That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 19, 2023

/// At the Goldsmith’s the broker declined

to pay cash for a chalice designed

to resemble the ship

from a round-the-world trip.

It’s just pewter, though called “Golden Hind.”

Whatever plans Pierre had at the goldsmith’s changed when he saw the sword the proprietor had.

I wouldn’t dare say it aloud/

But I think these guys plan to get “plowed”../

Those tankards are “yuge”:/

(Of beer, a deluge !)/

This looks like a very ruff crowd ..

“The long-haired guy called it a bong and says we need to put weed in it. But what would we do with burnt dandelions?”

“It’s pure silver, I’m going to melt it down and make another suit.”

“Blow in here and you can produce a note that mimics perfectly a flatulent camel.”

Oliver the Goldsmith was one who Deserted his Village for decadent prosperous cities where wealth accumulated and men dressed g-… er … flamboyantly. (—

Thus it begineth.

The tact of dressing like this to make the Spaniards laugh instead of fight obviously failed.

Captain Franz loved to have other men over to watch him “play with his dinghy.”

That’s the problem with last minute shopping. I have no idea what it does, but it was the only one they had.

When they lined up correctly, joined arms and swayed just so they resembled a waving French flag. (Tip o’ the hat to That 70s Show.)

" I’m not sure Gentlemen….I was really hoping to get one of the gold heart necklaces that Jane Seymour keeps hawking down at the bizarre on Main Street."

When D’Artagnan gets here, have him polish this

Well, the ‘mother in law’ got me this for Christmas. Any idea what it is?

The last letter in the word trophy (in the caption) is a “u”. It should be a “y”.

Did you get pizza? we always got pizza with it…

Still shot from a very early segment of Antiques Roadshow.

You know men, holding the beer steins only makes us look less dandy if they actually have beer in them.

Bowl committee trying to decide what to do with the trophy since the game ended 00 – 00.

Great caption!

The Musketeers found out that King Louis was kind of a cheapskate when it came to retirement gifts.

Sure these are glittering goblets, but where is the the shimmering wine to fill them?

Having recently been neutered, the boy’s were wearing their cone of shame collars.

At the goldsmith’s: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel" Wikimedia 

(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 Chez, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly roughly jumbo envelope size, oil on panel painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3239 (December 19, 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 .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the February 25, 2021, strip being the prior.

“You know, it would be a lot easier and a lot cheaper if we went more simply with ugly Christmas sweaters instead.”

The classical scientists agreed that using the first prototype of what became the cocktail umbrella had too much of a tendency to poke oneself in the eye.

“So, gentlemen, are we all ready to go swimming?”

“So where was that again?”

“You wouldn’t believe it if I told you.”

The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

Their limerick business never did take off, but the Three Musketeers eventually found fortune in the candy business.

A single-masted galleon. How odd.

The fashion industry never loses…

early drag queens in Fla. after DeSantis warned them of no drag to children.

It says the boat’s name is “Sit and Spin”. How odd.

Can you believe it? They didn’t have any Gray Poupon!