That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 05, 2019

Frank had to find a quick way to hide from his wife the hickey his mistress gave him.

Prime example of someone who does not have his head screwed on straight

Archibald went to great lengths to keep the large mole on his right cheek out of the public eye.

He was trying to tell the artist to wait a moment.

Promo still from the original 1919 version of “The Beast With Five Fingers.” Much better with Peter Lorre.

Practicing his parade wave.

No one told Reginald to do jazz hands you needed to use both of them.

gentleman who now seriously regrets the cheese burrito chili combo he had for lunch…

Malarkey! Sheer malarkey! If you shovel any more BS my way, Sir, I’ll be forced to bury you in it!

“I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth…”

What happens when you don’t make sure the tag on you ascot is in the back.

Mah fellow amerkins, Ah … what? I’ve got WHAT still stuck in my collar?

Oh, FFS. Cut. Let’s try this again.

MAKEUP!

“Oh pshaw!” (Or is it ‘pashaw’? I’ve never had to spell it before! But I can recognize the hand gesture when I see it!)

And I put my hand on her like this.

Up your ascot!

And when I discovered I had rear-ended Warren Buffett, I realized he caused my whiplash.

You were supposed to paint my good side.

" Hold that joke, Justin. President He-Who-Hates-To-Be-Mocked has finally arrived. "

What is it about men’s fashions that produces so much garrote imagery?

Just hold it right there, sister!

Trying to keep the chest hair from linking up with the sideburns

“Yet, in spite of the look on my face, you’re still talking.”

To some, this may come as a shock/ but that thing ‘round his neck is a “stock”. / It’s most certainly not/ the lowly"Ascot" / ..or perhaps it’s that long missing sock !

(If you have an hour to spare/ and if, by some quirk, you should care/ google "Cravats and stocks/- t’is a Pandora’s Box/ of info on what NOT to wear!)

Wondering what they meant by “the sound of one hand clapping”.

Does this hide my double chin?

That guy is such an ascot. He never listens.

And I layest my hand upon her breast thusly, and she did sigh and make squeaky noises.

Hang on! I believe we’ve just discovered who Carly Simon’s song “You’re So Vain” is about! He definitely looks vain and then there’s the line “your scarf, it was apricot ok, so Carly took some artistic license here in that it’s not apricot and it’s apparently A STOCK, not an ascot”. Anyway, I feel sorry for the guy who paid to learn the secret and now we’ve all figured it our for free!

Dr William Newman (1773–1835), Principal of Stepney Academy (1811–1826): 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Henry_Boughton_-_Dr_William_Newman_(1773%E2%80%931835),_Principal_of_Stepney_Academy_(1811%E2%80%931826).jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/boughton_george_henry.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=741 

https://www.askart.com/artist/George_Henry_Boughton/21075/George_Henry_Boughton.aspx 

https://books.google.com/books?id=CDSD-jBIExkC&pg=PA144#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://victorian-era.org/biography-of-george-h-boughton.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Boughton_George_Henry.html 

https://books.google.com/books?id=bMkcAQAAIAAJ&q=1833&pg=PA197#v=onepage&q=1833&f=false 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2343 (December 4, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Hey! Don’t knock my neckwear.

“Wait a minute! Whose hand is that? And what are you doing back there?”

No, no; it’s just a scratch. Really.

Oh, no, no, you needn’t do a musical about me. Well, if you insist………..

" I solemnly swear, as Principal of Stepney Academy, I never had inappropriate contact with any of my boys.

Yes, I would have to cane their lovely naked bottoms on occasion – cheeky little buggers were always getting into mischief – but that’s as far is it went.

Those late-night tutorials on Greek culture were only to help a young lad get ahead…"

“He touched me…and suddenly NOTHING is the same !” -Streisand (or Stormy Daniels)