That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 24, 2020

Peter couldn’t stop that feeling that he became a General in 4 years only because his uncle was the Tsar.

I could lead the charge into battle, but that would muss up my hair. These are the tough decisions a Colonel has to make.

Jared Kushner 5 years from now.

He told the kiddies a little tale of his heroic exploits leading the men into battle, but there wasn’t a Colonel of truth in it!

A lot of people said Lord Fauntleroy had a chip on his shoulder, but in truth it was a lamp shade.

Prince Rupert, having completely lost his mind, decreed that all military officers must henceforth wear inverted, king sized, cupcake wrappers on their shoulders.

the military academy pic that mark zuckerberg tried desperately to keep out of the tabloids…

“Yes, I am the new sheriff in town, but No, I am not the newest member of ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’!”

Senior photo: most likely to become a meme…as the born loser.

He’ll be in decent company. Julius Caesar had a comb-over.

Joe, you’re standing in front of the news camera that’s covering the fire!

If the Army spent as much on training as they did on uniforms, they wouldn’t have had so much trouble

The theory is that pretty collar took everyone’s attention away from his balding head.

“You talkin’ to me?”

“They got rid of the lightbulb that people got used to. The new bulb is many times more expensive and I hate to say it, it doesn’t make you look as good. . . Of course, being a vain person, that’s very important to me.”

Haven’t I heard that somewhere before?

No matter how nasty it gets/ in this world of terrors and threats/ of assaults, and invasions/ (and scrapes and abrasions)/ You’ve still got your epaulets !

No, that didn’t help; I’m afraid you’re still gonna be called Pencil Neck.

This is scary for me , this guy looks just like my neighbor. ( minus the regalia. )

Even though I’ve got hair, this isn’t funny.

Although Rupert was known as a bit stiff-necked, in a stretch, he’d stick it out for his friends.

It is not a retreat, it is merely advancing to the rear to fill in the gap back there.

“This collar? Oh, I got the idea from the neck rings used by women of Africa’s Ndebele tribe. Makes me look rather fetching, don’t you think?”

“Yes, they’re my mother’s matched set of hairbrushes. Fooled you for a moment, didn’t they?”

Portrait of Prince Peter of Oldenburg: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%96%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%B2-%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5_%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80_-_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B0_%D0%9F.%D0%93._%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.jpg 

(don’t you just love Cyrillic letter to digital conversion; best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/court_joseph-desire.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=1449 

https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=89997&sos=0 

https://www.wilnitsky.com/scripts/redgallery1.dll/details?No=38397 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/c/court/biograph.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to than what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 3 works by him have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/03/17?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs, the second of which may not respond).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2411 (March 23, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

David Niven took a stab at costume dramas, but then settled down to his forte of light comedies.

He’s still working on his “social-distancing” epaulets.

It turns out that Prussia was freezin’/and upwards the air was a’ breezin’/his aide de camp Lance/went to get him some pants/’cause his hind end just wasn’t that pleasin’.

Your mom called. She wants her carpet fringe back.

The coronavirus affected him oddly, causing him to absorb the hair from the top of his head and sneeze it out through his nose.

Perry Combover, he ain’t.

Lord Persey, always well groomed, due to the fact of wearing dust brooms on his shoulders.

You can put a dweeb in uniform, but it doesn’t make him any more dashing

and they said I should wear a wig. What do they know? My hair is perfect!

Just you wait … in two years I intend to have a beard to go with the moustache!