That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 09, 2021

Willem couldn’t wait to get better so the veterinarian… I mean doctor… could take that collar off his neck.

It doubles as a toilet seat warmer.

!Oh, god! I’m having a heart attack!" “No, sir. That’s just indigestion from eating the third lard sandwich”

The white bandage wrapped around his neck is all that’s keep John the baptist’s head on.

The size of the ruffle is a status symbol. The bigger it is, the more impressive. If you wear an entire radar dish around your neck, you get to be the Grand Poobah of Northern Outer Bumfuk.

“It’s a garter from my dearly departed wife. She was a big boned woman. What’s your point?”

His hand to his heart he’d complain / about the long flight to Bahrain. / His chief peccadillo? / The best travel pillow / can’t help him to sleep on a plane.

Larry H Parker got me 5.8 million on my whiplash claim!

Against his black garb it glowed palely, / the hand which he exercised daily. / He’d flex his long thumb, / the better to strum / upon his antique ukulele.

The bearded man groaned to a skeptic / that something he ate had been septic. / His ruff of white lace / surrounded a face / that couldn’t have looked more dyspeptic.

♪♫"Vesti la giubba,…."♪♫

The collar he proudly displayed/ was ever so artfully made/ but such fine macrame’/ would not last a day/ with his penchant for finding “ruff trade”.

I know it looks silly but I was biting myself.

“It’s the white collar – the two-in-one collar – it kills both tics and fleas !”

THANKS, SPECIALLY SOL ‘N’ ISH, FOR GIVING ME SUCH A LAUGH THIS MORNING !! HF

“I’m good enough. I’m smart enough. And doggone it people like me.”

We all know you’re hiding a hickey.

When the vet mentioned the cone of shame, I naturally assumed it was for the dog.

Yeah, I lost a bet, so what…

Drooling man wearing his drool collar.

Collar? What collar?

“COME ON DOWN TO FRANZ HALS’ USED CARRIAGES – A dealer you can trust!

Portrait of Bubba Whitecock, in his new Proud Boy uniform, taking his Trump Loyalty Oath.

Not to judge, but your wife’s collar doesn’t do a thing for you.

@ Solstice*1947 – I’ll go with that. It is poetic.

Man signalling the best way he can that his collar is too tight to breathe.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of (insert county here.)

Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Ruff:

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

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

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

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/hals/hals_bio.htm

http://www.artnet.com/artists/frans-hals-the-elder

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/3035/frans-hals-dutch-15821583-1666

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/hals.html

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/dutch_art/dutch_painters.html

https://www.askart.com/artist/Frans_Hals/9000052/Frans_Hals.aspx

https://www.wikiart.org/en/frans-hals

https://prabook.com/web/frans.hals/729950

http://www.all-art.org/history252-19.html

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/frans-hals

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/h/hals/frans/biograph.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/european-art-1600-present-biographies/frans-hals

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/old-masters/frans-hals.htm

http://hoocher.com/Frans_Hals/Frans_Hals.htm

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this 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, 4 works by him have been used here.

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/10/03?comments=visible

has the prior, which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 23 hyperlinks remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2723 (June 8, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

All ready to sing the lead in the opera “Myles Standish,” but it hasn’t been written yet.

Please, please, please pass the Prilosec.

Kees liked to advertise that he was a white-collar criminal.

With that ring on, it’s gonna hurt.

A dude with a beard and a ruff/ may look like he has the stuff/ but if you look closer/ you may yet say “nossir !/ You have some – but it ain’t quite enough..”

Having cued the spotlight, Pieter had only to put on his black gloves and step onto the darkened stage. Then he would be ready to perform his world-famous Floating Head Trick.

Ah, me! What a terrible day! I woke up late, with a splitting headache. And when I asked for blush, I was told they only had white.

To all of my favourite poets out there…

Oh, you guys…