That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 11, 2023

“Geez Fred, you can just ask us to smoke outside.”

No, I haven’t read ‘Most Dangerous Game’. Why do you ask?

/// First Sir Reginald talked himself hoarse,

then at last he resorted to force.

Daughter’s husband’s the one

who is Under the Gun

to agree to a shotgun divorce.

Great moments in Phallic portraiture, #16

Pull your pants down and cough.

Who did you say you would vote for?

Mike Pence finally snaps.

JOHN! Pheasant season isn’t ’till next month old chap.

When “Angels With Filthy Souls” gets the painting treatment instead of “Home Alone.”

“Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear. One of you is leaving here single and the other is leaving here married to my daughter.”

When the preacher came calling on Smackwater Jack.

The butler in the parlor with the elephant gun.

Clue solution..Judge Rayburn, in the parlor, with a shotgun.

“I told you the last cigarette was mine, George”!

Then, it is agreed, at Christmas we will not discuss politics.

Mary was resigned to Karl’s argument solving method. And she had become quite adept at getting blood and various bodily tissue stains out of the upholstery.

“You want to play rough…Okay…Say hello to my little friend !”

“This here parlor ain’t big enough fer the both of us, Mingo…”

After the carnage, it was generally agreed that croquet was taken much too seriously at Dimbulb Manor..

I said NO smoking in my house!

Who cheats at Canasta?

“You take that back”, said retired 007.

“O.K.! O.K.! I get it, sir. Brexit really was a wonderful idea!”

“Who did you say goes off halfcocked? I am now fully cocked and it’s you who will be leaving halfcocked.”

This is my probity probe. Let’s see if you have been lying.

“You remember my saying there was a space on the wall in my trophy room?”

How an elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.

All jokes aside, One wonders what the backstory was on the reason this picture was painted.

There’s a time and a place for a gun/

and the living room isn’t the one/you and I might select/to achieve an effect,

but that’s where the deed was done..///

The tale is incredibly trite:/

On an icy December night,/

He chanced to discover/

That his wife had a lover/

With his rifle he put things aright…///

Though the coppers have searched the estate/

They still haven’t (at least to this date)/

Located the body/

Of that sly bounder “Roddy”../

And they won’t – ‘cause it’s stuck in the grate///

Of the ancient, historical weir/

That is less than a half mile from here/

And his Lordship’s at peace:/

Her transgressions did cease/

Since she lives in a climate of fear.

I say, top drawer writing, Ish!

" ‘Less filling’? No, sir, I think now you’ll agree with me that it’s ‘tastes great’!"

John just paid a pretty penny for that antique Turkish rug, and now these Yahoos are flicking their ashes on it.

“There I was, all alone on the Serengeti after the lion ate my guide. But fearless I was! I made my way back to the camp.”

I see Tepper is described in Wikipedia as an ‘illustrator’.

Someone once asked Maxfield Parrish the difference between an ‘illustrator’ and an ‘artist’.

He replied, “Oh, about twenty thousand a year.”

“Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned … step by step … inch by inch …”

Under the Gun

Paste (including the quote marks)

"Under the Gun, 1925" Heritage

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Heritage Auctions (Fineart.Ha.Com) link found for info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Copyright issues keep me from posting this to WC.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3234 (December 11, 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 pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the November 29, 2023, strip being the prior, once its western gunfight scene has been restored (currently is showing what originally ran November 30, 2023).

she doesn’t know who it was but one of you is going to marry her or all die.

Ben Cartright had had enough of the society folks and their card cheating.

What did you say you were goin’ to be doin’ in the mornin’!

We’ve had enough whiskey. Now who’s ready for some good ol’ fashioned snipe hunting!

Ya’ll wanted to hear about my love for Bessie?

Well … this is Bessie right here.