That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 13, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  about 1 year ago

    This was an opportunity for Hans to be the “cool grandfather” by showing off his tap dancing skills with his wooden shoes.

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    Solstice*1947  about 1 year ago

    /// Little Dagmar looked up at him, wary

    to go into Grandfather’s house, where he

    invites chickens inside

    just before they get fried.

    He looks hungry, and she finds that scary.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 1 year ago

    “Rita, this is how the poor folk live. Remember don’t touch anything, you don’t want to get salmonella.”

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    Zykoic  about 1 year ago

    That’s a Croc.

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    Jayalexander  about 1 year ago

    This is your uncle Fred. All you have to do is walk all around the house, be sure to get into the corners, His Roomba is broken. We’ll wash you up at home.

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    Funny_Ha_Ha  about 1 year ago

    First day of work.

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    phritzg Premium Member about 1 year ago

    You won’t get any candy until you say “Trick or treat”.

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    blackman2732  about 1 year ago

    It was funny at first, but now little Maddy felt it was a true medical condition. Every visit with grandpa began and ended with “Pull my finger.”

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    Call me Ishmael  about 1 year ago

    In Denmark, convention’s defied/

    When convention contrives to divide/

    The conventional need/

    Of people to breed:/

    Here, the dotard receives his young bride..

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    Call me Ishmael  about 1 year ago

    I have to admit that I/

    Identify with that old guy../

    In his shabby attire-/

    For I, too, aspire/

    To be cool till the day that I die..

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    katharvey Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Mommy why is that man wearing a jockstrap on his head?

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    jbrobo Premium Member about 1 year ago

    “Hi,my name is Heidi. Where’s this old goat I’m supposed to live with?”

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    DM2860  about 1 year ago

    But mommy told me that only witches had two left feet.

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    PraiseofFolly  about 1 year ago

    The tiny grandchild was astonished

    And said something her mom admonished:

    When first meeting old Grandpa Boze

    She took one look at his nose

    And said, “It’s so big and it glows. Is it polished?

    .

    The grandfather wasn’t perturbed,

    Although her mother was very disturbed.

    But the young child was but girlish

    Did not mean to be churlish

    Knowing not what bad thing she had occurred.

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    But Grandpa hugged her for her blurted truth,

    Thinking back to his own youth

    And said, “You’re right, and feel no shame —

    I told my grandpa just the same.

    Heaven nose it runs in our family, forsooth!

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    (When I was about four years old, my father introduced me to my great-uncle, Walter. He had a large, mottled red nose due to what I now assume was a bad case of rosacea. Thinking to be clever I said, “You mean I have an uncle who looks like Jimmy Durante?” My uncle was livid, and my father was very angry at me. I still choke on the memory.) (But I really LIKED Jimmy Durante.)

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  about 1 year ago

    The Norwegian version of the crazy cat lady: The crazy poultry guy.

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    Linguist  about 1 year ago

    “Of course I keep my chickens in the house! Doesn’t everybody? They add to that ‘down home’ aroma.”

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    Calvins Brother  about 1 year ago

    “Ah, the new chimney sweep. She’ll do just fine.”

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    Bilan  about 1 year ago

    She just never experienced that old guy smell before.

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    mabrndt Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Visiting Grandfather

    Paste (including the quote marks) 

    "Category:Chickens in art" 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 bedstefader, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting (the Grandpa one before it has a clearer image of a close-to-identical scene painted by the artist in 1895).

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3203 (October 12, 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 and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the March 4, 2022, strip being the prior.

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    mistercatworks  about 1 year ago

    Wooden shoes are hard to draw in perspective. (I always hammer mine flat before trying to draw them.)

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    d1234dick Premium Member about 1 year ago

    little Gerta was really 12 pounds, but her dress was 200 lb.

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    PlatudimusAtom Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Well. It’s sabot time she did. ◡̈

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    mshaw Premium Member about 1 year ago

    “Visiting Grandfather,” 1853

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    Kwen  about 1 year ago

    Really, Frida! What did I tell you about being polite when greeting your new betrothed if you want to get this nicey frilly white dress you were promised?

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    khmo  about 1 year ago

    Crocks in the 1800s?

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