That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 02, 2024

/// Angèle wants to rest, and to unwind,

but her fur-trimmed dress has her confined.

She would feel more at ease

if she bent hips and knees,

but that’s not how this stiff is inclined.

Carrol; after a few stiff drinks.

Miss Eyre, I don’t mean to criticize, especially after all you’ve been through, but I think you put just a bit too much starch in my dress.

Planking: the “latest”craze…..

Will the last guy out turn off the lights

The day that Louise learned there was such a thing as too much Absinthe.

Dear, I’m clearly indisposed, and my cup is not going to refill itself.

Sure, it was hard to relax with having both legs in casts after being trampled on Black Friday, but she could recuperate in front of a sweet wide-screen TV.

“I am literally bored stiff.”

Chicago Bears fan waiting for inevitable end to any game this year.

Beatrix like to play her husband’s least favorite game when she drank at parties, ‘Hide the toupee’

Prepare 5 postcards with this list, putting your name at the bottom of the list, and send me $20.

The parlour maid having been sent/

To visit her mother, in Kent,/

to pick up the slack when she went…///

Oh, buy it! It is such a good price!

" I’ll never go to the Mall on Black Friday, again!"

Beatrice figured with all these bows, her boyfriend would figure out she was the gift, but alas, the message was lost, and he just wanted to play some parlor games for their Christmas date.

That short glass of red will revive her.

Oliver! Here I am take me……….

“!@$^#, do I have to throw myself at you?!?”

Ugh I knew I shouldn’t have eaten that second CinnaBun at the mall.

Can’t get up from your chair? Try our new EZ-Up recliner.

Resting: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Ernest Ange Duez" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, 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 Resting, 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 shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3420 (December 2, 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 end of the URL). I’ve added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

“I think maybe they overdid it a little with the whalebone in this corset.”

A San Franciscan that got cold stiff just watching the football game.

“Descanso”

True the post turkey day feast food coma put a damper in their game of charades, but she thought she was doing a spot on Daniel Day Lewis in the “My Left Foot” movie.

Yeah…hic…I’m the Princess of Whales…who wants to know.

Angie finally confesses after being fur-boarded.

Isabell just “had” a very big one, and can’t straighten up.

it was a small drink that would lay you out fast.

I’d like a rowing machine! The next time I need some rowing done, I’ll have a machine to do it for me!

Playing Charades, her clue was “flat as a board”. True, she had other possibilities to provide the clue; but she went with this one.