That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 25, 2022

“We were only suppose to spend the summer in Russia but it didn’t work out that way.”

/// Little Corporal, First Consul later;

self-crowned Emperor, (each title greater).

How’s Napoleon known

to the other man shown—

Count Las Casas? He was a dictator.

Man with Napoleon complex talking to his therapist.

Oswald Cobblepot planning out his new Casino

The original Google Earth, Waterloo version…

“Why are all the maps on the floor, Pierre? Would it hurt you to put them up on the walls like a normal person?” “I’m sorry sir, but I thought you would prefer them that way, given, you know, your height”

I propose a condensed version of these charts. Something small that you could read while riding a horse. Waterproof so that melting snow won’t make the ink run and yet flammable so that we can cook the horses.

Paper training the new poodle pup.

He set-out to create some “elbow room” for France and ended up with only a bit of Elba room to himself.

“I need a great big desk, right here, I’m tired of squatting to do my work.”

The concept is interesting, but I don’t think there will be a market for “floor paper”

“Where did that half-empty bottle of arsenic come from?”

From conquest he cannot abstain/

He’ll be crossing the Rhine/

Grabbing your land and mine/

Prepare to absorb further pain//

He hopes to extend his domain/

From Russia to Southern Spain/

From the steppes to the beach/

But he will overreach:/

It’s a mania – “Nap” is insane..///

He will fight for whatever he craves/

He will cover poor Europe with graves/

But his reign will be brief/

And we’ll soon know relief/

For Britannia rules the waves.///

At Trafalgar he first met defeat/

(Lord Nelson accomplished that feat)/

He soon turned his mind/

To the East – and its acres of wheat..///

He came to the end of his tether/

And his vision collapsed altogether/

When his dream egotistic

Overstretched his logistics

And he blithely ignored Russian weather..///

On the undulant Belgian plain/

He rolled the dice once again/

But a Prussian named Blücher/

Decided his future/

Though Wellington’s given the main…credit.

What can one say of this little Corsican / Who went from Emperor to exile then back again. / History has failed to erase / His rather petulant face / From little statues and busts made of porcelain.

Heck with the battle plans my lackey, what’s more important is if my butt looks big from say..this angle?

In this rather uflatt’ring depiction/

Napoleon (Europe’s affliction)/

Dictates his “memoirs”/

In which he (of course “stars”)/

A towering work of fiction..

Tell me what’s on this map, I can’t see over my stomach.

" ‘Sup, proles, LittleLion here! Today we’re gonna talk about logistics, cavalry, and that jerk the Duke of Wellington."

Nap will ask the creator / about the carpet made of paper / in the mor-or-nin’

See, it proves it right there. I actually won!! Call ‘les garçons fiers’!

“No, no! If we take the side streets, we can avoid the 405!”

St Helena, 1816: Napoleon Dictating to Count Las Cases the Account of His Campaigns: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings in the Lady Lever Art Gallery" site=commons.wikimedia.org

(syntax supported by the Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckgo, and Ecosia 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 Napoleon, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2965 (July 24, 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 pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by this artist have been used here (4 times, including one repeat). The June 15, 2018 strip has the prior (the repeat). The artist info URLs included in my comment there are included as here links in my blog comment.

Why didn’t you close the dang window!

“If you’d taken my advice, Monsieur Bonaparte, and used Google Earth and Google Maps in the first place, we wouldn’t have had all this crap on the floor to clean up!”

Napoleon: All these papers on the floor and the darn dog goes on carpet!

Napoleon had all the plans and maps at his feet but did he use them? not on your life. he couldn’t see over his belly.

The dog peed on the part of the map for Waterloo. He should’ve realized it was an omen.

Why do you keep asking me “Why don’t I have my hand in my vest”?

Geez, you do something once, and now everybody expects you do do it every time!

OK, I get why I’m here, and I get why you are here.

But what did that guy with paintbrushes do to deserve to be here?

I tried to dissuade you but Nooooo! “The Emperor needs a puppy and I shall have one” you said.