That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 08, 2024

“…and that’s why you should pick me to respond to the State of the Union.”

Mary, what are you going? We didn’t invite you to speak. Pick up your lute and start providing background music while we talk,

“I say we should set up a go-fund-me to pay for the separation of the conjoined twins behind me.”

/// Sixteen hundreds— Great poets, all Dutch,

with their host, P. C. Hooft, kept in touch.

They’d meet, eat, talk and sing

in the famed Muiderkring,

Is this scene true to life? No, not much.

/// Castle Muiden is where Hooft would host

these great minds and about them he’d boast.

But these thinkers, sublime,

met Hooft one at a time.

No great crowd, just a few at the most.

/// Yet this legend arose that each year

an elite brainy bunch would appear.

Skimming cultural cream was an intellect’s dream,

don’t you wish such a thing happened here?

First one not to hit on me today will be exempt from talking to my lawyer.

Guy on right:”you told me nobody would see us here..”

And that’s the day when the Dusseldorf Stand-up Association decided they should look-up this “Joke” thing they heard about before they scheduled their next session…

The rumor was, the only female judge for the talent show liked knock knock jokes. But, from the look on her face, she obviously didn’t.

Womansplaining was common long before modern men began to do it.

Martha tries in vain to explain the concept of putting down the toilet seat

This is one of the early examples of Photo-Shopped art, where the artist has cut-n-pasted the heads on the bodies. He did pretty well in placement, except for the guy in the center.

“.. And in conclusion, gentlemen, I suggest that rather than invest our entire retirement fund in tulip futures, we diversify our investments as broadly as possible…” (They wisely ignored her)

Really don’t think they’d all be sittin’around so cool,calm & collected…..

“If someone doesn’t pull my finger in the next 10 seconds, I”m going to explode">

Elise learned that, while “throwing up the devil horns” was fine during a rock concert, it was going to get her some funny looks during a poetry reading.

’Bout time she came to take our lunch orders…"

Actually, I wear this collar to hide some hickeys a few if you left…….

Guy in the middle..”Egad, she’s going to sing!”

And if you write down your anniversary and her birthday, you won’t forget to buy her chocolates and a trip to Paris next year and avoid sleeping in the couch for a week! That’s all it takes!

(Women in front) “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.” (Groucho Marx)

“For the one hundredth time, this is not a cone of shame. It’s the new fashion”

this better be a REALLY good story

The Muiderkring: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Lutes in paintings" Wikimedia 

(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 Muiderkring, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this large painting, along with a Description I recently added. 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 #3283 (March 8, 2024) 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 to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the March 4, 2024, strip being the prior.

GUYS, we can’t all wear dinner plates. it makes us look underfed.

Dutch Master, center back, musing: “Great slogan for the new product line – A woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.”

((“Oh god, she’s going to speak.”))

The musical chairs game was starting to get exciting.

They were down to three chairs.

/// The five Dutchmen we see on the right

seem intent and enthralled by the sight

of the beauty in gold.

She’s a joy to behold!

Men behind her she doesn’t excite.

/// On the left, those three stand in a place

where they can’t see her exquisite face.

From the back, her gown’s drape

gives no clue to her shape,

(but, in truth, they prefer the male race).