That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 08, 2024

/// Colors muted, the room stark and plain,

daylight cloaked by a cold, steady rain.

Vilhelm’s wife sits alone.

She sighs… more like a groan.

“Melancholy” embodies this Dane.

Typical Friday night in Victorian times.

Kristi Noem’s book wasn’t as interesting when they took out the part about her staring down Kim Jung Un.

Rita was always alone because she was considered to be a hoarder.

I’ll say one thing about my brother, Samuel Pepys he definitely is not!

My heating bill…thru the ROOF! I’ll be paying it off all summer!!

Hortense – practicing her long list of possible greetings in anticipation of the invention of the telephone.

Everybody dance now!

The other part of Whistler’s Mother’s mugshot.

They must have banned tick tock. I don’t see a single clock anywhere.

Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1899!

It is too late to ban TikTok, China has already harvested every member’s financial and other information. I don’t need it and won’t have it.

Her life without drama, unlike an Andersen tale

Anna writes in her journal that her life is stale:

Fish of the boring same kind on each menu

Gray stark surroundings are her life’s bland venue.

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Where is the wondrous joy the world might contain?

She feels almost like Hamlet, Shakespeare’s doleful Dane.

‘Wonderful, Lovely Copenhagen!’ What a joke!

Each time she hears that sung acid bile makes her choke.

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If only she had some nice furniture, things might be fine,

But the sole type here is Scandinavian design.

Wooden plank floors echo with every shoe click,

Some nice bright rugs laid down would make the floors less slick.

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Anna sits and thinks and would write her fantasies

Of Vikings and their raids upon the Baltic seas.

Christian monks did help to tame the blood in Danish veins,

If only she had lived in times before their moral reins!

“Feed Me!!!”

I’ve never been on TikTok

As you probably have deduced/

Her morale is in need of a boost;/

This is Denmark, my dear,/

And at this time of year/

Unhappiness rules the roost..///

She has turned to Gocomics for aid/

And she’s feeling a trifle betrayed./

Her supporters may never/

See her limerick- (it’s clever!)/

But a ‘bot it’s delayed !///

Can you blame her for being depressed?/

She thought it was one of her best../

While it wasn’t too “clean”/

A “ghost in the machine”/

Says it fails some mysterious “test” !///

What might be the offending word/

Which demands that her post be deferred?/

Some commonplace term/

Maybe “semen” or “sperm”/

Which by kiddies must never be heard…///

So she’s reading the paper instead/

Where the terrible truth may be read/

And the comic relief/

Is too pale and too brief/

From the things that hang over her head..

Julia was devastated to discover that the Sears & Roebuck catalog did not show a furnace screen that would match her decor.

Maria was in a rut, she hadn’t got a That is Priceless caption like in three days and today she has writer’s block. (Partially based on a true story).

Ida is having trouble understanding the launch instructions for her new Home SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Not BOOKS!!?? aieeeeee!

Well, I see you get Jaundice from drinking bad water!

Hickory Dickory Dock, / People, like geese, tend to flock. / At an internet site, / where they ooh with delight, / at the videos on Tik Tok.

" ‘Love what you’ve done with the place — who’s your decorator?"

Marissa was mentally exhausted from reading the explanation of why Arkansas is pronounced ‘Ar-kan-saw’.

Woe is me….I should have read that book The Joy of Sex………

And soon they’ll be coming for the proverb in the gilt frame, too.

Helga, disappointed at how easy it was to throw herself a surprise pity party.

“ I honestly do not know why I use just a few, muted colours. It is quite impossible for me to say anything on the matter. It feels natural to me. I most certainly think that a picture works best, in purely coloristic terms, the fewer colours it has.” – the artist, interviewed in 1907. It turns out he did no less than 66 paintings like this one of the interior of his own apartment.

LOL guess I’m old-school, have no desire to become knowledgeable about tiktok.

A Room in the Artist’s Home in Strandgade, Copenhagen, with the Artist’s Wife: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Open books in art" 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 and once there find the text string KMS3697, 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 #3318 (May 8, 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 .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 5 works by him have been used here, the March 25, 2024, strip being the prior.

Back when the internet was printed on paper and delivered to you every morning.

“If he wins..”

Having nothing left in the cupboard, Alice contemplates the recipe for stone soup.

“Nothing’s more depressing,” sighs Alma, " than reading this drivel and crap on Truth Social."

lilibeth, sitting in up scale room under Biden’s next term.

Diligently following the exercise instructions for one handed head pushes.

For Thursday: “Excuse me miss, but you dropped this in the unisex restroom..”