That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 25, 2022

As usual, Johan found himself waiting for the Countess to get ready.

/// Johann sported an oversized cranium.

He would say that it proved he was brainy. Hmmm…

But he never disclosed

that he’d oft been exposed

as a fetus to high-grade uranium.

Jeorg rents out his forehead as a movie screen.

I am Modok the magnificent! I will use my overdeveloped brain to annihilate you!

Ah! The glare! I’m blind!

Hey, why the long face…heredity?

If I keep a straight face, I think everyone will think it was the dog, and they won’t nod my way and whisper, “the royal gas works!”

With the right make-up, Meryl Streep had proven she could convincingly play anyone. But, because she wouldn’t agree to cut her long, thick hair, the bald cap that tried to cover it didn’t look very realistic.

Johann, Erzherzog von Conehead, Archduke of Remulak.

“Excuse me, my war medals are down here!

And – by the earliest day’s first ray

Of light – a certain sparkling or, let’s say

A shining in that gloomy chamber

Was it that made the guy remember

To put on pants and – yup! – toupee

talosian posing as earthling, star date 3496

Don’t even think about picking my pocket..

I am smiling!!

Robert Duvall in the new feature film “Moldovans vs Aliens.”

He’s watching an old tutorial

As a rather touching memorial

To the once tousled locks

That he once thought a pox

When he still had some issues tonsorial

As Dan Ackroyd and Jane Curtain used to say, “We’re from France.”

Looking in the mirror, Charles realized who no longer had to worry about his receding hairline.

I love his eyes his beauty beauty lies

Invisible to the eye

Tis our error most sad

For you knew Old Konrad

He’s really one helluva guy

Fritz has found lucrative work as a Before model at Hair Club For Men.

With piercing blue eyes and bald pate / He seems to have mastered his fate / His high collar hides / A goiter inside / That he has developed of late.

Note to Harry Connick Jr., “This is how you wear a bald cap!”.

Peyton Manning’s great grandfather.

The look you give when, once again, no one bids on you at the royal bachelor auction.

Clueless Baron von Stoltz, upon entering the Luftwaffe, had a metal throat protector created as he had heard that he would soon be engaged in dogfights.

Franz didn’t take it well when the airport notified him he was not allowed within one mile of the runways during the day unless he wore a hat.

He was hoping for an alliance with the neighboring state of Rogania.

Please explain why my toupee is not ready as promised. I can not appear in public with a shinny head!

So many of these artists did an excellent job on the faces, but did not get the head-to-body proportions correct. I guess that’s because the work was commissioned as a portrait – the face WAS to be the focus. P.S. – Bug the eyes out a little more, and remove the collar to reveal a pencil neck, and this guy bears an astonishing resemblance to Adam Schiff….

He doesn’t have a forehead, he’s got a fivehead.

Are you sure that’s not Gary, crown prince of Baldgary?

John, Archduke of Austria: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leopold_Kupelwieser_-_Johann,_Erzherzog_Von_Osterreich.jpg 

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

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

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2022/01/masterpiece-2866_24.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.

not only did he lose his hair but gained a big forehead.

Not toniight, dear. I’ve got a head ache.

Oh no you don’t! I saw how you dressed the guy up yesterday. You’re painting me from the waist up – and that’s it!

/// Here’s a warning to which you should hearken:

Mention “brother”— his visage will darken.

Sibling bonds were eroded

when the Death Star exploded.

They’d murdered his bro, Grand Moff Tarkin.

After some trepidation initial

There were found, in his cracks interstitial

Some small, fragile blooms

Which suggests life resumes.

Don’t quote me- it’s semi-official….

He bears a resemblance to many

an egregious, dour pinchpenny.

From his general air

he’s a likely forebear

and mentor of our own Jack Benny