That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 14, 2022

Copernicus suddenly realized he wasn’t the center of the universe.

/// Here’s Copernicus, give him a nod.

He would have Conversations with God.

An astronomer ace

who learned secrets of space;

watch him now as he kneels before Zod.

Astronomy student, observing some celestial bodies from outside the women’s dorms.

Prospective sorcerer, asking if can rent out his soul instead of selling it.

“12,684, 12,685, 12,688…Ahh, now I have to start over again. 1,2,3…!”

Never, ever, try to track stars on a boat that’s rocking back and forth.

“When this old world starts getting me downAnd people are just too much for me to faceI climb way up to the top of the stairsAnd all my cares just drift right into spaceOn the roof, it’s peaceful as can beAnd there the world below can’t bother meLet me tell you now!”

Great! Now I can go back and tell her I’m finished counting and we can go on a date!

Young Nicholas reels back in shock/

At the secret he’s chanced to unlock:/

It cannot be, (can it ?)/

That we’re just a mere planet -/

And – worse yet – we’re -only “THIRD Rock” ?///

Should you be a “Poland Fan”/

Count Pulaski will be your next man./

Then you’ll note with dismay/

There’s a dreadful delay/

Til you finally get to Chopin…///t

Madame Curie’s the last Polish great:/

For the next one, we longingly wait/

(Paderewski on piano/

Was better than guano/

But merely a “Head of State”)///

It’s a wonder that Poland survives../

(Indeed, at the moment she thrives)/

There can be no debate/

That she’s pulling her weight,

As the next swarm of “Ukies” arrives..

Look guys! How many shots of this scene does it take for you to get how to keep your f… mike boompole out of the frame?!

Nicholas girls shouldn’t climb heights.

cue the close encounters organ…

“Eureka!”

Copernicus realizing why he has motion sickness.

Before the play began Johnny did 3 hits of cocaine, it took him a second to realize he was under a spotlight and not about to be abducted by aliens.

At last Alice you’ve come back to me…ah, but not alone I see

“Whoops! I guess that support beam was important! Look out!”

I thought it almost looked like a still from the upcoming Easter special “Legend of the Sea Devils.”

“It’s Mary Poppins! And you can see aaaall the way up!”

I feel pretty

Oh so pretty

I feel pretty and witty and gay

And I pity

Any girl who isn’t me today

(Leonard Bernstein)

And forever after it took two wands to overcome his ED.

Friggin clouds! Is it too much to ask for a telescope up in the sky above the clouds?

Maybe she wanted him to.

Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God: 

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(syntax supported by the Google, Yandex, Yahoo, Bing, Duckduckgo, and Ecosia search engines) in the address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and click first link for info and links that point to more info (best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this huge painting.

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #405 (11/21/10) (April 13, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far 6 works, by this artist, have been used here (7 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the June 8, 2012, strip being its first use (the 16 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative). The July 8, 2020, strip has the prior (my comment there has the artist info URLs pointed to by the here links in my blog entry comment).

As a night owl, he never did find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Or the rainbow, for that matter.