That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 29, 2024

Some of my comments from 21 August 2021:

/// Sage Hypatia, seen here at the altar,

just before Christian mobs would assault her,

was exceedingly wise,

yet they gouged out her eyes.

What’s her crime? “She’s a pagan!” they fault her.

/// Alexandria was where she taught

all the great Philosophical thought.

By the mob she was caught,

to a church she was brought,

and stripped naked while vainly she fought.

/// She was murdered and torn limb from limb.

Bishop Cyril— some say to blame him.

But its cruelly ironic,

that this genius Platonic,

brains and beauty, but dead on a whim.

“How can one live in this house? It’s cold and leaning against this marble is not helping.”

Also from 2021:

/// Long, tall Sally, a true ectomorph,

was the wife of a wealthy old dwarf.

She went drinking at dusk

with a man, big and brusque,

and woke nude in the church by the wharf.

Oh, woe is me – I have nothing at all to wear, not in any of the 24 rooms of my mansion.

/// She showed up in the church, fully nude,

and (with water deemed holy) shampooed.

Here she asks a parishioner,

“Please toss me some conditioner.”

Oddly, none of the men thought her rude.

“I don’t do that on a first date. What kind of girl do you think I am?”

The spice rack is up there, people.

“See, I can be daring.”

And said to her“How’d you like to be a star?You’re a girl that could go farSpecially dressed the way you are”She smiled at himGave her pretty head a shakeThat was Lady G’s mistakeA-hey-hey-heyLady Godiva

Committee approves draft for presidential run!!

“Okay, so maybe putting my clothes in the top drawer wasn’t my best idea. Just get the stepladder already!”

Millie’s dating style was never described as subtle

The house may not have sold, but she had a LOT of showings

“As you can plainly see, the rug does match the drapes.”

Rapunzel, Rapunzel. Let down your hair!

“Why do I have to get dressed when I am inside my own house? If it’s fine for when I am out riding, it’s fine for at home!” Lady Godiva

Addressing a group of sailors…..first come first served……..

“A woman should be able to dress however she wants without being the subject of unwanted male attention!” was her motto, and her modus operandi. She filed two dozen complaints of sexual harassment on that one job site alone.

Shouldn’t that be, “Hypatia’s student ratings improved greatly when she started dressing more casually for classes”?

See today’s “Arlo & Janis.”

This dabbing is getting a bit out of hand, not that I mind where this one has been leading. What, third time in three weeks or so? I can guess everyone is celebrating being highlighted in “That is Priceless”.

Does she smell like baked bread?

Hypatia: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Philosophers in art" 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 6.22, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large painting (References link points to longer Description). Other versions has strip coloration image. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2777 (August 24, 2021) 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, only work by him used here (2 times total, including this repeat), the August 24, 2021, strip being its first use.

When she lists an Open House it really is an Open House

“Notice the skylight feature that gives you that dramatic lighting for intimate moments.”

I just washed my hair and I can’t do a thing with it!

Betty was a bit dramatic when the A/C went out

“Hypatia”, 1885

“While the scented candle you got from Gweneth Paltrow compliments your outfit, I feel you would have more success with one that smells like baked cookies.”