That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 26, 2024

/// Blaise is here to pursue The Flirtation,

but he’s fearful for his reputation.

His crush isn’t alone;

she has a “chaperone”

who keeps him under close observation.

“Sweet Laura, how I pine for thee…”

“Aunt Laura doesn’t want any of what you are selling”

“Oops, I’ll come back when your mother isn’t here.”

“Look kid, this will all make sense to you in another couple of years. In the meantime, can you give me and your aunt the room, so we can talk privately.”

“No – my dad always said that anything you want to say, you can say in public.”

It was a ponzi scheme – Jack gave Jane money to help support her two children, in exchange for planting a third in her womb.

Getting down to business, alone together..

Liza went outside to kick the ladder away. Unfortunatly her sisters suitor was already inside.

When Ethel and Wilbur bought the old fabric shop, they hadn’t realised that they were buying the stock as well. Fortunately, Ethel was a dab hand with a sewing machine…..

Francois heard rumors the old Olympic Games would soon start up again. He saw an opportunity to coach his neighbor’s young daughter in Gymnastics, seeing as how the girl was spry and probably wouldn’t get much taller than she was already. The Games were bound to come to Paris someday.

“Not a chance, bub. I’m an only child and I’m staying that way.”

For want of persuasive powers,/

He is bringing the lady flowers./

it’s a rather poor strategy/

For she has every allergy:/

When he leaves, she’ll be sneezing for hours.

Great Moments in Subtle Phallic Painting #232!

Him: “I was envisioning someone substantially older for our throuple”…

“So, you sew?”

“Yes, just so-so.”

I’m sorry… mommy says I can’t play with you anymore.

“Would you care to buy a window-support stick? Free flowers with every stick.”

“Beg pardon, but would you have any work for an itinerant Window-Holder-Opener?”

“Mama, is this one of your ‘too many gentleman callers’ the kids at school heard their mothers talk about?”

“Mama, that isn’t Daddy! Why did he bring you flowers?”

Today and today only, free flowers with every extended car warranty.

The flirtation: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Pierre Outin" 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 1899, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3364 (August 25, 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.

“James, this isn’t some little girl, this is your daughter.”

The bane of all impetuousness … home schooling.