That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 19, 2022

Ben and the wife came back to the small Pennsylvania town so the kids could meet their grandfather and uncle. Now, they couldn’t wait to get on the first ship back to London.

Ben West’s clan gathers glum, none conversing.

(At least two sit there silently cursing.)

The new babe is adored

but they’re all deathly bored.

They can’t wait ‘til he wakes and starts nursing.

frantic that her child had eaten her locket, Eunice was relieved when the doctor told her, “this too shall pass”

Left to right: Man 1 thinking “I could be out golfing”, Man 2 thinking “I hope there will be soup.” Man 3 thinking “I hope she will breast feed.”

I don’t know what happened. I woke up one morning and there it was!

Saturday Night Quaker.

The artist actually had her put her foot up on the cushion, hoping for a flash of ankle! I had heard this was done but here’s proof. However the lady wasn’t having any, as you can see.

I expect it’s growed a full inch while we been waiting here.

The original title was “Three Pervy Men And Boy Waiting On Woman To Breastfeed.”

They all wondered the same thing: how could something that looked so sweet smell so bad?

This one belongs on awkwardfamilyphotos.com

Once again, Mr. “I’m the Father of My Country” George Washington is caught photobombing an unsuspecting family.

Most of the people in the painting look like they are dead inside.

The problem with Benjamin West/

(As Europeans attest/

He has technical skill)/

But (try as he will)/

He has still never seen a real breast…

“Whose child is this laid on my dress,

These men await my speaking.

The village asks, ‘Will you confess

With whom had you been sleeping?’”

The rest of the family are visibly upset when they learned it’ll be about four years before the child can do any decent work on the farm.

Defining good art is quite a conundrum. / What’s good for one is awful for some. / Just one look at this / Illustration of familial bliss / Gives new meaning to the definition of boredom!

Well done, Lord Rockingham – an heir and a spare. Just don’t let the spare marry an American.

18th Century version of ‘The Dating Game’.

Gramps and the preacher man are waiting for Godot…

Everyone doing their best to ignore the rumbling of grandpa’s stomach.

In the foreground, the prurient pair/

Into space resolutely stare/

For this child isn’t male/

And is doomed to travail/

As somebody wealthy’s au pair…

Somehow it just doesn’t seem fair/

To be born in a merciless snare/

And there’s naught to be done/

(There’s already a son)/

Who gets a 100% share…

Why is this? Nobody can say/

It has just always been this way/

It isn’t just tribal/

It’s there in the Bible!:

Would the “good book” lead us astray ?

It’s all a laugh riot in the West house!

To say that Uncle Silas and Grandpa Ezra were embarrassed by the opulence and English fashion of nephew Benjamin and his family would be an understatement. How far the Wests had strayed from the simple Pennsylvanian Quaker lifestyle made it uncomfortable just sitting in the same room with them.

And his name shall be Elon Musk.

Pay attention; this is how you change a diaper.

I am still in my bathrobe because Yolanda is still in the bathroom!

As shown here, the entire family was in stiches when they realized that son and father had inadvertently worn the other’s hat!!!

The Artist and His Family: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_West_-_The_Artist_and_His_Family_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2980 (August 19, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I’ve posted a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) with links to info about the artist I used to post here. So far, 6 works by this artist have been used here. The March 14, 2017, strip has the prior.

“Another daughter? You must be doing something wrong, Ezekiel.”

Obviously the mailman in grey is the father, you can tell by the color of their wardrobes.

Margi roe looking at their stats to see who will be her date for the night.she really doesn’t care for any of the men but needs the money

When do we eat?????? :)

I think it was “Bizarro” that once showed a similarly clad man at a cafe, telling the waitress, “I’d like to try something different today. Do you have any Lutheran oats?”

I gave up bingo for this?

“Hmmm…does he look more like my husband, my brother-in-law, or the mailman?

after baby’s nap time the boys’ll really pull out the stops and watch some paint dry…

If this woman’s thighs are as big as they appear to be in this portrait, I pity whichever of these pencil legged men fathered that child; he risked having his spine snapped during the conception.