That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 11, 2024

/// The Proposal he’s going to botch.

She looks down, too embarrassed to watch.

When he asked for her hand,

she learned too late he planned

to be pulling it right toward his crotch.

My original post from way back in 2020:

“Sorry, I can’t marry a guy who has a weaker handshake than my grandmother.”

My original comment: “Marry you? Um, I’m doing my hair that day.”

How much longer is he going to stand there, holding my hand?And at what point can I say something?

It’s amazing how well those tights fit him, despite it being a 100 years before the invention of Spandex.

“How can I marry a guy that has better hosiery than me?”

Susanna finally takes the banjo off of Roscoe’s knee…

Since nobody cares what he wears/

He wears whatever he dares::/

He likes to be shocking/

So he’s wearing one stocking/

From either of two unmatched pears.

You pulled too hard. Now my right arm is longer than my left arm.

His Proposal then offered in holy surety

The loving couple vowed to act with purity.

With chaste intent, the medieval suitor

Assured his fiancée he was not Neuter.

She blushingly confirmed the fact

Before they performed the nuptial act.

And when that night comes she opens her maiden door,

He will confirm no man had gone through before.

You make me blush Sidney. I thought you were gay.

I guess that there was only so much of his breath she could take, so this relationship ends sadly and forlorn we part, with only a shake! (In your eye, Soltice 1947!)

This would work out better if I had a pizza box.

“Well it’s been nice knowing you. You can let go of my hand now.”

“If we use your tax return and mine I can get a new manifold and carburetor for my car.}

“No” just isn’t sufficient to express the loathing I feel.

At that moment, Jack realized the beans for lunch and dinner may not have been the best idea.

“Is your…you know…as pointy as those shoes?”

“Look, Louise, you need to get this secret handshake down before we attend the club meeting! Now, let’s try again….”

“That’s it…now just tug on it…”

“Now open your eyes for your big surprise!”

And here the two stunt doubles rehearse the fight choreogrphy for Guy Richie’s “Romeo and Juliette”.

The Proposal: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Alfred W. Elmore" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, 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 608, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

 Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2422 (4/8/20) (April 10, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by this artist have been used here (3 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the April 8, 2020, strip being its first use. The April 16, 2020, strip has the prior by him.

He’s here on a serious mission:/

It’s not just a proposition :/

When he’s down on one knee /

if she says yes”, then he /

will never rise from that position..

Some comments from the 4/8/2020 post:

Strob: “It pains me to admit, those red tights do look better on you.”

gopher gofer: and suddenly it hit him – pants! i forgot to put on my pants…

Call me Ishmael: His witticisms are “rousers” / and the other women are "Bowsers / yet in spite of it all / she can’t quite seem to fall / for a man who’s forgotten his trousers !

MS72: “LINE?”

Ubintold: Yeah, you could use a manicure.

Call me Ishmael: He’s a splendidly handsome young bloke / in his pink panty-hose, and his cloak / but she shyly demurs / for some instinct of hers / correctly suspects that … he’s broke.

PoodleGroomer: Mademoiselle, my eyes are up here.

Linguist: “Of course you want to meet my little friend, Willy, The One-Eyed Wonder Worm!”

PO’ DAWG: “I’m not doing it any more.” " You ruined my blue dress last time."

Running Buffalo: I kissed Sleeping Beauty like they said … Trying to get her to sit up …Why .. I … I … I think she is pretending to still be asleep! The vamp!

“I know what is and what isn’t. And that isn’t what you say it is.”

STEVE, WAKE UP!

Hey! It’s Friday!

She: You hit the nail on the head…it is no and my silence was because of a loss for words!

Steve ? STEVE ? Yo, STEVE ?!

Steve, we’re Priceless’s loyal adherents/

And purveyors of countless endearments/

We have summoned the nerve/

To insist we deserve/

Explanation for your disappearance ….

The damage has been repaired !/

Ish hope you’ll forgive one who dared/

Mild remonstrance to post/

To our prized website’s host./

(Steve might even be pleased that we cared..)