That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 14, 2022

Parents of the Elephant man.

They had met near the huge warehouse door,

where he’d seen hookers walking before.

All things seem black-and-white

in a hood late at night,

hid from Watchmen patrolling the floor.

/// Though identities can’t be perceived,

Charlie to his “date” Sylvia cleaved.

Being seen made him nervous,

but he’d paid for her service

on this night their son Rorschach’s conceived.

(I realize that most of you will probably have no idea what this one is all about, but I’m hoping that at least a few are familiar with the graphic novel, or the movie, or the TV series based upon it.)

This made it impossible to French kiss.

Bill and Martha exchanged a last kiss before the firing squad.

Making out in the age of COVID

Harold had been looking forwards to having a girlfriend, but now he was underwhelmed by actual the experience. Kissing her was about as exciting as kissing his pillow.

/// There’s a myth that an Orthodox Jew

won’t have sex without sticking it through

a hole cut in a sheet.

These two one-eighth Jews meet,

all confused about what they should do.

A different image, but the Magrittes don’t come up often enough these days.

♪♫"Rene and Georgette Magritte

With their dog after the war

Returned to their hotel suite

And they unlocked the door

Easily losing their evening clothes

They danced by the light of the moon

To the Penguins, the Moonglows

The Orioles, and The Five Satins

The deep forbidden music

They’d been longing for

Rene and Georgette Magritte

With their dog after the war…."♪♫

Paul Simon -

/// He was shy and had never been bold.

Now his feelings for her had grown cold.

Still they met, dressed like this,

for one last goodbye kiss.

(He had “ghosted” her, as he’d been told.)

Another young couple experiencing premarital sacks… have they no shame?

You must remember this, a kiss is not a kiss, when cloth surrounds your face. You oughtn’t wear a pillow-case, it’s a disgrace.

Ghost: The Low Budget Remake.

How ya feeling Ish?

“Sheet Mary, you know how much I love you”. “Marvin, I know you say that sheet to all the girls”.

The world’s ugliest couple find a way to kiss one another that doesn’t leave a bilious taste in their mouth…

“Burlap- the ultimate aphrodisiac !”

She was a “Two Bagger”. So ugly that you wear a bag over your head in case the one over hers breaks.

CBF takes the two foot rule farther.

The Magrittes experiment in search of wrapturous love.

les amants en l’âge de covid

Joe and Nancy were having an affair, but didn’t want to be seen in public together.

Ooo, my favorite, Downey Spring fabric softener."

That urge, from below the waist,

That demands to be answered in haste

Cares not in the least

Be she Beauty or Beast..

It isn’t a matter of taste.

The cynical Monsieur Magritte

Had observed, on the damp Gallic street,

That the sexual norm

“Any port in a storm “

Inclines to repeat and repeat…

GUE, go ugly early, but wear protection

As the evening progresses, that’s not what you need to keep wrapped

Back in my day, when we went on a blind date, it was really a blind date, dammit!

Bill and Allison took covid mask-wearing to the extreme.

I thought cloth masks were said not to stop Covid .

No lipstick on HIS collar.

“You may kiss the ‘bride’.” -Married at First Sight

“Are you sure this is what ‘getting in the sack’ means?”

Reminds me of a headline last week. Older Russian security guard fired on his first day for adding eyes to a over a million dollars worth impressionist painting. The damage was minimal and will be reversed easily but after public outcry he will be facing fines if not charges. Honestly though talk about you had one job.

Sharon’s mother always told her kissing led to pregnancy, so she always practiced protected making out.

And later that evening……..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV_BPDi8Ems

Hey, I’m not one to kink-shame.

Playing HangMan for real.

Now that we’ve covered our faces can we undress?

In Belgium, ‘blind date’ means something different.

“Bonnie and Clyde: The Early Days”

Another pair of lovers that are so wrapped up in themselves that they can’t see each other.

The Lovers: 

https://www.renemagritte.org/the-lovers-2.jsp 

has info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting and the strip coloration image. That can’t be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons due to copyright issues (only 54 years since the artist passed); but, if I could upload it, I would choose the museum’s 

https://mo.ma/3rMAoe0 

image (note the signature at the bottom right cropped from the strip image and where that was found) at the museum’s online webpage 

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79933 

for the painting (has the other details I put in the Wikimedia Commons file).

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

https://thatispricelessblog.com/2022/02/masterpiece-2878 

and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

These new Covid Laws are going WAY too far…..

It could’ve been worse. They could’ve had big apples for heads.

Bill thought that Allison was just being kinky. But the truth is that Allison is really Alex.

both of them misunderstood the idea of condoms.

/// Both their faces disfigured by sabers,

they’d survived through Herculean labors.

“Put my pate in a poke?”

“You heard right; it’s no joke.

You’re not frightened, but think of the neighbors!

Love in the age of COVID.

/// He assumed he would have to go stag

to the dance, (which would be a big drag).

When she brought him a hood

he at last understood

what she’d meant when she’d said: “On the rag.”

“Wow, he’s right—this is just like reading poetry in translation!”