That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 23, 2020

It was a great potato harvest, but the guy with the steaks still hadn’t showed up.

Dude, that’s harsh – the farmer hasn’t even had time to bring the harvest in from the field, and the Tax man is already collecting.

Those aren’t potatoes. The only thing that grows here is rocks

It was a bad year for the goffer harvest.

“I can give you a nickel a pound for the Russetts because McDonalds is still using them. But In-N-Out is using Kennebecs. Bring in a large sack of those and you’ll be on your way to Easy Street.”

‘this spud’s for you!’

If you dice the potatoes, soak them in water, strain out the chunks, you will get a white substance that might be mistaken for the drug. Potato starch.

How much do you want?

“I got a rock.”

when that tornado hits it’ll be a field of whipped potatoes.

I just dug where the big X was marked.

Isn’t it time for the potato sack race ?

“My wife packed me a bunch a rutabagas for lunch. Trade you for some of those turnips?”

Surprisingly, all these peasants are working on their PHD’s. I live in potato country and know that if you work and study really hard someday you will earn a Potato House Degree and will be able to work in the storage barn and not in the field.

Monsanto rep trying to make a deal to local unsuspecting farmers.

Reminds me of an old joke. It takes place during the ‘troubles in Ireland. Poor Irish lad is arrested for involvement with the IRA. But he’s a good boy, so every week he writes a letter to his mother. His mother replies “Ach, I don’t know what I’m going to to do this year! You’re in jail, and me plow broke the blade. I don’t know how I’m going to do the planting!”

Johnny replies. “whatever you do, don’t plant in the south field – that’s where I buried the guns”

There is no response from his mother for several weeks from his mother. Finally a letter arrives, “What did you do, Johnny? I didn’t get a letter from you last Friday, and then the police were here all week digging up the entire south field.”

Johnny wrote back. “Don’t worry about it, Ma. Just plant the damn potatoes.”

The ‘Potato Eaters’ before Van Gogh got his hands on them.

Guy with pipe (efficiency expert): “I see your problem , Helmut. You’re losing precious seconds transferring from basket to bag..”

“Great moments in phallic portraiture?”

Farming in the years before bright colors were invented.

“Ah must go back to the land !” said Scarlett. “ Three years later:”What the hell was I thinking .?”, said Scarlett.

Is there any more noble toil/ than extracting food from the soil?/ The tedious scuffle/ til at last you shuffle/ off this miserable “mortal coil”.

“Enough of the woody in the basket, O’Malley! Get back to work!”

Hey you! Stop plowing; it’s harvest time you moron!

Hans just couldn’t keep up, so he was fired, but he did get to keep the potato bag. Hence the term: “Hans got the sack.”

BOSS: “There’s a thunderstorm over yonder. Get these taters to it fast and you won’t have to waste well water to wash ’em”

FIELD HAND: “I dunno. That looks like a twister”

BOSS: Even better! Cut ‘em up after you wash ’em and we’ll end up with Curly Fry material for Arby’s! That kind of thinking is why I’m Boss!

“You idiot. These aren’t potatoes, they’re truffles! Biggest ones I’ve ever seen. Throw ’em in the trash!”

“Take An Ol’ Cold Tater And Wait”

The woman, second from the right, is wondering how much she can get for her truffles.

Senator Igotmine passing out the “Covid Stimulus Relief”

Never mind where I got it. It’s gonna be one hell of a Christmas!

Potato harvest: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fritz_Boehle_-_Kartoffelernte_(1899).jpg 

best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

https://www.maqnify.com/sights-en/geburtshaus-fritz-boehle 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Fritz_Boehle/11017318/Fritz_Boehle.aspx 

https://modjourn.org/biography/boehle-karl-friedrichfritz-1873-1916/ 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, if his askart.com bio gets truncated, it can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL, which indirectly points to his German Wikipedia page: 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Boehle 

(again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary). First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2605 (December 22, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. 

P.S. Couldn’t get my desktop computer to boot; am using my laptop, which, unfortunately is missing most of the tools I use for this (why it’s late). Not sure when I’ll have access to my desktop computer again.

Yes, we painted them all to look like potatoes. It is going to be quite the easter egg hunt tomorrow!

‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ my arse! I am a schmarty and I won’t join the Nazi party!! :>)