That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 15, 2024

if that is genie in that lamp , don’t wish for clothes!

“Why didn’t you tell me you can take pictures with your phone? I would’ve thrown something on!”

/// There was nobody shy as Michèle,

but she’s posing here au naturel.

Seems she said, “What the hėll—

I look good; may as well.

It’s past time I came out of my shell.”

Is that the French version of the Hokey Pokey?

and this little piggy cried Wee, Wee, Wee, all the way home.

Written on the wall above the urinal. That’s where I find all my dates.

I’m standing over here to your left.

…and If you hold the shell right here… hey! hey! my ears are up here!

Sandy had to work on her coy routine. Teasingly throwing a seashell at the boys that stared often left them bleeding, and they would bleed out before seeking treatment.

“Collect a bushel of shells if you want while you’re having fun with your friends at the seashore. As long as you don’t come back with a case of crabs, too.”

That ocean air is pretty chilly, huh?

..thought maybe she was challenging the Olympics Break Dancing Australian contestant to a dance off..

She is wearing the empress’ new clothes.

Olivia thinks…I am not sure these nude exercises are helping me lose weight?

Let us stop for a moment and dwell/

On just how remarkably well/

Bouguereau demonstrates/

(He’s one of the greats!)/

The art of depicting a shell…///

She said she’d bare her soul and listen to the naked truth, but we didn’t think that this was what she meant.

The subject (of course) is the sea:/

(Where else would a nude woman be?)/

Though a woman unclad/

Some small savor may add/

For the lecherous likes of me…///

Bouguereau’s simply one of the best/

At depiction of buttock and breast/

His style (photographic)/

And his models (seraphic)/

What more could a straight man request?

I asked my wife what the heck this is, it’s vaguely familiar. She answered “don’t worry about it…”

“Great, now I’ve got sand in my ear!”

“I hear the ocean. What a surprise!”

“I think I hear my mother calling.”

Woman with Seashell: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:People with animal shells" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave 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 1885, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting (including a Description link pointing to the auction’s). 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #196 (May 19, 2011) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 21 works by him have been used here (24 times total, including this and 2 other repeats, one of this again at the August 19, 2014, strip), the December 16, 2011, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my 3 comments there; but, perhaps the texts remain informative. The April 27, 2023, strip has the latest shown here by him (the other repeat). 

P.S. For anyone interested, I’ve uploaded a larger, clearer image to yesterday’s WC file as well as making other changes after posting its locator comment here.

And so, when the question arose/

As to why she had chosen this pose/

Without coyness or guile/

She replied with a smile/

“I hear better without my clothes.”

She sells sea shells down by the sea shore, but the clams are not for sale.

Her reasoning’s hard to dispute/

(Though a shell with no ocean is mute)/

For whatever she hears/

We’re just glad she appears/

On Priceless – in her birthday suit.

Another ad for AT&T Long-Distance that was never published!

Mariela sent away for a vegina and it finally arrived.

She failed the trunk dest miserably. But the policeman didn’t seem to notice.

Come and visit our no pressure shellphone sales reps. You can get a great deal on one and you won’t believe what we will do for corporate sales.

Some comments from 12/16/2011:

Superfrog: It’s supposed to be an unlisted seashell.

stanflouride: For a good time dial 1-976-SEA-SHELL

Our naiads are waiting for you to call.

bluskies: Can you hear me NOW?

Coyoty: Having a shellphone is better than relying on snail mail. Especially if it can access the World Wide Wet. It’s not so fun when the net is down or you’re hit by spam whales and phishing schemes.

Ed Brault: Those dang telemarketers always call at the WORST times!

Snoopy_Fan: “Hold on … Let me adjust my webcam …”