That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 27, 2024

/// Marie Raffenberg, (here oddly clothed),

is best known as the Artist’s Betrothed.

Bendz depicted her hair

in that weird style she’d wear.

Was she loved by the artist, or loathed?

/// But, no, Wilhelm has longed to be wedded

to Marie, (who is not empty headed).

Her hairstyle, far from dull,

masks the top of her skull,

where the blade of an axe is embedded.

This is the point where she lets down her hair and reveals that she was beautiful all this time.

Lady Gaga’s great-great-great-great-aunt.

“To make it big, ya gotta have a gimmick “

First runner-up in the “Louis XIV Look-Alike Contest”

When men start to stare at her, she has to say “My eyes are down here”.

Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this, I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh? Oh, it looks good on you though. Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.

Her husband’s the local Deacon/

Hence her morals must never weaken:/

Her body’s a shrine/

To what’s noble and fine/

And her head is a beckoning beacon.

The lady Angelique Siffon, seen here in her mugshot after assaulting her hairstylist.

“Inter-resting.”

Oh my! and that’s all I have to say about that.

She knows that she’s going to Heaven/

She’s abed every night by eleven

She receives ““emanations”/

Frem twenty six stations:/

On a good night she gets twenty seven…///

Nobody in history’s annals/

Has seen so many shows with panels:/

She’s becoming a whiz/

At every quiz/

And nobody gets more channels.

Unable to remove the ticks, she settled for being able to train them to stand in interesting patterns.

But how can. Lady endure/

A life that is perfectly pure?/

She does it with ease/

(But doesn’t dare sneeze/

Lest she ruin her precious coiffure.)

“Don’t you think I know it looks ridicules.”

A reminder from the stylist that she forgot to tip

Linda the clairvoyant had to explain to everybody at the party that this would be a big deal in something called the 80’s. She had them all believing until she began trying to break dance.

This year’s Met Gala will be devoted to ridiculous hair styles instead of ridiculous clothes.

Go ahead George, tell me you think it’s just nice.

Herman’s first attempt at Drag was not successful.

Repurposing Nabisco Shredded Wheat.

You call that a hairdo, Princess Leia? That’s not a hairdo. This is a hairdo.

The shady lady made a fortune carrying drugs across the border in her hair until one very windy day it all fell apart!

Is that a handle?

How would you like this painting to be your enduring legacy?

..evidently Wilhelm couldn’t paint human hair..

Can’t you just picture Marie Raffenburg wandering around the house, a coffee cup in one hand, a cigarette in the other, wearing a ratty bathrobe, pink fluffy mules on her feet, and ginormous rollers in her hair, screaming, “Dámmit, Wilhem, you left your dirty paint brushes in the sink, again!”

She needs a nose job…

It serves as an excellent reminder that fashions come and go; the hair style or clothing that we think makes us ever so attractive today can make us the object of ridicule for our descendants tomorrow.

Works for hens looking for (legitimate name but I’m sure I can’t get away with it).

Why Danes are melancholy.

“Darling, please call maintenance. It seems one of my hair rolls has sprung … third from my right … I think I can feel it … is it at all noticeable?”

Bet she gets good reception.

will no one say something about that schnoz?

“They told me huge curlers and over-rougeing would distract from my terrible posture.”

The “fin” is probably a fan. Those outfits are very warm.

Why Julia Roberts doesn’t wear rouge. :)

Marie Raffenberg, the Artist’s Betrothed: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Portrait paintings by Wilhelm Bendz" 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 Marie, 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 #3365 (August 27, 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 blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 5 works by him have been used here, the February 1, 2023, strip being the prior.

Rapunzel in disguise.