That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 08, 2021

Intent on demonstrating his skill at baiting a fishhook, Hugh was unaware that Laurence was far more interested in learning how to get grass stains out of lace.

In his later days, Isaac enjoyed taking his friends to spot where the apple hit him to inspire his greatest idea.

“I bought these fish from some guy named Winston. I’m going to take them home and tell my wife I’ve been fishing all day.”

Izaak had to look away; he considered the reclining Zebediah to be a compleat idiot.

John Suckling meets Richard Lovelace in a wood: Although critics always insist/ that they met, but it wasn’t a tryst/ one doubts either squire/ when seized by desire/ could possibly hope to resist../// Was Lovelace just being coy ?/ Was that nail business merely a ploy ?/ We can never be sure/ although either’s allure/ all resistance was bound to destroy./// So let us politely assume/ the one poet continued to groom/ and the other ignored/ when he might well have scored/ – and love never managed to bloom…

“There’s a reason they call me Lovelace…any special reason your name’s Suckling?” “Why, yes….let me demonstrate…”

You know James, I’ve grown quite tired of this. What do you say we go into town and find some randy women, straight whiskey and tobacco.

And wondering where the naked women are.

Got to look one’s best.

The first documented evidence of the “Master Baiter” joke.

His nephew, who had no interest in fishing, kept hanging around; Uncle Nesbit kept thinking, “What’s his angle?”

ol’ josh looks compleatly stoned…

“I could lay here all day, watching you do that…”

“Must we hide our love…of sewing… behind this fishing subterfuge?”

“SHADDAP! I’m trying to thread this needle!”

“Now, really – was that so hard ?”/ quoth Suckling, who lolled on the sward./They had each written verse/ that wasn’t much worse/ than some of the work of The Bard./// Sir Richard, now trimming his nails/ remembers far greater travails/ (almost nobody likes/ facing halberds and pikes/ for lace against steel always fails)/// “I suppose I could do it again/ but I still prefer women to men/ – now, back to our sonnet/ and don’t get moisture on it !” Resolutely, he picked up his pen.

Ned and Ted’s fishing trips were often interrupted by these bawdy arguments over who should win on Dancing With the Stars.

Geoffrey, I’m tired of dressing like Little Lord Fauntleroy. Tomorrow I’m going to dress as Dearest.

So Bud, someones got to tell you, your comb over is kinda getting away from you.

My caper with Lisa was unsuccessful. She told me to pack it in and leave!

Knowing that it would be another five years before Nintendo began making playing cards and almost a hundred more until Pokémon, Matthew and Percival practiced using chiggers and lice to battle.

“Dude, wow, that stuff is startin’ to in.” “That one fish over there won’t shut up.” “Well Josh , he is a big mouth Bass.”

Entering the day’s catch on the AppleWatch FishApp was proving to be quite tedious for all concrned..

Me, again, trying to show how to tie a fishhook knot after he lost another expensive handcrafted lure.

The English and their “oh so natural” naturalism.

The Compleat Angler or Tying a Fly - Izaak Walton and John Offley at the water’s edge: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Dendy_Sadler_%E2%80%93_Tying_a_Fly_-_Izaak_Walton_and_John_Offley_at_the_water%27s_edge.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting, including a Description. Other versions has the strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/09/masterpiece-2789.html 

I have added a comment there (already approved by Mr. Melcher) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 6 works by this artist have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/11/20?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there includes the same artist info URLs also pointed to by here links in my blog entry comment).

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Just keep the silk bows on your shoes and calf out of the water. It leaves a stain.

Now Isaac’s a simple guy/ dressed correctly for tying a fly/ but Offley’s a fop/ who would much rather shop/ at the mall which he knows is nearby./// so Ike, who is writing a book/ will continue to sit by the brook/ while Offley heads off / to his favorite trough/ in hopes some new whores he may hook../// as to which of them’s having more fun /my own inclinations run/ (and I must say this softly)/ to aste

“So I says to her, I says, ’Don’t you think celebrities are just so fascinating? Always doing fascinating things. My stars, but they do go on, don’t they?’ And she says to me, she says…”

“It works best if you put this in that.”

“That’s what she said.”

ed and Steve can’t wait for evening so they get together and get out of these clothes.

Who? Oh, that lady on the edge of the forest with an armful of grain? Yea … she turned me down too.

Puritans rarely wore black and white as black cloth was expensive so most wore whatever colors they could afford.