That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 14, 2023

The inventors’ meeting was a real disappointment for the single guys.

/// Men of Progress, (this tableau), contains

nineteenth century’s most adroit brains.

Under Ben Franklin’s gaze

they discuss different ways

their proposed robot “girl” entertains.

“No, you goof, this doesn’t take pictures. That’s why we have a portrait artist here. Now sit still!”

“What hath God wrought?” how about endless spam calls?

So, we all agree, Heisenberg was right. Nobody can be everywhere and everything all at once.

How’d they get my Spam email?

One of the Men Of Progress stuck his finger in the mechanism and had it severed. Fortunately for his mistress, it was not his hole finger — the one next to it. (Sorry. Old schoolboy joke)

“Well, Gentlemen, until young Tom Edison fully develops his ‘Kinetoscope’ idea, we’ll have to settle for tonight’s entertainment by passing around the latest spicy French ‘artistic images’ I smuggled in from my last trip to Paris. Thanks goes to Mr. Talbot and his formerly patented calotype production process. Mr. Talbot could not join us here tonight as his burgeoning business keeps him so very busy.“

Okay, the bracket’s set, guys. What are the odds on Houston and Purdue in the final?

At this rate, the tournament will be over before we figure out our bracket!

“Hey moron, the blueprint says 1 inch = 1 foot, not 1 inch = 1 inch. That thing should fill the room.”

I’m telling you, it’s “PRAW-leen”. Definitely not “PRAY-leen”. And while we’re at it, the accent is on the second syllable of “pecan”.

U.S. Patent Office, the early years.

The Board of Directors at the Silicon Valley Bank trying to figure out how they got themselves into such a mess.

“What? Nothing about your car warranty expiring?”

“At long last, gentlemen, we have revolutionized medicine! Behold: The machine that goes ‘ping’!”

I need to enter my ZIP code and credit card number.

“See if they know the addresses.”

What else would you want to know?

“Gentlemen, I believe that settles how many pizzas to telegraph for. Now, who wants Coke and who wants Pepsi?”

Men of Progress: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Christian Schussele" 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 8.5, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3096 (March 14, 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 pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here. His Wikipedia page may be currently incomplete regarding this painting.

Men Intent on Loud Farts?

“Men of Progress,” 1862

She keeps coming and coming and coming…

which end do you blow into?

Yes … some people say we are diametrically opposed to the men of con-gress.