That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 22, 2021

Putting a medal around his neck was a lot easier than knotting a tie, especially at his age.

Why the long face?

The little red cross gives the firing squad a target.

No shave November senior division runner up

Or ZZ Top hat and tails…

And now the Top Ten List of That Is Priceless captions …

“I have eaten up my fortune in hard candies.” The Cherry Orchard — Chekhov

Franz hated hemorrhoids, and he hated posing. The look on his face said it all, what he hated the most was posing with hemorrhoids.

Where’s the couch?

David Letterman played by Donald Sutherland.

Nowhere Man thinking he’s somewhere

Hey….When you’ve got it, flaunt it! Every girls crazy about a well dressed man!

Albert sends a secret hand signal to his family to show that he is being forced to pose by his captors (the Nuns of St. Anguish retirement village).

Nothin’ could be hairier than the former King of “Bavarier “ in the mo-or-ornin…

The Kaiser’s a helluva guy/ and the Grand Duke is sprightly and spry/ but Bavaria’s King/ is a whole ‘nother thing/ his Highness just likes to “get high”.

The day Santa Claus received the Nobel Prize commemorated on canvas.

Bavaria, you will recall/ is absurdly diminished and small/ it’s just one German state/ and, until rather late/ it wasn’t a kingdom at all. (Danke, Napoleon, for making us a kingdom in 1806).

Tonight on Meisterpiece Theater, we will be watching Kafka’s The Trial, again.

Here is Uncle John and his portrait after receiving his Guinness medal for world’s longest constipation. Kids, notice his face is a mixture of glee and frustration.

The King of Bavaria….Before the invention of Octoberfest!

Hey! Tommy Chong. Where is Cheech?

“I am ‘The Count’”.

“…of Monte Cristo? Get it? ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’?”

“Why would I want to be the count of a sandwich?”

At his age, even his medals had begun to sag.

It was very unfair to make him pose for this stupid portrait, especially, after the night he’d just had!

There is a history of long faces in his genes!

I miss Dave on The Late Show. Colbert can’t fill those large shoes…. or those white socks.

He does indeed look like Dave these days.

Painter Fugel’s dad seen here dressed for the job he wanted to have instead of in the janitor overalls required by his current position.

GEBHARD: YOU’RE HALF WAY THERE ALREADY, DAD!

GEBHARD: OK, give us that wizened, “heavy-is-the-head-that-wears-the-crown” look…that’s it! Now don’t move for 5 hours!

Portrait of King Ludwig III. of Bavaria: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gebhard_Fugel_Portr%C3%A4t_Ludwig_III_von_Bayern_c1917.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

https://www.johannesoffenbarung.ch/bilderzyklen/fugel.php 

https://www.catawiki.com/l/4430589-gebhard-f-gel-1863-1939-winter-landscape-with-playing-children 

https://eng.panorama-altoetting.de/the-painter/ 

https://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/kgl_biographien/119079380/biografie 

http://web.archive.org/web/20160729232456/http://www.bad-saulgau.de/buerger/kultur_veranstaltungen/Fugel.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate if necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 3 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/02/09?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2691 (April 21, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Honorable mention in the Santa impersonation contest. Alas, no job offers.

As many times as I’ve been to the Haunted Mansion, I expected to scroll up and see him standing in red and white striped boxer shorts on a powder keg with a lighted fuse.

Now why didn’t I think of that earlier? Make the ribbon another foot longer, and I know how I’m hanging my mistletoe this year!

Bayern uber Alles! Oh, wait, nobody ever said that…

Beard’s not big enough.