That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 13, 2020

The old “pull out your ‘pipe’ and measure it” contest.

Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.

Lucky Strikes had the “travels the smoke to you” part down, but had not yet developed the “Over, under, around and through” part.

Oopsy! I made the tea with hashish and put the tea in the pipes…

(which explains why the one guy is staring into his teacup as if some great mystery is revealed there).

Note the variety of walking-stick hash pipes available from our factory!

One day, not too long after this event, one of them came up with the brilliant idea that if they make the pipes short, they don’t have to meet like this any more. They can light their own damn pipes.

guys sitting around bragging about whose pipe is longer…

Guys, guys! Pipe down!

Who said you should wear smoke stacks?

Is that a ….. dog …. I see resting on that chair, or did you fill my pipe with your “special blend” when I wasn’t looking?

“So when is the bitch showing up? What, she’s right there in the chair”

The annual meeting of the LUG (Leprechaun Union Guild).

Uh,joe? That’s a golf club you have in your mouth. Is the smoke getting to you?

Where’s the whores?

Said by no smoker, ever.

I see that the guy on the left (no hat, no beard, and short pipe) is cousin Bob, visiting from America.

For our next painting let’s dress up like pilgrims!

Man! Now what am I going to do with this ounce of maui wowie?

Fezzes are Cool.

And they say that now in Paris, France, even as we speak… Louis Pasteur has devised a new vaccine… that will obliterate anthrax once and for all.

Mr. Know It All, wearing fez, back from orient, trying to convince the guys how it’s really done.

Man spreading. Ain’t it great.

“Is that going to be a problem?”

“Not anymore.”

Oh, Danny boy…

This is not as much fun as I thought. Let’s go to the bar.

Is the room they were showing yesterday available?

He can’t join the club without a hat!

Senator McCrotchwart (in fez): “Dudes, this is ,like, the coolest ‘prayer breakfast’ we ever had !”

Ceci n’est pas un tas de pipes.

Bob, a complete teetotaller, and non-smoker felt out of place at the weekly meeting of the HAGS club – Hash And Grass Smokers.

No matter what anyone sez/ there ‘s a stylish effect with a fez/ and stirrup-style trou’/ add a large dash of “wow !”/ Just don’t let them see your pince-nez…

But we can still have our “longest pipe” contest, right?

A Group of Danish Artists in Rome: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Constantin_Hansen_-_A_Group_of_Danish_Artists_in_Rome_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Source has 3 (English subtitled) video descriptions of the painting.

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

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=1681 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/h/hansen/biograph.html 

https://my.meural.com/artists/684  

https://prabook.com/web/constantin.hansen/2506634 

https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/VisWeilbach.do?kunstnerId=64&wsektion=alle 

https://arkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/articles/the-decoration-of-the-vestibule-at-the-university-of-copenhagen-frue-plads 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/02/17?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2404 (March 12, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Most uncomfortable opium den EVER!

Another great moment in phallic-compensatory portraiture.

Before sportscars were invented, men used their pipes to compensate for a midlife crisis.

These fellows were so out of place that ever after people used the phrase: “When in Rome do as the Romans do”.

here we have the city council of Provo Utah on opening day of recreational marijuana. the dog already had a toke.

“I told my doctor I’d stay away from tobacco! I think five feet is far enough away!”

No problem. None of us is wearing a smoking.