That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 14, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  over 5 years ago

    Grandpa was telling the same story for the hundredth time but none of the kids wanted to hurt his feelings.

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    Strob  over 5 years ago

    (Better late than never) – “..and when we wanted to change the channel, we had to get up and walk across the room!” GASP

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 5 years ago

    The old man was telling the kids about the time he fought off the Orcs and crossed Mordor to destroy the ring.

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    orinoco womble  over 5 years ago

    “You either have kids, or you have money. Guess which one we have.”

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    Papared25  over 5 years ago

    “It was a terrible winter! I didn’t want to turn to cannibalism, but then again, I didn’t want to become a vegetarian either.”

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    Zykoic  over 5 years ago

    It takes a village.

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    pcolli  over 5 years ago

    “……and that is how I came to be sitting on this seat. What do you mean I was telling you about the Battle of Frogmore Street?”

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    ccomebacktour  over 5 years ago

    Honesty is the best policy. In this case , the numbers don’t LIE !

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    ccomebacktour  over 5 years ago

    To paraphrase MAURY, “You are NOT the father !”

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    rmremail  over 5 years ago

    Well, unless mom’s name was Mary, they have a father somewhere.

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    ptnjbrown  over 5 years ago

    Here, pull my finger.

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    TerBer  over 5 years ago

    Stories by a fire, from a gifted old man,Instantly transported to exotic new lands.Transferred to cultures now all but extinctA solitary memory, the very last link.

    Poems by a fire, I sit there transfixedEntranced by a voice, near ninety-sixAn echo from the past of a world unknownNew vision, new understanding to add to my own.

    Wisdom with eighty years of contemplationResound in my head, with delight. with elation.Sonnets of love and of promise, of pain and of loss,Transpose a lifetime of passion, and George paid the cost.

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    jel354  over 5 years ago

    That’s way too long to write on construction paper from the Arts and Crafts class.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 5 years ago

    “Pull my finger. lmao just kidding, high five baby..”

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    Call me Ishmael  over 5 years ago

    “..and that’s how Coco Chanel and I designed the ‘Little Black Dress’ that is now the mainstay of your wardrobe !”

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    PO' DAWG  over 5 years ago

    Gypsy King telling them they are going to have to do better at pickpocketing or he is going to cut one of their legs off and make them beg on the street.

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    Another Take  over 5 years ago

    And before your Ma got sick of him, I’d have Charlie my ventriloquist dummy right here and I’d have him say, without moving my lips mind you, “Hurry up with those vittles woman!”. I miss Charlie…

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    lagoulou  over 5 years ago

    “And the Highway Man kept riding, riding, up to the old inn door…”

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    Indianapolis Smith  over 5 years ago

    “There I was at the store. Standing by the pole beans. Then I saw him! A Streaker! I hollered out at your Aunt Ethel ’DON’T LOOK, ETHEL!’ but it was too late. She’d already been MOONED!”

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    Linguist  over 5 years ago

    " … and when I was your age, I had to walk barefoot in the snow, ten miles uphill each way, to school…"

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    MissScarlet Premium Member over 5 years ago

    On the plus side, he keeps the children amused and out of my hair. But on the other hand, he hasn’t helped do anything in years.

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    anomaly  over 5 years ago

    The kids love to spend hours listening to Grandpa recount his years at the slaughterhouse.

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    gcarlson  over 5 years ago

    “According to our mother you’re our father, And that’s good enough for us.” – Groucho Marx’s Father’s Day song

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    d1234dick Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Chester the molester’s wife will put up with anything to have him leave her alone.

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    Linguist  over 5 years ago

    “The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children. “

    _______________Clarence Darrow

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    SF Giants  over 5 years ago

    “You got to pick a pocket or two.”

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Since the comment I posted 6/14 was deleted by the blankety blank GoComics Moderator on 6/25:

    Grandfather Telling a Story

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anker_Grossvater.png 

    (best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

     

    http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/anker_albert.html 

    https://iamachild.wordpress.com/category/anker-albert-samuel/ 

    https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=572 

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16444946 

    https://www.wikiart.org/en/albert-anker 

    http://www.artnet.com/artists/albert-anker/ 

    http://www.albert-anker.ch/en/biografie.html 

    http://www.sikart.ch/KuenstlerInnen.aspx?id=4000009&lng=en 

    all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. The last is in German (again Chrome can translate). Click more… in the Lexicon article for the complete text, and More works under the right side images for, as of the strip date, 597 works by him (not this). Again, as of the strip date, 14 works by him have been used here. 

    https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/10/10?comments=visible 

    has the prior work (my comment there included the same artist info URLs; but then only 580 works were shown by the last).

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2223 (June 13, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

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