That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 25, 2024

What pcolli posted in 2017:

“I just love it when the police burn all the confiscated dope.”

/// Brenna leans out her window and learns,

only two streets away A House Burns.

With a cough she awoke

to the sharp smell of smoke.

Oddly, now for a bratwurst she yearns.

“Oh darn, there goes our neighbourhood meth lab.”

The neighbors never forgave Johann Geyer for setting up that painting.

She heard sirens, and then saw the flash/

And she knew she must gather her “stash”/

As quick as she could/

For Chicago was wood/

And that wood would all soon become ash.///

It has something to do with a cow/

(Nobody remembers) – but now/

The prevalent theory/

Is that Missus O’Leary/

Is to blame – but nobody knows how…///

The place was rebuilt overnight/

And this time they did the job right/

Now it’s much better known/

For a guy called Capone/

Is that fire forgotten ? Not quite…

“I don’t CARE if you’re a volunteer fireman. It’s our wedding night, and you’re staying right here because we ARE doing this!”

Hilda had thought the Witch Burning was TOMORROW night! She had a whole box of Woke books she also wanted to toss into the flames. Now she’d have to wait for Walpurgis Night, that was always so crowded.

Bob was warned not to hold a lit match near his butt after eating beans. So of course he had to see what might happen.

Suzy was excited. She had heard about but never actually been to a fire sale.

Jurgen! Good news and bad news. The bad news is we have to move. NOW! The good news is I am finally going to get to redecorate!

“Looks like there’s going to be a hot time in the old town tonight!”

Breaking Bad – The Early Years.

Burn the heretics!

Excellent, Steve

“Don’t look at me, my hair’s straight. Straight, straight, straight.”“It could’ve been a hair-straightener.”“oh”

Do I hear a fiddle out there?

Bridget Ziegler getting ready for her date, In a rush she doesn’t want to be late, When down the street there’s smoke and fire, But it’s really not so dire, It’s just a library in the Sunshine State

The local inn failed to enforce the ‘No Smoking After Serving Bohnensuppe’ ordinance.

Is this what the kids mean when they say “lit af”?

Miss Brahms was right. If I had been sleeping au naturale, the firemen would have saved me first.

Knew she should have packed the 110/220 adapter for that curling iron. Oh well.

A House Burns: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1842 in Germany" 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 Geyer, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly large postcard size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1765 (8/24/17) (January 24, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work by him used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the August 24, 2017, strip being its first use.

“A House Burns,” 1842

The idiot! One LANTERN if by land!

Other comments from 8/24/17 …

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BE THIS GUY: Julia realized that her fireman boyfriend was going to be too busy to visit her that night.

Funny_Ha_Ha: Cersei Lannister remembers where she left the Sterno.

maltmash3r: Her Pyromania brings all the firemen to her yard

Linguist: " I don’t want to set the world on fire. I just want to start a flame in your heart. "

Call me Ishmael: “There goes another heretic, down at the Cathedral!”

O’Leary’s curling iron.

“The roof – The roof – The roof – The roof is on fire…”

the IDF is just burning another Palestinian home.