That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 15, 2024

“Don’t worry, son. I’ll have you legitimized after I kick your father’s wife down the stairs, and then marry him.”

/// In a rich dress with trim golden yellow,

stands the Grand Duchess Bianca Capello.

By a Grand Prince seduced,

she (his mistress) produced

his eventual heir— this fine fellow.

Hold my beer, son. Nobody gets away with calling momma fat.

when WNBA players date jockeys…

“A white wedding dress just wasn’t ME.”

“Oh, oh, don’t be bad, my son Antonio / Don’t leave me on my own-ee-o.

“By the way, ‘Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?’”

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[Very esoteric — I finally tracked down the origin of a few lines from James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” that have bothered me for many years.]

The origin of the “don’t talk to me or my son ever again” meme.

Prince Bobby loved fooling his friends by pretending to be a Princess.

When The Dowager Duchess attacks,/

She doesn’t wear trousers or slacks/

To be perfectly frank/

She resembles a tank/

(Though a turret and cannon she lacks).

The pearls! I meant, the PEARLS are a lot!!

Do these pearls make me look fat?

“Just what do you mean my son doesn’t have the skill sets for attending Harrow school?”

Change the clothes and she does have the look of a crazed suburban soccer mom.

“Oh, this old curtain? I just threw it on.”

Sir Gavin, under this mess of cloth is a tanned glorious youthful body in need, indeed!

Portrait of Grand Duchess Bianca Capello de Medici with Her Son: 

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 Allori, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large, ca. 1580-1607 (hard to paint something up to 7 years after you’ve passed; don’t blame Mr. Melcher, the museum also currently has 1614 for that) painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3322 (May 15, 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 to the info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

Oh, Antonio, you are such a great singer that you don’t need any instruments to accompany you. I can see your name in lights – A. Capello.

“Portrait of Grand Duchess Bianca Capello de Medici”

Suck it in, hold your breath, look thinner!

being twins, agatha had a bit of growth spurt.

She’s not just a Duchess – she’s grand./

Though it sounds like her rise wasn’t planned./‘

‘Twas the birth of an heir/

That freed her from care:/

In a civilized land- she’d be banned.

“Yes, it belongs on a lot with the other circus tents.”

Can she play pickleball in that dress?

About an eighth of an acre?

Where is Bookworm ??? It’s been over a month…

For Thursday:

Few couples are hall as much fun/

As this wacky old son of a gun/

And his favorite chick/

Who is as stiff as a stick/

And sexier than an old nun..

The dress is certainly sumptuous, and it fits well.

just that it must have cost a lot . . . .