That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 04, 2019

“Kids with their damn rap music.”

“Grampa, what’s that growth on your face?”

“This is the latest in hearing aid technology and you won’t have to shell out big bucks!”

“Grampa, I got this out of the sewage gutter.”

Apple’s first model, the iConch, didn’t sell as well as they had hoped.

How do I take a shellfie with this thing?

Oh! “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.” —T.S Eliot

Oh,don’t be so shellfish, son. Let me listen a little longer!

If my call is so important to them, why don’t they talk to me instead of playing a stupid recording?

No, I don’t hear anything, but your pet hermit crab appears to be quite lively.

Okay, I listened to your shell. Now it’s your turn; pull my finger and see what kind of noise I can make.

“Da, Little Misha, Uncle Vladimir can hear the cries of the proletariat too!”

Good luck standing back up straight.

“We’re sorry but all of our team is busy right now so if you’d like to leave your name and number we’ll get back to you.”

No, I can’t hear the ocean. Your brother played a prank with super glue ….again.

RCA, after careful consideration, goes with the dog logo instead.

" Okay, I’ve heard the ocean. Now, thanks to that, I’ve got to go pee !"

Here’s a starter:

https://art.famsf.org/eastman-johnson/what-shell-says-what-sea-says-1979764

Eh? What’s that you say?

She hated to break his bubble, but she told him it was just amplified, ambient noise anyway.

What the Shell Says or What the Sea Says or The Conch Shell: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastman_Johnson_-_What_the_Shell_Says.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this oil on paperboard, roughly A2 paper size painting. Other versions has the strip coloration.

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

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=535 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/eastman-johnson 

https://mam.org/exhibitions/details/Johnson.php 

https://sova.si.edu/record/AAA.johneast?s=0&n=10&t=C&i=0 

http://www.nbmaa.org/original-site-assets/timeline_highlights/essays/johnson.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Johnson_Eastman.html 

http://hoocher.com/Eastman_Johnson/Eastman_Johnson.htm 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2109 (January 3, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“You could have taken the hermit crab out first.”

“What the Shell Says” ? I shupposh it shaysh “shell on the upshwing, buy on the dip”.

maribell though that touching the tumor on grandpa’s cheek would cure it.

The hermit crab just found a new place to live.

How grampa lost his left ear to a hungry hermit crab

The family still laughs about the time Suzie’s hermit crab latched onto Grampa’s ear.

“I might have been a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the floors of silent seas…” TSEliot