That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 04, 2023

My original post in 2017:

“Gunther, you HAVE TO let them get married.”

/// The whole clan had reacted with joy.

Daughter pals with the town’s richest boy!

Though she’s barely teen-aged,

soon she could be engaged,

(and if not, Pa would think of some ploy).

/// Some time passed and she now dates her honey.

Daughter loves that he’s handsome and funny.

He’s polite, treats her nice,

but her father’s advice:

“Reel him in now, we can’t lose his money.”

/// On A Turbulent Engagement Day,

Papa vows that the young man will pay.

He’d have asked for her hand

had things gone as Pa planned,

but she’s NOT in a family way.

My original comment: “I know she said that vest makes you look fat. I think it makes you look, um, bigger.”

Yes, Fred, in retrospect she should have said ‘Spoilers Alert’, but we naturally assumed that you already knew that the new ‘Star Wars’ movies sucked.

I know you feel disrespected because she didn’t ask your blessing first, but she’s not like our generation – it’s 1874 already.

And think of it from her perspective – she’s a teenager, and she has.. interests. Is it really that wrong that she went to High School?

“May the Fourth be with you.”

There’s always that one person who wants pineapples on the pizza.

You should never refer to your brother as the one with the horse face.

Oskar had the first high definition OLED 4k candle on the block.

The tempest had ruined family plans

It delayed public announcement of bans

The engagement party was washed out

And although the poor girl did pout

Secretly relieved was future bridegroom, Hans.

.

He thought, “I must have been addled.

I should have long before this skedaddled.

This Fraulein’s way, way too young.

But if I backed out now, I’d be hung,

Or at least by her menfolk be paddled!”

.

Yes, Hans was most certainly nervous

He considered joining His Majesty’s Service.

But being a rank coward at his core,

He thought of such nonsense no more

Though goosebumps arose on his epidermis.

.

The thoughts of carnal love distracted him

And although grave doubts still racked at him

The thoughts of them together in bed

The night after they had been wed,

In the end was what most attracted him.

Counting down the minutes until the pizza delivery

Never assume!!!

And May the Fourth be with you.

Come on, you can do better! The image is not small enough. If I squint just so, I can still see that there’s four people in it.

They scream about spoilers but watch the same movie a hundred times.

May the 4th be with you, Steve!

“I’m not coming back to the table until your father admits that Picard is better than Kirk.”

“Maybe this time she can get through to him that this isn’t the privy, but I’m not hopeful.”

A stormy engagement day: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

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(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 Verlobungstag, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed with Google Chrome which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1848 (12/18/17) (May 3, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work by this artist used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the December 18, 2017, strip being its first use.

Now, Fred, look what you’ve done to her. I told you to let her parents tell her the facts of life.

The Fourth. The one day lisp’ers can get in on the fun.

“A stormy day of engagement”

The judges conferring as to who drank their cup of absinthe faster. It was that close!