That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 25, 2012

No wonder he has all that fancy gold on his robe!! The boy’s a billionaire.

He looks much more brawny on the label.

That is one heavy robe!

His discovery was made accidentally, when he took the phrase “money laundering,” literally.

Maybe he got the idea when he was setting his wig — rolling the wool around thick twigs.

BTW Mabrndt is stll banned.

He could still use help, so I’ll post his profile link again today:

Mabrndt’s PROFILE

Yesterday, for anyone who didn’t see it, and actually wants to….

I posted that link, and answered a lot of questions (to the best of my ability) about images, links and copyright.

Thanks for your thanks, Dogsniff…. I’m actually no expert, compared to some of you, like x_Tech and CoBass…. and I’m sure others..

I just get in there and try …. and with any luck, sometimes it works!

Weren’t the Dead Sea Towels first ??

What kind of segmented creature is eating his left arm?

…only is hairdresser knows for sure…thanks again Susan Sunshine.do we have an address for the “arbitrator”? (i think that’s what he/she was called.) then we would not half to go through the “help desk”.

This painting is very absorbing.

Actually real parchment is not very absorbent; even the faux stuff I use for scrolls would not work for countertops. I set a waterbottle on one and have not been able to get the water ring off.

Thanks, Susan! I went to yesterday and tho’ never did any violations, I WAS banned once a year or so (and not sneaky- they emailed me). I got too busy yesterday arguing with my kids. I will try a couple of stores for white; assuming I find no dress that I love, I’ll buy some white silk charmeuse and chiffon and whip up a simple design of my own.

dress for success, absorb the excess!

Lord Henry attempts (and fails) to change the roll in his fax machine. He later succumbs to “wig fatigue”.

SwimsWithSharks said yesterday

Crud. I’m sorry mabmdt. Apology.

OK confession time. Yes I’m a newcomer and maybe I jumped the gun. I confess I clicked the “Flag” on your post in multiple strips that day because it looked like spam when you were posting that link to the PBS program. I did not think a regular poster here would post the same link 15+ times in 15+ comic strip discussion threads, so I did it to try to be a good newbie and alert the site it was getting a link spam.-The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Flagging someones post without understanding what is really being said or why its being posted? Come on!!!

For what it’s worth, I also e-mailed GoComics regarding Mabrndt. I hope it helps.

No good deed goes unpunished, they tell me.

The English are so clever! First they invent the sandwich, and then they invent a way to clean up the mess one one makes creating the sandwich.

Emailed again pointing out that their response was late, and got this within a few hours:

“When a user violates the guidelines and terms of use for GoComics.com, they lose the ability to publicly post comments.

“Thank you for sharing your comments and suggestion. We continue to evaluate disabled users yet cannot promise or gurantee friendly emails will trigger a user being reinstated.”

I am on the terms page in another window. One of the terms is not to disparage them. I shall only add that I was trying to figure out how mabrndt could possibly, in any way, have violated them, and I couldn’t.

The painting clearly shows the bounty his invention brought him.

By gosh and golly, there really IS a terms and policy page! It’s buried pretty deep and reads largely in legalese (duh), but basically says they can boot you at their discretion. I did send a note on mabrndt’s behalf a few days ago and fot the “We’re looking into it” response, and heard nothing since. I don’t have “PRO” status here, and due to the proliferation of arbitrary and idiotic bannings of posters who actually spend the time and effort to add something of value to the comments, I never will; they can censor me to their heart’s content. You’d think they would be more considerate of someone who pays good money to help support their website and contributes significant intellectual content.

Enlarged (excuse the commercialism) available from here. Different coloration. About the man. Painted after he became Speaker of the House of Commons, but before he became Prime Minister. Fourth time that, one of the 11 works by this artist that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, have also appeared here.

Here is another work by this artist.

He may have invented the paper towel, but my classmate brought taper powels to my school.