That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 18, 2020

“I don’t have a problem! I can quit chocolate milk any time I want.”

“Fill it up, and leave the milk carton.”

Bad man! I’m sending you to the cornfield!

“Whaddya mean we’re out of it? I was just beginning to like the stuff. Who’s in charge of this Mickey Mouse outfit anyway?”

take the pudding. leave the gun…

Billy was really pissed that they dressed him in his sister’s clothes and wouldn’t give him more ale.

“Stop the count !”

What might he have up his sleeve ?/ And what might he hope to achieve ?/ And might it be true/ that there’s naught we can do/ if he simply refuses to leave ?

And don’t call me Shirley!

“Now bitching for the Red Sox…”

“That’s right I’m pooping my pants. What are you going to do about it?”

“I can taste the medicine—do you think I’m stupid?”

All ironies aside, this is a lovely painting.

C’mon, how long do I have to stand here. Take the picture already.

What do you mean you’ve go my nose? No wonder this is tasteless! You had me afraid I had coronavirus!

The RBG collars were all the rage Christmas 2020

What do you mean I have to wait twenty years? Give me more beer or I’ll knife you.. Wait, that the?!?! Why am I stuck in the body of a little kid?!?

That is one ugly painting!

Excuse me sir, can I have some more?

If you don’t eat your meat, you can have any pudding

“Yeah, I know my mama dresses me funny! I’m only two! What’s your excuse?”

Playing the cup and spoon for the Goo Goo Dolls is….

" I don’t give a damn how important your Zoom call is! I’m hungry NOW!! "

“Aunt Clara had for years labored under the delusion that I was not only perpetually 4 years old, but also a girl.” From the movie A Christmas Story (1983). Based on the novel “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” by Jean Shepherd; screenplay by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark.

“Tonight on Eleven Alive News, security cameras caught this image moments before the alleged killer began her campaign of terror. Early reports put the number of spoon-and-cup related deaths at …”

It sucks when your diapers full and your belly’s not.

While banging the cup with her spoon: “Attica! Attica! Lousy screws!”

“What! No sprinkles in my Mocha Latte, I want to speak to the manager.” (Karen, the early years)

“Feel lucky, Punk ?”

It’s kind of frightening how much this reminds me of my granddaughter.

“No, I am not going to settle for another reading of Paradise Lost! I want real justification!”

“Portrait of the Bunko Artist as a Young Man”..(“You’re fired !”)

Here’s the deal. You fill up the cup and I won’t scream for two hours.

Who drank my coffee?

Whaddaya mean, no soup for me!??

The Emptied Cup: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_Knaus_-_Mein_Napf_ist_leer_(1886).jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/knaus_ludwig.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=3311 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ludwig-knaus 

https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz43159.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate if necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 6 works by him have been used here (7 times, including 1 repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/08/06?comments=visible 

has the prior (except for a since missing one now removed, my comment there included same artist info URLs, the 2nd of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2581 (November 17, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

P.S. For anyone interested, I’ve added a Reply to my Monday’s comment, confirming what I suspected there.

The expression reminds me of my 5 yr old sister when my mother told her she had to take off her guns and cowboy hat before joining us for dinner

jello again!! i want a gin and tonic.

Hmmm. Does this mean I am left handed or right handed?

“There’s nuthin’ in here!!”

An auld Irish folk tune: One pleasant evening in the month of June, as I sat drinking with my glass and spoon… Lovely! :>)