That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 20, 2023

/// The big dog is a judge and, for sure, he

can keep order in court and quash fury.

When the dogs had played poker

a Shar Pei palmed a Joker.

He now faces a Trial by Jury.

“Sorry, the by-laws don’t allow us to kill our owner’s new girlfriend.”

“Do I hear 100 for the painting of dogs playing poker?

Melcher says this is a throwback to 4/4/14. Here is the That Is Priceless from 4/14/2014:

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/04/04

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“I call to order this meeting of ‘Cats Are Icky’. ”

All those in favor of adjourning to the pool room say “AYE”

There was more than one bone of contention at the will reading.

“The gathering of the hounds”/

Is a work whose technique astounds/

But beware, my friend/

If you choose to attend/

Avoid any mysterious mounds..

The Supreme Court- as envisioned by Senator McConnell (apologies to those who object to political opinions in this sacred space)

This session of the Royal Order of Butt Sniffers wil come to oder.

Those abstaining, meow….

Squirrel

No, its not a wig. Now quite interrupting and listen up.

Someone took the saying “big dog on campus” a little too literally.

“Shall we go walkies now?”

The others were finding Carl’s new D&D campaign rather boring…

POINT OF ORDER:

Is this a meeting of the BigDogCatHater club, or GetRidofSlimycatS club?

The surprising reason that books become dog-eared.

Scene from “Animal Farm.”

Laying down the Law or Trial by Jury: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Edwin Landseer" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex 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 Trial, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1054 (4/4/14) (July 19, 2023) 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by this artist have been used here (4 times total, including this Throwback Thursday), the July 30, 2014, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment and reply there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. The April 9, 2020, strip has the prior by him.

“Les Chiens de Justice” (get the pun? Think Daumier!)

Lord Alfred poodle starts informing all dogs to remail silent and just gather info for rebellion in the future.

My original post from 7/30/14 (thank you mabrndt)

When does the poker game start?

What great records you keep! Are you related to pen?

Shar Pei: a distant relative.