That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 24, 2020

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    BE THIS GUY  over 4 years ago

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

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    Bilan  over 4 years ago

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

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Jared Kushner 5 years from now.

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    Kind&Kinder  over 4 years ago

    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!

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    Papared25  over 4 years ago

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

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    DATo  over 4 years ago

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

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    gopher gofer  over 4 years ago

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

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    Egrayjames  over 4 years ago

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

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    Reader  over 4 years ago

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

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    coltish1  over 4 years ago

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

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    MS72  over 4 years ago

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

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    rmremail  over 4 years ago

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

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    garcoa  over 4 years ago

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

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    lagoulou  over 4 years ago

    “You talkin’ to me?”

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    Bookworm  over 4 years ago

    “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?

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    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 !

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    J Short  over 4 years ago

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

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    PO' DAWG  over 4 years ago

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

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    WCraft Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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    Linguist  over 4 years ago

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

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    Khatkhattu Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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    Another Take  over 4 years ago

    “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?”

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    anomaly  over 4 years ago

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

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 4 years ago

    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.

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    Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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    Strob Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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    tracybsmith  over 4 years ago

    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’.

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    MissScarlet Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Your mom called. She wants her carpet fringe back.

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    prrdh  over 4 years ago

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

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    Ubintold  over 4 years ago

    Perry Combover, he ain’t.

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    d1234dick Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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    rmremail  over 4 years ago

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

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member over 4 years ago

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

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