That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 18, 2023

Queried, “Why are you such a big fan, sir?”

then An almée’s admirers each answer:

“She can rhythmically make

her firm abdomen shake.”

An Egyptian (legit) Belly Dancer.

Rena was working her way through Cairo U.

Asmaa was planning to enter the Miss Morocco pageant.

Look! She’s wearing pants, and you can see her face! I told you Morocco was decadent.

“This is a wild bachelor party. Don’t tell my wives about it.”

“How do we handle a problem like Maria?”

“Your Daddy was a preacher and your Momma was a dancing girl!”

Those Iranian strip shows leave much to be desired.

When Alma danced for the rogues in the Peanut Gallery, she removed the customary jewel from her navel and inserted an actual peanut.

(An almeh, refers to a learned woman, high in status and educated in the musical and literary arts; European travellers mistakenly applied this term to any female entertainer. By 1850, it came to be associated most closely with the ghawazee, or Egyptian dancing girls who were often also prostitutes.)

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The winner of the air fiddle contest.

A hot Circassian houri/

Elicited rage and fury/

When she pranced, preened, and “peeled”/

On the athletic field/

At the University of Missouri .

Early in her career, Gypsy Rose Lee did some gigs she really wasn’t proud of, but as she said, “I had to start somewhere.”

Not the same here without Ish…

Wild time, playing “air violin”

It’s a scam, man. She calls it the dance of the seven veils, but she’s wearing twenty.

“She is doing It wrong. It’s the ‘left foot in, the left foot out’ before shaking it all out.”

Jack whispering to John, “Geez man, we were ripped off, my wife wears less than this just cleaning the carpets, washing the dishes, hanging the laundry, and dusting at home.”

A slavegirl in old Baghdad/

Initiated a fad/

By performing a dance/

In a pair of long pants -/

And driving the onlookers mad !///

But a fad is a fleeting thing/

Not unlike the flowers in Spring/

And the fad soon passed/

And it left her bare-a$$ed/

So she went back to wearing a string..///

In her sad, fading final year/

She/was sold to an old Emir/

Then put on the market/

For a frayed Persian carpet/

And a camel with only one ear…

Though she was born a poor dancing girl, / Fatima was a gem, a treasure, a pearl! / And a handsome young Dervish / Saw her dance with a flourish! / They married, and happily ever after, they whirled!

She might do better with a bare belly………..

Nusreen’s one-woman “Three Stooges” tribute was missing a certain something.

“Sedahgive?”

Yeah, but let me tell you people

Little Egypt doesn’t dance there anymore

She’s too busy mopping and a taking

Care of shopping at the store

Cause we’ve got seven kids

And all day long they crawl

Around the floor

Singing, yeah, yeah,

Gitchee gitchee gitchee

I’ve read all the comments and still don’t get this. What DOES rhyme with massage and how is that relevant to the gag???

“Her shadow puppet skills leave a lot to be desired.”

Apparently it is called “belly dancing”, but I’ll tell you it isn’t my belly that is dancing right now!

It’s the new way to cheat a pedometer.

An Almée’s Admirers or Egyptian Dancer: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Leopold Carl Müller" site=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 Admirers, 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 #3064 (January 18, 2023) 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

First use of the ‘slow clap’ and the crowd tries to figure out what it means.

Salome finishing up her dance, was too modest to take off any clothes so her tips were very low.

“The Almeh Admirers,” 1882

the boys gathered for “chess club” every wednesday afternoon…

For Thursday:

“Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!/

What brings you out this way?”/

“I’m pursued by creditors/

And condemned by editors-/

For a painting they call “risqué ..///

It’s “L’origine du Mond/

Which everyone says goes beyond/

The bounds of good taste/

And must be replaced/

By something that’s a lot more blonde..

The flight attendants at Middle East Airlines had to come up with new ways to get people to pay attention to the safety instructions at the beginning of each flight.