That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 12, 2012

This was long before calculators, and the Chinese were keeping the abacus to themselves.

You try to calculate percentages in Roman numerals sometime.

Dad! What did I do to warrant all the family (including their dog) dropping in unannounced and wanting to stay for the weekend?

lets see . . . 13 bagels at 2 shekels each, 12% would be what? 3 1/4 skekels . . . but service was ok, so maybe 15% . . . which would be, 3.9? No wait, 4.1, hey! who ordered the ham sandwich?

Wow Paolo — can you say anachronism? BTW that waitress is either a TV or really butch. . ..

Jesus’s new dandruff shampoo finally starts to tingle.

Looks like one of those times in the NT when He said, “How long am I to be with you?” Which being translated means, “Get with the programme, guys!”

If he starts to sparkle, I’m so switching religions.

1. Trying to figure out what the 16th century booze wench is doing there.2. How is he going to explain to some one that the little girls ruined their taffeta dresses playing with a stray dog.

Jesus starts to regret healing people.“Can you check my back?”

“Can you check my arm?”

“Can you check MY arm?”

“Can you check my leg?”

“Can you examine my daughters?”

“Can you examine my dog?”

Why has thou forsaken me? I said no kids tonight.

For those interested, I added a comment to yesterday’s strip.This poster (mouse over the image to see more detail, click to zoom what’s in the window at that point, has transparent watermark) is from a larger painting (click image to enlarge). You can also mouse over or zoom in on the painting, and 3 other posters from it, starting from here, to see details (again with fairly transparent watermarks, but better quality image, most smaller than the enlarged painting). Enlargement also available from here. So far, 2 works by this artist, AKA Paolo Caliari, have appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog.

“i’ll have what he’s having”-When Jesus met Sally.

WWJD?

The guy with his back to us is wearing a nice little off the shoulder number.

excellent! But I fear he was counting n Hebrew or Aramaic. STILL – excellent! Ave atque vale!

Shouldn’t those kids be screaming behind me on a transatlantic flight?..and who is the bald transvestite in the off-shoulder outfit across the table?

Aha! So “Sally” is the bald, bearded transvestite across the table!

At the first Transvestite Apostle Dinner Awards.

Re anachronisms in Renaissance paintings: There’s a Monty Python sketch (not from the show; I think they did it in “Live from the Hollywood Bowl”) where the Pope has some “issues” with Michaelangelo’s The Last Supper: He included kangaroos, too many disciples, and three Christs (the fat one in the middle balances out the two skinny ones). Michaelangelo’s idea is to change the title to The Penultimate Supper or The Last Supper But One. I mean, there had to have been one, right? The punchline is Michaelangelo storming off saying “You don’t want an Artist, mate, you want a bleedin’ photographer.”

Jesus, counting to ten after seeing the bill and whacking the superintendent, Thus the title: The Last Super".

Wouldn’t whatever he put down be miraculously right?

Jesus, waiting for the pancake to fall back down from the ceiling.

Oh, look … that water stain on the ceiling … it looks just like … I can’t believe it … it looks just like that donkey we had when I was a kid … Old Abe, we called him!!! Wow!!! Look at that!!!

the serving wench is kinda scary- but in a good way…

Here is another work by this artist.