That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 13, 2022

“The best part is, nobody suspects a white girl like me when I pull the 3 card Monty scam.”

“While the men are watching the game, we will be doing our ladies night out.”

You both swiped right on the same on the same guy? Make sure it’s not the Tinder Swindler!

/// “That which normally waits until Monday,

unaccountably’s early by one day.

The cards never have lied

and they strongly implied

sports and drinking will take up all Sunday.

Whatever that means??? They’re playing in Super Joust LVI today!

It’s the year of the Tiger. Go Bengals!

Ladies care not for these teams .

Neither quarterback moistens their dreams..

“I’m sorry my lady

Tampa didn’t quite make it, it seems..”

this card tells me you’re both invited to the tupperware party on wednesday…

A nd ever since Brady left Boston

(A city that I once got lost in)

I can not shake the spell

Of the damned NFL..

Though I swear that I still read Jane Austen…

Pick a little, talk a little. Pick a little, talk a little. Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! (Talk a lot, pick a little more.) Pick a little talk a little. Pick a little, talk a little. Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!

The Bungholes and the Scams. And a thoroughly uninteresting halftime. Guess I’ll be watching PBS again (like that was ever in doubt!).

It says here that “a gentleman in possession of a good fortune must be in need of a wife“. Why?

She wore nothing more than her chemise / With no overdress on, if you please / Though they tried to stay calm / Putting bland faces on / Both the ladies went weak at the knees.

Or is that “The gentlemen say you shall both meet the cards you will marry before the year is out”?

“Scuse me whilst I pluck this damn hair from my chin.”

Should Cincinnati accomplish the near-impossible and beat LA, tomorrow’s sports headline should read: The Silence of the Rams!

“I insist that you show me where it says in the rules of Canasta that you can’t sit AT the card table!”

“MY CARDS – MY RULES!”

I received a love letter from Eric. Once again he came premature!

The fortune teller: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Haigh-Wood_-_The_fortune_teller.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. File history has the strip coloration image.

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

https://thatispricelessblog.com/2022/02/masterpiece-2877 

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.

/// Bonnie hopes to attract Cupid’s arrow

by arranging for Claire to read Tarot.

Rose sits back, feeling smug.

Claire’s card there on the rug,

proves she’s not on the straight and the narrow.

“Mary Kay products will serve you well into the future. And it’s definitely not a pyramid scheme.”

“The cards predict that your ‘valentine’ will be each other!”

Wow, I haven’t seen so much white since I visited the glaciers – these girls have never been ‘kissed by the sun’.