That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 03, 2021

Try outs for the coed bowling team

Dorf’s best skill as a jester was juggling, but now that the royal princesses had taken his balls he realized that he would have to learn some jokes.

Ladies, he’s cheating. The pins are bolted to the floor!

His first choice was to be a rodeo clown.

Punchinello was proud to debut his unique line of condiment shakers, but the day turned sad when he discovered none of the ladies thought he was worth his salt.

All day Felix frantically whittles, / carving pins so the girls can play skittles. / He eats cold mush in haste; / only “rainbows” to taste. / He would kill for his fill of hot victuals.

“So if I understand correctly, I take your ball and try to wack your sticks. There must be a short cut to all of this.”

Jest throw the ball.

“Lean over just a little further Princess.”

“You know he’s looking down your dress?”

“I know. I’m Jest a tease.”

Tonight, on Carnival Games for the Rich….

modeled after paintball cricket, the object of the game was to see how many jarts you could knock loose from the floor before time was up and the jester raced to give you a wedgie…

The Joker is wild…

Because, after all, he IS a joker.

Well, it did take Hank years to get the ball rolling, after all.

“No pressure Alice but you know this is the beer frame, right?”

A very good bowler is Claire, without doubt. / She lines up her roll, in a hush on the crowd. / She made a bet with the Jester / (Who wished to molest her), / But if she wins, he’s the one who’ll “strike out.”

When His Lordship is out hunting, the ladies use his throne room as a bowling alley.

Everybody, including even the pinboys, had a distinctive costume in those days.

Now bowling’s the kind of a sport/ well suited to ladies at court:/ it does not make you sweat/ you needn’t get wet/ and you still can excel if you’re short.

Everyone knew he didn’t have the balls. And those shoes….ug.

Having won the throne in the first tourney, Punchinello decided to let the ladies compete for the honor of becoming his queen!

Hank wasn’t the type to stick his neck out for anybody, because he didn’t have one.

The jester,beyond any doubt/ is a visibly lecherous Kraut/ While she lines up her roll / he envisions the whole/ and not just the parts hanging out./// And if she should lose the wager with vigor and vim he’ll engage ’er/ And after his surge/ she is bound to emerge/ perhaps sadder, but certainly “sager”…

Team uniforms in those days were a little extravagant.

Giacomo the Jester has the balls and spare time to have a bowl with the striking maiden.

Must be an old comic. Only has 6pins. We are up to 9 pins now.

Her wager she’ll likely regret:/ it’s a split that she’s never made yet../ in fact, ( if you wondered)/ she ain’t broke one “hunderd”/ what he’s hoping for, Felix will get.

I feel like they worried a bit/ as he catches a glimpse of a t*t../ and despite his strange shoes/ he simply can’t lose/ for she’s facing a seven-ten split.

LADY HARD O’SEEIN: “We’re gonna need a bigger boat…errrr, ball.”

“Can I move closer?”

JESTER: WHATEVER KEEPS YOU FROM ‘ITTIN’ ME IN ME PIN AND BALLS AGAIN!

Playing skittle at the court of the Count of Flanders: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_De_Vriendt_-_Playing_skittle_at_the_court_of_the_Count_of_Flanders.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly B4 paper size painting. Other versions has strip’s coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

https://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/09/masterpiece-2786.html 

I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/08/12?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there includes the same artist info URLs pointed to by here links in the blog comment).

“I call it bitchy bocce.”

“And if you lose, you have to sit next to me draped in a curtain.”

William is pleased to have customers’ at his dildo shop he just lately opened.business is off to a good start.

“Jester song at twilight …”

He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, and he called for his skittlers three.

It’s a good thing Grandpa read the newspaper to us that the skittles season has started; or we would have missed this.

Hank ended up as a pin setter!

He’s such a jolly jokester.

One of my dad’s first jobs was as a pinsetter in a bowling alley. Could be what this gentleman is standing ready for.