That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 22, 2022

For some strange reason, Hans decided that the painting sitting was the best time to stab his lover’s husband in the back.

Somebody is about get shanked.

The only photo available of the medieval boy bad, “Serfs to Socialites”

“What do you mean that if we want to call ourselves a quartet we have to eliminate a couple of us?”

/// These Six Wardens of the Drapers Guild,

are all serious, solemn and skilled.

In a blatant attack

one gets knifed in the back.

Flashing gang signs can get a man killed.

They look like a Dutch version of one of those Korean boy bands, where everybody looks alike and dresses in the same black suit.

“What do you mean, Line up according to beard length”?

These are not men to haw and to hem -/

You had better not trifle with them !/

It’s all black or white – /

You’re wrong, or you’re right../

They’re the phabled “Phlegmatic Flems” ! ///

In their phabled phlegmatic way/

They’re impossible to betray/

Though if you have the cash/

Stowed away in your stash/

And you’re willing the cost to defray…///

These “phellows”, so proudly “dephiant”/

Have been known to become compliant/

And that old “black or white”/

May swiftly take flight/

Before Fifty Shades of Gray".

“Men in Black” – Episode One

Howie Mandel’s great Dutch uncle Hans, first to use the hand gesture while saying “What?”.

The Shoemaker sextuplets, age 50.

“ Throw it to me,I’m open. “

Let’s not all get touchy/feely here…

I think there’s an extra right hand in there…

No dinner unless you washed your hands.

Competing at the “hands model” audition.

Rough necks prepping for the next shift on the oil rig.

That’s the Dutch pop group, ‘Old Kids On the Block’

Two people on an elevator. One of them f*rts. Everybody knows who did it. — G. Carlin

Welcome to Whatsamatta U. Hey, why you looka so sad? Itsa not so bad, itsa nice-a place. Ah, shaddupa ya face! (apologies to Joe Dolce)

Find the pairs.

As we study this picture – oh, my! / We’re all shocked as we see, bye-and-by / As we count and we stare / Unbelieving … but there / Is an extra right hand on that guy!

Caught in the Act! Burghers Busted in Bank Burglary!

Sixteenth Century ruffians in ruffs.

What do you mean no soup for us?

“Where are the cigars? What are we supposed to do with our hands?”

Managers of the hedge fund that shorted GameStop stock.

The newly formed Sons of Flanders Society trying to decide on their secret handshake.

Portrait of the Flemish Jerry Seinfeld Appreciation Society. “So what’s the deal with all the peeing statues?”

The Original Proud Boys testing out new White Power hand signals.

Pieter would always neglect the “Say Cheese!” bit and catch the models off-guard.

Six Wardens of the Drapers’ Guild: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Pieter Pietersz. (I)" site=https://commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Zes, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (best viewed using Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2947 (June 21, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to some info about this artist. First work, by this artist, used here.

“And this, ladies and gentlemen of the academy, is why human cloning shall be illegal … when we invent it in 500 years.”

Flash mobs were more sedate back then.

the men all have their bibs on waiting for orgy to begin, but guy far right is holding the prize ,no he won’t let go.

“Mynheer Pieterz” was hired to depict/

Men whose ethical standards are strict/

When the artist demands/

That they all show their hands…/

He discovers his pockets are picked..

Why, yes! We all belong to the same fraternity where we are taught to look alike, dress alike, think alike. How could you tell?

Don’t you think going back to playing musical chairs would be a more civilized way of deciding who the last one standing should be?