That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 19, 2020

We are Germans, this is as close as we come to smiling.

Wolfgang, realizing he’ll never have any grandchildren.

Wolfgang, his wife and three daughters.

“It’s so hard to decide which one of you to beat first.”

“It’s ok – the children don’t have to look at the camera. Their only purpose is to shower me with adulation,” Hanns Drumpf explained.

The Reicher family never did see eye to eye.

The child on the right has begun rehearsals as the lead in the youth version of “Victor/Victoria” !

Look whichever direction you want, just not “up”. Don’t draw attention to the cotton candy coming through the ceiling.

Before Ben met Erin, there was this Mormon era…

When they were told to only show their good side, little Wolfie was kicked out of the picture completely.

“Papa was a rolling stone – whereever he hung his Pickelhaube was home…”

The portrait was carefully planned/ for the Duke really was rather Grand. / When discussion grew “heated”/ as to who would be seated/ all the others were forced to stand.

The children learned quickly to never laugh at the mishaps caused by their lame father’s reliance on a woefully inadequate cane.

I paid $1,000 for this title – that’s why they call me the Grand Duke of Hesse.

The Family of the Grand Duke of Hesse: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Family_of_the_Grand_Duke_of_Hesse.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) has info, and links that point to more info, about this painting. Other versions has strip coloration image.

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

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12178135/heinrich-angeli 

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz988.html 

https://prabook.com/web/heinrich.angeli/2338023 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/a/Angeli1.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/02/07?comments=visible 

has the prior, which while my comment and reply is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 17 hyperlinks remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s HAPPY FATHER’S DAY! (June 18, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

High foreheads ran in the family but only the females got to disguise with bangs.

We are told that “it’s good to be Duke”../ but when it IS good, it’s a fluke/ you are stuck with a mate/ whom you cordially hate/ and your kids make you want to puke.

You are on candid camera.

czar Nickolas, looking at his son has doubts about him succeeding him, little to fem..

Franz Joseph and his dismayed wife, hearing from great aunt Lesbia that junior has come out of the closet! :>)

If all of you keep working 3 fulls time jobs, I will be able to build the other 3 walls … and eventually - a roof over our head!