That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 22, 2024

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    Solstice*1947  about 1 month ago

    /// An Old Woman, (a Duchess), Grotesque,

    still believes that her form’s statuesque,

    but her décolletage

    is a withered mirage,

    and her face is the soul of burlesque.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 1 month ago

    “My eyes are up here.”

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    Baslim the Beggar Premium Member about 1 month ago

    The sad thing is that she only got sixth place in the 1513 Ugly Flemish contest…

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    GoComicsGo!  about 1 month ago

    “The cops won’t recognise me in this… Ha… Even my won’t even recognise me.”

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    Zykoic  about 1 month ago

    She lost. I guess no job for me as a cabinet member.

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    ronaldspence  about 1 month ago

    …but with a heart of gold though!

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    Ubintold  about 1 month ago

    She played an extra in “Planet of the Apes”.

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    Jayalexander  about 1 month ago

    Some are just not candidates for the Rue Paul school of finising.

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    Bilan  about 1 month ago

    The beta trials of Botox weren’t very successful.

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    E.Z. Smith Premium Member about 1 month ago

    …kinda hot.

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    phritzg Premium Member about 1 month ago

    How the hot chick you brought home from the bar last night looks the next morning.

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  about 1 month ago

    Due to scheduling conflicts, Aunt Gertrude had to back out of the portrait when it was 90% complete, and the only substitute Quinten could find was Uncle Milton.

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    Call me Ishmael  about 1 month ago

    “ Is this the face that launched a thousand ships/and toppled the topless towers of Ilium?”

    “Nope!”

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    Kalli J Premium Member about 1 month ago

    In Martin Gardner’s wonderful book The Annotated Alice, he notes that this painting was very likely John Tenniel’s inspiration for his illustrations of the Duchess.

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    Call me Ishmael  about 1 month ago

    There’s a rumor that’s being bruited/

    About- (and it’s not been refuted)/

    That the Duchess, displeased/

    By fury a was seized/

    And the surgeon was executed.

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    Egrayjames  about 1 month ago

    Back in the day, we would call her a ‘’Double Bagger’’.

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    chaosed2  about 1 month ago

    Here we have a rare photo of Cynthia Rise, grandmother of Cole Rise. (only some will get it I’m afraid)

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    jdculhane46  about 1 month ago

    Saturday morning when you look over at the “10” you picked up at the bar Friday night

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    [Traveler] Premium Member about 1 month ago

    OMG, is this real? Why?

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    Linguist  about 1 month ago

    Just imagine waking up in the morning with her lying next to you, and then discovering she has bad teeth and hates poetry!

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    Sir Isaac  about 1 month ago

    I know it’s off-putting but we haven’t had as many rats since I hung it in the pantry.

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    EMGULS79  about 1 month ago

    Hm…Minnie Mouse had an illegitimate son by Yoda, and when this son grew up he got breast implants in an attempt to “transition?”

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    lagoulou  about 1 month ago

    It must be awful to live in a body people mock….

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    ragsarooni  about 1 month ago

    Elephant WOMAN?

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    PC Load Letter Premium Member about 1 month ago

    Buh… Nightmare fuel!

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    Calvins Brother  about 1 month ago

    Gotta be some kind of Alien.

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    rmremail  about 1 month ago

    This is what happens when you refuse to pay your portrait painter.

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    mokspr Premium Member about 1 month ago

    And welcome back to “Who Wants to Marry a Hapsburg Princess”!

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    gary.eddings4157 Premium Member about 1 month ago

    Lindsey Graham, late for an emergency committee meeting, forgot to dress down.

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    stamps  about 1 month ago

    Jabba the Hutt, the early years.

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    Linguist  about 1 month ago

    Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Exterior Department of Charm & Beauty – a former Miss Universe contestant, now residing in Florida!

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    dontcare1911  about 1 month ago

    What drugs drove the artist to create this painting? I would love the back story.

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    ira.crank  about 1 month ago

    I think I took the wrong hormones.

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    PoodleGroomer  about 1 month ago

    Turn women upside down and they all look the same.

    It didn’t help.

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    aerotica69  about 1 month ago

    Seriously…..WTF?

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    MissScarlet Premium Member about 1 month ago

    Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode; Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder.

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    It's Not Easy Bein' Me  about 1 month ago

    Fugly

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    Thehag  about 1 month ago

    Had to look it up because there just seemed something off about this portrait.

    “The Ugly Duchess is a satirical portrait painted by the Flemish artist Quinten Matsys around 1513. The Ugly Duchess aka “A Grotesque old Woman”,

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    FireAnt_Hater  about 1 month ago

    Why would anybody paint that? LOL

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    Khatkhattu Premium Member about 1 month ago

    The Goblin king’s wife (The Hobbit film, part 1).

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    mabrndt Premium Member about 1 month ago

    The Ugly Duchess or Portrait of an Old Woman or A Grotesque old woman

    Paste (including the quote marks) 

    "Category:Undated paintings" 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 Quentin, 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 #3415 (November 22, 2024) 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 pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the August 10, 2012, strip being the prior. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

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    Bobbers Premium Member about 1 month ago

    Anyone have extra eye bleach? I need badly to unsee this.

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    Call me Ishmael  about 1 month ago

    “Push them up !” her best friend suggested/

    “Face the facts- you are pendulous breasted./

    Then hope they’ll distract/

    From the tragical fact/

    That your face is a farce uncontested.”

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    d1234dick Premium Member about 1 month ago

    queen monkey from planet of the apes.

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    d1234dick Premium Member about 1 month ago

    he had a sex change, for the better.

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    flashdrive1988  about 1 month ago

    O. M. G. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    rugeirn  about 1 month ago

    The Wikipedia article on this painting (just search for “The Ugly Dutchess” in the Wikipedia search box) is unusually complete and informative. This painting has been the subject of quite a bit of study over the years.

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member 30 days ago

    You think I’m bad? You should see the guy that I was fighting!

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member 30 days ago

    Quoting Don Rickles when he doesn’t know what to say … “avocado”.

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member 30 days ago

    How DARE you! I don’t have a receding hairline!

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    JH&Cats  30 days ago

    The above remarks resemble what children say on seeing a “different” person for the first time. If she were your kind old nurse, you wouldn’t worry about her looks.

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    jdculhane46  30 days ago

    A chance to try diplomacy:Nice- “When I look into your face time stands still”Nasty- “You gotta face that would stop a clock”

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    Holden Awn  30 days ago

    Cease and desist. It is unacceptable to ridicule transgender people. Though some fail in their transition more spectacularly than others.

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    KEA  29 days ago

    lemme guess “she” was the model for the gargoyles on Notre Dame?

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    epaphus8  29 days ago

    You people are cruel. Remember—she was probably somebody’s mother … provided the guy did her from behind.

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    DATo  29 days ago

    Grandpa ……. I really don’t think the WOKE thing suits you at this time in life.

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    markkahler52  29 days ago

    Gerald Ford? Well, who knew…?

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    Autological  29 days ago

    Trans? (I’m surprised no one said that yet!)

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 29 days ago

    Whoever said beauty is only skin deep ought to be shot!!

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    anomaly  28 days ago

    “I feel pretty, oh so pretty…”

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    Call me Ishmael  28 days ago

    For Monday: “school board clash over library books and posting Ten Commandments in restroom stalls.”

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