That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 18, 2023

When Mr. Powell died, Mrs. Powell called dibs on his chair.

She had been stuck on that pleather chair for decades.

“That old fogey made the seat warm. Now ’ll have to wait before I can scooch back.”

The original story had an old woman in it instead of a young girl.

/// The diminutive Anna D. Powell

hoped she’d grow, but then threw in the towel.

She’d get stretched every summer,

(‘ere she wed, she was Dummer).

Ask her now, you will hear disavowal.

I happen to LIKE Cream of Wheat and the nice young mn on the box.

The punitive power of the publications pitched are picked to parallel your particular perpetration. Don’t make Penelope throw the book at you.

That chair belonged to George Halas?

She’s so excited about posing, she’s on the edge of her seat.

The other side of Whistler’s Mother’s mug shot.

Wow – that woman is so pale that she glows in the dark.

Millicent, known as Milly to her friends, hadn’t had any loving for a long time. She was giving the artist her best “come hither” look. I don’t know if it was working, and only Mr. Copley can tell us…….Artist are such a randy bunch!

Mr. Charles Shoemaker was finally able to dress as she self-identified.

“This isn’t funny! I’m going to find the person who set me up to pose in the chair is in for a world of hurt.”

I can smell the linement from here. Forty Shades of Bengay!

She sees the unmarried couple sitting too close to one another but wonders if she should throw her last book at them.

She: My advice is simple…do it as often as you can! Dang I miss it!

While I like this new take on the character Morpheus, I’m not sure if I care for the latest version of the Matrix being based in the late 18th century.

The painter is listed above as “American”, but the year is listed as 1764 – before there was such a nationality. Further research describes him a ‘Anglo-American’, and notes that he moved to London in 1774; before the Revolution.

18th Century Drag Shows and comedy bits were low on whatever quality finally made them popular in the 20th Century. It took Milton Berle and Monty Python to find that quality and make it a success.

“Watch it, I wear the pants now!”

The private collection has the painting of her in the chair posing nude. The smooth dress didn’t take as long to paint as the wrinkles.

She’s actually 25. Life was hard in the colonies back then.

But wasn’t she eaten?

https://www.gocomics.com/jim-benton-cartoons/2023/04/16

“Opening the blinds might not turn me into a pile of ashes, but why take the chance?”

I’ll bet her locks aren’t so gold anymore.

/// She most certainly wouldn’t perch there

had she been even slightly aware

of the risk she is taking

of her brittle bones breaking,

just by sitting on Graham’s Big Red Chair.

Anna Dummer Powell: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Portraits of women by John Singleton Copley" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string 1980, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting. Unless your browser (or whatever) can handle .tiff file images, or you want to download the 48.18 MB image to your device, don’t click the image there; click one of the image sizes under the image instead to view it on your device.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3116 (April 18, 2023) 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 have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 15 works by this artist have been used here, 11 within the first year, the August 5, 2022, strip being the prior.

“Well, boys? The line starts here.”

She was not impressed finding your diary.

Belinda 92 is now aware of her bone loss she used to be 5’7". or is someone playing a joke on her with a mock chair.

Don’t be bad mouthing lilliputian’s now!

I have a black belt in Taekwondo.Don’t get wise with me, young man, or I’ll lay you flat on the floor.