That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 10, 2024

Bridgitte realized too late that she had forgotten to place the tip jar.

/// At A Bar at the Folies-Bergère,

barmaid Suzon can’t hide her despair.

She just served too much booze

to a clown in green shoes

who now swings a trapeze in mid-air.

(Upper left corner of the painting.)

The ‘gentleman’ had just asked for sex on the beach, but it’s wasn’t about the drink.

Sir, I’m not showing you my breasts. You’re drunk – go home to your wife before she shows up here again to drag you out by your ear.

I am sorry sir, but we don’t have soft drinks. This is France. Everything here is alcoholic, even the oranges.

“That’s not a name of a cocktail. You’re being stupid not funny and disgusting asking for that so called cocktail.”

A bottle of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou…

The problem with time travel is that when you go back to the 1880s “hi-tech” means that wondrous telegraph with morse code.

“Champagne … whiskey … or me?”

Is this the episode of “Party Down” that has Taylor Swift as a guest star?

“Where has your gaze wandered to, monsieur? My boobs are down there.”

Audrey’s final attempt to lure more parents to the PTA meetings

Leftovers:

WhenEvald encountered Arendse/

He descended into a frenzy:/

Said he, “I hate to trouble you/

In your BMW-/

But I’m driving my Mercedes-Benzy…”

" I just don’t get it. They want me to wear this low-cut dress, but I’ve got to hide ‘the view’ with a bouquet of flowers."

Taylor Swift incognito at the Met Gala.

Oh, right, this is universe number three. Sorry for the confusion…

Your eyes search her décolletage/

But are stopped by that irksome corsage/

Which you can’t penetrate-/

Hence the endless debate: /

“Are they real – or a mere mirage?”

She’s doing her best to recall/

A lover, exceedingly tall/

Who would forego romance/

In the fight to save France:/

She is thinking of Charles DeGaulle…

“Sir, unless you can produce accredited evidence of being an expert phytologist, I ask that you please avert your eyes!”

Marvella stoned again on absinth and hashish, wonders for the umpteenth time what the hell she’s doing tending bar in a dump like this.

Why won’t this moron leave? His breath stinks. I just wanna go home and soak my feet. Merde!

The moment when the barkeeper realizes that “All you can drink for 50€ night” is maybe not such a great idea.

In this place where the high rollers gather/

Her task is to listen to blather/

From braggarts with money/

Telling jokes that ain’t funny:/

Almost any place else she would rather…

“Mom made me add this corsage”.

I’m sorry sir, I don’t know the words to Sweet Caroline!

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings in mirror" 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 1882, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting (the museum webpage pointed to in References has a lengthy description, mostly in a 4 minute YouTube video). 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3319 (May 10, 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 blog entry with my comment and replies pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 21 works by him have been used here (23 times, including 2 repeats), the November 22, 2023, strip being the prior.

She’s regarding the fellow with pity:/

His conversation ain’t witty../

But what can one say ?

He comes from Marseilles../

Paree isn’t his kind of city..

“Very witty, sir. Like I haven’t been asked that before.”

She doesn’t have wi-fi, but she has a hot spot.

Nice wiew.

It’s so simple and so obvious. Her feet hurt.

“They told me Stormy Daniels started this way..”

Tb Btbbtbr beetrbbtrrrrrrd

“If we had electronics, do you think I’d be posing like this for six hours?”

… and here is the 121st person that thinks he is witty. Remember to act like this is the first time I have heard it!

She: No….I only serve drinks, that’s all…………..

Weee, this rotating bar is fun. I’ll be back in 2 minutes to take your order.

The bartender is on break did you want that shaken or stirred?