That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 19, 2024

/// From the jaws of defeat he can snatch

a great victory with A Sure Catch.

The boy’s team need not fall

if he grabs this last ball.

Is he nervous? Just look at him. Natch!

Tommy’s hands were frozen like that after his shift working at the docks, unloading 2×4s.

Boy telling his mother he can’t get the beet juice off his hands after working all day in the beet mines.

Picture taken a split second after Pierrre’s concertina was whisked out of his hands by a drive by Concertina snatcher as he was busking in Paris.

He’s got the whole world in his hands!

He’s got the whole wide world in his hands!

He’s got …

greasy hands …

and the whole wide world dropped from his hands.

finis

She suddenly ran away when I said it was this big.

/// Ragged Dickie waits for Ma to throw

baby sister to him down below.

Their old tenement’s burning,

and his stomach is churning.

He looks up at the flick’ring red glow.

No one knew why Mr. Palms named his son Harry until the boy reached puberty and discovered internet porn.

Gee, Mister, your “stones” are huge! If I were you, I’d think about seeing a urologist!

Little Jimmy trying to catch a break.

“STELLA” … young Marlon Brando

Timmy’s imaginary friend has some BAZONGAS!

‘’Honest to Pete…..her one boob was this big!"……Little Anthony’s response when telling his bother what he saw when he sneaked a peek at babushkas taking a swim down by the river.

“I seen ‘im in the locker room! It wuz this long, I tell ya !”

Playing air trumpet never really caught on.

Your dog sure is heavy mister!

“Ya see these hands ? They’re registered as deadly weapons!”

A young Marlon Brando: "Stella!……

Perhaps, playing catch with Mrs. Looney’s cat wasn’t such a good idea …

Young Jimmy John: “You can all it a sub, grinder, or hoagie….I call it delicious.”

The Street Urchin theme worked for John George Brown

It was a main source of his wealth and renown

The genre sold well and Horatio Alger

Continued the trend and did likewise prosper

And boys and their dogs were found over town

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Bootblacks and newsboys and sellers of roses —

How many were real and how many just struck poses

And the question may be valid and true

But Brown himself always did claim quite a few

Struggled Upward to the great success he discloses

Hey grandad, my 3 inch trout was this big!

Timmy launching his first three-pointer.

Since his usual pleas for spare coins weren’t working, Toby decided to try incorporating interpretive dance into his begging.

More please……..

“…and Zombies walk around like this!”

A Sure Catch: 

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(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo 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 Sure, 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 #3413 (November 19, 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 have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 10 works associated with him have been used here (12 times total, including 2 repeats), the January 18, 2024, strip being the prior (a repeat). The October 24, 2023, strip shows the latest non-repeat by him.

Billy’s first, halting steps as a mime.

“Yeah. Ma said my gloves match my shoes and that they go with anything I wanna wear. Ma’s a frickin’ laugh riot ain’t she…”

Great one, S.M.!

you see mama, your breast are just this big.

The Boston Strangler as a kid. He was much messier then.

Very good son! Now remember, each time you tell the story, the fish gets bigger.

Remembering Peter Sellers: “Let me take your coat…and your hat…and your bags…”

For Wednesday:

“We’ve got to stop meeting like this!”/

Though we share an arboreal bliss /

Too much time in the park/

And the scars from your bark/

Tell my husband that something’s amiss..”