That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 24, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  about 1 year ago

    My original post back in 2019:

    “If you want an accurate reading, you have to remember the petticoat adds 3 or 4 pound.“

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    Solstice*1947  about 1 year ago

    /// All who work at the Mill must be weighed

    for their new anti-stealing crusade.

    If she weighs a lot more

    when she walks out the door

    than she did walking in, she’s been “made.”

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 1 year ago

    My original comment: Jeb was checking to see if he got value for his money on his mail order bride.

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    rmremail  about 1 year ago

    It’s easier to weigh the dress if I have you wear it.

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    Call me Ishmael  about 1 year ago

    In places where women abound/

    And feminists seldom are found/

    It isn’t uncommon/

    For women (like salmon)/

    To be legally sold by the pound.

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    Jayalexander  about 1 year ago

    You sell by the pound? I seen ‘ya drinkin’ all that water when youse was standing by the traugh. You go relieve yourself and get back here quick.

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    blackman2732  about 1 year ago

    Old man Finkleton knew that his family would be set for generations. His scale, which always read 20 pounds lighter, sold like hotcakes.

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    [Traveler] Premium Member about 1 year ago

    It’s cheaper by the pound

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    Egrayjames  about 1 year ago

    “Miss Johannsen your weight with clothes on is 147 pounds! ….. And now we must weigh you with your clothes off.” (No wonder he’s smiling.)

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    jdculhane46  about 1 year ago

    Sid’s new marketing ploy, sell mail order brides by the pound

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    MS72  about 1 year ago

    “No kidding. You should weigh me when I wear a hoop skirt.

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    rmremail  about 1 year ago

    What she says: “Why thank you dear, this is a very nice birthday present,”

    What she thinks: “Why a scale? Is he implying I’m fat?”

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    Call me Ishmael  about 1 year ago

    She’s a long way out of his league/

    She grooves on the music of Grieg/

    He’s a maundering MAGA/

    Who digs Lady Gaga

    (And she suffers from clothing fatigue.)
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    DM2860  about 1 year ago

    “No ma’am. I think you need another 5 pounds in the bustle for this year.

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    wincoach Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I didn’t just marry ya for your looks young lady, ya need 20 more pounds for childbearing hips!

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    Call me Ishmael  about 1 year ago

    It appears that she’s making the grade/

    But his judgment will be delayed/

    So by tension we’re gripped/

    Until she has stripped/

    And all of her assets displayed.

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    Linguist  about 1 year ago

    “You know, my dear, that the only way to get your true weight is to shed those bulky clothes … but you can keep your pretty posies.”

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    grange Premium Member about 1 year ago

    There once was a woman named Lockett* Who put eight pounds of sand in her pocket.* When she went to the loo,* She threw it in too* And went home with a frock full of sprockets

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  about 1 year ago

    “Look, sweetheart, I’m up to having to put a whole hand on the scale. It’s time you gave up Bundt cakes.”

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    Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member about 1 year ago

    “Yep, I guessed it within three pounds. Think I’ll get me a job at the carnival.”

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    jel354  about 1 year ago

    That title was a blanket statement.

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    Khatkhattu Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Grandpa loved plump girls on which to pounce, for he knew there was more bounce to the ounce, the young maid’s reply was somewhat stroppy, she didn’t want to become too hippy to be hoppy, so off she went with a flounce.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 1 year ago

    If’n you gain more weight Ellie, I might have to send you to the lumber campInstead of Lady Godiva’s house parlor!

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    Bilan  about 1 year ago

    It’s a restaurant where you pay by how much you ate.

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    mabrndt Premium Member about 1 year ago

    A New Weight or Weighed at the Mill

    Paste (including the quote marks) 

    "Category:Paintings by John George Brown" Wikimedia 

    (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 text string Weight, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions shows the archived webpage that had the strip coloration image.

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2337 (11/26/19) (August 23, 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 7 works by this artist have been used here (8 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the November 26, 2019, strip being its first use. The May 11, 2020, strip has the prior by him.

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    gcarlson  about 1 year ago

    He’s how I imagine Mr. Old Timer on “Fibber McGee and Molly.”

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    Csaw Backnforth  about 1 year ago

    Her name was Polly Anchors. Hence, the expression “Anchors a weigh.”

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    anomaly  about 1 year ago

    Bessie makes her MMA fighting weight.

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    d1234dick Premium Member about 1 year ago

    pappa john measuring lucy to see how big a ham she can hide under her dress from the grocery store

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    Solstice*1947  about 1 year ago

    /// “I’m afraid that I cannot condone

    your announcing I weigh thirteen stone!

    Look at all of these flounces—

    each weighs over twelve ounces.

    My steel corset weighs nine pounds alone!”

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member about 1 year ago

    See? What did I tell you?

    The painting didn’t make you look 10 pounds heavier!

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Yes. That does look unwieldly. Let me hold your dress, and we can try again.

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