That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 22, 2022

In last minute desperation, Hans poked his head through the middle of a rug and rapped a sheet around his head for the costume party.

“What do you mean when asking about my carpets and drapes?”

/// He is playing the part of a djinn,

and the costume is where he’d begin

to develop the role,

but he looks, on the whole,

like H. Dumpty crossed with Keenan Wynn.

A Dutchman whose name was Urban/

Insisted on wearing a turban./

Urban looked quite superb in/

His spectacular turban/

But the Dutch found it downright disturbin’..

Demis Roussous: age projection, 89 years.

The Man Who Mistook Ted Cruz For A Hat.

I am the great Rahjdahl. Famous mystic and magician. You’ll have to take my word for it, there’s nothing up my sleeve. The turban is quite another matter. Now who has a Rupee?The young lady over there. Would you bring it to me and I’ll say the incantation. Whoopi, whoopi guess who’s got a Rupee. And then the young lady will vanish.

Arnold was such a hot-head that his friends would make Jiffy-Pop in his hat.

Looks like just another towel-head.

Shazaaam! Open sesame!

portrait of the founder of barnes and noble slav…

Carmac the Magnificent has spoken. (Time for our first guest)

13 generations ago, the first of the Drumpf family to come up with a ridiculous solution for his male pattern baldness.

Testosterone poisoning makes men look in a mirror and think that this makes them look good.

Harvey Keitel wearing more clothes than he has his entire life. Your welcome.

This here is a picture of Herb, in/

His towering, teetering turban./

He’s having a go at/

Excluding the Croat/

But he’s willing to the Serb in.

(It doesn’t always have to make sense, does it?)

Judge van der Snoot was quick to point out that posing in the silly costume had been his entirely wife’s idea!

Doodlebah the Great and Powerful!

Bed hair or hat head? No matter to Urban – he didn’t own a comb anyway.

Why should I get a haircut?

Answer: Cis Boom Bah! Question: What’s the sound made by an exploding sheep? – Carnac the Magnificent

“Does this camel skin make me look fat?”

The first Grand Poobah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. Coped by Rembrandt from a cave drawing attributed to Fred Flintstone.

What combover?

Urban in disguise (he hopes), on the lookout for the paper wasps nesting in the backyard.

Man in Oriental Costume (“The Noble Slav” or “Man in a Turban”): 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

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(syntax supported by the Google and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and chose the first File: link found for info and links that point to more info about this roughly lifesize painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2917 (April 22, 2022) 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 (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far 8 works, by this artist, have been used here. The January 30, 2015, strip has the prior (the 25 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative).

At the sight of the blight on his head/

The ladies all got up and fled./

Though he wound it with care/

It killed every hair/

Which may be why he never was wed.///

Though a Slav, he could pass for a Turk/

With his surly, superior smirk/

Even Rembrandt grew bitter/

At the sneer of his sitter:/

He barely completed the work.///

Twas the turban that sealed the deal/

Though the sitter was just a schlemiel/

Now the whole world can see ‘im /

In the old Rijksmuseum/

For that turban has lasting appeal…

“How dare you accuse me of smuggling oranges!”

“How dare you! My Carmen Miranda cosplay is perfect!”

Wow it really messes up the painting!

that is the last time I’m going to Madam Lafarge’s barber shop! her idea of a flat top is insane

Almost 400 years ago, but still considered the textbook example of a bad hair day.

Turbans were big in the 1630’s.

I’ll never understand Haute Couture.

It’s a sweat lodge. If you get dizzy, you just stick your head up the smokehole, and the rain-cover will lift right up while you get some air.

Trump getting his migraine cure.

/// Is he dressed like a figure from myth? It

well could be he’s a Lord of the Sith. It,

in fact, seems to be

they’re towels ‘cause he

washed his hair and can’t do a thing with it.

Looks like David Letterman.

Not tonight…I’ve got a headache