That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 26, 2023

My original post in 2018:

The upside of being a muse is there’s no heavy lifting.

Even Floyd’s life size doll is demanding.

Hello, Earthling, I have come to warn you that your world will end in 10 days unless you… Hello? Are you listening to me?

Hey! Where you looking? My breasts are up here!

Ah, it’s a painting from France. This sort of thing happens there sometimes.

Are you sure this is part of the audition to sing at the Superbowl?

There’s a Muse on the loose!

The great French composer Rameau/

Needed something to make him go/

And the thing that worked best/

Was the sight of a breast/

A-warming his cold studio///

Or perhaps this is Couperin/

An equally talented man/

Who regaled both the Queen/

And Louis Fourteen/

With Pieces du Clavecin///

It may be some lesser-known bloke/

But it looks like the French Baroque/

But whatever the setting/

There’s just no forgetting/

That a naked girl ain’t no joke..

/// When Ma’m’selle de Maupin first appeared

to d’Albert, his heart raced, his eyes teared.

His dream-girl had a plan

to dress up as a man

and seduce D’Albert’s mistress. How weird!

There are many other artworks that refer to the novel, “Mademoiselle de Maupin” by Theophile Gautier, that was written in 1835. This link provides an English translation to Volume One of the novel:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48893/48893-h/48893-h.htm

And, just like that, Bill forgot how much she said the gown cost

He may be the only one getting a raise!

Pneumatic.

Throw it back.

Greta’s idea was moderately effective at protecting her dress while cooking, but showed a distinct down side when deep frying chicken (Ow! Those painful oil spatters.)

From: @Call me Ishmael

https://www.gocomics.com/profile/2288699

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There’s a Muse on the loose!

The great French composer Rameau/

Needed something to make him go/

And the thing that worked best/

Was the sight of a breast/

A-warming his cold studio///

Or perhaps this is Couperin/

An equally talented man/

Who regaled both the Queen/

And Louis Fourteen/

With Pieces du Clavecin///

It may be some lesser-known bloke/

But it looks like the French Baroque/

But whatever the setting/

There’s just no forgetting/

That a naked girl ain’t no joke..

Nothin’ like a naked cross-dresser to stimulate the imagination!

Martha knew her marriage to Dandy Dan was in trouble when her half-naked appearance couldn’t pull him from his midnight readings of Figure Skating Monthly

Is he (or she) using a Mag Lite?

“Headlights! Yes! That’s how I can use these lamps!”

“So you’re going to paint them as C-cups, right?”

I’d say trey nice but there’s only two.

You can give those bazoombas a bounce / They’re right there with the best, ounce for ounce / But to prove you’re not male / As set forth in the tale / You need to be showing what counts.

“Yes, Gloria, you do make a couple of good points…”

No, no, no. For Zoom meetings you only need to be dressed from the waist UP!

But, the lighting is nice.

“Donna, please get to the points…POINT! I MEANT POINT”

I think that “his” is the appropriate pronoun for this situation.

Scrooge’s little known 4th ghost, “The Ghost Topless Christmas”.

Mademoiselle de Maupin:

Paste (including the quote marks)

"Category:Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ" 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 Category: found, and once there, search for the maupin text string, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2034 (9/7/18) (January 25, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. 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 (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the September 7, 2018, strip being its first use.

Mademoiselle de Maupin (1902)

Got mine…..

the dress fits, you just got to pull it up a little.

I’m sorry, strip poker doesn’t start for another 10 minutes.

/// They both lived in a lighthouse so damp,

his wife left him and cheated— (the tramp!).

He makes love now, instead

to a ship’s figurehead,

glowing gold from the tower’s bright lamp.