That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 26, 2023

“That big Scotsman over there called me a wimp. Will you go and make fun of him for wearing a dress?”

Dear, we have been walking for over an hour, and our carriage is nowhere to be seen. As a matter of fact, there are no carriages of any kind. And we haven’t even seen any houses for the past fifteen minutes.

I know it’s not manly to ask for directions, but you should have let me ask that old crone we passed in the shack at the edge of the village.

Margaret thought that Charlie was going to show her ‘The flowering’ grotto.

Horace is trying to hail a cab, but they won’t be invented for at least another 65 years…

“And right over there is where my ship will come in … Any day now. Trust me.”

/// Sir John turned to his wife with a nod.

Lady Clark thought her husband seemed odd.

“‘Twas with this gesture, Madam,

that I brought life to Adam.”

Sir John clearly believed he was God.

And over there is where the horse pooped.

I insist, Master Raeburn. You’ve to include my imaginary friend Wilbur I’m hugging right now in this painting if you want to see your payment.

“Your husband nor any of your staff know about my secret love shack over there. Trust me, Lady Chatterly.”

“I’m a little tea pot, short and stout. Here is my handle here is my spout!”…..Now you sing it Geraldine.

“But I left it here moments ago!” /

Cried the chap in the splendid chapeau./

And the truth was, he had-/

But the neighborhood’s bad../

Which he had no reason to know…

“My dear, neither you or I are inebriated in any way at all on this fine ev-morning.”

She’s got no business being upset. She was there too.

Did you forget to tie the horses off again?

Always set the brake, set it in park, and take the keys.

“That’s right! We’re gonna put the condos up over there and the shopping mall will be on the left.”

“Somewhere out there, my dear, is a country that doesn’t even have a flag. We should force them to have ours.”

“Just follow the yellow brick road that way.”

“It’s roomy enough, dear, but I don’t think living in a hat would be very comfortable.”

In the same vein as asking for directions.

That ain’t no way to treat a ladyclerk!

Portrait of Sir John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

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(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, 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 Clerk, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly life size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #896 (June 17, 2013) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval, may take days while he’s away) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by this artist have been used here (4 times total, including this repeat), the February 3, 2014, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment and reply there; but, perhaps the text remains informative, though somewhat outdated, since the current-location was wrong (had a different dual portrait of this couple by this artist). The May 2, 2014, strip has the prior by him.

The hat is the thing I most like/

(It reminds me of Jan van Eyck-/

And that couple just wed)/

But it’s Raeburn instead/

And a couple of kids on a hike.

This couple’s from Penicuik/

(The dullest of us knows it’s “truic”)/

Their idyll is doomed/

And cannot be resumed:/

Both forgot where they parked the Buick..

Those d&*( horses all look alike.

There’s a problem still greater than these/

It’s the problem that neither yet sees/

But it will be discovered/

When the Buick’s recovered:/

He seems to have lost the keys..

In the battle that’s sure to ensue/

Over how, when, and where, why, and who/

They are destined, perforce/

To agree on divorce/

A divorce that is long overdue.

we will be there soon, it’s just over that rise, the looser’s convention.

I asked a boy to make me a boat; and it should be right there.

Guess he hasn’t finished making it yet.