That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 11, 2023

/// A drunk reaches his hand up her skirt,

unaware he’s about to be hurt.

Her shoe’s poised to come down

with some force on his crown.

(There are subtler ways he could flirt.)

One way or another, Wilhelmina was going to get the lice out of Alexander’s hair.

The original 3 Stooges.

Beating the hired help was one of the favorite pastimes in medieval times. That and watching ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’.

Early TikTok challenge – grope a woman you don’t know at the local pub.

Like most most TikTok challenges, it ended with yet another brain injury.

an early remedy for lice…if it didn’t work, the victim would at least be out for part of the infestation!

Origin of the dope slap.

Cyrus was just an inch short of being allowed on the roller coaster. They’re trying to fix that.

You come near my daughter again and I’ll give you another crack on the head.

“Just nod your head and I’ll hit it.”

Whacked with a frozen turkey leg!

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Hold still! There’s a spider on your head, I’ll kill it.

Sick of being ridiculed about his hunchback, Quasimodo tries the only treatment he can afford.

“You said the chicken was tough, huh? I’ll show you some tough chicken!”

Moe learned the phase " …..come here chowder head" from his mom.

Nuthin’s more diverting than a hand beneath your skirting in the mor-ornin’…

His advanced seduction technique/

Has aroused the barmaid’s pique/

He thinks it’s In fun/

But the fun’s just begun:/

He’ll be hospitalized for a week..

His demeanor is downright despotic/

The psychiatrists say he’s psychotic/

But whatever is said/

We have never been led/

That his skills include the erotic…

If you wonder of whom I am speaking/

Your memory may need some tweaking/

Someone has a tape/

Of a sad, vengeful ape/

Watching maids, on a mattress, a-leaking …

Hans thinking maybe he should try the dog’s flea collar.

Elmer getting his new hair plugs.

“I’ll treat your head lice if you treat my crabs.”

Bettina the Belgium Barmaid kept an old shoe handy for just such occasions. ( She also had a baseball bat, in case things got too serious. )

Small frying pan = knockout, large pan = death.

“Holy cow. I’ve got a hold of a twig and berries!”

Cyrus announces his discovery: She does not shave it………………

“You naughty boy! You like this, don’t you? Say you like it, you naughty boy.” (family-friendly version)

“Me wife don’t so much cut m’hair as beat it inta submission.”

Benny Hill’s Great Great Grandfather?

Is this painting in the Netherlands? I’m going to visit there later this year.

Seriously, though, what is she hitting him with?

It doesn’t look like a frying pan, nor a shoe.And if it’s a hair brush, it is the oddest one I’ve seen (Most hair brushes don’t have weights on the backside)

The Five Senses: Touch: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Jan Miense Molenaer" 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 choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Touch, 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 A5 paper size high by B4 paper size wide painting. As the title implies, the artist made 5 such paintings, each for a different sense. They’re all held by the same museum.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3162 (July 11, 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. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the July 30, 2013, strip being the prior. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

why does he look so happy?

They both look so blasé. Only the guy in the back looks interested, i.e. entertained.

“Touch”, 1637. From the series “The Five Senses”.

He thinks that he’s copping a feel/

But Bettina is keeping it real/

He’ll be glad it’s her heel/

Not an object of steel/

While he’s waiting for his head to heal …

Madam Hildegard’s Lice Extermination for Masochists.