That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 06, 2011

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    margueritem  almost 13 years ago

    That is a very unfortunate fold…

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    Snark-impaired  almost 13 years ago

    This reminds me of yesterday’s “C’est la Vie” strip:http://www.gocomics.com/cestlavie/2011/12/05

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    nikonguy24  almost 13 years ago

    I’m not sure which is more alarming…. his trouser crease, or what he’s doing with his hand.

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    Veridian  almost 13 years ago

    I just Snorted Coca-Cola outta my Schnoz and all Over my Keyboard! Mssr. Melcher thou art an Evil, Evil Man. (Which would explain WHY Exactly You are on my Comics List in the First Place! :-) Hiya Marg ! Have Fun Y’all! :-)

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    killacowinWA  almost 13 years ago

    Speaking as a Conservative Christian college student, I find this strip crude, offensive, irreverent, and thoroughly hilarious. It has its place, although perhaps not among polite society. I discovered it due to hearing about Ginny playing Quittitch…hee hee. For this one, before coming to the caption I was expecting a gun/mugging kind of joke.

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    Coyoty Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    “I cannot live a lie…”

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    clivia grana  almost 13 years ago

    heehee, i cannot live a lie, fab comment. love this strip! next to the barn and pearls before swine and the other coast my fave.

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    zero  almost 13 years ago

    This is why God made Photoshop. But a little turp could’ve fixed that tout de suite. . ..BTW George Washington did not father any known biological progeny.

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    tomielm  almost 13 years ago

    In the language of the cod piece, this is a man of much influence!

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    MixedMedications  almost 13 years ago

    One of the foremothers of our great country.

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    StelBel  almost 13 years ago

    Just looked at a copy of this portrait (see below), and, it is indeed the way Peale painted it (although the “fold” is a bit more emphasized here). Quite different from accidently capturing an embarrassing image with a camera, the artist really had to focus in on every part of the subject. It would be interesting to know what was going through his mind at the time….

    (http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_254757/Charles-Willson-Peale/George-Washington-1776)

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    TheWildSow  almost 13 years ago

    Camel Toe!

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    TheWildSow  almost 13 years ago

    And what’s up with the tiny little arms?

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    APersonOfInterest  almost 13 years ago

    I’m thinking this portrait tells us more about Charles Wilson Peale than it does about old George. The whole pose doesn’t pass the giggle test.

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    Christopher Shea  almost 13 years ago

    And what is going on with his right arm? I mean, it’s not anatomically impossible, but I can’t imagine anyone deliberately holding their arm that way for long.

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    vldazzle  almost 13 years ago

    Since it’s difficult to hold any position long enough for a portrait painter, it appears that he is holding himself with something like a walker (until the comment above I thought it was a cane).

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    wilb44  almost 13 years ago

    scratch that itch

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    transwarpmail-comics  almost 13 years ago

    First President, First Lady, First Cameltoe

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    Dr Sheriff MB esq PhD DML   almost 13 years ago

    Armpit farts…. one way of getting a laugh out of the continental congress…

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    Dragoncat  almost 13 years ago

    Martha told him not to go near that poison ivy..He’s gonna need an ocean…Of Calamine Lotion…

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    Plods with ...™  almost 13 years ago

    Georgette Washington? Who knew?.Portrait painters had to have a sense of humor. And Mr Melcher is brilliant at finding it. or He’s just hilariously twisted enough to find the humor in art even if it wasn’t intended..Either way, I’m hooked..KUDOS!

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    Lucindy  almost 13 years ago

    An American artist….maybe he was going for the Napolean look……

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    rogue53  almost 13 years ago

    I should have looked lower, but the focus was up north. Mine was diet Coke, but none the less, nearly ruined my Toshiba. Warn me before you do that.

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    rogue53  almost 13 years ago

    George Bonaparte

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    Snoopy_Fan  almost 13 years ago

    Charles Willson Peale: “Oh, George! Stop trying to make me laugh!!! I thought you wanted a more serious painting!!!”

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    orinoco womble  almost 13 years ago

    The clincher is in his ladylike expression!

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    rogerfromwrexham  almost 13 years ago

    Glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I saw this one, sprayed liquids never mix well with computers

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Click the zoom here for an enlargement of the full-length painting (excuse the watermark). Enlarged (this length, click to enlarge again), available from here. I guess even this is too risqué for some, who only want it shown from the waist up. Only a week earlier, it was shown this length (must have caved to public pressure). Another (perhaps more famous) portrait of Washington by this artist. Here‘s another, perhaps more familiar to you. First of the 5 works by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here. This is the second one.

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    mabrndt Premium Member about 10 years ago

    This strip is repeated here (has my updated notes on the featured painting).

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    Portista  about 6 years ago

    My country has two mothers?

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    Call me Ishmael  almost 3 years ago

    “Whoa ! Damn fire ant got all the way back to there ?”

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