That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 29, 2023

Going for a nice fishing trip with your mistress and out of nowhere, a painter shows up!

/// With his cap held so no one could look,

the brash fisherman liberties took.

He had forced a wet kiss

on the flummoxed young miss,

so she pushed the pig into the brook.

“Harold, Why are you holding your hat in front of our faces like that.”

“Because I want to kiss you, but it would be immodest to do so in public, in front of everybody.”

“Who’s everybody? We’re in the middle of the woods!”

“You never know – there could be a painter lurking around here somewhere”

If it weren’t for those pesky paperazzi they wouldn’t have fallen in the creek.

Want to go skinny dipping ?

Catch of the day.

The fisherman is whispering in her ear “Would you like to hold my pole?” Meanwhile, the frog in the pond is claiming he’ll turn into a prince if she gives him a kiss.

Reginald knew she looked good from behind, but she was butter….hence the hat.

They each had different ideas about “going out to the woods to study nature”.

The artist will never be a good cartoonist. He draws hands too well.

Those darn tabloid painters

As the assault continued, the journalist stayed objectively removed and painted the scene for the evening paper.

I’ll tell you the secret what I’m really fishing for….

A friend was painting a forest mural for a children’s Sunday school classroom but all her animals had their heads behind either trees or rocks because she couldn’t draw faces.

Title: “Let’s Take a Tramp in the Woods.”

To Mr. Melcher, and all my fellow That Is Priceless fans, I wish you all a very Happy New Year!

May your 2024 be a joyous, healthy, prosperous, and peaceful one!

¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO!

______Linguist, Machala, Ecuador

You think the kiss is bad, wait until you see what you’re about to step on.

A romp in the swamp was her plan/

She goes there whenever she can/

To paint en plein air-/

She finds solitude there/

The last thing she wants is a man…///

The oaf is disturbing her peace/

Her anger will swiftly increase/

She will clobber this weasel/

With blows of her easel-/

And she should – because she is his niece!

If you’re going to act out one of those “I did drown my true love” murder ballads, you’re gonna need deeper water.

A grown-up Christopher Robin, having his romantic getaway ruined by yet another blustery day in the Hundred Acre Woods.

Neither can he draw fish.

I’m afraid I must make a complaint:/

A masterpiece this really ain’t !/

The setting’s okay,/

But the people? Oy vey!/

I think A.I. is learning to paint….

AND hands and wrists!

Alternate Title: Woodland Dutch Oven

Ok, the artist can’t draw faces or fish, but more importantly — how the Heck is she standing on those itty-bitty feet???

Heather wishing she could turn him into that frog down there.

“Young Couple in the Woods,” 1878

Given the size of her feet, that must be Cinderella.

When they met in the forest near town/

She hadn’t been planning to drown/

But the rabbit was dead/

And he hated to wed:/

They discovered her floating face down..

It began as a walk in the park/

But it turned (rather suddenly) dark/

Who could have foreseen/

The unsavory scene:/

His bite was far worse than his bark..

Dlefeil Bor!

I had read Melcher’s “title” incorrectly at first. I thought it was a painting of a couple who “suck face.”

The by-law officer tossed her book of ordinances when she realized she’d hooked a big catch!

Young Couple in the Woods: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Edmund Birckhead Bensell" 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 Woods, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this chromolithograph. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3244 (December 29, 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 my blog comment with links pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the March 24, 2023, strip being the prior.

She: Oscar, stop it. Kissing me was okay but licking my face it gross…..ugh!

I have problems drawing faces too. So I just draw a curtain of hair over the upper part of the face.

i hope Lilibeth is wanting to get with reginal after seeing his manhood displayed.

and not a crease in his trousers.

“Froggie went a courtin’, he did ride, straight to his lawyers office to hide!” :)

/// That small frog has caused some speculation

as to whether it has some relation

to the Prince who’d been cursed,

and to end it must first

find a girl into frog osculation.

Catfishing … the early years.

That is why she had to hide her face … so the next mark would be unaware who she was.

The “Mary Poppins” film ended up completely different when she landed at the wrong 17 Cherry Tree Lane.

Fester the Molester goes a fishin’…..

Hey, is that from in the stream applauding?

Tod and Helen giggling uncontrollably when they saw a tur_d they thought looks just like a frog.

From her body language and dropped book or sketch pad I’d say he failed to seek her consent before his attempted kiss, or whatever he’s whispering. By today’s standards he’d be facing charges before he can say "gone fishin’ ".

I guess you take holidays seriously?

Young Couple in the Woods

/// They’re young, flexible, fearless and free.

So they couple wherever they be:

In the woods; in a boat;

in the stream, (half afloat);

in the uppermost limbs of a tree.