That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 14, 2023

And that’s how grandma lost her eye…

Martha was excited to see what had ‘fallen off the wagon’ this week.

/// Nono pries the box open. Success!

Soon they’ll see what’s inside. Can You Guess?

Nona smiles (to excess).

Once again they possess

the Madonna they’ve had three Popes bless.

“Our shipment of cocaine just arrived!”

This Amazon packaging gets harder to open with every order…

Ernest Borgnine always made a point of personally delivering his favourite sister’s birthday present to her….

You old fool, you know it’s been wonderful after I got dentures.

I don’t think we can beat the caption under the picture.

He pries the surprise prize open

Fra-gee-lay, it must be Italian

Grandma anxiously awaiting her latest Swarovski figurine….

“Oh, it’s the Giantor.”

They’re in for the rudest of shocks/

When at last he pries open the box/

And finds – not the Virgin/

From the ice-packs emergin’/

But a shipment of bagels and lox !

Will you hurry up, Zampighi. This stupid thing is heavy and I can’t hold this pose forever!

I hope they included the batteries this time.

Oh goody, the government cheese has arrived. I hope it’s something besides processed American this month.

I don’t like to dampen the drama/

But this Eye-talian papa and mama/

are heterodox/

is a gift from the Dalai Lama..

It may have been crass, but Bill and May figured it would be easier to collect Edna’s after she was cremated.

There’s only one thing more exciting than opening the box that the 25-year-old single-malt came in, and that’s sampling the uisce beatha.

I love their PornHub channel!

I feel like this remake of Se7en is wimping out on the source material.

Did they watch the unboxing video first? (Those are a weird development. Consumer porn, or something.)

Ah, Giuseppi could fondly remember the days when he did not have to use a pry bar to get Sophia’s box open…

Schrödinger’s grandparents decided they were going to solve that danged cat paradox once and for all.

Crystal & Kane in The Princess Bride.

Can you Guess?: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Eugenio Zampighi" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, 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 text string Guess, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3164 (July 14, 2023) 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 pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by him used here.

Funny

“What IS that?”

“I have no idea…”

“Does it go IN someplace?”

“There’s no manual.”

A pox on the jocks at the docks who put locks on the box of lox they thought was a box of stolen docs. Bullocks!

Nuthin’s as erosive as a box of high explosive in the mor-ornin’…

George going under sex change operation, saved Nora his “member” for further use and enjoyment.

“Finally. The gadget to straighten out my neck – it arrived!”

I’d never heard of this artist before. A simple search shows a wonderful talent for genre and often with a near photographic clarity. Far beyond the example used today. But this one is still a sensitive depiction of a moment between people and place.

My new ‘Number 1’ for ‘That is Priceless!!!’

/// Of his sordid past life, he’s no boaster.

If a girl learned his secrets he’d ghost ‘er.

Long ago fixed this wall

so there’s no clues at all.

Tore his face out of each Wanted Poster.