That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 05, 2024

Just in case Harris wins, let me show you how to make a detonator for a fertilizer bomb.

/// It’s A Difficult Problem, indeed.

Can The Watchmaker even succeed?

He must teach Fritz the knack

how to set his clock back.

Hans explained it twice; Fritz doesn’t heed.

Interesting since Trump didn’t do that. Another innuendo by the liberal left. What the supreme court did is to recognize that abortion needs to be decided at the state level.

/// It appears that Steve’s caption today

has rubbed some who like Trump the wrong way.

but will no doubt provoke

long discussions. Veiled threats? Not OK.

I suspect that it is futile to suggest that any comments about whether the constitution protects a right to privacy, or Project 2025, or Vance’s views on the subject, etc. will not change any minds. Still, I hope we can let voting be the proper political response and try to use this forum to provide some badly needed humor .

With new speak, killing embryo’s is reproductive care, Thanks Mr. Orwell

When we fight we win?

But when the cornered rat fights it lies and kicks and bites and cheats and scratches and farts and climbs into the wrong end of the garbage truck and lies some more and…

Dear Gawd, please make the orange albatross go away. But You will have to drag the ugly bird. It would take a miracle to fly with three right wings and no left.

Killing something that is wholly dependent on you, just because you find it convenient, makes you a monster.

No matter how much you try to justify it, you are a horrible monster, and should be dehumanized.

You know, for convenience.

“Edgar, why are we watching a clock tick?”

“Because if we turned on the TV we would have to suffer through inane political ads”

Well done. Herblock/Ann Telnaes quality.

Milton and Bradley testing their new game, ‘Guess The Time’.

Two geezers, determined to know/

Why they (and we all) seem to grow/

To our utter dismay/

Slightly older each day../

Where the devil did all that time go?

Ish: Notice that clock is shaped like a tombstone.

“Reproductive Rights?” You mean the right to say no to getting pregnant in the first place? Abortion is not a reproductive right.

This painting reminds me of days when true craftsmanship was valued and we could go anywhere to get something repaired. Electronic devices took over clock repair, but who can fix those? You are supposed to throw them away in two years and buy a new one. So sad.

I saw the placement of the guy’s hand and thought the witness describing where the vampire had bitten the victim.

A Difficult Problem (the Watchmaker): 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Friedrich Friedländer" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, 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 Problem, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly US Letter size, oil on panel painting. 

Mr. Melcher has removed the blog entry related to this strip. It’s his intention to replace the strip with what’s at the current MASTERPIECE #3404 (November 5, 2024) blog entry, provided GC cooperates. With this, 8 works by this artist have been used here, the October 18, 2023, strip being the prior. My comment there says how to access the info I found about him. With luck, I’ll never see the name Trump ever again.

Another comments section ruined. What happened to decency, self control and better nature?

being a 121 years old, he constantly checks for heart rate.

I see Steve Melcher decided that things were getting a little too heated here in the comment section, and decided to distract us with salacious 250 year old gossip.

“Self-portrait”

Benjamin West: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Portraits wearing hats" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo 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 1133, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3405 (November 5, 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 reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 7 works associated with him have been used here, the August 19, 2022, strip being the prior. This is actually an unknown artist’s rendition of the Self-Portrait by the named artist, held by the Baltimore Museum of Art (shown by finding 1770 in that Category:; has several obvious differences).

Comments on today’s replacement image:

/// This oil’s title is ”Benjamin West.”

A self-portrait by him, I’d have guessed.

That may not be correct.

There are those who suspect

it was done in his style (they attest).

// With the first finger of his right hand,

Mr. West probes his swollen neck gland.

His lymph nodes are sore

and the collar he wore

Is constricting much more than he’d planned.

For the love of God I’ve had Voldemort in my hat for 200 FREAKING YEARS here!

What does Trump have to do with a hickey from Betsy Ross?