That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 10, 2019

They made their money when people paid them to stop playing.

The Clapper gang was back in town.

“Hear the Salvation Army band

Down by the riverside is bound to be a better ride

Than what you’ve got planned

Carry your cup in your hand”

First live performance of the NAMBLA Boys Choir, 1880.

The new boy band in town couldn’t decide on whether to call themselves The Front Street Boys or Out of Sync. The townsfolk just called them awful.

The American Psychiatric Association’s first recorded case of mass ding-a-ling hysteria.

Everybody sing it with me! “You can ring my be—he—hell, ring my bell! (Ring, oh, ring, ring, ring)”

“Hey, we’ve got enough people, and Farmer Jones will loan us his barn. Let’s put on a show! Where’s Judy?”

these layabouts were constantly getting arrested for tinkling in public…

They all ought to be on the stage, and I think there’s one due any minute! (It’s a Vaudeville joke; I apologize to the Millennials among us!")

For puzzled non-SNL fans: https://videa.hu/videok/zene/more-cowbell-4ENBZBIRRav8s71V

First Liberal vs Conservative town crier meeting.

I gotta have more cowbell!

The scene, about 30 seconds before the lady in blue called the cops

Isn’t it a little early to be caroling?

The band should just sign a couple of Mississippi State fans.

How do you hit the snooze alarm on that bell ringing?

Yep, I’m stealing wheelbarrows.

Where’s Christopher Walken when you need him?

And the applause was deafeningly silent. Someone had stolen all the clappers.

“That’s not a cowbell. This is a cowbell.“

https://www.saveur.com/resizer/SL8OG6RXkDRt7XKO3xNfMJ_2WZs=/743×557/filters:focal(1136×852:1137×853)/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-bonnier.s3.amazonaws.com/public/SBJ7MYKQAQGWPWYQGL6XVLUEX4.jpg

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling won’t you play with my ding-a-ling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaEC-lWSlmI

Fans of Sly And The Family Jug Band knew to get comfortable as the Sly was infamous for never starting a show on time.

No matter how loud or enthusiastically The Belfast Bellringing Boys for Temperance rang their handbells, they failed to rouse Uncle Eustis from his drunken stupor.

“My stout still maintains its foam”/said Angus, wi’ bold aplomb./“So I’m stayin’ in here/til I finish my beer -/they can ring til the cows come home !”

Later, that same day : “Hell’s bells – that Angus can sleep through ANYthing !”

It was 20 degrees this morning. It won’t take too long to sell their load of wood. Careful, or someone will burn the barrow for heat, too.

The Bell Ringers: 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=50894 

has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.avictorian.com/Lamont_Thomas_Reynolds.html 

https://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/biog/?nid=LamoTR 

both have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2346 (December 9, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

And turn it up to 11 while you’re at it.

They needed more cowbell or less beer….nah; how could any group need less beer?

We have enough bells. We need more belles.

The pub had thought it would be good advertisement. But it just made everyone dingy.

the first recruitment of MARINES at TUN TAVERN a gay bar in phil.

the town’s high up ringing for their servants, they were inside the bar and couldn’t be bothered.