That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 11, 2024

/// The Slovakian Glass Seller’s plan

was to dress in the garb of a man.

Girls who go door-to-door

are assumed to sell more

than the wares that they lug in rattan.

“My invisibility potion is the best around. See, it’s invisible!”

I found it helps to empty the bottles, Not as heavy but frequent pit stops.

“There Stands the Glass…”—Webb PIerce

we used to get 2 cents for each reusable pop bottle.

That’s the way I look taking my meds each morning!

Clarity, thy name is …

“The Fuller’s Bottle Man” had a depressing job — going door-to-door collecting urine for his Master’s clothes-cleaning business. But at least he wasn’t a Foot Stomper.

Jakub’s door-to-door bottled air salesman job didn’t take off like he’d hoped.

Living in a town that doesn’t have a glass recycling pickup service just makes it annoying. I’ll be back in a half-hour.

“I have one word for you, Benjamin. Plastics !”

That was some party… Jessica staggers home the following morning with her basket of empties.

“ knock knock! I’m here to take donations for the fertility clinic!”

“Mom asked me to help with dishes. If I drop these now, she’ll never ask me to help with them again”.

That is EXACTLY what my wife would say to me pulling this kind of stunt. Unfortunately, she does not wear glasses, otherwise I probably would have done it a million times by now.

“Any old glass today, lady? … Any old glass, today? How’s about a little bitty piece of … gl-ass … today?”

“You’re Czech, for God’s sake. If you meant something other than Pilsner glasses, you should have said so.”

How much to turn these into bongs?

The moonshine business really took off when they started offering home delivery!

Though they travel by different means/

Still, Slovaks are as slow as Slovenes..

Both are Slavic and sly/

So the difference (say I)/

Is not worth a hill of beans..///

To my mind, the greatest Slovak/

Was good old Antonin Dvorak/

Whose labors titanic/

Begat music Germanic/

Which to some folks may come as a shock…

Slovak Glass Seller: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Undated paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Brave 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 Antonin, 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 #3390 (October 11, 2024) 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 will be adding a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

“No – I asked if you wanted a piece of glass”

Have you met the Fuller Brush man? : )

What do you call glasses when they’re not made out of glass?

I’m down to 10 bottles on the “wall”. Would you care to help me?

Slovakians seem to amass/

Inordinate masses of glass/

Which they promptly re-sell/

To persons who dwell/

In households that smell of grass.///

It’s a hard way to get ahead/

But Slovakians (so it said)/

Agree with one voice/

That- given a choice-/

It’s still better than being dead.

‘Perhaps Rembrandt wasn’t that thin/

(At least, he’s not thought to have been)/

But his works in the Louvre/

And doesn’t that prove/

That a chubby old Dutchman CAN win ?