That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 16, 2024

My Brother in law (a lawyer for a large real estate firm) was having a zoo meeting during COVID when he noticed that his boss wasn’t moving from his chair. He asked me “Are you wearing pants?”

“Of course I am!” came the reply.

My Brother in law replied “I’ll give you $100 if you stand up”"

His boss remained seated

This is what happens if you wear white after labor day.

You faded into the background

Mrs. Bellanger; showing off her new camillion style cloaking device.

If that waiter forgets the water back with my burbon this parasol will find another brolly holder in his kiester.

/// Though her Portrait ’s half done, there’s no doubt

Madame Belanger posed with a pout.

Camille-Félix, that fool,

went to finishing school,

but before he had finished, dropped out.

“Waiting patiently for Camille to finish painting me.”

This is what you get when you can’t pay the painter 1/2 way thru your portrait.

The original metereologist working against a screen of a particular color.

She had a feeling about the artist, but she didn’t know what it was.

The short-lived “installment payment plan” era of classic portraiture.

“Ok, I got the hands done, that’s the hardest part. I’m forgetting something , I can feel it

It’s simple to blur your background for a Zoom meeting, but it’s darn near impossible to do when you’re all in the same room.

Story told by a local radio talk show host: he was on a zoom meeting with a number of people and his belly started rumbling. He muted his mic and let a huge amount of gas rip. He said that he saw eyebrows immediately pop up and realized that he had not, in fact, muted his mic.As he told this story, I was driving and almost had to pull over because I was laughing so hard.

Ethyl still couldn’t figure out why all the men thought she was so bland.

Today, she just didn’t seem altogether here.

“Oh, by the way, I thought over your request for the next painting; I won’t be posing nude.”

“OK, Get out! We’re done here!

Testing camo skirts for Operation Desert Storm.

Camille-Félix chose his vocation/

With inadequate consideration./

He corrected his blunder/

But he leaves us to wonder/

Why he didn’t complete this creation..

The artist liked to paint while listening to Schubert’s 10th symphony.

He had hoped she was wearing a mask/

But he hadn’t the courage to ask/

He strove to portray her/

And not to dismay her/

But he just wasn’t up to the task.///

He was forced to abandon his quest/

And to leave the poor woman half dressed../

She inclined to agree/

Since he lowered his fee/

So it’s probably all for the best.

Florence was feeling a little washed out today.

“You’d have ‘grumpy face’, too, if you had to sit like this for hours.”

I bet she never finished the book on her lap either.

Unknown (made up) fact that the painting was started during a seasonally warm October and finished quickly due to the sudden snow storm. (Darn upper Midwest weather.)

She’d been told she would pose in the nude/

(An enjoyable Interlude)/

That would madden her dad/

In a down at the mouth attitude..///

He’s neglected her bottom half/

Which some would consider a gaffe/

But am I distressed/

that she isn’t undressed ?/

To be honest – please – Don’t make me laugh.

artist did good on top half, needs work on lower part

Waiting for the tailor to finish her outfit.

Portrait of Madame Bellanger: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Undated paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, 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 Madame, 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 #3393 (October 16, 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 .jpg from the URL). I’ve added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

This painting was done during the artist’s white period.

Hurry! You better go back to the future before you entirely fade away!

He thought “Perfect! Now I just need to find a fish for the bottom half; and I can have a mermaid!”

Sadly – no fish took the bait.

Anyway, that’s a handsome neo-classical chair.

I’ll. fill you in later….