That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 25, 2024

Hey, Charles, are you compensating for something?

Sorry, I just sneezed and this happened.

Somewhere there is a fox missing its tail.

/// “Portrait of a Man”— somewhat surreal.

What conceals can, if studied, reveal.

His red mustache and beard

eclipsed how he appeared,

and kept samples of every past meal.

ZZtop’s great grandfather.

Hendrik discovered the principle of gravity 19 years before Newton. But he realized it with his hair, not an apple.

By not shaving he saved phe price of a razor and shaving soap. He also saved the price of a tie.

The whiskbroom that hangs from his chin/

Obscures an adorable grin./

You probably knew/

That the darn thing was grew/

To distinguish himself from his twin.///

It started out just as a stubble/

But he quickly outdistanced his “double”../

Who was growing his own/

But was swiftly outgrown:/

That’s when he thought: “Shave? Why take the trouble ?”

In the long run, there’s simply no telling/

Where it’s going if it keeps on swelling:/

But his wife is concerned/

For she fears she’ll be spurned/

When it squeezes them out of their dwelling..

The irony of baldness

What makes the beard truly unique/

(And their future distressingly bleak)/

With domestic dissension/

I neglected to mention:/

It’s been growing for barely a week..

Its amazing what a nit comb will do!

… and known as the original ‘Quicker Picker Upper’

Absolutely terrified of having a “nip slip”.

Jonathan came to realization that as he stroked his beard it got longer and his hair got shorter.

Portrait of James-Earl “Cueball” Scoggins, founder of the Duck Dynasty.

“Seriously! There are squirrels living in my beard and PETA has an injunction stopping me from shaving!”

For years, Hendrick had mistakenly used his hair growth elixir as his after shave.

Pictured above is Séan á Sionnach, Irish cousin of Jan van Vos. He was sly about his age but bristled at the suggestion that he used Grecian Formula®.

Once he got rid of the spiders, beetles, and that nasty little flying thing he didn’t even recognize, his beard finally was presentable.

Portrait of a man: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings of bearded men" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, 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 and once there find the text string 1424, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) 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 #3344 (June 25, 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 to the info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

Hendrik was the discoverer of the Head Back Reflector. It made those new fangled ear trumpets obsolete. He could now hear a mouse scratching two rooms away!

Hendrik, having fruitlessly exhausted all other avenues, decided to make a bold move and try one of those kinky websites. This was his dating profile pic titled “Hendrik on the half shell.” Hobbies include: digging for clams, long walks on the beach, and polishing bed knobs.

He signed himself “Baked in Alaska”/

But he’s much too shy ever to ask a/

Girl to join him for sex/

(He’s an Oedipus Rex)/

As for “beach walks” – he lives in Nebraska.

soon he will have a great comeover.

If it gets any longer, you’ll have to BUTTON it!!

Some thought he was putting on airs,

But he learned to endure their rude stares.

He was first in his nation

To own a kapok plantation,

and was merely displaying his wares.

As his red beard grew longer his wife moved closer to the neighbor Fredo!