That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 23, 2023

“Gunther has been making counterfeit pennies with the leftover copper scraps.”

/// At a Coppersmith’s Workshop his bride

whispered something. He gasped, his eyes wide.

“Your apprentice, Björn, lied.

Copper that you supplied

he stole. Sells IUDs on the side.”

“That kid at the far side isn’t yours.”

when I said a threesome might spice up our marriage, i think you got the wrong idea!

Hey, Irving, I have a buyer lined up for the pretty boy on the end. Next Thursday, send him out to deliver a package to Madam DuPlessis, in back of the green grocer.

None of these kids are yours.

Hal Roach’s inspiration to create “The Little Rascals”.

No Franz, these are not your boys.

“Santa, why don’t you grow a beard, and maybe get more colorful clothes. You look just like those elves you hired.”

Hobbit gossip.

Hiram was used to his wife and son publicly ridiculing each other. The “check his genitalia” insult, however, was a new low.

“I think mom just told dad about you trying on her underwear last night.”

“Yes, two of them are your sons. But which two?”

“ You are pregnant? How can that be?/

It certainly wasn’t me !/

Was it one of the boys ?”/

Without losing her poise/

She calmly replied “It’s all three .”

There was something that you must know, Their mother was exceedingly slow, The three boys had caught on, But she just babbled on, Their dad had died 3 days ago.

“If Donald hears you’ve got young Baron working here, you’ll be in a lot of trouble.”

“I hate to tell you this, but the hobbits are unionizing.”

All these kids, I told you years ago get a vasectomy!

“Your son just told me that he’s put pinholes in all your condoms!”

“The boys want a bigger table.”

“Saints preserve us!”

That one, that one right there, he raised my hem and ogled my ankle.

At a Coppersmith’s Workshop: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1859 paintings from Denmark" Wikimedia 

(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 KMS751, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can translate most webpages if necessary) 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 #3175 (August 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

I just bought the “That Is Priceless” book on Amazon.Com.

Feeling a bit of gastric distress, the old lady wanted someone to pull her finger. (Old man thinking, "Oh he!!, not me!)

Who did she do it to at work?…

Hilda scolding Fredric over messing with the boys while they’re at work.

/// I can feel that apprentice’s pain.

Forced to listen to smith’s wife complain

about something he did.

He seems like a good kid

and I’d guess that his “sins” were mundane.

/// He is constantly losing his hat,

and his hammer’s not where he last sat.

He has not reached his goal

to create one good bowl.

Should he really be let go for that?

/// The boy’d been reluctantly hired

due to fear that his grandma inspired.

She’s the smith’s bully sister.

(He could never resist her.)

She’ll explode if her grandson gets fired!

It’s difficult to talk dirty to each other when all you have is a small hut, yet three children.

“In a Coppersmith’s Workshop,” 1859

If you don’t follow me right now, you won’t be enjoyin’ anything in the mornin’

This one found your collection of Playboy’s again. You will have to find a new place to hide them.