That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 17, 2022

“Alcibiades, please put some clothes on so we can pin a medal on you for how bravely you fought. We don’t want to spill anymore blood.”

Alcibiades always came to his lessons naked, because he didn’t want to send the wrong message with his clothing.

Alcibiades thought he was having that dream again.

All your internal organs look good. But the last exam is the prostate. I’ll go warm up my hands first.

Socrates: Dude, I’m giving you a philosophy exam, not prostate. Put your clothes back on!

“..But you can keep yo’ hat on..”

is that the origin of Plato’s re-pubic?

This is getting tiresome. The same old excuse day after day. The dog ate your clothes.

“I know you’re visiting for the first time from ‘Naked City,’ but customs are quite different here in Prudadelphia. And the cops don’t want to hear 8 million excuses.”

/// Alcibiades lived in the dorm.

Teacher Socrates fell for his form.

In a long dialogue

he explains, all agog,

“Hat and shoes are your school uniform.”

Ok, you’re getting better at this. You remembered hat and shoes, but what have you forgotten?

Kind of a girly pose on the guy, eh?

Let’s make a deal.

“Yes, I’ll get ready coach – but remind me, today, am I a Cav, Heat, or Laker?”

When you can take the stone from my hand, weed hopper, you will be ready.

You wear summer well, but I think we should try blending your colors more as a fall.

When the lad’s every garment he’d gained/

The philosopher, (silver-maned)/

Said “I’ll give you a chance/

To win back your pants,/

But only because they are stained..”///

“But if you should happen to lose/

You’ll be tiptoeing home without shoes/

On the streets of Mycenae/

Which are rather ‘urine-y’/

So I’d bet my hat, if I were youse..”

It was a bad idea widely supposed by some / To teach philosophy in the gymnasium. / But all of those boys / Made the teachers rejoice / Thinking they’ve died and gone to Elysium!

It’s a good thing you brought me, your personal advisor, this is America founded by Puritans, and certain things are frowned upon, like buying booze on Sunday and especially witchcraft and public nudity.

“Listen, the magazine rules have not changed. Women for the issue’s centerfold must be born females. We are not as “woke” as you believe.”

“Look at my palm! Do you see the hair? That’s what I’m warning you about!”

Originally, during Confession, the Confessor had to show they were pure, but this tended to attract crowds. So they built little cubicles for Confessions. Which in turn caused even more problems!

It’s a May-December romance/at which (nowadays) we look askance/When asked “what is truth”/The unflappable youth/Replied by removing his pants…

“Alright, that’s it! Casual Friday has gone TOO FAR!”

Great moments in Trans history…

“See it goes like this. It’s called greasing the palm. Then you get what you want.”

OK, here’s the way it goes: usually, the hat goes on last.

As you sit there Olive, you look marvelous!

He didn’t understand why they needed to divide up into teams of shirts and skins just to play rock, paper, scissors. He had the feeling he was already the loser.

“I don’t imagine my audience to be naked to calm my nerves – I just like doing it.”

Socrates and Alcibiades: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socrates_and_Alcibiades,_Christoffer_Wilhelm_Eckersberg.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly B4 paper size painting. File history has the strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2979 (August 17, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, 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 blog entry with the artist info comment. So far 5 works, by this artist, have been used here. The June 30, 2021, strip has the prior.

Let’s go over the causal Friday guidelines once more

“I love my wife, but oh you kid! Eh, scratch that. Xanthippe’s a shrew…”

“You’re NOT Achilles reborn, your skin is NOT invulnerable. When you go into battle, wear some frickin’ armor!”

“It’s true, I don’t charge for lessons. But that doesn’t mean I’m not open to other signs of appreciation…”

i guess you would look ok as a female, but we are going to start cutting a few things off if you are ok with that.all this because you like your friend Ronald and he likes women.

One must cross the palm of a gigolo with silver before his affections are administered.

“…and the obol magically disappears from my hand! Wanna see me do it again? Give me another obol.”

“Sorry, but… In your Grindr photo, you looked taller.’

“I never told you that walking around with no clothes on would make you Emperor. You completely missed the point of the story. I love you to bits, but you’re going to get us both in a lot of trouble…”

The Apology of Socrates: “Oh. So you ARE naturally blond. My bad.”

“I don’t care that Diogenes goes naked in the agora, Diogenes is a pig. Is Diogenes your teacher, or am I? If Diogenes jumped off the top of the Colossus of Rhodes, would you do that too?”

the greek army saved bundles on uniform costs…

“Whosoever pulls this thorn from my paw is rightwise born King of Athens. No, wait, I’m getting my prophesies mixed up. Those fumes at Delphi were really strong…”

“I had no idea you were circumcised. That’s…really uncommon around here.”

“The only thing I know is that I know nothing. But now I can say that I’ve seen everything.”

“OK, so you’ve been there and done that, but you really should have gotten the T-shirt.”

That is what I’ve been trying to teach you! A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Yes! It can be any bush, not just yours.