That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 29, 2024

The Europeans do everything differently.

/// On their horses, through surf they are gliding.

Their ripped bodies they haven’t tried hiding.

They each took, we can see,

far too literally

what it means to go out bareback riding.

Early commercial for Gold Bond friction cream – it will heal any rug burn

The horse is thinking “Dude, if you’re going to be riding bare back, put on some pants! This is gross!”

They tried to avoid getting sand in their nether regions, but they couldn’t avoid the chafing.

Broke Back Beach, the sequel…

Well, they won’t get saddle sores riding bareback.

Those riders end up being very crotchety…

Where do you find this stuff? So weird.

Watch out for the saddle horn. Could mess up date night.

Just to make sure… Are those horses deep-cleaned between rentals?

The horses are thinking, Finally we get riders who understand our dress code!

Olympic equestrian has changed over the years.

“When I said, “Let’s go get a couple of Phillies”, this is not what I meant."

How did they know this was a Western if they weren’t wearing any cowboy hats?

Bruce and Roger (two fine-looking lads)

Had decided they’d never be Dads/

They decided a date/

At the beach would be great/

On horseback- and completely unclad !///

When Roger first spotted the leech/

He emitted a hair-raising screech !/

His scared horse ran away-/

But – hip, hip, hooray! /

Brave Bruce saved their day at the beach !

They better be careful: people who’ve been naked on that beach have been known to come home with crabs.

Brokeback beach?

“Are you riding a western saddle, or are you just happy to see me?”

GREAT CAPTION, Mr. Melcher! That was my big laugh for the day.

“Life’s a beach”…

When Hans and Fritz signed up to work at Long Beach Ranch, they thought they’d be dude wrangling, not nude wrangling!

The National Socialist Party would ask that you please ignore the homo-erotic undertones of this Party approved artwork. Thank you.

Old Shatterhand and Winnetou at Bathe Ording North.

Just imagining them walking around bow-legged.

The two fellas from Brokeback Mountain decided to go “all in”, so to speak, and bring in a third…

At least the man trying to control the rearing horse can tie off the reins if he needs both hands.

And that cowboy wondered why he wasn’t able to resell the horse, even at a discount.

You were supposed to wear buttless chaps, not chapless butts.

The Rearing Horse: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Franz Müller-Münster" 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 rearing, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3295 (March 29, 2024) 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 the info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

one straight horse doesn’t want to join the gang.

“The Good The Chafed and The Sunburned” did have a cult following, but many say it was a mistake to replace the classic Spaghetti Western soundtrack of Mariccone with The Beach Boys.

“The Rearing Horse”

He’ll tie the other end of the rope to his saddlehorn?

They told their sister girlfriends they wanted to ride bareback, but the girls’ father heard them…and brought out the horses….

“Use the saddle horn!

”It’s not a saddle horn!"

Charles was so surprised when John so readily accepted, when, at last, he confessed his real wish for his birthday : “For once, I’d like to go bareback with you and do it in public”… Well, I guess that still beats last year novelty socks.

The original screen print for the tv series “Rawhide”.