That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 01, 2021

Marjorie wanted show Anne some of her ventriloquist tricks.

Maria had enough of that stupid hat blocking her profile picture.

See? Molly is perfectly fine. She is most definitely not dead!

Remember if my mom asks we are just roommates, ok?

“Yes, Norman should be by shortly. You’re looking particularly well Mrs. Bates, and the flower helps cover up the stench.”

Ever since that incident back in 6th grade, Anne didn’t trust in ‘real’ friends. Instead, she watched with baited breath as she flipped the switch on her full-size life model simu-friend android

The ribbons which hang down her back’ll / be problems which Irene must tackle / quite soon, for today, / (and with Miss Minnie Fay,) / she’ll dine with Cornelius Hackl.

“There, there, Susie. Dr. Moriarty isn’t a bad dentist, he’s just a mean person. So you might feel a lot of pain, but at least the root canal will be done correctly.”

“As a milliner you’re a disgrace! / I’ve tried every hat in the place. / Now what else must I do / to get service from you? / I’ve screamed ‘til I’m blue in the face!”

Degas liked to paint nudes and dancers, / so why he made this I’ve no answers. / Women so fully clothed / should be models he loathed. / Perhaps his moods changed (like most Cancers).

— Edgar Degas (b. 19 July 1834)

Aw, c’mon. Give it a try. You can leave your hat on.

Why Vulcans are banned from WWWFP (the World Wide Wrestling Federation of Planets).

“The men are going to adore you sweetheart!….or my name isn’t Ghislaine Maxwell!

Poor Molly actually died waiting for 2 hours to see the doctor.

Yet again Sylvia gets the Vulcan death grip wrong.

Sarah had to practice with Martha until she actually afford a real ventriloquist’s dummy

Degas must have been trying to use up some left over supplies….

Lizzie’s mother had to be surreptitious about putting a tracking device on Lizzie — in the days before cell phones!

Lower your head slightly, darling, so that the suitor can’t see your face.

You’ve got to feel sorry for mother/ things didn’t work out as she’d druther/ it’s terribly sad/ when the girls look like Dad/ and Mom’s beauty is passed to their brother!

Wait! What’s that, behind your ear? It’s a quarter! Ta Da!

Don’t look now, don’t turn your head, but there’s a guy over there painting our picture.

Even though it was the third time, Emma couldn’t figure out who or what was flicking her ear.

The photographer wasn’t quite ready, but Emma was ready to make rabbit ears at a moments notice.

I promise you more than you will ever get from a man making love to you!

Ghislaine’s sly seduction of young Jeanine was going according to plan.

“We had a drink. We had a smoke. She took off her overcoat…” —Jill Sobule

At the Milliner’s:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgar_Degas_-_At_the_Milliners_1881.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

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

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/degas/degas_bio.htm

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=144

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/3c5j1xpGp7C9VcB90VK8wfZ/edgar-degas-1834-1917

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2324/edgar-degas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/edgar-degas

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dgsb/hd_dgsb.htm

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1739/edgar-degas-french-1834-1917/

http://www.artnet.com/artists/edgar-degas/

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/46

http://totallyhistory.com/edgar-degas/

https://www.christies.com/features/The-life-and-art-of-Edgar-Degas-8136-1.aspx 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/d/degas/biograph.html 

http://www.all-art.org/history480-5.html 

http://hoocher.com/Edgar_Degas/Edgar_Degas.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 12 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/06/18?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there used the same artist info URLs, the 3rd of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2717 (May 31, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

No! The OTHER right!

“…Then you grasp them by the back of the neck and bring the custard pie up forcefully with your other hand…”

The milliner’s finest chapeaux/ on a women like this one are jokes./ I’m telling you, folks/ no chapeau will win beaux/ on her, any hat is a hoax !

Thank goodness for french wires, it makes it so much easier to just . . . slip . . . the earring . . . from her lobe!

The Degas Salon offered the personal touch. And they didn’t skimp.

Early ventriloquists often worked with cadavers as the audience demanded authenticity!

“Blow in her ear and she’ll follow you anywhere ! ”

She’s using her tongue to probe/ well beyond the young lady’s ear lobe./ At the rate this is going/ she soon will be showing/ her “techniques” from around the globe..

Now sit STILL! Your silly hat flower keeps tickling my nose! :>)

The grasp of that young chiropractor

will not help with ills that impact her.

They don’t work on bulimia,

and for her anemia

she’d be better off with Max Factor.

Regarding today’s Priceless… That only works on Star Trek, and she doesn’t have pointy ears.

To Mildred, Rose said ‘give a peck’/all while holding her close by the neck/but Mildred did turn,/Rose’s smooch she did spurn/so now Rose is madder than heck.

I have heard the American 10 gallon hat is becoming all the rage. Would you like to try that one next?