That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 15, 2025

/// It’s Epiphany and The King Drinks.

(Not the real King; tonight’s for hijinks.)

He’s the Lord of Misrule,

Twelfth Night’s carnival fool.

Sired a bottomless toddler who stinks.

Everyone love the Burger King.

The Confirmation hearings make Dry January difficult

“You wanna be where everybody knows your name…”

He can cure narcolepsy just by entering a room. His reputation is expanding faster than the universe. He’s the most interesting man in the world. He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does it’s not Coor’s, Bud Lite, Strohs, Schlitz or Pfeiffers. Stay thirsty my friends.

All right get the girls doing tequila shots and we’ll have them out of their tops in nothing flat and none of them are flat!

Whatever is going on here/

Decorum does not interfere/

Perhaps peace on Earth?/

Or a Savior’s birth ?/

More likely – unlimited beer.

America drinking themselves insensible to ride out the next four years, five days, of insanity.

“Old King Cole was a merry old soul…”

Someone found my picture celebrating Christmas in Gaspe’ last month. I don’t speak French, but we sure did party!

The parties always got wild when there was a full moon.

At least one of them is em•bare•assed about their behavior.

I just got to ask…. does that butt belong to a child or a ‘little person’?If it is a child, why is it at a wild adult party?If it’s a ‘little person’ I’ve got many more questions.

“Sweet Caroline Ba Ba Ba.”

Ziggy zaggy ziggy zaggy hoi hoi hoi.

What’s with the baby’s bum being wiped at a feast?? haha! So weird.

The King doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,

Keeps wassail, and the swagg’ring upspring reels,

And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,

The kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out

The triumph of his pledge.

I made that up just now, on the spot. Honest. What, are you calling me a liar?!?

Does she know she can’t flush those things?

It’s good to be king……..

“Epstein Island, The Early Years”

“Can you wipe that child’s a— a little further away from my lunch, please?’

What sort of creature is playing a flute in front of the piper?

Everyone rejoiced when the King’s bejeweled ring came out the other end after the child had swallowed it.

Looks like the upcoming Administration.

wiping the baby while i am eating?

There was a comment yesterday about staring eyes. Want staring eyes? Look up Olof Krans. (One or two of his subjects may be ancestors of my great uncle Alan, who was from Bishop Hill, IL where Krans did most of his work.)

What the king is actually saying: “Guys, let me up – I have to pee!”

But nobody is listening.

“Old King Cole was a merry old soul

A merry old soul was he.

A couple of years before this, the same artist did the same subject, but in this version, he’s swapped out a kid with a drunken wetnurse, a guy copping a feel and a dog for a guy with way too much interest in the kid’s derriere. Kinda makes you wonder if he saw it as improvement.

Santa Claus enjoying his month off before resuming work in February.

The King Drinks: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Drinking glasses in art" 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 Wikimedia Category: found and once there find the text string 1640, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large, 1640 painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3444 (January 15, 2025) 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 the blog entry with my comment pointing to 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 August 9, 2023, strip being the prior (the repeat). The July 4, 2013 strip has the prior non-repeat by him. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

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