That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 18, 2022

“You must have me mistaken for my look alike cousin who ran off to Canada. I volunteered but you rejected me because I like show tunes.”

/// The Deserter did not want to fight.

He’d run off and hid out in plain sight.

The redcoats tracked him down

to his small farming town

and gave him and his family a fright.

Joseph always suspected Sarah had a thing for the milkman. Whenever he showed up she would get that look in her eyes.

Everybody look busy! The narcs are at the door!

I will not axe you again, no more hatchet job jokes!

Don’t surprise me like that when I have an axe to grind.

/// Sergeant yelled to the wife, “Hello, Darlin’!”

Her dog bristled at him, roughly snarlin.’

Then Sarge said somethin’ rude,

with a lewd attitude.

(In high res, he looks just like George Carlin.)

“Stop, children, what’s that sound? Everybody look—what’s goin’ down?”

All you seem to sharpen is your tongue. Brutus

I can never find Waldo in these things.

Nuthin could be odder than to learn you’re “cannon fodder” in the mor-or-ornin…

no, we don’t know the way to san jose…

The homeowners association was serious when they told Ned to stop his home axe business

“Oh dear, what can the matter be…”

Three months later, as bleeding he lay/

On a battlefield far, far away/

“For God and for King”/

Or some similar thing/

He’d remember that unlucky day.///

Grahame forgot about the OSHA Safety Audit that day! Operation of a grinding wheel without wearing safety glasses w/ side shields? And without an effective dust collection system? Those are serious safety violations, £10 each on the audit report. The stern chief auditor shouts, “Come along now. Pay the fines — or enlist.”

“Honey, it looks like the general store turned our tab over to the debt collector.”

Fun fact: The U.S. Bill of Rights third Amendment restricts the quartering of soldiers in private homes, in response to Quartering Acts passed by the British parliament during the Revolutionary War.

Tell Chico to get back on the piano, where he belongs.

Poor Martha, she always misinterpreted the request “Service the Soldiers” as something other than giving them tea and biscuits.

Pardon me, goodwife, has thou any Grey Poupon?

A touch of explosive diarrhea? Is such a thing possible?

“Oh, darling, just let Lizzie have a look at your axe. What could be the harm?”

Poor Millie. The fleet was in and she was stuck at home.

Never having seen the words to the song spelled, I had always thought it was “Skip to my loo” which has a totally different meaning. Don’t know how old I was when I learned that “loo” was slang for a toilet.

The Deserter: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Charles Gregory (1847-1920)" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the first Deserter text string, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this watercolor painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3013 (October 18, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the sparse info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by him used here.

‘Terribly’ is certainly how they would mind it.

Hmm, looks like Leon does have an axe to grind.

https://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest/2022/10/18?ct=v&cti=1538392

There is a burma shave jingle just trying to get out …

For Wednesday:

Madame is not easy to please/

But she’s pleased by the artwork she sees/

The painting is nice/

But she’s just heard the price/

And it’s brought the old girl to her knees..

Roger after Peter told him that their new song will be titled “Baba O’Riley”