That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 09, 2019

One of the less heralded jobs — Natural History Museum tailor.

The first Lego set wasn’t much fun, and was even more painful to step on.

William was put in charge of taking care of the family pet pelican while they were away. Now he has to make it look like it’s still quite healthy.

The waxman from Madam Tussauds was elated. Making the skeleton look like Barbara Streisand was going to be a piece of cake.

He can’t get the carrion in his carryon?

“The neck bone’s connected to the …..flying saucer?”

“I said to the him, ‘Eat, Harvey, eat something !’ but he just flipped me the bird!”

“18 inches, that is quite an impressive pecker”

Charles Muntz’s trip to Paradise Falls had it been successful (Disney/Pixar’s “Up.”)

Young master was insistent on dressing up as giant bird for the masquerade. And Young master was a ‘budding naturalist’, according to his father. So Alfred was delegated to making an anatomically correct costume, perfectly sized for a 10 year old boy.

Lemu Emu and Doug?

Alfred was surprised to note the family resemblance….

Big Bird after Mitt Romney

You’re gonna put someone’s eye out with that thing.

Why divorce when one can merely de-bone.

“Man is the measure of all things”/ be they endowed with weapons, wits, or wings/ but we cannot escape/ the tale of the tape/ and the painful conclusion it brings.

The professor was trying to prove conclusively that storks do not bring babies.

alfred, puzzling out how to fit this skeleton in his closet…

What Alfred’s Emotional Support Animal lacked in the cute and snuggly categories it more than made up for in its ability to dissuade conversation from his airline seatmate.

Finally giving up and admitting he was wrong, Alfred realized it was FEED the BIRD and STARVE the FEVER and NOT the other way around.

“Yeah, I’ve been on a macrobiotic diet. You got a problem with that?”

Big Bill, self-conscious about the size of his own nose, was always taking the measure of other’s beaks, bills, and blow holes.

Science is Measurement: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_is_measurement_Stacy_Marks.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this jumbo envelope size painting, which some of you may recognize as a different caption repeat of an earlier strip.

 

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/marks_henry_stacy.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2272 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31709967/henry-stacy-marks 

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/henry-stacy-marks/13367 

http://www.maasgallery.co.uk/component/joomgallery/british-pictures-2013/57-henry-stacy-marks-ra-1825-1898-837 

http://web.archive.org/web/20180723091311/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/paint/hsmarks.htm 

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/marks/bio.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Marks_Henry_Stacy.html 

https://books.google.com/books?id=uHM-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA237#v=onepage&q&f=false 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (born in 1829, not 1825), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here (3 times total, including the repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/11/19?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included 7 of the artist info URLs and pointed to the first use of this work).

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2281 (September 8, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Bob was sure he’d followed the instructions from IKEA correctly, but it looked nothing like a dresser.

All the other museum curators stifled their chuckles as they saw Edmond assembling the mishmash of bones they had given him.

“I’m afraid that I’ve done all the liposuction I can.”

“Size matters !”

After the birth of his 17th child, Gustav decided to kill the stork.

If ever there had been occasion to question his master’s sanity, being ordered to outfit this ornithological skeleton in “regal appointment” left no question in Bertrand’s mind. He’d “dress this bird” as told, but upon completing this task he would try to trick the “old bird” into providing him with a commendation for his skill in haberdashery. With testament in hand, he would then solicit a rich investor who might enable him to open a shop, and become his own master.

after having a BBQ chicken dinner Gunther was looking for left overs.

Alfred got retrenched at his age from his former job which he had started out of school and now is having to be an apprentice again at a tailors store and having to put up with juvenile jokes like this from his “senior” colleagues even they’re beyond much younger than him.

Great Moments in Phallic Portraiture…Before Viagra!

Trying to Figure Out If This Thing Will Fit in the Back of His Nissan Sentra, 1879

(Did nobody see that this was a repeat from 2015? https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/09/14)