That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 23, 2023

My original post in 2015:

“Yeah, my girlfriend likes to put a napkin on her head. You got a problem with that?”

Hans was annoyed he couldn’t go anywhere without the paparazzi and their paints invading his privacy.

/// Three Romans dine in an osteria.

They watch someone enter their area.

One girl flirts, sipping wine.

Sis agrees he looks fine.

The angry man’s close to hysteria.

/// He’s in love with the flirt; can’t resist her.

But they’re dining with her married sister.

In his pocket’s a knife

and he’ll threaten the life

of this man coming in who once kissed her.

“Why does that painter keep glancing over at us?”

sally was unfamiliar with the concept of dinner napkins, though in fairness, it did make a snappy hat!

Don’t worry, Paul! I’ll stay hidden under this napkin until my husband goes away… No way he’ll notice me there.

Look, I can wear the menu on my head!

Isn’t that your wife that just walked in with that sailor?

Girl: That hot guy just took a picture of you with his phone. Guy: What?

Don’t you hate it when you’re trying to enjoy lunch and someone suddenly draws a picture of you?

All eyes are on the artist, perhaps for different intentions.

What the f*$& is on her head, this week’s laundry?

George made a ‘playdate’ with two sisters

Who talked to each other whispers

He figured to score with at least one

But when dinner was done, they “had to run” —

He’ll get nothing tonight except blisters.

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Those girls seated at table were infamous flirts

When they went out there went up alerts

From men warning each other

To not even be thinking to bother

To buy dinner, then get under their skirts.

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It could be my perception is hasty,

That the girls are demure, not really nasty.

If so, I’m so sorry to seem priggish

And sexist chauvinist piggish …

I’ll stop writing and nibble my pasty.

Waitress is having a bad day, Jane should not have asked for that extra napkin

I well understand the napkin on the head. I always wear the paper crown they give me at Burger King…….makes me feel special!/s

ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME?!!

Look over there, don’t make it obvious, but that person is putting their plate on their head, why didn’t I think of that!

“He wants to know if I’ll pose nude for him after lunch.”

I’ll have what she’s having.

Jake and Elwood just asked if they could buy this guy’s women.

Hands girlfriend a napkin: “What do you make of this?”

Girlfriend: “I can make a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl!”

Huh . . . I wonder how my friend Kate wound up dining with Daniel Radcliffe and a woman of questionable taste in headgear in a tavern in 1866 . . .

“Yeah, I have two dates and you have none. So what? Live with it.”

Paint a picture. It lasts longer.

And why does everyone speak louder into a phone than to the person sitting next to them?

Since Alonso was so boorish by refusing to remove his hat during dinner, Luisa decided to embarrass him by wearing a tablecloth on her head … The hat shaming didn’t work!

One young man in two friend zones at once.

Speaking of a*shats, is that a diaper that woman is wearing on her head?

After the Flying Nun left the convent, guys would try to hook up with her in hopes that she’d get them into the Mile High Club.

The clueless sisters wondered why Dad didn’t take them out to dinner more often…

Why does she have a napkin on her head?

In a Roman Osteria:

Paste (including the quote marks)

"Category:Fra et romersk osteria" site=commons.wikimedia.org

(syntax supported by the Google, Yahoo, Bing, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and click the first Category: found, and once there, search for the first Google text string, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image, also pointed to in the Description.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1176 (3/23/15) (March 22, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog enty with my comment pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 6 works by this artist have been used here (7 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the March 23, 2015, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. The February 7, 2023, strip is the prior non-repeat by him.

Thanks, Mabrndt! You saved me a lot of time/trouble looking for this!

The predecessor of the hoodie, so popular today.

lucy fearing mental radiation is not to well-equipped because paper won’t deter investigation by aliens.

Jewish couple worried that somebody from the community will see them dining in a treif restaurant with the wife’s coworker.

“In a Roman Osteria”

I think the woman with a napkin on her head, should worry about herself.

Before aluminum was invented to keep the aliens from controlling your brain …

Well … we like you and all …

And you are such a nice guy …

And we do appreciate you buying us dinner! Really …

But … we would rather go home with that guy over there. I’m sure you understand.

/// The most accurate art sometimes fails

to include some unpleasant details,

but Carl Bloch did include

flies surrounding their food,

and some wasps which have stings in their tails.

(…and from which, oddly, none of them quails.)

I just learned that in 19th century Denmark cats were allowed in restaurants.

Took another day off?

Reminds me of an underground club we had in jr high school…“The Cool Cat Cap Club” Mine was a WW2 Army fatigue hat. I’m not sure what hers is called.

Don’t be upset at the guy in the corner—he’s just a fan of “The Flying Nun”. And he likes me! He really likes me!

That tall blonde guy seems very interested in you, Fredrick…..very interested!