That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 26, 2019

“If you want an accurate reading, you have to remember the petticoat adds 3 or 4 pound.”

Jeb was checking to see if he got value for his money on his mail order bride.

Poor Jeb didn’t realize that Abigale had a speech impediment when she said she wanted to get weighed.

To get your true weight, take off your dress and shoes, weigh them and then deduct that from this weight.

And here I thought I was going to be a lady in waiting – not a lady “weighing.”

“If ya don’t mind me saying so ma’am, you’re a might prettier than the 125-pound bag of manure that was on this contraption an hour ago, even though you are the same weight as that bag.”

Wells Fargo stagecoaches excess baggage policy took a new turn when they open their lowcost Bads Farto branch…

the local ladies of the night were always happy to indulge gramp’s scale fetish – it was an easy trick…

Come here often?

“You know in this light, you look just like someone I’d love to have sex with”

It was then that Priscilla, last year’s champion showed up; it wasn’t long before they started talking trash and a fight ensued.

Jeb, weighing his catch

“Aw, honey, you haven’t put on weight…take off that corsage and you’ll see the needle go down.”

“Ma’am, Oprah says she loves this plan. Don’t call it a diet. Now pay your weekly dues, the meeting begins shortly.”

The bustle adds 5 pounds…

For years Jeb had hunted around / and was utterly thrilled to have found / the Genital Store / with bargains galore / where sex was sold by the pound !

Yes Sir, one hundred-fifteen pounds of granulated sugar, Mmmmm

Poor man; weighed and left wanting.

“I weighted you, now hold these in your hand and tell me how much you think they weigh.”

Grandpa Isaiah’s favorite part of the day – in the afternoon he’d eat a couple of the mushrooms that grew behind the barn and then hang out in the loft.

Sorry, ma’am, I can’t let you join the world’s first Overeaters Anonymous meeting. You don’t weigh enough.

Great Grandpa Versace refused to hire any models who failed to meet his exacting standards. His motto of “If you’re thin, you’re in” had an everlasting impact on both fashion and modeling.

“So missy, do ya wanna go by standard bridal postal rate or the I-gotta-there-and-get-hitched-before-shows rate?”

Five, ten, fifteen pounds (as some earlier comments say) my eye — that dress and undergarments alone weigh at least 20 pounds. She’ll never get an accurate personal weight unless she can take the scale into a private room and disrobe.

“By cracky, when I was a lad, we liked ‘em sturdy. Yes’m, I will say that I cut quite a swath through the ladies back in them days,,,,,,,,,,,,, oh, dear, I’m babblin’ again, ain’t I? I reckon its time for my nap now.”

A New Weight or Weighed at the Mill: 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=44426 

has info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=533 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-george-brown/ 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32252308/john-george-brown 

https://chrysler.emuseum.com/objects/15524/pull-for-the-shore 

https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=PA346#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Brown_John1.htm 

https://books.google.com/books?id=js1ZCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT2#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://hoocher.com/John_George_Brown/John_George_Brown.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 4 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/11/04?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 #2337 (November 25, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Almost up to fightin’ weight, darlin’. Eat anuther two pounds o’ pasta, then we’ll go a few rounds.”

Elmer wondering about the feasibility of a female wrestling league.

“Waeellll, I dunno missy. I usually like my womenfolk with more meat on their bones.”

Miller Nick had no intention of telling the town’s people that the town doctor had a new scale in his office.

When told she’d be “working for scale”/ she thought that she just couldn’t fail/ through a misunderstanding she had a hard landing /He likes ’em as thin as a rail.

“Another sexist example of having to be misogynistly perfect for the barbaric male!” – Nazifeminist.

Prudence "s dress was very thin, actually she weighed 180 lb.,s and was trying to get by the weight requirement on the flight of 130 Lb,s but Clem the Transportation Security Administration guy knew better.

“A-ha, Nellie… According to my new invention, you’ve lost your purity just within the last year.”

Her quilt must weigh as much as her clothing in order to qualify at the fair!