That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 20, 2023

Socartes: I’ll give you this award if you’ll put your clothes on and behave, Alcibiades.

Alcibiades: The awards I get are much greater than that for keeping my clothes off and misbehaving.

/// Though they met here for matters scholastic,

the bald teacher’s not enthusiastic.

Alcibiades sat

in class on his bare prat;

that’s why Socrates draped chairs with plastic.

Simmons won the award for body hair. Brody came in a close second.

It was long hushed up, but the Truth can now be known:

Among the “forgotten episodes” in the Candid Camera TV episode archives is the scene at the crew Halloween Party when Allen Funt and Durward Kirby dressed/ undressed as Socrates and Alcibiades in the Kristian Zahrtmann painting.

“Oh geez… I think I accidentally broke his thingy off…”

No, but did you hear the one about the man holding his 10 inch Pianist?

Obviously before sun block.

“Son, this doll is not correctly anatomical

Using it to explain reproduction is comical

There are important parts missing

No lips even for kissing,

The odds against Barbie to have kids, astronomical!”

“it’s an ‘action figure’, NOT a doll!”

Socrates is a man of the mind/

And he swiftly succumbed

To “Alcy’s” shapely behind. ///

Alcibiades knew he was cute:

Walked about in his birthday suit/

Though the weather was crisp/

He wore not a wisp -/

Displaying his “low hanging fruit”…

From: @Call me Ishmael

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Socrates is a man of the mind:/

A philosopher, wise and refined/

But that mind was benumbed/

And Soc swiftly succumbed/

To the sight of Alc’s sprightly behind.. ///

“ Yes,pretty impressive butI only had to show enough to win. “

“40 years of faithful service, and what do I get ? A stinking Bobble head of Caligula!”

Alcibiades knows he’s cute/

Strolls about in his birthday suit,

When the weather is crisp/

He wears not a wisp/

Displaying his “low hanging fruit” !

Looking at him in the flesh,compared to the clay model, Socrates realized the the sculpture of Alcibiades was going to be a bust.

He could always say (as the Russians did after a track meet in the early ’60s)…came in 2nd but the other guy was next to last.

“Show me on this doll where that drama producer touched you.”

Sorry young man, I am satisfied with the toy I am holding!

It’s okay to be proud of your nice body waxing, but showing it off to your grandpa is a bit much.

“Now this is a replica of a herm, and this is the part you definitely don’t want to fool with.”

“So, come here often?”

Comparing skin tone with the bronzing standard.

“There, see?!? Voodoo dolls are for pins and they don’t respond to that kind of stroking with your thumb.”

I’ve always thought that a Greek getting a Brazilian was a bit cheeky.

Hedley Lamar and Sheriff Taggart.

Alcibiades: Betcha can’t guess where I was hiding your trophy. Go ahead – guess!"

Socrates and Alcibiades: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings of Socrates and Alcibiades" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Kristian, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3083 (February 20, 2023) 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 (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here, the December 19, 2019, strip bring the prior.

Nuthin could be cuter than a brute who’s got a suitor in the mor-or-or in..

Kris Kringle (in the off-season) in a stunned moment of contemplation. Can someone be both naughty and nice?

Nuthin could be cuter than a froot who has a tutor in the mor-or-ornin..

Some day, my son, this caftan will be yours.

Old Socrates sits, somewhat glum/

In his simple symposium./

Alcibiades (the brute!)/

Has got “Wiener Blut”!/

And the wurst is yet to come..

i know old men are slow but if we are going to have sex you got to disrobe soon.

“Sokrates og Alkiblades,” 1911

The Good News:

Perhaps as a result of my recent post inquiring about him, Dragoncat has “Liked” one of my limericks. Rechecking his Profile page I see that he has made a lot of Comments recently on several other GoComics features. So, happily, he is OK.

The Bad News:

It appears that Silly Season has gone down the Memory Hole to join Ish. My guess is that the infamous Moderators considered his recent posts to be in violation of the spirit of point (8) of the Comments Policy. I will continue to read Ish’s recent comments on his Profile page, since GoComics has not done anything to prevent us from doing so.

There isn’t obvious consistency in who gets banned or for how long, but it seems that a good plan for those of us who wish to avoid excommunication is to follow their rules whether or not we agree with them or consider them fair. (This would probably also apply to people already in exile but who would like to return.)