That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 25, 2020

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    Madeline finally realizes why her right arm is 2 inches longer than her left arm.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “Next time, I’m going to marry someone with indoor plumbing.”

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    rmremail  over 3 years ago

    What is this, the land of the stupid people? The woman in the background seems to have forgotten how to fill a pitcher, and the women in the foreground has chosen pretty much the worst possible way to carry hers.

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    Papared25  over 3 years ago

    Phoebe lived in a dreadfully poor country. There was no indoor plumbing, and the people had to walk carefully to avoid all of the oil that was seeping up from beneath the ground.

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    gopher gofer  over 3 years ago

    phoebe ponders how tough it is to live in a world with skewed perspective…

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    Kwen  over 3 years ago

    Jane sometimes wondered if getting her drinking water at the Puky Hangover Relief waterhole was such a good idea.

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    P51Strega  over 3 years ago

    “And that’s just what little Pauly did in 3rd grade. Wait ’til you see his 4th grade pictures”

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    Bookworm  over 3 years ago

    There is bad art. There is good art. There is great art. Then, there’s this.

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    Egrayjames  over 3 years ago

    I have it on good authority that this very painting inspired Mick Jagger and Keith Richard to pen the lyrics of their song “Mother’s Little Helper”. It should come as no surprise that the first line of which was “What a drag it is getting old.” You’ve got to love the Rolling Stones!

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    Call me Ishmael  over 3 years ago

    I had a very different vision when they invited me to join the “jug band “..

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    Call me Ishmael  over 3 years ago

    In this “Garden of Earthly Delights”/ of all of the glorious sights/ the one true “must see”/ is the lovely Marie/ whose eyes are at different heights.

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    Reader  over 3 years ago

    At least the 3rd time Melcher has gone to the well in a very short time period — truly on the verge of going to the well too often.

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    epaphus8  over 3 years ago

    “Sheesh. Hey, mister bigshot artist, would it kill you to draw a wheelbarrow or hand truck so we don’t have to lug all these things by hand one at a time?”

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    J Short  over 3 years ago

    Come listen to my story about a chic name Yhan Ched,

    A poor Chinese wasn’t makin any bread.

    Then one day while she was hauling home some water,

    She realized she wanted a son and decided to drown her daughter.

    Social pressure. Government mandate.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I should have kept my pole dancing job!

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    Another Take  over 3 years ago

    A serious method actress, Yvette prepares for her role as the first female Quasimodo with a heavy pitcher of water carried only on her right side for weeks before the first rehearsals. (It was then that she learned that she should’ve carried it on the left side. DOH!)

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    anomaly  over 3 years ago

    It was a hard life carrying jugs of gold ore back to the foundry to be made into bricks for building houses. There was so much gold. If only they could find another use for it.

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Young Breton with a pitcher

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:190_Paul_S%C3%A9rusier_Jeune_bretonne_%C3%A0_la_cruche.jpg 

    (best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

     

    http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/serusier_paul.html 

    https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-serusier 

    https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/s/serusier/biograph.html 

    http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/4-france05-03.htm 

    https://www.askart.com/artist/Paul_Serusier/11147497/Paul_Serusier.aspx 

    http://www.galeriedesmodernes.art/en/artists/paul-serusier-nabi-514 

    http://www.artnet.com/artists/paul-s%C3%A9rusier/ 

    http://www.comite-serusier.com/ 

    https://thebiography.us/en/serusier-paul 

    http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2011/11/paul-serusier-part-1.html 

    http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/paul-serusier.htm 

    all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can translate as necessary, and askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

    https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/10/28?comments=visible 

    has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2586 (November 24, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 3 years ago

    Though you long in their beauty to revel/ and God knows, you try like the devil/ their dismaying disparity/ merely causes hilarity./ You can’t meet her eyes on the level.

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    d1234dick Premium Member over 3 years ago

    fi fi the water carrier, is not using her head.

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    Bilan  over 3 years ago

    “Sheez. My spoiled sister gets to be in a Monet painting sitting on a park bench. What do I get? Carrying a heavy jug for another French painter nobody’s heard of.”

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    Sassy's Mom  over 3 years ago

    That’s a really weird painting!

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    Impkins  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I was confused by what appears to be an Asian woman dressed in western clothing. All I saw was : “What? RICE again??” :>)

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member over 3 years ago

    After Paul etched in the rough draft and spent 9 months painting the apron, he realized the painting was due tomorrow.

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    gigagrouch  over 3 years ago

    She bears a resemblance to Olive Oyl… a relative perhaps?

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