That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 27, 2022

“You know, for a bunch of guardsmen, we sure spend a lot of time sitting for group portraits and not doing much else.”

/// Matching guardsmen with beards on their chins

all dine nightly in Amsterdam inns.

They place bets for free gins

which no innkeeper wins:

Try to find the identical twins.

Who’s responsible for starching the collars? I’ve got a heavy date later who wants to neck.

Well, we could’ve been wearing neck cones.

The doctor believes your injuries are the result of sitting front row at the ping pong championships.

“I can see that you forgot your collar, but leave the curtains alone!”

No lipstick on your collars told the tale on you—another “boys only” night out!

consulting with his second about the rules of the head-butting contest…

Waiting for a table on a hot and humid night has everybody’s collar drooping. Next time we get take-out.

“Excuse me, don’t get me wrong, I’m frilled you’re here, but your crowd is getting a little ruff.”

God dam it, you’re worse then a class of kindergartners! Can’t you stop squirming around and all look at the camera at the same time for one F%&ing second?!?

Why does the guy on the right not have a head doily? What’s wrong with him? Is he not part of your special club? For gods sake, somebody get the man a neck napkin!

When I look at this painting all I see is 16 serving trays of head cheese

Oh, god, not another painting of pasty white dudes all dressed the same.

Dutch Masters cigars

In a “gentleman’s club” in Ghent/

To which I once foolishly went/

Every man had a beard/

And (to me) it appeared/

That the place had a “curious” bent…///

“Men in Black” – the very first episode.

Says the man in the hat, " I plainly see your two right arms but would you mind removing from my butt your one left hand!"

Sir. Trixie and the girls have arrived. It’s the guy in the gold pants that’s getting married, right?

Scene from waiting room at office of local personal injury lawyer.

I don’t think the jury will believe you ALL got whiplash in the same accident!!

Van-Dyke brothers. Joe, Tom, Bob, Curly………..

“No, sir, we won’t be needing bibs. Bring on the pork platter!”

Non-Dyke section?!? How dare they in this day and age?? Whoops; sorry; misread that line; go right ahead.

“You didn’t hear it from me, but Jack on the end is actually…French.”

Or the non-cigar smoking section?

Officers and other civic guardsmen of the XIth District of Amsterdam, under the command of Captain Geurt Dircksz van Beuningen and Lieutenant Pieter Martensz Hoeffijser: 

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(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first File: found, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (best viewed using Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2967 (July 27, 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 some info about this artist. First work, by this artist, used here.

Pardon me, sir. I’ll need to rush home for a clean pair of pants. I had an unfortunate accident and I need to use this drape to cover me on my way home.

“Separate checks please”

“Shakespeare Night” was very popular in this eating establishment.

Gentlemen, did you hear the news? Biden is NOT going to run again for president.

In order to save money, Tengnagel had the same person pose in 16 different positions.

Can you help? Our Starbucks closed down, and now we don’t know where to go for coffee.

I’m guessing he finally chose this caption over something about how fetching the curtain went with that dude’s eyes.

The Trump brothers trying to figure out how to make America great again.