That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 12, 2021

“What’s the point of washing our clothes if they end up smelling like fish?”

It was too late when they realized they were downstream of a sewage outlet.

The swimming portion of the Triathlon – “On your marks….”

Strangely, seeing all these women’s butts was not as erotic as I imagined it would be.

“Are you certain that the folks in that mansion upstream dump their night-soil into the other canal?”

While it may not be every girl’s dream/ to spend days on your knees by the stream/ you will earn high esteem/ (you’re the cream of the cream !) / with the Synchronized Laundering Team !

Y’know. Maybe the advice to wait for your ship to come in is just an idiom.

River Yoga, funny.

“ok ladies in harmony…Love that dirty water, oh oh Boston you’re my home.”

don’t you just hate it when the maytag breaks down…?

“Fran? Do those two arches up stream look like two monsters eyes rising from the depths?

Gertrude always insisted on washing her clothes upstream from Hilda.

The concept of the Women’s River Washing Relays was short lived.

Psss, Harriet, on 3 we rush and push the %$^& in blue in the river.

Is it just my imagination, or does a “women laundering” theme play a large role in this strip ? Asking for a friend.

I told my husband to get snipped. I tired of washing diapers every other day!

Now I can understand the name The Bridge of Sighs.

“Hey, Evelyn! Are you sure they wanted us to scrub these steps? There’s a patch of mussels growing over here. Just sayin’.”

Washerwomen at Quimperle: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FritzThaulowQuimperl%C3%A9.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this paintng.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/thaulow_frits.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/frits-thaulow 

https://www.iamasf.org/frits-thaulow 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/t/thaulow/biograph.html 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Frits_Johan_Frederik_Thaulow/11008324/Frits_Johan_Frederik_Thaulow.aspx 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/frits-thaulow/ 

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Frits.Thaulow 

https://www.galeriearyjan.com/en/thaulow-frits.htm 

https://prabook.com/web/frits.thaulow/3743283 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read for free in full on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2617 (January 11, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Related to some once and future paintings here: https://www.gocomics.com/frank-and-ernest/2021/01/12?ct=v&cti=1538392

The ladies’ French Laundry at high tide was in-seine!! :>)

the “morgue” ladies are culling the river for bodies the work on. OH! what a thankless job.

The coxswain and rowers waiting for their scull to arrive.

Painter (who has read Three Men In a Boat): “I love hard work. I can watch it for hours.”

Thank heaven’s we got a spot. It’s so hard to get reservations at the French Laundry.