That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 25, 2024

/// Music critics are making a choice

among singers. Which one will rejoice?

Famous minstrels compete.

One judge jumps from his seat.

(A precursor to TV’s “The Voice.”)

“You have been warned! Singing ‘Baby Shark’ allowed is not allowed!”

The Kingdoms’s Got Talent!

Cheater! I was Schwindled!

The show was cut short when one of the performers ad-libbed “Talk to the hand.”

‘’BINGO !!! ’’

“School Board meets with Moms for Liberty”:///:

He was glad he was wearing his truss/

When the school board met to “discuss”/

The librarian’s choices/

And “conservative “ voices/

Promptly threw him under the bus..

“No, I will not pull your finger, Uncle Roman!”

Here we have a rare photo of Joe Biden’s first session in Congress (He is shown on the far right sniffing the young boy in the blue outfit).

Anybody remember the old “tastes great…less filling” beer argument commercials from years ago?

The history, or perhaps mythology, behind this story is nicely covered in the Wikipedia article on the “Sängerkrieg”, a greatly embellished story of what may have been a historical bardic contest. Just hit the Wikipedia search box with that word.

“Who the H..l left the border gates open?”

Book of the month club gets a little testy.

One. Two. Three. Four.

I declare a thumb war.

When I said invite a few friends………….holy crap!

Spock smashes scissors

The Singer’s Contest on the Wartburg: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Lutes in paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave 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 921, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this huge painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3416 (November 25, 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the October 15, 2020, strip being the prior.

LOL!

“The Singer’s Contest on the Wartburg”

Let’s periodically remember to give it up for Steve Melcher. Just about the only humor to be mined from today’s painting was perfectly expressed in his caption. Day-after-day he turns out excellent, funny, pithy gags.

“Hah! Old Maid! I win!”

OK! we have been here long enough, when does the orgy start?

He stood on the shoulders of giants/

And defined how the Earth’s In compliance/

With gravity’s law/

But the data was raw/

Still – he widened horizons of Science