That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 07, 2023

“Yeah, another 50 years of this.”

Wow. such a happy couple. He’s reading the paper, and she has a stack of romance novels, and neither one is looking at the other. Too bad divorce won’t be legal for another 74 years.

And that is why internet porn was invented.

“You got what on today’s Wordle? what was your start word’

Can you say “Gold Digger”?

Alice took a stack of books to the portrait sittings, knowing how many hours they would spend nearly motionless. Gary took the weekly paper, and didn’t quite get through it before the painting was finished.

I’m sorry dear, did you say something?

LIV and let LIV.

(As soon as this artist leaves I’m shoving him off that balcony)

Here, hours after the wedding, she has her “instructional” books to help them get started and he seems to have no clue as to “what” they are supposed to “start”.

Edna finished her 5 books and still waited patiently while Fred worked his was through the daily comics

“You know Jack, it really surprises me how many ‘Yellow Pages’ we have lying around the house. The phone was only invented twenty-five years ago!”

“He’s reading the newspaper when he could easily be….”

Five volumes of “Sex for Dummies” – and he’s reading the sports page. It’s a gorgeous Sicilian day/ but the morning is slipping away/ she had hoped for some “ breeding”/ but he’d rather be reading:/she’s beginning to think that he’s gay..

So they resolve a anti-trust suit by forming a larger trust?

New PGA rule: Having a bone saw in your bag does not count against the 14-club limit.

What is around his neck?

“Really? You had to put our prenup in the classified section!

Contemplating re-reading the whole series before starting on “The Deathly Hallows.”

Used to watched matches back in the early days of cable tv back in the early 80s but stopped caring about golf after the old timers died. Now with the Saudis involved, same Saudis who helped fund al-Qaeda and 9/11, I may never watch another golf game ever.

And Melcher goes deep.., deep.., deep! He’s hit it out of the park!

Little did he know that she was having her needs met by the pool boy.

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Little did she know, so was he.

The sun is almost over the yardarm. Time to change into something that doesn’t show wine stains.

Some of those merger terms: The PGA will have holes 1 -8 and 12 – 18. LIV will have 9-11.

Yes it is uncanny but, no, I did not write that personal ad you just read to me. It sure is hot out here today, isn’t it? I feel quite flush!

The new PGA/LIV rule: If you cuss when you hit a water trap, they cart you away and you’re never heard from again.

This couple has nothing to say, She’s just idling away the day, As he checks on the race, She just stares into space, Like how we all felt while Ish was away.

Gerald all you do is read the paper. I wish you could read my mind

Matthew, reading the WSJ to see if it is worth his wile to make babies now or wait till Biden is out of office.

That is impressive response time given what we usually assume is a long lead time between creation and publishing.

Afternoon on the Terrace or An Afternoon on the Porch: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Newspaper readers in art" 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 Pomeriggio, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this 1895, roughly lifesize painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3144 (June 7, 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

His mind was always on sport, and was obsessed with balls and the bat, while she desired nothing but a gentle canoe ride. They both secretly enjoyed the song Somewhere over the Rainbow.

Oh Petal…I picked up this new weekly at the pub called “village voice”.

Do you have any idea what “B&D” means?

Maybe if I spread my legs a little bit more, he will finally notice me.

Honey, come here! You need to read today’s “That is Priceless”!

FrThursday: “something there is that doesn’t love a wall”./ who wrote those deathless words ? I can’t recall./ This kid has busted through/ Why? Cuz he wanted to!/ Maybe he’s not so stupid after all.

Hate to break up the romance comments; in actual life they were siblings.

This is another of several Masterpieces for which all of my original Comments (and Replies to others) were deleted by GoComics and not later restored. About a year later I’ve decided to do my best to recreate at least one response for each of those paintings:

/// While her bro reads his paper, sis looks

at his pile of worn paperback books.

When she checks, she discovers,

between plain yellow covers,

lurid tales about hookers and crooks.

/// It is clear that her “shy” brother reads

about more than political deeds.

Many pages were lewd,

and together they’re “glued”

by dried evidence of carnal needs.