That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 10, 2020

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 5 years ago

    A quick and efficient way to give the kids a bath.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    The days when babies were harvested from the ocean. At least that is what I was told when I asked the question.

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    Strob Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    “I think it’s the light that’s attracting them.” But she may have to throw the undersized one back in.

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    DATo  almost 5 years ago

    Diana Copperfield’s first attempt to perfect the “Walk On Water While Carrying Two Children” illusion.

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    gopher gofer  almost 5 years ago

    the fisherman’s wife gets a head start teaching the kids about clothing optional beaches…

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    Papared25  almost 5 years ago

    “Hey Mommy, I learned a neat trick on how to make the ocean warmer. All ya gotta do is pee in it. Notice that Tommy’s not crying because he’s cold today? You can thank me for that.”

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    pcolli  almost 5 years ago

    The things you find on the beach these days.

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    orinoco womble  almost 5 years ago

    “Darn mermaids drowned my husband! Well, Imonna raise their kids on dry land!”

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    orinoco womble  almost 5 years ago

    Better yet, “Saturn’s Nanny makes a break for it.”

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    Reader  almost 5 years ago

    She’s got serious core muscle strength. Taking bets on if she falls off the stepping stones carrying 2 wet, squirmy kids.

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    rmremail  almost 5 years ago

    The nanny could’t take her eyes off the kids for a moment – they would make a break for the ocean, and she would have to chase after them and fish them out.

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    PO' DAWG  almost 5 years ago

    Escape from Epstein Island

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    Carolyn Saunders  almost 5 years ago

    The tide was so strong it ripped the kids’ bathers right off.

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    Linguist  almost 5 years ago

    Brigitte realizing that either she’s cursed with the ugliest feet in France, or Demont-Breton is just lousy at painting them!

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    lagoulou  almost 5 years ago

    Must have been hard, posing like that, for hours on end….had to dope the kids up to keep them quiet!

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    garcoa  almost 5 years ago

    Why is she walking on the rocks? In my bare feet, I would walk only on the sand.

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    Call me Ishmael  almost 5 years ago

    Melisande was known for her “Feets of Strength”.

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    Call me Ishmael  almost 5 years ago

    She fishes them out of the Bay/ and sometimes she gives them away/ but her favorite haunts/ are the fine restaurants/ who sell them as “Catch of the Day” !

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    Call me Ishmael  almost 5 years ago

    “Full fathom five thy father lies/ of his bones are the corals made”/ (and Mommy is much relieved !)

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Should make diaper changes a snap…wait, you don’t need them. Hold them over the water to do their “business”, dunk them halfway to clean ‘em, and:: Presto. You’re done!

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Great comment here today! I just discovered this gem of a cartoon strip!

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    Holden Awn  almost 5 years ago

    Earlier in my life there were many times when I saw small children innocently allowed to play nude at beaches. It is sad that we’ve come to an era when we’re now obliged to automatically condemn any nude display of children as pandering to pedophiles.

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    J Short  almost 5 years ago

    Edna, collecting bait for tomorrow’s great white offshore outing.

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    rugeirn  almost 5 years ago

    Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginie_Demont-Breton. It turns out this artist did a number of paintings depicting the lives of the fishing folk around Wissant, France, where she lived. She did this one of a mom hauling her kids out of the water in 1881; in 1888 she did a similar painting of what looks like the same mom throwing the same kids back in. It also turns out she was a major activist in making it possible for women to be professional artist in France.

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    anomaly  almost 5 years ago

    Gertrude Ederle found her job harder when she had to babysit.

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    Mother Superior  almost 5 years ago

    The seaweed diapers didn’t work out as she had hoped.

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    Mother Superior  almost 5 years ago

    You know it’s time to get out of the water when your junk turns blue.

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    PoodleGroomer  almost 5 years ago

    Wash until clean, rinse, then spin dry.

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    mabrndt Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Fisherman’s Wife coming to Bath her Children

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Femme_De_P%C3%AAcheur_Venant_De_Baigner_Ses_Enfants_by_Virginie_Demont-Breton.jpg 

    has info and links that point to info about this roughly life size painting. First Other versions has strip coloration.

     

    https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=2191 

    http://femalewarpoets.blogspot.com/2018/07/virginie-elodie-marie-therese-demont.html 

    http://www.berkofinepaintings.com/catalogue/matin-bleu-a-wissant/ 

    http://virginie-demont-breton.com/ 

    https://books.google.com/books?id=cJRHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA210#v=onepage&q&f=false 

    all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the Google Chrome can translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by her used here.

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2359 (January 9, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

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    MissScarlet Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Worst two-for-one sale ever.

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    Another Take  almost 5 years ago

    Fifi ended another day of waiting for her seafaring husband to return from buying a pack of smokes (he was a huge fan of British Dunhills).

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    d1234dick Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    is she really worried about walking in the water by using stepping stones. maybe that is how she got the kids.

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    Kind&Kinder  almost 5 years ago

    Sea Urchins.

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    Egrayjames  almost 5 years ago

    There once was a girl named Cat / Had three boys named Nat, Pat, and Tat / It was fun in the breeding / But hell in the feeding / When she found there was no Tit for Tat!

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    Helen Ferrieux  almost 5 years ago

    How many times do I have to tell you this isn’t a nudist beach.

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