That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 21, 2023

“Go on a safari,” they said.

“It’s ok if you dress up like George Washington,” they said.

“What can go wrong,” they said.

Sure Peter Newell was a super fast painter, but he wasn’t a super fast runner. His subject survived though.

(Today’s caption by Steve is so concise and funny, I doubt anything will come close to equaling it, but I am addicted to writing these rhymes, so here goes:)

/// Wee James Madison somehow outruns

charging pachyderms (some weigh ten tons).

An Amendment he penned—

number Two— they’d amend

to exclude bearing elephant guns.

“Pamplona is old hat they said, run with the elephants they said! "

Baron Munchausen, is that you?

Just ditch the peanut butter sandwich in your pocket. Your life’s not worth it.

That’s a very strange painting. Was opium legal in 1901?

And that, boys and girls, is why we never go on safari with a pocket full of peanuts

After Dave had taken the brown acid, his Woodstock experience wasn’t quite the same as everyone elses.

Elephant herding can be a bit daunting at times.

Col. Hathaway’s reaction to the British Raj.

It seems to me Book and Magazine illustrators might work as hard as “serious artists” at their craft. But I suspect (and hope) they have more fun.

Run, Forrest, Run!

He’s Florida Democrat /

(From the Northwest Counties, at that !)/

A place of inelegance/

Whose elephantine elements/

Are determined to squash him flat.

I was curious about the odd original. The running man is not George Washington but Baron Munchausen. This is a picture from Mr. Munchausen, by J.K. Bangs, which Peter Newell illustrated, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mr_Munchausen/1vAoAQAAIAAJ.

What do you call that squishy stuff between an elephant’s toes?

Baron Munchausen.

Just Samuel’s luck to find the one herd of elephants that gets all riled up by unibrows.

This week on Stupid Criminals, This jewel thief tries to sneak into the castle through the elephant courtyard. Here is the last known photo, if you can identify him-please call, because honestly, there isn’t much left of him.

Now if he just had some roller skates!!

Shouldn’t those be dinosaurs instead of elephants?

The elephants, shorn of their tusks, were out for revenge beginning with anyone who owned a piano with ivory keys.

George Washington would run far from todays vicious lying traitor confederate anti democracy republicans.

Looks like the CPAC found someone talking about the benefits of vaccines…

The Doctor (William Hartnell) landed the Tardis in the wrong place again.

“Tembo? Tembo? Blast! I knew I should have learned some Swahili before going on safari!”

Maestro Madison takes flight after one session with the trumpet section.

Charge…….

“Man Running From Elephants,” 1901

Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen, the man who never let the truth get in the way of a good story!

Man Running from Elephants: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Peter Newell" 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 with NGA, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly B4 paper size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3084 (February 21, 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

Normally I’m a fan of mashups, but Hamilton and The Lion King do not go well together.

President Biden’s worst nightmare, in water color…

g Washington had a dream where he lied to the elephants, and they knew it was a lie,so he had to leave town post haste.

Usually they run off a cliff. Guess they forgot.