That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 01, 2024

/// This work’s real German title has flair,

and the translation just can’t compare.

“A Young Girl with a Letter”?

”Dirndl mit brief” is better.

(Sounds like “Girl’s dress with men’s underwear.”)

Martha struggled with how to ask her parents for more money for her post-college cross-Europe tour.

She settled on ‘Help, I’m stuck in Pinsk. Send money (Dollars only)’

“Dear Amirican; I am wealthy Austrian princess and I need your help…”

I wonder if I start with ‘Dear’, he still thinks he has a chance

Poor Gretching

Is nearly retching

‘Cause her note sketching

Isn’t fetching

The blackmail leching

Handsy Franzy’s wresting

‘Neath her dirndl, wrenching

Out her fancy stitching

His cod flap Itching

Lederhosen out stretching

She’s Leaving Home…

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways …. Oh darn, quill ran out of ink. Better luck next time.

Humor aside, I like this painting.

She’s writing a letter to Santa/

In hopes that the old guy will grant a/

Wish: but chances are scant/

That she isn’t pregNANT/

Since Sherman’s troops came through Atlanta..

Steve Melcher, you win the Internet today. Best comic AND best commentary on the debate.

I wish I could read all of that letter, because the first words she wrote are “Dear Penthouse”.

Now Grace wants the the recipe for the chili I made last summer, and I can’t remember if it called for a quarter teaspoon of cayenne or a quarter cup of cayenne?

re: debate – look up the term ‘Gish gallop’. Because that’s exactly what happened.

♫ " M is for the many times you made me

O is for the other times you tried

T is for the tears I’ve shed in sorrow

H is for the hope I’ll be your bride

E is for our everlasting passion

R is for the ruin you’ve made of me

Put them all together, they spell ♪ MOTHER ♬

And that’s what I think I’m going to be! ♩ "

Margaret was deep in thought when it hit her. BOOM! She was about to invent the Rolodex.

She wrote: Dear John…….And that started a new drop kick a boy friend trend…………

Dirndl: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Dirndl" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, 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 7.91, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly B4 paper size, circa 1900 painting, including its auction online Description. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3347 (July 1, 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the June 15, 2020, strip being the prior.

suzy, making her liquor list for the fourth.

“…. i before e….”

“Clusterscrew” works.

Musings on a Masterpiece Delayed:

/// When a thing I’m expecting is late,

I resent that I’ve been forced to wait.

“Wouldn’t it be sublime if all trains ran on time?”

NO!!! (That’s why some think fascists were great.)

That describes it quite well. Hesitancy and stuttering versus explosively prevaricating