That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 01, 2024

“I was going to ask your sister to marry me, but I think now may not be the right time.”

I think you’re right – that is two women kissing!

“Are they frozen?”

“I don’t know, but they have been standing like that for ten minutes now.”

“Maybe her she offended her fairy godmother or something?”

/// Portia’s late father’s cryptic bequest:

he who’d marry her must pass a test.

Among three caskets choose;

pick a wrong one— you lose.

Here Bassanio outwits the rest.

/// Suitor One made the gold one his pick,

but he hadn’t deciphered the trick.

Silver for Suitor Two,

but his chance, he too, blew.

The lead casket is what won the chick.

“See that hon; that’s what I mean by too much p.d.a.”

well that’s one lady no longer in waiting!

SCANDELOUS! He has herpes, see that lip sore.

It’s a typical renaissance wedding/

so there’s certain to be some blood-letting../

There’ll be envy and hate /

(This ain’t “Kiss me, Kate”)/

The fashions will boggle the mind. /

There will be plenty of male behind,

for the men will wear hose, /

through which everything shows, /

and all buttocks are sharply defined. ///

When does swordplay is finally through/

there’ll be suicides- probably two./

Then some British chap/

will record all this crap /

and will sell it to me…and to you.

“We should do that.”

“No.”

No one can pull off cross-dressing like that Bob, eh?!

“Meh. I’ve seen better PDA’s on the kiss cam at the opera house.”

Teaching sex education before video was invented

She’s got him in a lip lock!

Notice the ‘product placement’ – the painter of the painting on the far wall paid Paoletti a mille Lire for that.

Back in 2012, this thing went for GBP 25,000. Handsomely beat the estimate at Christie’s. Not bad. “Lot Essay: This picture depicts Act III, Scene II of The Merchant of Venice. The scene is set at Belmont. Portia’s deceased father has set a puzzle for her potential suitors; they must correctly choose between caskets of gold, silver or lead. Reasoning that ‘The world is still deceiv’d with ornament’, Bassanio chooses the lead casket and to his joy, and hers, discovers Portia’s portrait inside and with it her father’s blessing.”

“…and she was standing on that scallop shell.”

He started out by saying, here’s looking at you kid!

Hey you two, get a room!

On the wall hangs a ‘Madonna with Child’(a subject appropriately mild)It suggests to them all(If they’d look at that wall)That PDA leads to a child.

Footage from the unreleased finale of the Italian relationship show, Lo Scapolo. (Turned out those two had done quite a bit more than kiss during filming.)

Sheesh. Paint a picture! It’ll last longer.

Bassanio winning the heart of Portia, The Merchant of Venice: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:The Merchant of Venice" 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 Paoletti, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large painting, plus the auction house’s Description. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3310 (April 24, 2024) 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 the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the November 9, 2022, strip being the prior.

Romeo and Juliet choosing which caskets they would like to be buried in when they finally commit suicide.

This was entertainment before the invention of the blue movie.

“The world is still deceived by ornament/

But ornament is money wisely spent/

If it attracts a beau/

Endowed with ample dough/

And extricates you from your tenement.

“Bassanio Winning the Heart of Portia, The Merchant of Venice”

steve and gloria are trying to up interest if starting a swap orgy.

Wow! The waiting line is forming faster than I thought. Perhaps I set the kissing booth price too low?

“Can you imagine how long they had to hold that pose for the painting?” said her friend in the gold dress.

In winter, the temperature dips./

Then Italians are prey to chapped lips../

Though together some cling/

By the onset of spring/

You will probably stop seeing nips.

For tomorrow: There being no other way to curtail the poor, abused defendant’s constant threats against the judge’s own family and the jurors, his Honor impaneled a jury of completely faceless persons, and had his own face surgically removed. The defendant was far too important to be treated as an ordinary mortal.