That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 28, 2024

/// When you’re drinking some hot, spicy stuff,

pray your stomach and taste buds are tough.

If it bursts into flame

you can stop with no shame.

Put a lid on it; you’ve had enough.

Corine was told to fight fire with fire. She soon found out that doesn’t work with serious heartburn.

Yeah, she’s going to ace the hot pepper challenge

“So that’s why you don’t put paprika in mead.”

if this doesn’t win for spiciest chili, the cool off is rigged!

Steve Melcher, that’s definitely one of your best captions!

There’s just nothing like a hot toddy to bust the chill off you.

I WANTED AN AIR FRYER, but NOOOOO!

Getting ready to do the Columbia pictures logo

Carla was told ice cream would help the hot pepper salsa going down easier. But what would help it coming out? Not dissuaded, she took the challenge. (Hours later, she was heard moaning from the outhouse, “Come on, ice cream!” [old joke]

“And so that’s why you fine people on Shark Tank should invest a million dollars in my single-shrimp barbecue.”

Just about to try the “mild flavor” she bought at a Texas chili cook off

Preparing some “hair of the dog that bit you” to deal with her husband’s hangover.

Who is this enormous dame/

Who tends the eternal flame ?/

She’s a goddess (for sure !)/

Discrete and demure:/

“Barbecuetia” be her name..///

Now that the Olympics are over, I can put this out.

This is what happens when you pour a cup of ‘Lightning in a Bottle’

Mama mia! ’Atsa spicy meatball!

And THAT’S how they end each episode of “Survivor”.

She was the envy of every wife. She literally pulled the fire from her husband and snuffed it out.

The bartender hated it when they ordered a “Blue Blazer”.

No Mess Crematorium by Ronco.

A flaming chalice? Harry’s a Unitarian Universalist?

In order to build up determination and passion for her task at hand, she really needed a fire in her belly to get started.

Allegory of Self-Control (Moderation): 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1859 paintings from Austria" 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 2717, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) 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 #3366 (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 replies pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 23 works by him have been used here (25 times, including 2 repeats), the June 14, 2024, strip being the prior.

So, that’s how the angels create lightning!

just now, Reba discovered a way to keep her joint lite.

“A spoonful of sugar” has changed over the years.

Clarice drinking Clarence’s Flaming Rum Punch.Poor Clarence got his wings after his younger sister, Clarice.