That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 16, 2019

Tom finished third in the Hemingway look alike contest (holding a glass of whisky helped).

Sebastian, hoping this is the one that permanently put him out of his misery.

There isn’t a large enough glass.

“Is this a dagger I see before me? No? Oh, good! (gulp)”

But then Santa finds the missus has been playing patty cakes with the Easter Bunny!

lovely nose – hints of shoe polish, paint stripper, and super glue…

More like Santa trying to think where he can get more money to pay the tooth fairy to continue to keep quiet about the affair. That fairy goes through money like kids through sugar!

One sip told the doctor all he needed to know: one should never drink from an untended glass in a urologist’s lab.

A department store Santa preparing for a very long day.

He made a solemn vow, John Barleycorn must die.

Candy is “Dandy”, but Liquor is Quicker……Here sweetie, try some of this.

Santa, trying to remember if he took anything ‘special’ last night as he hands over the urine sample to his doctor. The FAA’s mandatory random drug test really sucked.

Alfons sat contemplating his glass. The whisky was the one good thing left in his life. It stayed with him through thick and thin. It was his one true friend in times of trouble

“Over the lips and pass the gums to grandmother’s house we go”

He suddenly realized that this is as good as it gets.

Actually, I hear the Toothless Fairy does a better “job”.

“Hope I pass the urine test, so I can fly the sleigh this year”

Santa after drinking suspect absinthe.

Santa pouring Mrs.Clause a big one so he could get his wish, a 3 way with her and the tooth fairy.

Charles wishing his daily prune juice were bourbon.

… And Nicole Kidman

I don’t always let children sit on my lap and tell me what they want for Christmas, but when I do I always have my good friend Johnny Walker by my side (in a hip flask).

Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?

“My compliments to the horse !”

“A jug of wine”/ perhaps “a loaf of bread”?/ Forget the loaf !/ A second jug, instead.

Santa with a glass of “courage” before his big trip for the year.

Here’s to lying, cheating, stealing, and drinking./ If you lie, may you lie together./ If you cheat, may you cheat the devil. / If you steal, may you steal each other’s hearts./ And if you drink, may we all drink to your happiness.

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I’ve drunk to your health in the pubs,/ I’ve drunk to your health in my home,/ I’ve drunk to your health so many times,/That I’ve almost ruined my own.

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May you never forget what is worth remembering,

Or remember what is best forgotten.

Man wishing straws hadn’t been banned.

“To drink or not to drink. That is the question. It’s a dumb question, but still you’ve got to ask it.”

The Tooth Fairy already has all of this guy’s teeth.

“Here’s lookin’ at you, kid.”

Over the teeth and through the gums, then hit my brain and make me numb.

Rest of the ‘salut’ that’s rarely spoken because it just slows down the ordering of the next round:

To the inequities of this world

Created by those who should be berled

In the super heated flames

Fueled by their ill gotten gains

Good Taster: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BMVB_-_Alfons_Vi%C3%B1als_i_Roig_-_Bon_catador_-_795.tif 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Unlike those pointed to in the past, if you click the image there to see a larger version of it, instead of showing a larger image, it will (attempt to) download it to your device. To see a larger image there, choose the size you want from the line under the image.

 

Other than what’s indirectly pointed to by the title URL 

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons_Vinyals_i_Roig 

I could find no online info about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary). First work by him used here.

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2350 (December 15, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

He’d so looked forward to retirement, not realizing that pension and Social Security cuts would mean drinking the cheap stuff during his golden years.

Kris was pretty happy being the premier taster at the distillery. But he was quite sad that they always made him spit it out.

lem, after his husband left him is trying a glass of hemlock. he’s too old to start over.

Those “tooth fairies” are small and green. And love to eat calcium. Best to grow broccoli including any giant varieties that have more than enough calcium to keep them from eating you.