That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 18, 2022

The illustrated men

“So, do you tip your tattoo artist 20% or 25%?”

Yeah, I like showing off my tats as much as the next guy, but the wedgies from the thong are getting to be too much!

The first guy is holding a war club, but why does the other guy have a giant pooper scooper?

“Was it my turn to be the good angel?”

/// In the sulfurous caves of Gehenna,

Hell-spawn’s tats dye flesh orange with henna.

Cut-off, with one exception:

They get cellphone reception,

but so bad, earbuds need long antenna.

So what do you think of that ‘Hair Club for Men’? Are you going to try it?

What people had to fo before they invented mirrors.

Off for work at the Underwood Ham Factory!

Nice butts.

The concept of body armor never dawned on this extinct breed of cow eared warriors.

The guy on the right advising the other guy that there are parts of Marquesa you don’t want to go to with your towel knot in the back side.

/// Zeno Shindler would likely be pissed

that his painting’s real subjects I’d missed.

They are Marquesan Men,

and not devils who yen

to see me put on Shindler’s sh!t list.

But with different accessories?

I hear you’ve taken up Fan Dancing. They say you lose the loin cloth at the end. Rather risqué don’t you think?

“Hello, kitty!”

Though baskets are far away

And hoops they’re unlikely to play

The cerulean hues

Of their wondrous tattoos

Lead one’s thoughts to the N.B.A..

Poor guys must have tried diving in shallow water. They’ve conch’d their heads.

(Once again). Which twin has the Toni ?

dream sequence from cats featuring sumo wrestlers, code named cats tats fats by the production crew…

You what!? You forgot the Polynesian sauce for our chicken mcnuggets?!

Their buttocks are peaches and cream /

Their complexions are every girl’s dream:/

The secret to it

Is never to sit..

So they stand til their poor arches scream…

meanwhile, at Burning Man . . .

Lia Thomas finds a job.

What is the point of bluetooth if we have to stand this close to get rid of the static?

Pointy haired boss?

This Piece is Titled: Just a Couple of Guys Standing around Half Naked Feeling Horny

" I don’t care what Maurice at Marquesan Cuts for Men says! Horned haircuts do not make girls horny … and the definitely don’t help my Bluetooth reception! "

In the West, we all look askance/

At the folk who appear without pants/

But in climates inclement/

To copious raiment/

Are trousers, in truth, an advance?

“Dude, the loose part goes in front…”

“Nice tats. Who’s your scratcher?”

While much could be learned about a Marquesa man from his tattoos, all one truly needed to know was told by his front or back choice of thong knot.

“Well, one of us is going to have to go home and change.”

“We’re nomadic hunter-gatherers. We don’t have homes.”

“…skank.”

My waist band is longer than yours, ha!

Millenia of inbreeding on Marquesa obviated the need of mirrors as every Marquesan looked like another.

“Our Mothers dress us funny.”

Dude! Who cuts your hair?

Hey Moe….have you seen Curley today?

“Hey, T.J., you might want to re-tie that a little longer in front before you turn around”

“Dude! You probably don’t want to use a slip knot! Or are you headed out on a date?”

The delivery truck is dropping off the Torture-O-Matic I saw on late-night TV. I am backlogged and can’t wait to try it.

The devil made them do it.

“Where are you going, all dressed up in your Sunday best?”

you notice that the man on right has loin cloth longer in front, the other man has it longer in back. does this tell you what they like for sex? hide what you think is most valuable/usable.

The Marquesas, I’m bound to confess /

Are no place to dress for success/

For whatever their tribe/

to the principle “more is less.”

Urulu multi-tasks as a gondolier and wood-fired pizza artisan.

Marquesan Men: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonion_Zeno_Shindler_-_Marquesan_Men_-_1985.66.165,720_-_Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum.jpg 

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

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

https://thatispricelessblog.com/2022/02/masterpiece-2881 

and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

Yea … my mom gave me underwear for Christmas again.

Does she still put your initials on them?

Weren’t you supposed to attend a tea party yesterday?

Cosplayers at the Hellboy premiere.

Ancestors of Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss?

Hell spawn“? Did I hear you right, sir?

Well there may be a few who concur../

but to anyone woke /

that isn’t a joke /

it’s simply ethnic slur!

“Death guards” by the banks of the Styx ?/

All I see is two lightly dressed dicks/

Hobnobbing together /

‘Bout da tropical weather/

And their office pool basketball picks..

/// Barnum renamed them “Willy” and “Nilly,”

well aware that it made them seem silly.

“Since they don’t overwork us,

in our own chosen circus,

it would seem that we did pick a dilly.”

Continuing the search for the lost starship Horizon, Captain Kirk and the Enterprise discover a planet where the Horizon left behind a copy of Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man and a video player loaded with Cats.

“I’ve noticed something. Your hair looks kind-of looks like mine”