABLY ON THE BEACH WHEN HE HERD A BUNCE OF HARPIES SINGING AND WAS GOING CRAZY, SO HE PUT HIS CLOTHES BACK ON AND LEFT MAD!

Now that is my kind of beach.

This picture just leaves me … speechless.

Yet there are 165 comments. Apparently I’m the only one.

Definitely a fantasy…….

It occurred to Bob that finding identical octuplets meant that he was dreaming or had stumbled into a low-budget x-rated movie set. Either way, he had no complaints.