That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 18, 2022

“So I have to tell you everything that FDR should have told you.”

Hey, look what I can do with my neck when I stretch my head way up!

See Stalin? This is how you have a meeting with your advisors. None of this ‘100 yard long’ table carp!

The Marshall had a plan!

Old white men; need I say anything more?

I know the buck stops here, but does it ever get lent out? I forgot my wallet at home…

Gather ’round boys and lend an ear:/

Though Franklin’s departed/

The fun has just started:/

Henceforth, “The buck stops here !”

“Sir, we know you have qualms about using the atomic bomb, but before you decide let me show you this report on what Hirohito said about your daughter Margaret’s singing.”

“So, after the first one they said hit me again? Don’t they know you never hit on thirteen?”

“You know, if we order a third pizza with just pepperoni we qualify for a free liter bottle of Coke.”

For the bad guesses, the “S” stands for “suckers.”

As foreign I cant undestand the punchline….could somebody explain ? Tks a lot !

“Gentlemen, this is very serious. We NEED to come up with a 3rd topping for this pizza.”

His folks thought it beneficial / to use only an initial / So not a Larry or Moe / or even a Joe / the S is just superficial.

Next up on PBS, the President finds out about his Jewish grandfather…

“Why is it that, ever since they invented this ‘television’ thing, we all have to sit on the same side of the table?”

“Mr. President, I have a message. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake’s plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors.”

“Dman this war…”

“…and that, Mr. President, is why we in the Army believe we also deserve snazzy sleeve decorations like those dumb swabbies get.”

It actually stood for Shipp and Solomon. His parents could not make up their mind on his middle name. (His father’s father’s middle name was Shipp. His mother’s father’s middle name was Solomon.)

“Ya know Harry, you really ought to put some fruit salad over your coat pocket. Looks better that way.”

“Pull my finger.”

Truman and his Military Advisors: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings in the National Portrait Gallery (United States)" site=commons.wikimedia.org

(syntax supported by the Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckgo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Truman, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this unfinished painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2961 (July 18, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

" Look, Mr. President, if you want us to speak openly and candidly, then you’ve got to get rid of that f___ing GoatKomixs Censor! "

“Mr. President, may I speak freely? Robert Lowery is a fine actor, I’m sure, but he’s just…not…Batman. I say give us Lewis Wilson back or GTFO.”

“Why do I have to be ‘Mr. Pink’?!?”

From left to right: Adm. William D. Leahy, Gen. Henry H. [Hap] Arnold, Pres. Harry S. Truman, Gen. George C. Marshall and Adm. Ernest J. King

ADMIRAL: General.

GENERAL: Admiral

ADMIRAL: General.

GENERAL: Admiral

PRESIDENT: SHUT UP ALREADY!

“I swear to God, the dog looks up at me and says ‘Do you think I should have said DiMaggio?’ That idiot dog cost me fifty bucks…”

“Well, Mr. President, since you asked, yes I do think Dewey really won…”

“As ranking officer here, I’ve been asked to respectfully request that you lay off the bean burritos before staff meetings.”

“And here’s the thing… This coyote fellow never actually catches that roadrunner. I guess they’re saving that for the sequel.”

“You’re desegregating WHAT?”

… and THEN I realized he was talking about Capitol Hill, so I simply told him “I’ll look into it” and that’s why I called you here to trick him into believing we actually are looking into it … anyone up for some pinochle?

“So I says to him, I says, ‘Dwight, buddy, we all love what you did in the last war, but come on, you were in Europe the whole time. It’s all about Asia now, so just kick back at Columbia and leave things to us Far East hands.’ Then he says ‘See you in 1952’ and walks away. So, do you think I handled it badly?"

“There once was a man from Nantucket…”

“Army 38, Navy ZERO. Now THAT’S what I call football. Admiral, assume the position…”

“So we don’t actually export democracy worldwide. What we do is export the means of democracy to a select few, who then recruit their own bases and kick up a percentage to us. Those secondary democracies in turn build their own markets and kick back up a level, who kick up to us, and so on…”

Before his famous Plan, there was a brief flirtation with what was called The Marshall Scheme.

Of course he’s not lying about the S. He’s a True Man.

Generals: you should just sit there and look in charge, we will run the country has we have all along. just sigh all the money bills.

President Truman and his Military Staff (circa 1945); unfinished upon artist’s death in 1949https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.67.68L-R: ADM Leahy, GEN Arnold, CINC Truman, GEN Marshall, ADM King

FLEET ADM (Navy) William Daniel Leahy, 6 May 1875 – 20 Jul 1959GEN (Army, then US Air Force) Henry H. Arnold, 25 Jun 1886 – 15 Jan 1950Commander in Chief CINC: Harry S. Truman, 8 May 1884 – 26 Dec 1972GEN (Army) George Catlett Marshall, 31 Dec 1880 – 16 Oct 1959ADM (Navy) Ernest Joseph King, 23 Nov 1878 – 25 Jun 1956

At the Truman Presidential Library I saw a clip from the Jack Benny Show in which Harry gave Jack a tour of the Library. Jack had trouble setting down the solid gold Presidential Seal on the desk in the Oval Office mockup; then Harry asked him his age while they were standing under what was possibly that same portrait of George “I Cannot Tell a Lie” Washington.

“Sure, we HAVE atomic bombs now, but I still have to ask my grandkids how to use the dam’ things…”

“For the last time, I do have a male war bride, but he’s not Cary Grant and I’m not making a dime from that movie…”

“Mr. President, you know the First Lady wants you to say ‘manure’ instead…”

Sorting out the military industrial complex in the new world order. Thanks Ike!

“Here it is, officially ‘the Post-War Era,’ and I’m still dating my checks ‘Between the Wars’…”

“So I had this guy under my command named ‘Major Major Major,’ and it made me wish I’d named my son ‘Marshall Marshall’ and pushed him towards a career in Law Enforcement…”

The bombs we used didn’t work so, we need to use more bombs.

There must be something about the middle initial. Donald J Trump…who has much in common with Bullwinkle J Moose, Homer J Simpson, Phillip J Fry, Elmer J Fudd and Simple J Malarky (of Pogo, a caricature of Joe Mccarthy)