That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 25, 2020

Madeline finally realizes why her right arm is 2 inches longer than her left arm.

“Next time, I’m going to marry someone with indoor plumbing.”

What is this, the land of the stupid people? The woman in the background seems to have forgotten how to fill a pitcher, and the women in the foreground has chosen pretty much the worst possible way to carry hers.

Phoebe lived in a dreadfully poor country. There was no indoor plumbing, and the people had to walk carefully to avoid all of the oil that was seeping up from beneath the ground.

phoebe ponders how tough it is to live in a world with skewed perspective…

Jane sometimes wondered if getting her drinking water at the Puky Hangover Relief waterhole was such a good idea.

“And that’s just what little Pauly did in 3rd grade. Wait ’til you see his 4th grade pictures”

There is bad art. There is good art. There is great art. Then, there’s this.

I have it on good authority that this very painting inspired Mick Jagger and Keith Richard to pen the lyrics of their song “Mother’s Little Helper”. It should come as no surprise that the first line of which was “What a drag it is getting old.” You’ve got to love the Rolling Stones!

I had a very different vision when they invited me to join the “jug band “..

In this “Garden of Earthly Delights”/ of all of the glorious sights/ the one true “must see”/ is the lovely Marie/ whose eyes are at different heights.

At least the 3rd time Melcher has gone to the well in a very short time period — truly on the verge of going to the well too often.

“Sheesh. Hey, mister bigshot artist, would it kill you to draw a wheelbarrow or hand truck so we don’t have to lug all these things by hand one at a time?”

Come listen to my story about a chic name Yhan Ched,

A poor Chinese wasn’t makin any bread.

Then one day while she was hauling home some water,

She realized she wanted a son and decided to drown her daughter.

Social pressure. Government mandate.

I should have kept my pole dancing job!

A serious method actress, Yvette prepares for her role as the first female Quasimodo with a heavy pitcher of water carried only on her right side for weeks before the first rehearsals. (It was then that she learned that she should’ve carried it on the left side. DOH!)

It was a hard life carrying jugs of gold ore back to the foundry to be made into bricks for building houses. There was so much gold. If only they could find another use for it.

Young Breton with a pitcher: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:190_Paul_S%C3%A9rusier_Jeune_bretonne_%C3%A0_la_cruche.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-serusier 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/s/serusier/biograph.html 

http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/4-france05-03.htm 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Paul_Serusier/11147497/Paul_Serusier.aspx 

http://www.galeriedesmodernes.art/en/artists/paul-serusier-nabi-514 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/paul-s%C3%A9rusier/ 

http://www.comite-serusier.com/ 

https://thebiography.us/en/serusier-paul 

http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2011/11/paul-serusier-part-1.html 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/paul-serusier.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can translate as necessary, and askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/10/28?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2586 (November 24, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Though you long in their beauty to revel/ and God knows, you try like the devil/ their dismaying disparity/ merely causes hilarity./ You can’t meet her eyes on the level.

fi fi the water carrier, is not using her head.

“Sheez. My spoiled sister gets to be in a Monet painting sitting on a park bench. What do I get? Carrying a heavy jug for another French painter nobody’s heard of.”

That’s a really weird painting!

I was confused by what appears to be an Asian woman dressed in western clothing. All I saw was : “What? RICE again??” :>)

After Paul etched in the rough draft and spent 9 months painting the apron, he realized the painting was due tomorrow.

She bears a resemblance to Olive Oyl… a relative perhaps?