That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 22, 2022

My original post in 2017:

Creepy old man receiving another restraining order from the local school board.

The local seagulls have filed a lawsuit/

Santa’s accountant stumbling on a multimillion-dollar “Nice List”-fixing scheme

Danae did it!

His desk is a terrible mess/

It’s his favorite season-/

And here is the reason:/

He’s cheating the I.R.S. ///

His method is old- but don’t knock it:/

It’s a crime- but he’s not on a docket./

But he won’t face arrest/

Or an Audit request-/

The commissioner’s In his pocket !///

Scrooge checking the inventory Marley left behind: “Bah! Humbug!”

/// On the holodeck, Jean-Luc Picard,

acted out a scenario hard.

He must write out by hand

every Star Fleet command

which his Captain’s Log didn’t regard.

Well this scene defies the “pen in hand” motto.

Quitting smoking required some resourceful substitutions.

After their gig on Sat. Night Live

The Coneheads’ lifestyle took a dive

Although Beldar well knew Fusion

His plans were thought delusion,

And his patent for it did not survive.

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And Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (those punks!)

Stole software ideas (those skunks!)

Salvaged chips from his spaceship

Gave others a big tech tip

When found among the crashed chunks.

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So he went for a job in Accounting

But lately his worries are mounting

He might not prevail

Through this latest travail:

It’s Trump for whom he’s been counting!

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Should he get a radical lobotomy?

“That would mean a lot of me

Would come right off the top —“

“A Flathead?! Oh, stop!”

His wifemate, Prymaat, did plea.

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So the Coneheads still dwell on Earth

Among us they are giving birth

Although their offspring commingle,

And with Humankind tingle,

Their stocking caps hide their skulls’ girth.

Always looking for ways to cut cost, Marv found that toothpicks could be replaced with the cheaper chicken feathers

Santa’s accountant looking forward to retirement after fighting feather allergies all of those decades.

""There’s the error. I forgot to carry the $106 million."

IRS agent, auditing President Washington’s tax return

So that’s what Trump’s tax accountant really looks like?

Now, some may decide I’ve gone silly / Look cross-eyed at me and say, “Really?” / But the Nelsons, with pride / Look at this and decide / “Look at that! He looks just like our Willie!”

It all added up quite nicely, but only when he put his glasses on upside down.

The alternate ending to “A Christmas Carol.” Scrooge never repented, and forty years later still doesn’t allow Bob Cratchit any coal.

Smacks of our recently deposed orange monster…..

He’s thinking that chicken he had at lunch was under done.

“There. I’ve finished my letter to the editor about why muttonchops really are the height of fashion.”

Bob Cratchit, savoring his share of the office holiday goose before the events in “A Christmas Carol”.

“That goose thought he could get to this morning’s ‘That Is Priceless’ before me. I showed him!”

“Boss” Tweed?

Scrooge savoring the last bit of his Christmas feast.

Sven, trying to decide whether to pay his electric bill or buy more lutefisk.

FAX to wife.

Subject: Christmas Turkey.

Next year, please pluck it first!

Eleneezer

He is re-reading the fowl recipe to find out what went wrong.

Thanks to those who posted poems and those who posted links.

Old dude with a pencil neck, Chris Collinsworth shoulders, and hands like a 350 lb. Lineman

The Village Clerk: 

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

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1842 (12/8/17) (December 21, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 17 works by this artist have been used here (18 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the December 8, 2017, strip being its first use. The September 28, 2020, strip is the prior non-repeat by him.

Actually, he is frantic he knows 87,000 IRS agents are on the loose!

“Trump paid zero fed taxes in 2022?!?”

the turkey farm’s accountant is totaling up sales, seems like one turkey is missing, maybe it’s the one he ate except for the last feather.

The men in the wild west would chomp done on leather to handle something painful. The wimps. Real men use goose quills.

michael caine decides to finally sell the oscars to pay the heating bill…

/// He holds one paper where it will cover

the signature found on another.

Then he’ll carefully trace

someone’s name to disgrace

he whose letters prove is his wife’s lover.