That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 17, 2022

The artist’s nationality depended on what he wanted for lunch that day.

Hey kid, you come here often? You want to blow this joint and go for drinks?

/// Mary had a fall of lambs

whose fleece was faded yellow,

and everywhere that Mary went

they tried to harsh her mellow.

/// One followed her to school one day;

it was a high-pitched squealer.

There was no silence of the lamb.

Bleats frightened off her dealer.

/// So Mary’s now no longer high,

with all that that connotes.

she took a good look at her lambs

and saw they’re really goats!

These sheep are seriously shorn – I can see the razor burn on their backs.

Mary uses the stick to keep McCloud away offa her ewe.

Apparently there isn’t much to do in Italia-Austria-Hungary except flirt with the sheep.

Just hanging with my buds.

Hi there! Are you the Big Bad Wolf my momma warned me about?

The original “ gangster lean”

This job is perfect for you, they said. You get to manage others, they said. You’ll move up in the world, they said. I should’ve read the damn job description a little better!

Was it good for you?

“Yeeees, Mary, your pregnancy IS starting to show. Take it from an old ewe, you’re no innocent lamb.”

The chances are rather remote/

of falling in love with a goat./

Though some shepherds sleep/

with a favorite sheep/

(But that’s rare – among persons of note). ///

Today, Maria wears blue/

(it’s every goat’s favorite hue)/

Yet something’s amiss…

(the goats notice this)/

For her hat has been knocked askew..///

Take a look at Maria’s expression/

She’s just come from a nasty session ! /

Awakened by bleating/

She caught “Billy” cheating/

And extracted a goatly confession..///

There are those who will say “That’s just silly”/

That Maria’s “just a tad chilly”/

But persons more canny/

Know – she’s lost out to Nanny :/

Lost out in the battle for Billy..

Mary and her brothel for people with strange desires

“Hey, Little Bo Peep, we’re back – we were just out getting coffee. Glad you (clearly) weren’t worried after all.”

Mary had a little lamb, which was white as snow.

And every time it wagged its tail, it showed its little hole.

Bugger off sheep, I’m trying to think!

Mary, me and the other lambs were talking and we think one of those branches has grown straight up into your $%&.

When the shepherdess got kinda uppity / The sheep came and said, pretty crustily, / “You’re up to your ass / In the same stinkin’ grass / As we are, so you just shut-up-ity.”

BAAAABARA: That dress you’re wearing – it’s wool isn’t it? YOU FIEND WE’RE FREEZING!

MARY: Yeah, well I brought a gyro for lunch. So count your blessings that you’re only cold!

Ba…baa, baaa, Oh shut up I’m the one that got stood up!

Little Bo Peep is bored to death with sheep. She’s now on the lookout for some rich old goat to fleece.

Luckily for Mary here

She had not much to do.

For if she took a single step

It’d probably be in poo.

You might say Mary had a baaaaad attitude.

“Psst! Hey! Mary!

What did Ebenezer Scrooge say to the sheep of Christmas past?

BAAAH! Humbug!"

“Come here, you naughty shepherd. You know you want a switching, you bad boy.”

Mary had a little goat / that she had named Devon / and when she tired of raising him / his name was changed to Chevon.

High Noon in the Alps: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"File:Giovanni Segantini - High Noon in the Alps - Google Art Project.jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and chose the first File: link found for info and links that point to more info (best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Notes has an Archived Japanese link that describes the painting. Though the archiving process somehow stops Chrome from translating the webpage, if you first translate.google.com the webpage, the resulting webpage can be translated by Chrome (translate.google.com doesn’t change the Japanese in the archived webpage, which also stops translate.google.com from translating it; but, somehow it activates translation in Chrome – doesn’t make sense to me either, just sharing what I’ve found out).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2927 (August 28, 2012) 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 artist info I used to point to here. So far 3 works, by this artist, have been used here. The March 30, 2018, strip has the prior. The active artist info URLs in my comment there are pointed to by here links in my blog comment.

“Attitude problem”? She seems pretty laid back to me.

Mary lui wonders what has this sheep have that i don’t, her boyfriend loved the little girl and broke is date to be in the barn.

looks like somebody got her goat…

Playboy centerfold during the no nudity era.

Waiter fry me a couple of lamb chops … extra bloody!