That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 08, 2021

Frank was always grateful he had a statue on which to practice his kissing before he went out on a date.

Sex robots be dammed. Carve your own partner.

He always did take his women for granite!

If I’d known that the statue was going to come to life, I’d have given it bigger breasts.

Even the disembodied heads are grossed out. “Dude, get a niche!”

I can sort of understand the sculptor falling in love with his own creation – he basically carved his own porn. But why is the statue so hot to lock lips with a guy who’s been living in his art studio for the past two weeks as he sculpted at the behest of his gonads? He probably hasn’t showered in all that time.

When Geppetto graduated from puppets, he did it in a big way.

So, little man of flesh, you think you have the stones to make it with a statue? Can you be hard as a rock? Well, can you?

The painting that inspired “A Touch of Venus.”

His love morphed cold ivory to flesh, / and lewdly their lips did he mesh. / But the change, incomplete, / left this Gal with cold feet. / She slugged him for being so fresh. /// She tried, but she couldn’t escape, / as hands glided over her shape. / Quite soon he might see a / charge from Galatea: / attempting statuary rape. /// Pygmalion rethought his attack, / and slowly unhanded her rack. / A small cloud-borne putto / flashed him il cornuto / and fired a shaft in his back.

Doesn’t that violate the Porn Statue Statute?

They called her Ms Mantis.

We can’t take our eyes off her “seat”/ M. Gerome has performed quite a feat ./ Galatea’s a lass/ whose alluring “crevasse”/ has surely soiled many a sheet (…but what’s with that fish at her feet ?)

It wasn’t Pygmalion’s fault/ he committed felonious assault/ his behavior was horr’ble/ but she lured him with marble/ when he had grown used to basalt..(granite, he could have shown more control !)

I never realized Galatea was so callipygous.

She’s stoned.

Who knew? Inside every nude female statue is a real nude woman.

“Heaven… I’m in heaven,And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak. And I seem to find the happiness I seek, When we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek.”……….Okay, so I’m no Fred Astaire, but you’re no Ginger Rogers!

Pygmalion?

Merle’s new adult toy statue finally arrived

I think Cupid has switched up the ammo for his bow – there’s no way that’s just you run of the mill ‘fall in love’ arrow. That sucker is laced with some serious LSD!

Use the steps stupid.

The heads on the shelf are either appalled by the PDA or furious that they didn’t get similar bodies.

GALATEA: Hey buddy. Come ‘ere. Next time you put me out in the sun, I’d either like the burka to include the head cover or I’d like a French Bikini. This face-only tan is embarrassing.

It won’t be long now. She’ll soon be my fair lady.

And another Marble Comics character is born!

She has cold feet at the moment, but the transubstiation appears to be proceeding from the top downward.

I know our mythic history, King Arthur’s and Sir Caradoc’s;

I answer hard acrostics, I’ve a pretty taste for paradox,

I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,

In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,

I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!

Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the music’s din afore,

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

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“Modern Major-General’s Song” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance.

Definitely the best student of Pygmalion……

What happened when Cupid didn’t wait until the model got back from her bathroom break.

Pygmalion and Galatea: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me,_Pygmalion_and_Galatea,_ca._1890.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/gerome_jean-leon.html 

https://modjourn.org/biography/gerome-jean-leon-1824-1904/ 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-leon-gerome 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=56 

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/412/jean-leon-gerome-french-1824-1904/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/g/gerome/biograph.html 

https://www.galeriearyjan.com/pdf-2-1179-1180-gerome-jean-leon--the-akaba-golfe.htm 

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Jean-Leon.Gerome 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70536405/jean_l_on-g_r_me 

http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/gerome1.html 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/jean-l%C3%A9on-g%C3%A9r%C3%B4me 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/9 

https://prabook.com/web/jean-leon.gerome/3742535 

https://rehs.com/Jean_Leon_Gerome_Bio.html 

http://hoocher.com/Jean_Leon_Gerome/jean_leon_gerome.htm 

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/archives/exhibitions-archives/article/jean-leon-gerome-25691.html?no_cache=1 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 23 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/03/08?comments=visible 

has the prior work (my comment there had 9 of the artist info URLs, the 4th of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2722 (June 7, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Darnit! Next time I gotta remember to carve out the feet and separate the legs!

Druella liked the carving so much ,she had given him a extra large “MEMBER” and then brought him to life, but only above the knees.

Medusa turns people to stone, King Midas turns people to gold, and Galatea paralysis people with her kiss.

Well, not much I can do for him now … might as well paint them as they are.

opps. they are two guys, well same goes, now he can have sex nd still go out

Lisa: He’s [Arnold, the Ziffel’s pet pig] auditioning for a play.

Oliver: What’s he reading from? Porky and Bess?

Lisa: No, Pigmalion!