That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 28, 2023

Right in the middle of the act, the dummy came alive and attacked the ventriloquist.

/// Here Mathilde is Holding a Child.

The two hug and yet neither one smiled.

Though she’s mostly rough sketch,

this kid seems like a kvetch

who’ll be squirming soon, then going wild.

Young Shelly’s first attempt at breaking her mother’s neck.

“Mother” frustrates her daughter’s “throw”/

With a move she learned long ago:/

It’s a move that she learned/

when her living she earned/

giving lessons in taekwondo…///

It’s a fact known to only a few/

That Cassatt can be dangerous, too/

For she too, is quite partial/

to the arts known as “martial”,/

Her favorite being kung fu !

It is rumored that Mary Cassatt/

Once knocked poor Toulouse-Lautrec flat./

Henri found a refuge/

In the famed Moulin Rouge./

(Art historians don’t mention that..)

Um Mom, your arms are disappearing.

I don’t want to kiss.

A young Hakuho flexes early.

Thank you, Steve! I first encountered the works of Mary Cassatt in Art History back in the 1960’s and she instantly became one of my favorite artists—a woman, from America, who held her own and succeeded in the very competitive French art scene … and she consistently painted lovely works of art that I never get tired of seeing. Again, thanks.

“Stone Cold Steve Austin – the early years”.

There’s a problem most women can see//That child’s panties are loaded with pee//She needs to be changed//Mother’s clothes rearranged//Then the squirminess quickly will cease!

Little Kevin did not like rhubarb, no doubt about it. His mother was well intentioned but should have known teething babies can’t take tart, acidic food. Kevin instinctively tossed it away and smeared it all over.

However, it was done not in random fashion. There was something interesting in the Method by which he smeared. Darned if he didn’t smear a close copy of several paintings from The Sistine Chapel on the ceiling above his high chair. It was miraculous — was he channeling Michelangelo?

His parents suspected he was a prodigy. Kevin at first stubbornly defaced walls at home and school. In short time he became a famous maverick graffiti artist working under viaducts and upon railroad cars.

But he found lasting fame, and notoriety, in his mural work — quirky, in that it was executed by slathering layers of strained peas and carrots and various fruits. And of course, rhubarb was a thing always to be on his palette. (—

“Hold still! I’ll never get you on Toddlers and Tiaras if you won’t cooperate.”

Mom? I tooted. You squeezed it out of me.

Katie testing out a new wrestling hold on mum.

After several early failed attempts at murdering her parents, Lizzie Borden decided to get fit using axe workouts. Her time would come.

" It’s O.K. Mom. Congress can’t spoil our Christmas! "

The little chubby girl squirms because she has to pee……………….

As a toddler, the future Reverend Little Ed Pembrook, founder of the Church of the Mighty Struggle, was always trying to get his mother in a Bulgarian headlock.

“Look, Mom, I know you’d rather have had a dog, but if you keep rubbing my belly and calling me a ‘good girl’, I’m going to end up with a complex.”

Honey Boo Boo.

I’m a little teapot short & stout / here is my handle / here is my spout. / When you’re in my headlock / then I’ll shout / And flip you over and win this bout. (Without a doubt.)

Mother regretting not allowing her impudent and unruly daughter to nurse.

Woman and Child or Mathilde Holding a Child: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Undated paintings" 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 LACMA, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3228 (November 28, 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, 4 works by her have been used here, the November 20, 2018, strip being the prior.

The Evening Gown competition always gave Honey Boo Boo fits. The prosthetic tushy gave her flashbacks of an over-full diaper.

Fat Boys deserve love too…

Katie on her way to star on “my 600lb life”

Thankfully the two piece swimsuit was not “in” that year.

“This here town ain’t big enough for the both of us, Mingo..”