That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 03, 2021

“If this is hell, can I be the guy in the red vest and blue pants?”

It’s a truth upon which few souls dwell, / but the vista you see shows you well, / of the billions on Earth / who are sinners from birth, / only white people go to this Hell.

“You voted for the wrong person in the last election. Your position here is under that pile.”

Actually, that second circle looks kinda fun.

Satan lijkes these people al Dante, and administers the perfect punishment: “Love on the Rocks!”

Yes! The mispronunciation of the word “often” is one of my pet peeves.

Hmm, no doubt The Assocition was inspired by this work!

Who’s peekin’ out from under a stairway

Calling a name that’s lighter than air

Who’s bending down to give me a rainbow

Everyone knows it’s Windy

Who’s tripping down the streets of the city

Smilin’ at everybody she sees

Who’s reachin’ out to capture a moment

Everyone knows it’s Windy

And Windy has stormy eyes

That flash at the sound of lies

And Windy has wings to fly

Above the clouds (above the clouds)

Above the clouds (above the clouds)

Fans leaving the stadium after a Manchester United game.

The woman in green and her snazzily dressed boyfriend are a little late to the orgy – they still have all their clothes on.

When I died, my soul sank down to Hades. / All because of my lust for the ladies. / Every night until dawn, / we’d, in groups, get it on. / (I’m surprised I survived to my eighties!) /// Endless hurricane winds cruelly blow / on us second ring sinners below. / Though we try to have sex, / the fierce gale always wrecks / any chance for a lustful tableau. /// So we suffer eternally here, / and the lesson to you must be clear. / Up in Heaven they’re chaste, / here in Hell, we’re abased, / so make love before you disappear.

…and emphasize the “D” in stuDents.

Here comes Another One. “Who’s got the Mazola Oil?”.

Super spreader event!

This is where, soon after they die/ they go, though they mightily try/ in numbers uncountable/ who find insurmountable/ the distinction twixt “lay” and “lie”

“I was thinking to myself, this could be heaven, this could be hell.”

I went to Bike Week in Daytona Beach for over 25 years. I’ve seen this all before!

virgil and dante tour the set of girls gone wild: second circle of hell…

And the “L” in salmon and almond.

Is there a place reserved for people who paint pictures of Inferno and don’t seem to have read it?

How about those who drive slow in the left lane and REFUSE to move over?

“Have you ever known what it is to be an orphan?” “Often”.“When you said ‘orphan’, did you mean ‘orphan’, a person who has lost his parents, or ‘often’, frequently?”

“We call it the Divine Comedy — isn’t this just hysterical.”

I first thought this was a plate of spaghetti!

Do you come here off ten?

This is hell, this is hell

I am sorry to tell you

It never gets better or worse

But you get used to it after a spell

For heaven is hell in reverse

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Elvis Costello

Oft en, You don’t pronounce the “t”? Off en? Of en?

THE SELDOM DISCUSSED 4TH SPIRIT: This was you in your mid-twenties, Scrooge. DEBAUCHERY, LUST! Promising youth misspent on…

SCROOGE: Leave me now spirit. Come back in an hour or two. I need to reflect on this, umm, shameful period of my life…Actually, you should just leave me here forever. That’ll teach me! Belle? Is that you???

Dante left out the special tenth circle of Hell, reserved for people who yell at cashiers for not taking expired coupons.

There, their and they’re

“And that guy on the left? Don’t worry about him. He only thinks he’s God.”

Since this is the Second Circle of Hell where all the lusty men and women are consigned, I doubt that there’s are too many soft t’s – or at least, not often.

Interesting that Romeo and Juliet, are pictured together in this painting while other famous couples are torn apart.

From the Pirates of Penance:

General. I ask you, have you ever known what it is to be an orphan?King. Often!General. Yes, orphan. Have you ever known what it is to be one?King. I say, often.Pirates. (disgusted) Often, often, often. (Turning away)General. I don’t think we quite understand one another. I ask you, have you ever known what it is to be an orphan, and you say “orphan”. As I understand you, you are merely repeating the word “orphan” to show that you understand me.King. I didn’t repeat the word often.General. Pardon me, you did indeed.King. I only repeated it once.General. True, but you repeated it.King. But not often.General. Stop! I think I see where we are getting confused. When you said “orphan”, did you mean “orphan” – a person who has lost his parents, or “often”, frequently?King. Ah! I beg pardon – I see what you mean – frequently.General. Ah! you said “often”, frequently.King. No, only once.General. (irritated) Exactly – you said “often”, frequently, only once.

A still from the original Olympic rugby gold medal game. The painter was REALLY good at sport shots.

This is the first prototype of our new game, Twister.

People who stand still on escalators (they ain’t rides). Drivers who don’t signal their turns.

Dante and Virgil in the Second Circle in Hell: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Anton_Koch_-_Dante_and_Virgil_in_the_Second_Circle_in_Hell.tif 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting. If you generally click on the image there to enlarge it, doing so in this case will most likely download the image. If you don’t want that 30.27MB file on your device, click the 3,788×2,780 pixels link (under the image bottom right corner) instead.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

https://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/08/masterpiece-2762.html 

I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

A nice place to visit – but you wouldn’t want to live there…

Until now I had assumed that it was painted nudes which galvanized the That is Priceless community to more numerous Comments. Now I see that large numbers of people are very eager to reveal their pet peeves — the little things others do, for which we would gladly consign those others to eternal damnation. But this listing of annoyances has led to some lengthy, and fascinating discussions of topics such as: regional variations in pronunciation and usage, the evolution of English over time, Shakespearean vocabulary, etc. I enjoy learning new things and correcting any inaccuracies I’ve picked up over the years, even more than I enjoy having my biases confirmed.

Clearly, the followers of T.I.P. are an unusually knowledgeable and articulate group. May we continue to share our wisdom (along with generating a few smiles) for the foreseeable future!

The third circle is for people who pronounce the first ‘r’ in ‘February’.

this “love in” was no match for woodstock or burning man as far as fun being had.

After reading all of the grammatical diatribes, I do feel that I’m in the second circle of hell.

If anyone needs a summary of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Overly Sarcastic Productions (on YouTube) has a set of videos on each of the three parts. ‘Red’, who narrates, is hilarious and presents the action in a succinct, but illustrious, manner. And her drawings of it are great, in a cartoonish fashion!