That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 11, 2022

Singing a country’s national anthem the first time is always tough.

The good old days, back when everybody who mattered was white, male and attended church

Humbert loves to play paper football before a large crowd!

Obviously we believe in freedom of expression: You can have a pencil mustache or a goatee.

First gay marriage.

/// Crowded scene of the Ratification

of the Treaty of Münster. (A nation

ended Spanish control.)

And this all played a role

in the new Dutch Republic’s formation.

Gentlemen, welcome to the G.R.O.S.S club. Did anyone put the no girls sign outside?

All in favor of anchovies on the pizza, raise your hand.

“As soon as you guys sign those papers, we can all go down to Hooter’s and check out some T and A. I’ve heard they’ve got a new girl from Brussels that’ll make you wish you were single again!”

The Dutch seem to have some kind of two-fingered signal going on; is that like crossing your fingers when signing a treaty?

♪ we are the world, we are the children…

The power of Spain being spent/(Spain now being “decadent”)/The Dutch,too, were free/(Ironically)To colonize new continents..///

But first they must deal with Britain/Which her own colonies was a-gittin’/And even the Swedes/Felt colonial “needs”../In the West, then, the Dutch were soon smitten///

But don’t think theDutch quit the game:They colonized all the same../They got Indonesia/And (this one will please ya)/For South Africa’s woes they’re to blame..///

What lessons has history taught?“Liberation”, it seems, comes to naught./Someplace always aflame/(All that’s changed is the name)/In an endless “turf war” we are caught…“When elephants fight, the grass suffersl..”

I count 69 heads. I wonder if the ones that just the top of the head, no face, are so the artist could say “I painted you! See, right there!”

Anybody know where the Dutch oven is?

“is it art? Hey, we really don’t care./We commissioned it, buddy, so there!/Come on, hurry it up/and when you finish up/just be sure that my face is right there!”

“Don’t get carried away with your order…you will have to pay your share because we’re going Dutch, of course!”

First order of business for the Free Man’s Club, voting on whether we kill the 2 men who had the audacity to rebel and wear an orange cape or simply ask them to leave?

Seasoned curly fries and slaw.

And the guy on the right who is wearing the orange cape and holding the sword will divide the chicken.

Gentlemen, please this is a choral group not a rap party!

Little Red Riding Hood is called to testify on the third day of Big Bad Wolf v. Woodsman.

The early G.O.P. shown here censuring their last two non-conformist members.

Find the guy without a mustache.

The Elders of the Illuminati puzzle over a strange box they found with the word AMAZON on it.

Let’s have a show of hands for going Dutch on lunch today!

The Ratification of the Spanish-Dutch Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

“File:Westfaelischer Friede in Muenster (Gerard Terborch 1648).jpg” site=commons.wikimedia.org 

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

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #873 (August 28, 2012) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far 14 works, by this artist, have been used here (16 times, including this different caption, and another repeat). The December 8, 2012, strip has its first time (the 31 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative). The February 19, 2021, strip has the last work by him used there. The active artist info URLs in my comment there are pointed to by here links in my blog comment.

Waldo was much easier to find before he switched from a cape to the striped shirt.

“Who’s up for a rousing game of telephone? Shouldn’t take more than four hours.”

No! No! No! I said I wanted a council of capable men, not cape wearing men!

Early meeting of the Burning Man Ceremony Comitee…

To celebrate this wondrous occasion, let me know how many fingers of whiskey you want!

Has nobody posted this yet?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WO73Dh7rY

@Say What Now Even if we saw the “No girls sign” outside, what means we heeded it! Haha!