That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 02, 2017

Mary had a little lamb…Her daddy shot it dead…So now she takes her lamb to school…Between two slabs of bread….

Why did you give me this? I said I was going to take a little sh—.

Never have eaten lamb. Does it taste like chicken?

Mary hadn’t quite grasped the concept of wearing a wool sweater.

Ass? I thought it was a lamb.

2 Words…MINT JELLY!

Proof that Bo Peep was behind the lost sheep insurance fraud

Made me laugh out loud.

4 URLs (each is one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Girl_Holding_a_Sheep_by_Kuroda_Seiki_(Kuroda_Kinenkan).tiff

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly letter size painting.

http://www.tobunken.go.jp/kuroda/gallery/english/life_e.html

has extensive info about this artist. So far, 3 works by him have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/01/13?comments=visible

has the prior strip (which sadly, still has no active hyperlinks). This is a repeat of an earlier strip. I posted more about the painting when the strip was first published

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/11/24?comments=visible

which, though the text is there (but, sadly, with the line breaks removed), also still has no active (artist) hyperlinks. &?@#!#%&!

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s A PRICELESS CLASSIC (2015) (August 1, 2017) blog entry (was MASTERPIECE #1349), accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

“Well, Clarice,,,

have the lambs stopped screaming?”

The next generation of i-phone will take sharper pictures.

And I wish to congratulate Steve Melcher for winning the Dragoncat Award for Best Picture… which has led to the funniest commentary I’ve read all day!

This truly is priceless.

Mary had a little lamband when it began to sicken,she took it to the packing plantand now it’s labeled chicken

Mary had a little watch.She swallowed it, it’s gone.Now everywhere that Mary goes,Time Marches On!

Mary had a little lamb / it grew into a ewe / Mary’d been hoping for a ram/ who knew?

Mary had a little lamb she tied it to a pylonA thousand vaults went up his ass and turned his wool to nylon.

Mary had a little lamb. /It used to play the zither. / So when to parties she was asked / She’d have to schlep it with her.

Mary had a little lamb, with fleece as white as snowAnd everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to goIt followed her to the grocery store, but the prices didn’t please herSo Mary had a little lamb, and the rest is in the freezer.

Thanks for all the “Mary had a little lamb” poems. Great work folks!

Mary realizes she is going to have to make some modifications to her hand muff.

Top tip: If you find yourself in the country without your accordeon, a used sheep can make a serviceable replacement.