That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 20, 2018

The brother asked himself, “is bluffing a sin?”

The worst strip poker game ever!

“For Christ sake, Brother McDougall. Quit ogling these nude cards and play your hand!”

“Brothers! Why are you two staring at me like that? It’s not as if I have hidden aces stuffed up these wide, deep sleeves… oh, crap…”

I won that hand, you guys have to fast one more day.

Hey you two, lose the hats.

“Are we cheating, Monsignor!!!”

Well now we know where Z Z Top disappeared to.

“I’ll see your Hail Mary and raise you two more.”

Playing for the patent rights to the newly invented Sybian.

Playing for the patent rights to the newly invented Sybian.

Since they had no chips or money, the only thing to play for was posession of the sacred booze flask.

“It’s hard to believe this came out of my nose.”

The Game of Cards: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eduard_Gr%C3%BCtzner_Das_Kartenspiel_1892.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artnet.com/artists/eduard-von-gr%C3%BCtzner/ 

http://www.eduard-grutzner.com/ 

http://www.theknohlcollection.com/portfolio/detail/eduard-von-grutzner-1846-1925/ 

all have info about this artist. So far, 2 other works (one twice, repeated 2/8/13) by him have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2012/03/25?comments=visible 

has the other, which sadly, though my comment text is there with the line breaks removed, its hyperlinks remain inactive, as well as at the repeat 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2013/02/08?comments=visible 

&?@#!#%&!

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1912 (March 19, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Hair Club for Men – Chins Division.

monks playing poker, the the winner gets the new choirboy

Note on the Bathroom Wall: “Maester Pycell is a dirty card cheat. I hope the old bastard get’s a knife in the back.”