That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 28, 2022

My original post in 2020:

The lack of sit-ups cut Gustav’s modeling career short.

You’re going to airbrush this to make me look good, right? You’re going to make me look buff, like Rodin’s thinker?

Tony never could figure out the ‘one cheek sneak’

Never play strip poker with a cheater!

Whenever he modeled for Constantin, Tom always sat down very, very carefully, because Constantin was too cheap to buy a finished wood plinth, and instead hammered together his own from scrap lumber purchased at Home Depot.

And the last time Tom slid right on, he ended up with a five inch long splinter stitching his buttcheeks together.

I’m not climbing up on this thing!

/// Twenty turns of a hand-crank unlocks

the coiled spring that flings Jack from the Box.

It was such a tight fit

that Jack now tries to sit

on the edge ‘til they locate his frocks.

/// This embarrassing pose can’t be easy.

Somehow silly yet shameful and sleazy.

He soaked hours in a tub

so you won’t see a chub.

He’s one Danish both pruney and cheesy,

The Before of the Before and After shots

- Preparation H

Sorry I’ll be just a minute. I forgot my mask.

“I don’t if this is your planter. I gotta go!”

The problem with hiring the cheapest lawyer

When you get your stripper-in-a-cake from WalMart.

Pete Townshend waking up from an all-day drunk…

“There’s only so much I can do/

With a specimen such as you…/

I may paint like a Titian/

But I’m not a magician-/

Now pay me – don’t force me to sue !”

“But my muscles are sharply defined”/

The portraitist’s client whined./

“My proportions are Grecian!/

You’ve made them Phoenician,/

I must have been out of my mind !”///

The artist was brutally frank/

“Yes – my studio is cold and dank/

But twas you, Sir, who chose/

To pose without clothes../

Don’t blame me if your genitals shrank!”

Give me five minutes to do some crunches so my abs will look their best.

This is why you never go low bid on the mohel at the bris.

George looked back up with realization if you don’t wear underwear the streak marks end up wherever you might have been sitting

This is what I get for using winos as models. Have you seen the price of Turpenoid lately?

Getting on the marble plinth first thing in the morning was always an exercise in agony.

Gee, the toilet facilities in these old castles leave something to be desired….

“Sure, it’s not glamorous being the ‘97-pound weakling’ model in Charles Atlas ads, but it’s a living!”

The thin carpet square on the floor / Kept one foot warm, nothing more / To heat up the rest / Though painful at best / Take a seat on the firebox by the door.

“When I paid to take a turn at the ‘Glory Hole’, I had envisioned it differently”…

Scraping the bottom of the barrel at “Models are Us.”

" Sorry, Mr. Hansen, but this cold studio is playing havoc with my kidneys. I’ve gotta take a leak, again. "

Danish Twister involved a box and a small rug and it was played in the nude by only one person.

It never really caught on.

The crack addict model kept falling a sleep and landing on the floor.

A male model from Eckerberg’s studio, 1833 or Male Model Sitting on a Box:: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"File:Male model, 1833 (Constantin Hansen).jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and click first File: found for info (best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) and links that point to more info about this roughly B4 paper size painting. Its Other versions entry shows the strip coloration, now archived.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2385 (2/17/20) (July 27, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with the artist info I used to point to here. So far 7 works, by this artist, have been used here (8 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat). The March 21, 2022, strip has the last work by him shown here, so far.

After taking his barrel, the IRS auditor didn’t even offer him a proper chair.

Not knowing his luggage lock combo, Felix wished he hadn’t sent his clothes to the laundry.

“Seriously Constantin, you expect me to put that in my gallery?”

Eeew, gross.

Oh, this isn’t an audition for Love Island?

Sorry, I’ll be leaving now.

… and a “no sale” for this bachelor auction ….

next up is Apollo Creed!

That pose looks really painful.

For tomorrow :

He’s really excessively short /

To engage in our favorite sport../

He’s a cute little dude/

But if he paints a nude/

It will land his parents in court..

There’s nothing remotely obscene/

About this idyllic scene../

He’s a kid with a gift/

Which should give you a lift/

Unless your mind is unclean…