That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 13, 2022

My original reply in 2015:

That Rumpelstiltskin is late again.

“Gosh darn dad and his big mouth!” The millers daughter takes a moment to visual what she will say the next time she sees her father.

I’m barefoot and pregnant… Aren’t I supposed to be in the kitchen?

“If I remember correctly, this is the bedroom and the outhouse is next door. Why do I always get the two mixed up?”

/// Though Suzanne had a very cute face,

she did not move with feminine grace.

Couldn’t find shoes that fit,

and she often would sit

by herself in a straw-littered place.

/// Mean girls called her “a huge-footed freak,”

and derided her muscled physique,

so, to augment her charms,

with her powerful arms

Susie poked dimples into each cheek.

Auguste Rodin’s original model.

Well, with shoulders like that, she’s certainly a farm girl. If the ox dies, she can pull the plow all by herself.

“Well, at least Im not pregnant…”

dang must look where I’m stepping in the barn.

Jules-Adolphe tried to sue Rodin for plagiarism, but Rodin had a better lawyer.

“That nasty Johnny Whittier! Curses on you! Try to tan my cheek, will you?! I might have big feet, but I’m no barefoot boy!”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45484/the-barefoot-boy

The artist started each session with a deep and thought provoking question that kept his subjects distracted for hours. His paintings would satisfy his foot fetish for the rest of his life.

Having second thoughts on that $200,000 masters degree in Stable Cleaning

Before iPhones there was “make mental pictures with the cracks in the wall”.

Waiting for Prince Charming with the glass slipper….lots ‘o luck!

Edward Jenner’s milkmaid, thinking out a theory on cow pox and small pox.

“Dangit ! Abner done took the Sears catalogue out’n the outhouse agin !”

No one needed shoes until the Legos were invented.

In a fantasy world she is livin’/

Hence Griselda may be forgiven/

For her endless profusions/

Of fantastic illusions/

Like hoping to meet David Niven///

What else can one do on the farm ?/

(A venue that’s lacking in charm)/

She views with unease/

The prospects she sees/

Fantasizing ain’t doin’ no harm..///

Besides, she is almost sure/

That her rustic (yet healthy!) allure

If she can endure/

Midst the mounds of manure/

Will win her a Victor Mature.///

(And if those are names you don’t know/

They were movie stars long ago/

Before Lady Gaga/

And something called MAGA/

Had reduced us to brainlessness, “Bro’ “.

That was a nice roll in the hay but what was his name again?

Most painters have difficulty painting feet. Jules-Adolphe Breton’s problem was painting shoes.

Should I stick with string theory, or move on to dark matter?

Rhoda left the door to the chicken coop open

The fox got in at the hens, no hope then

The chicken farm would have fresh eggs to sell.

Rhoda’s Papa shouted bloody H-ll!

“Rhoda, you go make a big nest of thatch

And sit on some eggs until they hatch!”

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In order to calm her Papa’s fuss,

She, with ample gluteus Maximus,

Gathered eggs the fox hadn’t messed

To place into a makeshift nest.

Then upon those eggs she gently sat

The neighbors said, “Will y’all look at that?!”

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You likely recall Horton and The Who

And how that Seuss story did ensue.

But little Rhodas did not hatch out

Normal chickens ran all about

They laid normal eggs eventually

As all the neighbors were glad to see.

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There’s a morale in this rhyme I’ll fling,

A pun for fun, a drum rimshot sting

Rhoda never married, her life was fulfilled,

She could not bear to see her chickens killed

And so imprinted in each chicken brain, the coda:

“Don’t cross to the other side, by order of Rhoda!

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-4-gLlF0uw

Why did he say bare foot and pregnant??

On the upside, Patches scored a modeling gig.

Pondering whether the horse’s shoes would fit her.

He said he wanted a roll in the hay … what is he doing up in the bedroom?

Peasant Girl Resting: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"File:Jules Breton, 1873 - Paysanne au Repos.jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Yahoo, Bing, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and click the first File: found for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image.

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1258 (7/17/15) (October 12, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 9 works by this artist have been used here (10 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the July 17, 2015, strip being its first use (the 21 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative). The May 19, 2020, strip is the prior non-repeat by him.

Francis contemplating whether to lock the barn door now that the horse has escaped.

Alice having sent her shoes out to be cleaned, waits for their return, it’s almost lunch time.

“Throwback Thursday again,” thought she./

“The day when they ridicule me../

They want ‘naked and sweet’:/

All they’ll get is bare feet !/

Unless they come up with my fee…”

Beige. I think I’ll paint the walls beige.

Sure, I remember July 17, 2015! As if it was yesterday!