That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 09, 2021

“This big city of high rises and skyscrapers are too confining. I need to get out into the country side.”

Zoom in on us, Henrik. You know, do that thing with your thumb and index finger moving apart… Oh never mind, we’ll just come closer to you.

“Maybe it’s one of those museums that’s WAY nicer on the inside than outside.”

I must say, back when I was a student here, the campus has much nicer lawns.

Conversation overheard outside the Mauritshuis in the Hague:

When I first saw that girl in the painting, / I must tell you, I came close to fainting. / She looks so much like me / that my family tree / and I soon need to be reacquainting. /// I must have her or never find peace; / I believe I’m her great great grandneice. / Back in the museum, / the guards, when I see ‘em, / they have threatened to call the police. /// They all claim that I’m mad and obsessing / over art I’ve no chance of possessing. / At my sanity hearing / I will wear one pearl earring, / and in blue and gold headscarf be dressing.

“What do you mean gorgeous? That’s only the servants quarters. Wait until you see my house.”

Joseffe’s favorite pastime was standing on the corner and watching all the girls go by. This was going to be a big day! It wasn’t yet noon and he’d already counted two!

offred and ofglen always liked to arrive early for rallies because they couldn’t wait to see who was going to be sent to the colonies…

Sorry about lunch plans — when I was told they had Rubens here, I was sure it was a sandwich shop.

The man said they’re bollards. I told him to watch his mouth.

Of all the fine homes in The Hague/ whose future is probably vague/ tis the house of Mauritz/ which empty now sits/ left unoccupied by the plague./// Mauritz was a proud, wealthy man/ the chief of a prosperous clan/ whose businesses ran/ from the coast of Japan/ to the foothills of Hindustan/// He was sure he’d been chosen by God/(unlike you- an average clod)/ his palatial abode/ the city bestrode/ and of servants he had a full squad../// yes, Mauritz lived life to the max/ and his fortunes continued to wax/ but he went overboard/ with his faith in The Lord/ on the day that he went Anti-vax…

…and then he said I didn’t have enough sense to get out of the middle of the street.

Trying to block traffic to protest the police was a total bust.

“It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there..”

Lady to neighbor: “When Barty said he was going to paint the house, I thought he was going to PAINT the house!”

“I keep telling you, it HAD to be a mass alien abduction! It COULDN’T have been the rapture — if it was the rapture, I would have been taken away with all the others just now — instead of our dear friend Marta, bless her heart.”

To its everlasting shame, the Von Hoors House was the nicest house in The Hague.

“How much did you make last night, Marta?”

“14 Guilder und 25”

“Who vas it that paid you the measly 25, Marta?”

“Vy, they all did!”

The classics never get old

Maybe our town should have had a vaccination clinic after all!

They used to be outstanding in their field, until the housing boom.

Another over-priced, poorly run, Drump Dutch Resort on the verge of bankruptcy, due to a lack of paying guests.

The caption fits with a theory of mine that UFOS are US from the future. At some point we cracked the secret of time travel, but occasionally we get the navigational coordinates slightly wrong and briefly pop into the wrong space/time.

“Yonda lies da castle of my faddah, da Dook!” – Tony Curtis/ Bernie Schwartz

Mauritshuis in The Hague: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bartholomeus_Johannes_van_Hove,_Het_Mauritshuis_te_Den_Haag.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/07/masterpiece-2745.html 

I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

if we are in heaven, are the servants in hell??

What type of architect doesn’t put gargoyles on the roof? The nerve!

This is where they filmed “Downton Abbey.”