That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 18, 2023

My original reply in 2014:

Should’ve learned the French horn.

“My ding-a-ling,”

Severus Snape takes up the triangle as a hobby.

Can we go back to yesterday’s painting, where everybody hid their faces?

/// Audebert was told by a soothsayer

his job ought to be triangle player.

So he took up percussion

when a grievous concussion

made him too frightened to disobey her.

Dinner! Come and get it!

Keep your knickers on mum, my part’s coming up any second now.

Lily Tomlin spent hours finding the exact tones for her “one ringhy dinghy, two ringhy dinghy” sketch.

“What do you mean; ’It’s not needed’?”

The “I don’t quite have it right” scene from “Pythagoras and His Theorem: The Musical.”

When he rings the dinner bell, you are never sure if you’re being invited for or to be the meal

“I so wanted to play the hammer.

If I had a hammer I’d play it in the morning,

I’d play it in the evening,

I’d hammer out danger

I’d hammer out a warning

I’d hammer out love between

My brothers and my sisters, ah-ah

All over this land"

( You can all thank me for the ear worm later!)

The Appetizer Bell

When Ol’ Jack decided to go back to college, he needed a scholarship, so he tried out for the band doing the one thing he knew

Is this what drag shows were like 400 years ago?

The one member of the orchestra who envies the cowbell player.

They are going to freak out when I light this sucker on fire during my solo!

What’s his angle?

When he first joined Blue Oyster Cult, Albert Bouchard had to work his way up to the cowbell.

“How many times must I repeat geometry class?…”

Chef Alfred noticed no one was heeding the dinner chime…..

Pythagoras’ ugly cousin – with the wrong triangle.

Audebert was known for his delicate touch in playing his triangle. His wife wished he’d do the same when playing hers.

Working his way up to playing the gong.

Is it just me or does it look like he’s missing part of his forehead?

They say he’s got MAD improv skills on his solos.

Portrait of Gordon Lightfoot during his rebel days.

The one thing more demeaning than being a triangle-player in the orchestra: the artist who was relegated to painting the triangle-player.

He became a percussionist and learned to play the triangle so he could hang out with real musicians.

Are you saying this triangle player has been waiting for his solo since 1623? Now that’s dedication!

Well, there is The Triangle Symphony — or concerto. Web search turned up nothing by either name, but I heard the piece years ago at Clowes Hall.

College housemate who played first bass for the University of Iowa Symphony had a set of cartoons about the various orchestra players. The one for percussionists showed them using adding machines to count the measures till they played.

In my own experience, my junior high band did an arrangement of “Marche Militaire” in which the cymbals I was playing only showed up three times. I was so geared up for my first crash by the time it came the tympanist fell out of his chair and the flautists lost their place (per my sister in that section).

Not bad…

It’s good… but I think we’ll stay with the cowbells on the “Don’t Fear the Reaper” track

The Triangle Player: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Georges de La Tour" 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 Triangle, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1024 (5/23/14) (May 17, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 4 works by this artist used here (5 times total, including this Throwback Thursday), the May 22, 2014, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. That is the last work by him to appear here.

I’ve heard they are going to change to a new process. Something called rosary beads.

Yea – like that’s going to work!

Taking Friday off?

Nigel Tufnel: We are more angular. We have quadangle.