That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 22, 2024

/// Lucie-Claire’s reading Under the Lamp,

while her sister, (the mischievous scamp),

looks for where Mama’s hidden

all the books she’d forbidden

them to see. Mama once was a tramp.

After reading about a magic wardrobe, the sisters try out their luck.

Look at all the funny looking toys in here. They look like lollypops, here you try.

Where’s Waldina?

Her sex education consisted of reading her mother’s well-worn copy of the erotic Victorian novel, “The Romance of Lust”.

The plan worked flawlessly. Leave out Mom’s diary and make the escape while the sitter was distracted.

“Ho-ly…. i’s not just the Anarchist Cookbook. There are enough guns here to equip a small army. And other stuff.

I don’t think mom is actually an Amway sales girl."

Mr. Melcher, this is one of your finest! Thank you for the great laugh.

Stepfather (who isn’t shown)/

Has pestered these girls as they’ve grown/

Now Suzanne (she’s the elder)/

Says that “Daddy’s” compelled” her/

To depart for the great unknown..///

Her sister is making it plain/

that she won’t be molested again/

and not only that/

the presumptuous brat/

Is taking the vintage champagne..///

“Psst! Melissa, come here! I’ve found where Daddy hides his sex toys.”

Trying to study while sister insists on playing the newest Swifty tin Regina disk.

A little cognac for my cough. (cof cof.)

“Ah ha! I found the 151 proof rum and the apricot brandy. Now, let’s make some ZOMBIES!!”

Under the Lamp or Evening Reading: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Girls reading in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo 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 lampe, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed by the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1621 (1/19/17) (August 21, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here (3 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the January 19, 2017, strip being its first use. The September 23, 2013, strip has the other by him, so far. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

For Friday:

You’re a dolt if you aren’t impressed//

By the sight of this woman undressed /

She’s aced every test/

She’s visibly blessed/

I can’t wait to see the rest…

A young Vladimir Putin, dreaming of the far-off day when he’ll lose all his hair and have a real big grown-up table…..