That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 11, 2020

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    BE THIS GUY  over 4 years ago

    The wives couldn’t figure out why their husbands didn’t help around the house but were willing to sweep an ice pond.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Curling: A game invented to drink beer.

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    Papared25  over 4 years ago

    The townsfolk found that curling was a great icebreaker as long as it didn’t break any ice.

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    santa72404  over 4 years ago

    The town got a group discount on Vicks inhalers.

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    DATo  over 4 years ago

    Billy, negotiating the rental of his little brother as a curling “stone”.

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    gopher gofer  over 4 years ago

    soon, chamber pot hockey was all the rage…

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    Ubintold  over 4 years ago

    Me and my broom.

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    !!ǝlɐ⅁  over 4 years ago

    It’s not really Roomba unless there’s a video of a cat riding one.

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    Buzzworld  over 4 years ago

    “Wait, shouldn’t we be sweeping the dirt into the Roomba?”

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    The townsfolk were thrilled when a migrating flock of curling stones landed on their pond !

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    P51Strega  over 4 years ago

    The rough sport of curling claims another victim. The crowd is hushed as they slide off the injured player.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    Canadian weather is nice/ but you’ll probably want to think twice/ before relocation/ to that friendly nation/ unless you are partial to ice.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    On the ice that covers the bay/ ’neath a sky that is frigid and gray/ their spending the day/ the Canadian way/ just curling their cares away ..

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    (Take two – they’re small !)

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    Rev Phnk Ey  over 4 years ago

    Scene from the first “They Came From Mars”.

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    Another Take  over 4 years ago

    Northern and Southern draft dodgers come together in peace over the Canadian sport of curling. In this immortalized scene we see a brief appearance by U.S. Grant introducing whiskey to the sport.

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    jel354  over 4 years ago

    Skipping stones took on a different meaning after that massive snowstorm.

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Curling:--a Scottish Game, at Central Park

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_George_Brown_-_Curling,%E2%80%94a_Scottish_Game,_at_Central_Park_-_2001.86_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts.jpg 

    (the title has a semicolon where I had to use a colon to get GoComics comment translator to post this) has info, or links that point to more info, about this painting. Other versions has strip coloration image.

     

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

    https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=533 

    http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-george-brown/ 

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32252308/john-george-brown 

    https://chrysler.emuseum.com/objects/15524/pull-for-the-shore 

    https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=PA346#v=onepage&q&f=false 

    http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Brown_John1.htm 

    https://books.google.com/books?id=js1ZCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT2#v=onepage&q&f=false 

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

    http://hoocher.com/John_George_Brown/John_George_Brown.htm 

    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. So far, 7 works by him have been used here. 

    https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/12/11?comments=visible 

    has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs, the second of which may be unresponsive).

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2446 (May 11, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

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    MissScarlet Premium Member over 4 years ago

    The Scots were just not satisfied with inventing golf. They had to go even further and inflict curling onto the populace.

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    Bilan  over 4 years ago

    Setting up a curling rink in Central Park was fine, but the crowd was upset that they did it in the middle of the Simon & Garfunkel concert.

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