That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 10, 2024

/// Dawn to dusk she must tend to her crops;

at The Noordermarkt by Night she shops.

When it’s dark there’s a way

to grab goods but not pay:

Blow his candle out— run from the cops!

Oh sure it looks great on the table when you buy it, but when you get home and look at it under the sunlight you see that it is not what you thought it was.

The original Black Friday shopping. So called because during the plague, you bought the gifts as soon as you could, before everybody died.

yes they are glow in the dark, but it’s winter and it stays dark for a looong time.

It’s actually 10:30AM; the smog index is through the roof.

Jacob walked up to the table unseen by his wife Agnes and her best friend at the most unfortunate moment when they were comparing ‘sizes’….

Somehow it just doesn’t seem right/

To be holding your yard sale by night/

But they’re near the Noordsee/

So there’s no other way/

And we don’t have a dog in that fight…

“As much as I appreciate your business, boys, how many times do I have to tell you ‘no BOGO specials’ "?

Margaretha was determined to make her Mary Kay career a success even if she had to work 20 hours a day!

The Noordermarkt by Night, Amsterdam: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Markets in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, 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 Petrus, 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 #3425 (December 10, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you crop what’s after .png from 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.

Today’s “Back to BC” is appropriate for our poet laureates and their audience.

She simply could never abide/

Second Place- she relentlessly vied/

And she triumphed at last/

But the moment had passed/

She would never be satisfied..///

She “broke “ fifty five super “downlines”

She freed hundreds from the kitchen’s confines/

She got dames off the dole/

(Even sold birth control)/

And tis said that she moved a few “lines”..

My dear boy, only a barbarian uses a fist, and who would know better than a woman? Two fingers and a thumb is all that’s required to get the job done.

“You may call it a nuclear winter but say it’s just a Chinese marketing ploy to get us to buy more electric blankets!”

Hmmm. Turns out we’re looking at 81,500 British pounds here as of 30 March 2022. Check it out at Bonham’s.

Good think the candle stall opened early.

To truly tell ghost stores, you need a campfire, not by candle light.