That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 02, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    While Wilhelm contemplated doing a trick shot, outside the stars were doing amazing things that night.

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    Solstice*1947  over 1 year ago

    /// Five drunks slump in van Gogh’s Night Café

    for the world’s saddest mini-soirée.

    Under bright hellish light

    stands the owner (in white)

    but his lower left leg’s gone astray.

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    rmremail  over 1 year ago

    The lamps are watching you.

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    rmremail  over 1 year ago

    Why is Beaker (from the Muppet show) sleeping on the pool table?

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Stick only appears so big because of the small table.

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    Tyge  over 1 year ago

    Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

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    Bilan  over 1 year ago

    I suddenly have an urge to play Snooker. Where is she?

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    Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Reminds of a joke I heard about 60 years ago.

    Meanwhile back at the ranch, Fred, disguised as a pool table was racking his balls..

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    Ubintold  over 1 year ago

    Is this why he really cut off his ear?

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    Egrayjames  over 1 year ago

    That feeling you get when you know you’ve had one too many absinthe.

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    jdculhane46  over 1 year ago

    But the online picture looked like a buffet table

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    Egrayjames  over 1 year ago

    Ishmael….If you are still out there, I know of a way for you to still make comments and have them read. You can make comments in your profile, and those that know how to get to your profile page can read them.

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    Dogtreat Premium Member over 1 year ago

    ‘stick’ caulk and bawls

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    wincoach Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The next day in 6th-grade art class students would work on putting faces on people.

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    Linguist  over 1 year ago

    Vincent remembered what his brother Theo always told him, " Keep your stick straight, your balls on the table, and your hands out of your pockets! "

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    Rev Phnk Ey  over 1 year ago

    They had all tried to beat him, but he was the only one who could make the up hill shots.

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    anomaly  over 1 year ago

    He asked to see her rack, but was disappointed when she took him to it.

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  over 1 year ago

    Cue the genitalia jokes!

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    T...  over 1 year ago

    You wish, Steve…

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    He: I wonder if I should have asked my date to meet me here?

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    6turtle9  over 1 year ago

    Lend me your ear, and I’ll paint you a song, I’ll try not to cut too much…

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    d1234dick Premium Member over 1 year ago

    gay Larry, just dreaming about what could have been, seeing cue/ball arrangement.

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The Night Café

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_caf%C3%A9_de_nuit_(The_Night_Caf%C3%A9)_by_Vincent_van_Gogh.jpeg 

    has 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 #3124 (May 2, 2023) 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 (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 8 works by this artist have been used here (5 times total, the first had 4), the February 6, 2014, strip being the prior. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. That was the 4th strip to use a work by him; but, correcting that comment, the 7th of the 9 works (not the 4th of the 4 works) by him in the blog.

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    PraiseofFolly  over 1 year ago

    The overhead, oblique view of this painting reminds me of the summer nights I spent years ago operating large runway cranes from operating cabs about 40 feet above the floor. It was in a weld shop, and the smoke rose to disperse along the ceiling a further 20 feet above me.

    I wasn’t the fastest operator, but at least had no accidents. I sat up in the control cab waiting the calls to lift something; and that occurred several dozen times a night. I lost fear of heights and learned to use the controls efficiently and simultaneously in 3 dimensions from my positions above and to the sides.

    Bright lights hung in cones from the ceiling every 50 feet or so. They attracted moths, and these swirled around underneath, became dazzled, and fell downward in perfect spirals about 10 feet in diameter. It was fascinating to watch. The moths would fall down within 10 feet of the floor, then recover to go back upward to repeat the process over and over to exhaustion.

    It was fascinating to watch, but strangely sad. Too bad van Gogh didn’t see to paint in this detail of doomed insects. He apparently had larger existential concerns.

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    briggs.roy078  over 1 year ago

    Bit of a cock-up I’d say…

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