That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 17, 2025

/// He is using his drum as a seat. It

is the place he reads books. He’ll complete it

since he thinks he’s now free

of the Dutch infantry.

The Band Leader just ordered him: “Beat it!”

He’s reading the manual for his new drum.

Tim figured he would sit this one out to read a good book. I mean who really needs a drummer in the front of a battle anyway?

He’s reading “Drums Along the Mohawk.”

Here I came to fart out my heart, but only managed to read and shart.

Dear John.

Shako, Shako, Shako your booty. Aah! Do your duty. Aah Haa!

“Congratulations for being the proud purchaser of the enclosed drum…”

There was a young fellow from Brum,

Who purchased an odd looking drum.

The instructions he said,

Went over his head,

“But it’s handy for resting my bum.”

The wooden soldier costume off Christmas Season.

Come, they told me, pa rum pum pum pum….

‘’Call me Ishmael.’’?……….This is going to be a long boring read for sure, the drummer thought to himself.

Drummed out of the corps.

Sill trying to find the perfect music to serenade his sweetheart

“These instructions don’t make sense. What am I supposed to do with this sword”!?

Most pieces of equipment in the military can be used in multiple ways. With the dysentery issue, Marvin expanded on this.

Could this guy be any drummer?

Ringo Starr – the early years.

He’s resting his rump on his drum./

He’s been seated so long that it’s numb/

‘Cause the book’s “War and Peace”/

And that’s his “expertise”:/

He’ll be reading til kingdom come…

Which is only slightly better than a Rat-a-tat-tat.

YESTERDAY’S LIMERICK CORRECTED!

There was a young painter called Carlo,

Who lived in a disused old garlow.

He loved to paint nudes,

Of actors he viewed,

Such as Davis and Crawford and Harlow.

“Bang the drum loudly”

His ability to beat a drum tattoo using only his testes was never really appreciated….except by his girlfriends.

Drum roll please!

“‘Pah-rumpa-pum-pum’. There must be some deep meaning to that…”

He’s all drummed out.

What do you call a guy that hangs out with musicians?

The drummer.

Seated reading drummer of the infantry: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, 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 1892, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed by the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary; currently, the museum webpages get lost and don’t show anything) about this roughly B4 paper size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3445 (January 16, 2025) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you crop what’s after .png from the URL). I’ve added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.