That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 16, 2022

“Tom has told father that he’s worked out things with his baby’s mama, and he thinks I will make a wonderful step-mother to his bast… uh… son.”

Oh, I can’t stand the suspense. Maybe if I just go out there and tell father that I’m pregnant he’ll agree to let Robert marry me.

“How much is he offering? Is it more than that guy last week?”

/// Anxious Moments as Norman acquaints

the girls’ parents with nuptial constraints.

For large doweries he

can be wed to all three

in his Church of the Latter-Day Saints.

“They just asked him if he’s willing to fix the leaking roof. If he says yes, I think I will have a chance with him.”

I’m not very good at reading lips, but I think he just said, “I’d like permission to bury your doctor.”

Hum… Mums? Don’t you think it may be time to tell Gran that Mommy an her “lady-in-waiting” have been married for 8 years yet and that I’m NOT “just the neighbors daughter looking for her missing pet-parakeet” ?

“I thought Robert was asking for my hand in marriage. But it turns out he’s demanding a management position to take me off Dad’s hand!”

I hope mother gets back soon. That’s the fifth nanny papa’s hired this week.

Don’t look now Jane, but Lydia is behind you and I think our wanton tart of a sister already has designs for your dear Mister Bingley.

“He might be old, but WOW !!!”

“Shhhhh….He’s asking PawPa to increase your dowry, something about you being a red-headed step-child, easy to anger, and he wasn’t quite sure if the drapes matched the carpet???? Whatever that’s suppose to mean!”

“Dad’s offering a buy one get one free sale.”

He’s asking papa about our car’s warranty.

I don’t know if this is good news or not, but he just said, “I’m going to marry her anyway.”

His Lordship has views on “romance”

And the suitor is wearing cheap pants..

A concern more acute

Is that hole in his boot -

Let us face it – he hasn’t a chance.

The “Tweet’s” names were Kandi, Mindi, and Charlotte!

His lordship’s a wise old head

Their future he’s already read…

She will screech and complain

But he’s sparing her pain…

She will thank him long after he’s dead !

Robert’s a great provider. He brought Papa collie pelt and told him it was a man eating lion.

“What? President Washington is here now? I hate it when he drops by unannounced!”

Daddy said no to marrying one of us but look he is offering up our dear old widowed grandmother saying she is a real tiger in the sack.

Back in the day, when a man / Had to go ask her dad for her hand / His daughter might well / Make his life living hell / If his answer were not as she planned.

We already knew Mother adores Mr. Bingley……it’s Father that is giving him a hard time.

“And those butt prints off the office copier are definitely his.”

I thought I heard one of them passing gas. Did you?

They couldn’t bear to get rid of Sparky, even AFTER the “steamroller” incident.

_" Don’t sweat it, Sis. Dad’s just playing tough negotiator with your beau. I heard him tell Momma earlier, that he couldn’t wait to get you off his hands and out of the house! "_

The original title of this was Bargaining for a Bride.

“How odd – he seems to be after the youngest…”

Earliest record of Prince Andrew meeting with Epstein and Maxwell at Balmoral Castle……..https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein-queen-balmoral-photo-b1972355.html

From a time before cameras, a snapshot of one of life’s momentous events. Nice.

“I was afraid this would happen! Father is dickering over the price of our breast-enlargement surgery!”

“Ugh, the fool! We told him he’d get double the return in our dowries!”

“I believe Grandmama doxxed him.”

Anxious Moments or Hopes and Fears: 

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

has info and links that point to more info about this 1899 painting.

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

https://thatispricelessblog.com/2022/02/masterpiece-2880 

and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far 2 works, by this artist, have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2022/02/13?comments=visible 

has the prior.

“Quiet! George Washington is asking Benedict Arnold if he can be counted on for support!”

“I don’t know who he is. He just marched in, threw that leopard pelt on the floor, went up to Father, and offered to give us all lute lessons.”

Did you see the package on your new mothers kid?

she looks like she’s worried that daddy might say ‘yes’…

At the moment, I’m on Monday, Wednesday, Friday; you are Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday; and she is Sunday.