That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 19, 2024

/// Shown here fingerin’ fine Irish linen,

William Brownlow’s kin were the beginnin’

of that industry which is

what had brought him his riches,

and a Parliament seat he’d long been in.

The Right Honorable William Brownlow, with tissue.

Gramps, stop playing with girls underwear at the table!

He’s going to need a bigger hanky with that honker.

is this what they mean by a tissue of lies?

Winner of the George Washington look-alike contest.

With all the grease splashing around at work, I save a fortune in pomade

How did the receding hairline happen? Too many palm slaps to my forehead arguing politics.

Keeps the grease offa his bangin’ wig!

Works at “Washington’s” down on Pennsylvania Avenue

And his honker shows allergies at work!

He’s a giant of injury law/

But he doesn’t look good in the raw/

And when he wears shorts/

In His Majesty’s Courts/

The juries are prone to guffaw.

Clear of eye, and determined of jaw/

From afar he appears without flaw/

But when you draw near/

Imperfections appear/

Which from far away you never saw..///

Midst the morally compromised/

His presence is highly prized/

But among honest men/

He’s unwelcome – for then/

He can’t look anyone in the eyes

Waxing philosophical with wax paper.

“ Who left this used Kleenex on my desk?”

Well, he was the Honorable and Right Grandmaster of Fry Cooks. Had an Apron and everything!

The I.R.S. When you point out the humor in claiming your goldfish as dependents

Why the long face?

Annoyed by the inconvenience of blowing his nose with Kotex®, Frank Sensenbrenner was inspired to invent Kleenex®.

I thought this was Sir John Hubris Barleycorn, trying to sell his economical ‘paper navy’ to the Admiralty…

An interesting essay about Stuart at artvee dot com. I’m afraid you’ll have to browse there and use the search function at the site, but if you do, the search term “Brownlow” gets me right to it. Among other tidbits: the guy messed up financially so bad that when he died, his family couldn’t afford to buy him a grave in consecrated ground. Ten years later, when they had the money, they couldn’t remember where they’d put him. Ah, the love of a good family….

Brownlow always referred to Stuart as ‘that bloody illiterate Yank’ for leaving out the ‘u’ in the title.

“Look at me! Do you really think I give a right shite about the workers in my linen mills?”

nah…that’s his covid-19 -1819 to be precise.

With the new Hair Magic 44, you too can have curly hair.

Portrait of the Right Honorable William Brownlow: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Politicians of Northern Ireland" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found (using DuckDuckGo currently needs a second click to get there from its first found) and once there find the text string Brownlow, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting, plus the auction house’s Description. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3307 (April 19, 2024) 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 pointing the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the September 18, 2023, strip being the prior.

Seth Wheeler in 1871 thinking to himself “I just might have an idea … how late is the Patent Office open?”

Credit card bill indicates that he’s still being charged for the “Colonial Crier,” even though he cancelled it five months ago.

This fellow certainly resembles Horatio Gates the Revolutionaty War General, who won the Battle of Saratoga in 1777:

Having led troops into battle, Horatio Gates

Fought in our Country’s Revolution

And won at Saratoga in ‘Seventy-seven.

Sans Congressional debates

He got a medal that so commemorates

all i ever wanted was to look like George Washington.

How long was I walking around with this toilet paper hanging out of my pants?

Anglo-Irish Politician. Brownlow served as High Sheriff of Armagh for 1750 and was first elected to the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for County Armagh in 1753, styled The Right Honourable and holding the seat until his death

“I don’t know where you found this frilly thing, Henrietta, but it isn’t mine”!