That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 31, 2023

/// Jacob taught his four children with rigor,

but Maria, eighteen, starts to snîgger.

Can The Microscope scan

do what he said it can?

“This device will make tiny things bigger!”

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek now wanted to figure out how to make the microscope coin operated, so he could make some money off it.

What kind of question is that? why do we want to make tiny thing look bigger? Go ask your mother.

“Now let’s take a look and see if you kids really did wash your hands.”

“You think that is something, wait until you see what I can do to an ant!”

He’s a genuine man of Science/

So he places his utter reliance/

On evidence gained/

By eyeballs well-trained/

And the aid of this ghastly appliance..///

But Mother has serious doubts/

For the knowledge he’s sharing flouts/

Ancient dogma she’s learned/

And she’s growing concerned/

That her offspring will “marry out”///

Certain “knowledge” has long been disputed/

And now it’s been simply refuted/

And she hasn’t a clue:/

“What’s a mother to do/

In a cosmos so darned convoluted?

Gee, that microscope is nice. But what good is it if you didn’t pay the electric bill.

Nobody gave a hoot.

Setting the stage for some family fun. He knows how to focus on work and family at the same time; put on a slide show.

I’m afraid I’ll need something much stronger to find any common sense in Washington

From: @Call me Ishmael

https://www.gocomics.com/profile/2288699

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He’s a genuine man of Science/

So he places his utter reliance/

On evidence gained/

By eyeballs well-trained/

And the aid of this ghastly appliance..///

But Mother has serious doubts/

For the knowledge he’s sharing flouts/

Ancient dogma she’s learned/

And she’s growing concerned/

That her offspring will “marry out”///

Certain “knowledge” has long been disputed/

And now it’s been simply refuted/

And she hasn’t a clue:/

“What’s a mother to do/

In a cosmos so darned convoluted?

Herb did not invent the microscope! George Santos did.

On the brink of inventing the View-Master™.

It looks kind of like an expresso maker to me.

Good ’ol Herb.

Other parents just said they were playing the world’s smallest violin when their kids complained. Bill was willing to prove it.

Hey, that should qualify as ‘scientific research’.

Better than national geographic.

“Behold my new device for inspecting magnifying glasses. No, it has no other uses.”

Why is art in this strip always so dark? here’s what that painting actually looks like: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ec/bc/55/ecbc55ad8604a97ef19c32829bdd9500.jpg

The Microscope: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Robert Walter Weir" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, 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 first text string with Microscope, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting. Second Other versions entry has strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3071 (January 31, 2023) 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

:(

“The Microscope,” 1849

doctor said, nothing to worry about the sperm and egg didn’t join. so everything is OK for now.

Now that I’ve seen the image offered by KEA, I have a question: what in the sam hill is Jacob Bailey wearing on his head? His nightcap?