That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 16, 2022

And it’s Merkel by a head!

This is what happens when you ask a painter who only ever painted horses before to do a picture of fish.

that’s what I call beating a dead fish.

Something smells fishy here.

Barrel racing as practiced in Hyannisport, MA.

They acted a little fishy, but it wasn’t on porpoise!

The losers supplied the fish fry after the race.

Those girls look very happy to be riding the fish. The very long, tubular, slippery fish.

oHH!!! thIS ONE IS wiGGLING A LOT. i THNK hE LIKES iT!!!

Swedish Artist, American Flag on the barrel. So many questions.

/// Though at fish racing both were beginners,

girl in red and her mount are Both Winners.

The great fish she’s astride

will avoid being fried

like the losers, who’ll end up as dinners.

So that’s how the fish got that smell

Wholly Mackerel! Tuna Koi bad-Bass Ale-wives, Sal and Angel, Perch-ing their Halibuts astride, Barracuda-back, out for cheap Brills. I can Bream, can’t I? Hope they don’t Flounder and turn into Chub chum for Goblin’ Sharks.

Flo and marge. The last two remaining mackerel breakers of New England

Maybe Joan Minnow?

Holy Mackerel

In the days before the invention of the Jet Ski

Let it never be said that the girls from Göteborg don’t know how to party!

Oh, the artist is Swedish? I thought he’d be Finnish… ;-)

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Other versions has strip coloration image. Currently no blog entry. May extend comment later. Leaving for hand surgery.

You musht remember thish/

A fish is still a fish/

A fry is still a fry../

The “fin-damental” things apply/

As time goes by ..

Meanwhile, a lobster accompanies the race on banjo.

The Serenade by the same artist

What was this artist smoking?

Not what Janet had in mind when Christi asked if she wanted to play with something smelling of fish.

The winner moves on to the steeplechase.

Two girls astride two really big fish / Is not really an image for which I would wish. / Fish don’t mate, they just spawn. / (And that doesn’t last very long!) / There’s just no romance for a girl feeling icthyologish.

No lashing of the fish, ladies. Physical abuse of animals is not allowed.

This is what most mid-Westerners think goes on in New England all day.

I wonder if they did it on porpoise?

The only problem is we’ll smell fishy later!

The results of last Saturday’s Sturgeon racing on the Snake River. Mr Limpet by a nose.

FLY, YOU FO…..SWIM, YOU FOOLS!

“Hush, you Muskies!”

Fish riders fish riders,Sexy female fish riders,Fish riders fish riders,Race their fishes Yum.

So this is what passes for entertainment in Sweden?

Funny, they don’t look anything like sea horses. Unless they’re horse mackerel?

A surreal game of water polo.

He’ll be the fish taco the town.

OK, that painting is just disturbing.

Real mermaids…..

Thankfully, no spurs.

Nancy Kerrigan: Look, Tonya, it’s the finnish line!

Tonya Harding: Argh. For that pun, I break your knee.

I want some of whatever the artist is drinking.

lucy and Allice were hating the smell, but the girls needed a ride.

also where is the dorsal fin??

What the hell? Words fail me.

I am still trying to figure out what drugs that artist was on.

This picture has been giving me the most hilarious nightmares.

After too much feedback for possible cruelty to animals; they went back to the tried and true wet t-shirt contests the next year.