That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 30, 2025

No. Mortimer’s upset that somebody is playing footsies with him.

/// Albrecht loves Playing Cards with his friends,

and enjoys every minute he spends.

But before each game ends,

Friedrich loudly contends

that he’s rarely paid back what he lends.

I’ve seen Germans playing cards. They slam the cards on the table. I suspect that’s what the artwork is showing us.

“Do you have any sevens?” “Go fish.” (In German, according to Microsoft Translate: “Hast du irgendwelche Siebener?” “Gehen Sie angeln.”)

This isn’t going to work if we’re all going to cheat.

Ol Mort doesn’t realise that this is the sixth time that he’s told the story.

I thought you said ’’Come over for pizza!"….not parcheesi!

Those rules seem a bit complicated. Once again, what happens if you get the Old Maid card?

“Yeah, this is fun and all, but I thought you’d invited us over to play with the old maid.”

This looked so much more fun when I saw the painting of dogs doing it.

Due to power of suggestion — and a weak bladder — whenever Fritz played pinochle, he had to take numerous bathroom breaks.

Mortimer is the perfect name!

Friedrich ( his friends call him Fred)/

Would prefer to play Old Maid instead:/

But Bridge is the game/

And (thanks just the same)/

He does not know which suit has been led..///

He’s a nice guy – good-natured and chummy/

And he might even manage gin rummy/

Perhaps he might master/

A hand of “Canaster”/

But at Bridge he is always the dummy.

Fritz attempting the old pull the hidden ace out of your wig trick but his pals aren’t buying it.

Knowing he would lose first in this game of strip poker, Jack got into position to remove his shoes; then it dawned on him that this wouldn’t be much fun without any women.

Actually, clairvoyance, not telepathy. But we’ll take it for sloppy seconds.

Johnny Carson’s writing team trying to come up with something for tonight’s Carnac the Magnificent bit.

The world’s most boring game of strip poker captured on canvas.

How can you gave four aces, when I have a Royal Straight Flush?

Playing Cards: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:August Hermann Knoop" 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 1894, 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) about this painting roughly greeting card size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1953 (5/16/18) (January 29, 2025) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist. So far, only work by him used here (2 times total, including this THROWBACK THURSDAY repeat), the May 16, 2018, strip being its first use.

with all the clothing it’s going to be a very long night of strip poker.