That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 23, 2024

“There’s a fungus among us. I keep getting re-infected with Athlete’s Foot. Where do we keep the Desenex®?

I wonder how voluptuous these women might have looked had Peter Paul Rubens done this painting.

In its early days Abercrombie and Fitch had a casting pond in the basement to try fly rods. Management used it for holiday parties for big spenders.

In Istanbul’s blistering heat/

It’s important to care for your feet:/

But more critical still/

(And we know that she will)/

Is keeping your seat smelling sweet.

Has anyone seen my pet hamster?

“Yeah, of course they’re bogarting the bong. But it’s okay; I bought my jumbo-sized bowl.”

The new swimming coach’s bold plan for getting a competitive edge in the swim meet only resulted in increased attendance and his swift termination.

Don’t look now, but off to my right some guy is watching us

I brought my cat for all to see… (insert own joke here…)

Secretarial pool.

Blue Burga realized he could have gotten a lot closer to the action if he had worn a white hooded robe like that other guy.

Her humiliation’s complete:/

With his new wife she cannot compete ./

Who would ever have thought/

On the day she was bought/

that she’d have to wash her own feet?

Raccoon meets beaver?

“You know how sensitive the canary is to noxious gas, so why did you have to f@rt into his cage!?!”

It’s not a racoon. It’s a Chihuahua with a constant licking issue.

“Seriously. Some guys really love shiny feet. They can’t take their eyes off of them.”

And the robed characters are…? Frat boys who snuck in?… Really shy girls?….Trans female ‘identifiers’?…

Women in the bath: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings of nudes by Jean-Léon Gérôme" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Brave 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 9.53, 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 (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3397 (October 23, 2024) 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 pointing to the blog entry with my comment and replies pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 27 works by him have been used here (28 times, including this different caption repeat), the April 18, 2022, strip being its first use. The June 28. 2022, strip has the latest by him, so far.

“Yeah… Your ‘door’ is unlocked and wide open!”

I brought this cage because I was told I’d see a lot of beavers.

“Raccoon? Or beaver? I had to say it…” DT

seeing the men had so much fun, the gals decided to try the lez. baths.

As the lady in the back is hitting the bong.

Darlin’ – everybody has a trophy case. Mine just looks like a cage.

I am going to assume that Linguist was unable to check in with us today because he is too busy celebrating his eightieth birthday. Hope it was a very happy one!

/// It is rare for raccoons to intrude

in the harem bath. (They can be shooed.)

If black-masked vermin viewed

Sultan’s wives bathing nude,

they were only there washing their food.

Forget the racoons we’ve got a free-range beaver.

“No, I haven’t seen the Gimp, have you seen the Gimp?”

Slightly edited copies of limericks from 18 April 2022, when this painting had a different caption:

/// Though surrounded by nudes in profusion,

Gérôme hides by the wall in seclusion.

Naked beauties abound,

but he’s scared to turn ‘round

and reveal his blue burqa’s protrusion.

/// Once again, harem girl washes feet,

but this time she’s portrayed with more heat.

Not a Palmolive ad,

several girls are unclad

but I don’t get the cage that’s her seat.