That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 19, 2023

/// Here, an armored man stands in a bower,

and looks left toward the viewer to glower.

His visage is sour;

white knuckles show power.

If you met him, you’d do well to cower.

A half-length portrait of man in armor because the model wanted to air out the lower half.

I don’t always drink beer. But when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.

Jack Smith is ready for anything the GQP will throw at him.

Yes, I like holding my sword. You have a problem with that, punk?

“Oil Can…Oil Can…”

He did earn the new nickname “Rusty”.

“No… I haven’t heard that one before.”

She said “you have to wear protection” and now all she does is laugh

Sans helmet, he was fully armored and ready for battle. Sir Remington’s steel glaze, however, told a deeper story; the Exlax was starting to work.

“Do you experience chafing?”…….

Sir Henry is proudly arrayed/

In the outfit he wears on Crusade/

But once he’s strapped in/

From ankle to chin/

Certain “functions” must be delayed …

George Clooney was starting to get sick and tired of doing these stupid Nespresso ads.

“Yeah I stuck my sword in my toe. So what.”

I’m going to the mall, dear.

John was ready for his first day as a kindergarten teacher.

All these artists have way more talent than I do, I give them credit. But in many instances, like here, their body proportions are off; faces are clearly the focus; this man’s arms shrink at about the elbow.

“Forty lousy dollars to pose in this tin can! What a rip off.”

Not surprising, it took quite awhile/

before steel suits went out of style/

For who wouldn’t go broke/

to repel a sword stroke/

in a garment constructed with guile ?///

And (although when you walk you may creak/

And it’s difficult taking a leak/

Its greatest appeal ?/

It’s a means to conceal/

all the flaws in your puny physique !

Knights of the pool table?

I am Sir Galahad, I always wear a silver plated uniform with jockey shorts of course!

However, Arthur did appreciate Galahad retrieving items from the bottom of the pool.

“The prognosticators swore there wouldn’t be rain during the big battle! I’m sure in a hundred years or so, weather forecasting will be much more accurate.”

How Volodymyr Zelenskyy is viewed by Ukrainians.

Half-length Portrait of a Man in Armor: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Augustinermuseum Freiburg im Breisgau" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and chose the first Category: link found, and once there, search for the text Wilhelm 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 (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3150 (June 19, 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 the blog entry with my comment pointing info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 5 works by him have been used here (6 times total including 1 repeat), the June 9, 2022, strip being the prior (the repeat).

You ever notice, not many boys these days are named “Lance”?

But back in the days of King Arthur’s Round Table, parents used to name kids Lance a lot!

“Isn’t it al;ways the case. As soon as you put on your armor…”

Ringo showing up to the Knighting ceremony dress all wrong…

i smell like a sardine in this canteen, Imagin what my wife smells like.

Although from the battle he ran/ (being less than a fighting man)/ they let the old farmer/ be painted in armor/ when he purchased a round for the clan.

“Awww, Ma…”

He was suited for protection from a belly flop off of the high diving board but not suited for the deep end of the pool.