That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 24, 2020

The soldier may have wanted to fight on, but the horse definitely wanted to surrender.

“Milk, bread, butter. Milk, bread, butter. I just know I’m going to forget to pick those up after the battle. My wife will kill me if I do.”

“Good grief Bessie, what was in that feed bag?”

“I said, my name’s Mr. Ed, and if you try to steer me back towards the swords and spears again you’re in for a surprise dismount.”

‘damn cucumbers repeating and repeating…’

Looks to me like “Flashman at the Charge” where Flashman’s flatulence got the Charge of the Light Brigade started with a … um, bang. His horse just kept running forward with every toot from Flashy’s booty and didn’t stop until through the Russian lines.

If you never have read George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman books, you’ve missed history with hilarity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flashman_Papers

“I can’t dash into battle, sir, I feel a bit horse.”

“Yawn….this battle is so boring.”

Doug?

“I wonder if the other guys have trouble with their retainers?”

“Oh crap I think I’m at the wrong battle”

Shouting commands before the invention of the megaphone or bullhorn.

“Can you hear me now?”

Damn… I could’ve sworn there was a bugle in my hand…

[LANCER] “Run Shadowfax and show us the meaning of haste!” ……… [SHADOWFAX] “What say I trot and show you the meaning of procrastination.”

♫ The end of the Civil War was near. When quite accidentally, A hero who sneezed abruptly seized. Retreat and reversed it to victory. ♫ (F Troop)

“Would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?”

Dude, by some new Swiffer dusters, and quit trying to reuse the old ones.

Dressed and ready for battle when the coffee hit and he couldn’t remember where he haad left the newspaper.

Now what did I come here for?

Hmmm. Maybe I’m supposed to be stabbing the guys who aren’t dressed like me.

Pet dander allergies is not a good thing when your only means of transportation is a horse…

Oh crap! I think I just lanced the captain.

The horse needs water and the rider needs a loo; this won’t end well.

Just then the horse collapsed, the boa constrictor on his back was just too much.

We are ready for your best efforts Meester Heetler. Come see how the Franch Armee is preepared to turn back your puny attacks! One moment. I seem to have forgotten my white hankercheef…

Raoul knew his decision to join the cavalry was a mistake when he discovered how easily he got horsesick.

Is Doug the horse or the rider?

Great moments in Symbolic Phallic Portraiture #376: When You’re Done, You’re Done!

Adventures In Phallic Portraiture, The Failures Edition.

Riding A Dead Horse

Old tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

Businesses, however, often try other strategies. These include,

Buying a stronger whip.

Changing riders.

Saying things like “This is the way we always have ridden this horse”

Appointing a committee to study the horse.

Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.

Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.

Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.

Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.

Comparing the state of dead horses in today’s environment.

Change the requirements declaring that “This horse is not dead”.

Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.

Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.

Declaring that “No horse is too dead to beat.”

Providing additional funding to increase the horse’s performance.

Do a CA Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.

Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.

Declare the horse is now “better, faster and cheaper.”

Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.

Revisit the performance requirements for horses.

Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.

Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.

The Field of Battle: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Delaroche_-_The_Field_of_Battle.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has strip coloration.

 

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

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=1962 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/d/delaroch/biograph.html 

https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=artist&objectId=4456&viewType=detailView 

http://www.theknohlcollection.com/portfolio/detail/paul-delaroche-french-1797-1856/ 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-delaroche 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/49 

https://prabook.com/web/paul.delaroche/3722102 

http://hoocher.com/Paul_Delaroche/Paul_Delaroche.htm 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 7 works by him have been used here (8 times, with 1 repeat using a different caption). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/08/09?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included all but two of the artist info URLs).

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2390 (February 23, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Here’s hoping the white knight is coming in to rescue them.

Reminds me of the grunt sitting in a nuclear waste land…."I think I won. "

The soldier should’ve asked for directions to Waterloo.

Now what is that word I’m supposed to say to get this animal moving? Onward, go, up and at ’em, start, begin, commence…..?

“I’m so glad I remembered my pitch pipe. Let’s all sing ‘Frere Jacques’ in the key of E flat,”

Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha , tired of windmills, settled for goat for tonights dinner

Alice saw him and one of his mates and said, “Cuirassier and cuirassier.”

Ha! That’ll show my enemy. I can TOO hold on to my tongue and say that I work in a ship yard! HEY! Where did he go? Come BACK!

“Dang it… NOW I get an erection!”

“Trumpet…hell! I’ll play the battle charge on my harmonica!”