That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 31, 2024

Wow! So fairies really Do exist.

But won’t PETA come after us if we keep them in a tiny cage like that?

/// For The Evening Meal this moonless night,

women sit ‘round the sole source of light.

Winter sunlight is fleeting,

so to see what they’re eating,

candles clustered together burn bright.

Old maids gather to laugh at those who are burdened by a husband and children.

It’s only got a little rat, err radium, in it!

Apologies to Monte Python.

This is the longeat version of a Christmas s Carol EVER Skip a couple of ghoasts and lets have dinner.

“Hun, could you move? You’re blocking the light.”

In a couple of minutes, they’ll realize why barbecues on the table weren’t a good idea in 1900.

‘’My God! Muriel!…..Those really are golden tiits!’’

“My wife has to be the worst cook. I don’t believe meatloaf should glow in the dark”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004)

“Well, Bon appétit! I predict ingesting the ‘Luciferin’ in glow worms will give your skin a radiance that men cannot resist.”

Did you get any scented candles for Christmas that won’t clash with dinner?

Holy crap! How many candles are on grandpa’s cake?

“We’re all truly impressed, Marie, but I don’t think the world is ready for this ‘cold fusion’ thing.”

By the glow of the menorah, she put in the last of her dowry and took the dreidel for one last spin (“…c’mon gimmel!”).

“Its Bananas Foster.” “Yes, but what is a banana?”

“Let’s play ‘spin the bottle’”.

“Ok Lucy, you lose this hand. Take something off.”

The Quartermain Quadruplets did everything together. They gladly shared everything. Their handsome gardener, Jacque, was a very happy man!

Chicken Kiev?

“And where did you get the idea that ‘nuking’ food meant putting it in the Chernobyl exclusion zone?”

Hmmm, quadruplets? Or the artist could afford only one model?

Desperately needing $$ to upgrade their wardrobes and farmhouse lighting to minimal 20th century adequacy, the Dupre quads gathered around their candle to discuss going the Only Fans route…

“I think we should have gotten the Daylight 5000K.”

Wow that Ouija Board is smokin’! Ask it if we will ever get married!

When is this due back to Marsellus Wallace?

The evening meal: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Undated paintings" 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 Bail, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this tenebristic, chiaroscuro (a couple words I’ve learned along the way as I complete 12 years of doing this) painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3436 (December 31, 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 .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here (3 times total, including a repeat), the November 9, 2023, strip being the prior (the repeat).

" Uh, why is the ouija board…glowing?"

So it’s agreed. Girls are sugar and spice and everything nice. And boys are frogs and snails and puppy dog tails.

since the light was invented the gals can see each other, nasty.

I read that Thomas Edison said, “With my new lightbulb invention, only rich folks will use candles now.” (a paraphrase)

“… only until the smoke detector went off.”

Though flavor it notably lacked/

The pudding is power packed:/

sufficient to fuel/

A nuclear duel/

Or a four way unnatural act..///

In the ensuing pandemonium/

The hostess still earned an encomium/

Posthumously applied/

Since all four of them died/

From dining glowing plutonium.

At the table of Madame Curie/

the diners were seized with a fury/

They gagged on the food/

And a few of them sued/

Better late than never? Written between pull-ups in the park on a gorgeous Jan. 1 ..Happy a New Year to all !!!

What? Not even a throwback?

The casserole Carole carried/

Contained condiments many and varied./

But what made it complete/

Was a morsel of meat/

Which she’d saved since the day she was married.

So here’s a curious thing. This painting is apparently known in French as “Commis épluchant les oignons”, “Servants peeliing onions”. There aren’t any onions or peeling implements or onion-peeling activities in the picture. The English title seems to be “The Evening Meal”. It was sold under that title by Bonham’s in 2014, for $35,000. So what’s up with the French title? We wonders, yessss, we wonders, gollum.

Then the LeCrueset sisters gathered around the crystal ball they had fashioned (as was their wont) from ugly, heavy enameled iron…