That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 24, 2017

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 8 years ago

    Years later, George would do a portrait with a dragon from a totally different perspective.

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    Bilan  almost 8 years ago

    Trevor starts to realize what will happen when his parents can’t afford massive volumes of Purina Dragon Chow any more.

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    orinoco womble  almost 8 years ago

    “Mom, Dad says his butt’s a dragon. Better make that coffee strong.”

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    pcolli  almost 8 years ago

    “He followed me home, mum. Can we keep him?”

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    J Short  almost 8 years ago

    Pit Bull? I don’t need no stinkin pit bull.

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    Knightman Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    But I wanted a green dragon!!!

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    Under Dog Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Taste like chicken.

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    Radish...   almost 8 years ago

    He went to a farm upstate.

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    rugeirn  almost 8 years ago

    Art history moment: the title is “Innocence” or “The Child In The World”.

    “Commentary by Rupert Maas

    Gotch was working on this subject in 1895 and different versions exist in oil, pencil and water-colour. This appears to be the most highly finished. The subject is a representation of innocence and experience.

    Gotch explained it as the child “standing alone and unafraid in the innermost, horridest home of the Dragon, called the World, who is powerless against her innocence”. The model for the child was his daughter Phyllis. The oil version was exhibited at the New Gallery in 1895, being judged too radical for the Royal Academy. It received mixed reviews, for some critics thought the dragon more suited to pantomime than fear-inspiring. This irked Gotch who had spent a substantial amount of time researching the dragon in books on heraldry."

    Phyllis went on to become a concert singer, the Marquise de Verdieres, and an activist in the politics of Newlyn, in Cornwall, where she probably had to face down a few real-world dragons.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    The forst thing that came to mind when i saw this was Anne McCaffrey and her Dragon Rider series of stories.

     

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

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    maltmash3r  almost 8 years ago

    Casting call for the live action “Pete’s Dragon” .

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    Linguist  almost 8 years ago

    Kid thinking " I wonder if I pee on the dragon, will he be PO’d ?"

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    mabrndt Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    2 URLs (copy each as one line):

     

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Innocence,_c_1904,_watercolour_by_Thomas_Cooper_Gotch.jpg

     

    has info and links that point to info about this smaller-than-letter-size painting (best viewed using Google Chrome – can automatically translate webpages if necessary). So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here.

     

    http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2012/08/31

     

    has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks !&?@#!#%&!).

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s blog entry for yesterday (January 23, 2017), accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

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    Helen Ferrieux  almost 8 years ago

    Young Evan Davies has an idea for a BBC TV programme.

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    d1234dick Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    mom? does he have to play in the " game of thrones"?

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    ziggman14304  almost 8 years ago

    Bilbo always thought that Smaug would be bigger.

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