That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 03, 2023

The Scottish new kid asked the French kids if they would trade their eclairs for his haggis.

/// Schoolyard Snack Time. We see signs of stress

on the blonde in a spotless white dress.

Her young bully is short,

but knows how to extort:

“Give me cake, or mud makes you a mess!”

You give me a cookie, and nobody needs to know what you were doing in the classroom after school last week, alone with a sharpie.

“Nice knees you have; it would be a shame if they were somehow damaged. Maybe you could ‘share’ your lunch with me.”

I am from the proletariat. Give me one of your bourgeois cookies or I will call for a general strike.

before “A Boy Named Sue”, there was “A Boy Dressed Like Sally”

I didn’t sit up here so you could peek under my dress. I was expecting Tommy, now get lost.

“No. If I give you one, you’ll want more, more, more and more, more…”

It puts the lotion on it’s skin. It does this whenever it’s told.

Queenie Hartz

Brought cherry tarts

For her Teatime snack.

.

The knave named Jim,

On wicked whim,

Grabbed one from her pack

.

Her brother, Louis

Thought it incongruous

Jim had those tarts, and beat him!

.

Thus Queenie Hartz

Got back her tarts

And humiliated was Jim.

It’s a three cookie a day habit.

Bartholomew couldn’t believe the ignorance of the lower class. His escargot was worth at least 2 cookies.

Moments later, after a quick well placed kick, Julie was able to eat her lunch in peace.

“Is it true blondes have more fun?”

“Is it true that blondes have more fun?”/

Who clung to his lunch/

(Though we all had a hunch/

That he soon would be coming undone ..)///

Backed up by the militia, the proletarian wrested the wealth from the aristocracy … In other words, Pouvre Pierre got Prissy Percy’s lunch while Big Louis watched.

“The girls paid me a lot of money to put you in your place, Georgie Porgie. But if you hand over some of that pudding and pie, we can come to an agreement.”

Snack Time: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Jean Geoffroy" 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 goûter, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3215 (November 2, 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, 2 works by him have been used here, the April 19, 2022, strip being the prior.

“Don’t look, but that creepy guy is watching us again. He claims he’s an artist.”

The poor kids will garner a bite/

Whilst inflicting a figment of fright/

But when finally grown/

They’ll be called to atone/

For they’re tough- but they’re not very bright.

Watch out kid, that “girl” will kick your flea bitten a s s …

Psst, Tommy. Watch this twerp jump when I put a spider in his hand.

BTW, I am certain that is a young boy, not a girl. Times were different back then, and boys were often dressed in what today would be considered feminine clothing. Look up depictions of young boys in the 1800’s and before, and you maybe surprised.

little boy asked girl for cookie, and she stabbed him with a log.

This is the scene, some 70 years later, of the school days of Le Petit Nicolas, a gamin in stories written by Goscinny and hilariously illustrated by Sempé (a cartoonist I wish was at GC). Nicolas tells of his education in and out of class in the lower grades of an ancient institution. There’s a bully, a teacher’s pet, and pals who love to argue and fight. Their teacher is something like Miss Bliss in Cul de Sac, but the kids unwittingly reduce her to tears by day’s end, more often than not.

/// Wealthy blond kid’s stuck-up and resented

in the schoolyard, and so he’s presented

with a “luxury tax.”

He’ll surrender his snacks

(if he wishes his beating prevented).