That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 23, 2023

/// Couples stroll fully clothed on the beach

as a young girl comes by to beseech,

“Buy some oranges, sir?”

He says, “No, I’d prefer

a papaya, a plum, or a peach.”

When oranges didn’t sell, Julie asked her twin brother Julius to help her open up juice stand.

(Mr. Melcher’s can’t be topped today.)

Little Italian (illegal) immigrant girl hustling for pennies.

Here is Samual being grifted into buying special sea harvested oranges.

an early advertisement for Florida Oranges!

This will only be understood by those familiar with “Ragtime,” but when I look at this painting, what I see are The Little Girl and Tateh (now calling himself Baron Ashkenazy) meeting Mother again in Atlantic City.

The presence of numerous “narcs”/

had caused them to exit the parks-/

but there at the beach/

beyond the law’s reach/

they sold “blow”, just as happy as larks!

“Yes dear, the little girl is right, you seem to have a bit of scurvy. Go ahead and pay for an orange”.

He’s on a limited budget, should he go for “curvy” or a cure for his scurvy?

Anita Bryant began her homophobic “orange you glad you’re not gay” campaign before DeSantis was born.

While a fan of dad jokes, Abigail couldn’t help but look away in disgust when Henry asked “Orange you glad to Vitamin C me?”

“Go away kid….you bother me!”

“Life’s a beach!” cried the child, in delight.

But Mama, with her corset cinched tight/

And Papa, with a vest/

Tightly circling his chest/

Were both heard to murmur “Not quite..”

As she shyly shook his hand by the sea, she remembered that wild night on Kingman Cay when he threw all her clothes into the ocean and made crazy love to her all night, and she wondered why he finally turned up to meet the child he had never seen.

Little Orange Olga was very good at hustling her fruits and her sales pitch was always spot on. But sometimes, for spite, she liked to spice it up. Here we see her deliberately throwing the woman under the bus by telling the gentleman…

" Won’t you buy an orange, sir? The handsome gentleman who was with this lady yesterday bought two…"

“Pzoff kid. I’m trying to score.”

“You got a sunburn where?! HOW?!”

She: Sir buy an orange now….see you later.

“Congrats on buying this beach front property. Good Luck with your Orange Julius stand.”

this would be the perfect time to give a thumbs up… but Go.Comics won’t allow it

“And the oranges followed the Gulf Stream all the way to Cape Cod where you caught them in a net?”

Knock knock, who’s there? Banana. Banana who (repeated ad nauseam until finally – Knock knock, who’s there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad I didn’t say banana? (Kid’s sales pitch by also singing “Yes, we have no bananas.”)

“That’s easy! If you don’t want to carry it home, you can slip it under your hat!”

Selling Oranges by the Seashore: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Samuel S. Carr" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, 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 Selling, and click its link for 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 #3153 (June 23, 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 info I found about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

Although they couldn’t get anything on her, the authorities were sure she was the biggest “E” distributor in Malibu!

Kudos to Mr. Carr for the clever title!

How the definition of “working girl” has changed over the years …

May I have this dance?

Hello miss penny and sister i see your bathing suits and they are lovely.

Of all the moments for an advertiser to intrude.

“Alright — you make a show of buying this orange, and I’ll meet you behind the dunes to complete the transaction.”

Though my faculties lately are dulling/

In college I spent some time sculling:/

And pulling the oar/

Was more than a bore/

I was pleased to be cut in a culling!

Budget production of Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges” (Blatherskite will get it !)

/// The rich gentleman had to confess

that he’d never be able to guess.

The child said “Buy some pleasure.

Orange— tart, a true treasure.”

(She referred to the working girl’s dress.)

“Jersey Girl”…

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been to the beach and realized I forgot to bring my oranges