That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 17, 2024

Parliament before computers.

Or literacy.

/// Anton Hickel had painted The House

of Commons, where “common” pols grouse

about matters of state,

and opponents they hate,

and flip-flop about what they espouse.

“Gentlemen, welcome to the first meeting of “Girls Are Icky” club."

Hopeless romantics waiting for the Taylor Swift / Travis Kelce breakup.

There’s been complaints that some of you are Bogarting the powder in the men’s room.

“We will now have a short recess, so those of us who have been drinking too much ale can visit the loo and use the streaming service.”

Now, let’s get started! Everyone on my left….”row, row, row your boat”

The Chekhov 1-act? It’s hysterical.

Men, I’ve called this meeting to ask you, whoever you are, to stop eating the mints in the urinals.

“Today I propose passage of the ‘Hair Powder Act of 1795’. Unless one meets certain qualifications, such as being a member of the British Royal Family or the Clergy, citizens must purchase a certificate to purchase hair powder.

“All of us bigwigs must adjust to changing times. Dare you risk travel about the Continent in such apparent signs of corrupt aristocracy, to risk a date with the guillotine?”

The crowd grew restless as they began to figure out that sitting around watching three old men sign a paper wasn’t nearly as exciting as all the artists made it look.

“Will the real George Washington please step forward.”

Thank you I watched 15 minutes of it and was repulsed by supposedly typical Californians – (and it probably takes place in Utah).

Milords, please! We need to settle this argument now! Can we please agree to send out for curries today and kebabs tomorrow?

The House of Commons, 1793–1794: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Green tablecloths" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckgo, and Brave 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 Hickel, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this huge painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3376 (September 16, 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work by him used here.

“I move that we officially change our name from ‘The House of Commons’ to ‘A Space for Everyone Except Inbred, Snooty, Toffee-Nosed, So-Called “Lords”’."

I am totally flummoxed. I pulled up a larger picture of the portrait, and the guy in the lower left hand side of the painting, seems to have both feet on the floor, yet it looked like the bottom of a shoe (or sock) resting on his thigh. Also, is he holding a walking stick or fishing pole? After examining the larger sized photo of the painting, I still couldn’t find Waldo.

“Geez, how long yet before personal deodorant and decent laundry detergent is invented?”

“If we’re so important, why do we have to sit in the dimmest part of the room?”

Ok, finally. We want 62 pizzas, half pepperoni, half pineapple, 31 calzones, 15 meat, 16 vegetarian, 104 salads, and 135 Cokes, and 26 Sprites, phew!

Somebody with dark hair snuck in? Is that allowed?