That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 04, 2021

My original post back in 2015:

“Lady, can you stop with the drama and fill my food dish?”

Pity poor sad despondent Alicia, / for the medical tests which unleash a / surging wave of depression. / (The dog reads her expression.) / She’d been diagnosed with alopecia. /// A huge secret Alicia holds close, / the girl’s hairlessness makes her morose. / There’s no cure she can swig. / The bald girl wears a wig, / made from hair of the dog— and that’s gross.

Playing hide and seek with her brothers was easy for Cherrie. She gives her dog their shorts to sniff and the game is over before it started.

Where’s mine!/

Lucy tries to deal with the awful news that she is a were-spaniel, just like her sister

Her boyfriend may have dumped her via letter, but at least her dog still loves her.

Don’t you hate it when you have a date with the cutest wizard in school, but you’re out of floo powder?

Dammit, Harry, the wallpaper goes on the room’s walls, not the chimney bricks.

Which twin has the Toni?

The window and shutter’s flung wide,

but not enough breeze comes to hide

the choking hot fart

the dog lets athwart

the room with the pastor inside.

Ramona got lazy,did not memorize

the password for her bitcoin so it comes no surprise,

Rover ate the paper on which she inscribed

the key to a fortune now gone, vaporized.,

She stood at the mantle and cried/ with her faithful dog, Trey, by her side/ In her hand was the note/ her physician had wrote:/ “Dear Lydia, the rabbit has died”../// Now we may well have misread the plot !/ There are two “persons“ here – are there not ?/ The maid and the mutt – the “doll” and the dog – and the difference matters a lot../// Now, Lydia’s a comely lass/ but her stomach is testy – alas !/ And it seems not to matter/ what’s placed on her platter/ – she somehow turns solids to gas../// We do not see a final frame/ wherein Trey (for that is his name)/ in spite of her grief/ with a sigh of relief/ thinks “ Well, THIS time, I won’t get the blame…”

Don’t take it so hard. People call me that all the time.

When she reached 237527002, Lucy was beginning to wonder if their were some rules about Hide’n seek she should have ask her cousins about when they began the game 3 years ago.

Damn, my e-mail picked a bad week to go down! (in response to Melcher’s original caption)

She’s going to have to find a new office, one where she isn’t so well known.

Got no coal, got no log – I guess I’ll have to burn my dog.

Why did I vote for Biden?

Rover: That restraining order leaves you more time to give me snacks, doggone it.

The heartbreak of psoriasis.

Has this ever happened?

“It’s going to cost $5000.00 for implants. Are they ever going grow any bigger?”

“We have the same hair.”

It turns out that Christie’s auctioned the piece in 2010 for 103,000 pounds. Their auction page has interesting material about the painting, including a really cute letter from the painter to the original buyer. See https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5396378 on their website.

But mistress, you didn’t have to burn his body, I could’ve just eaten him.

Buster, how can I tell you. You didn’t win Cruft’s.

Oh if men were as faithful as you dear pooch, but Tom, Dick and Harry were not and now Simon wants a virgin, alas a lack!

“I’m not gonna call you ‘flat-chested’, but mine are bigger- and I’ve got six of ’em!”

Realizing that her parents bricked up the fireplace just as she was ready to mail her letter to Santa.

This fireplace is the original of Madame de Pompadour. Why won’t it work for me? Where is The Doctor?

A Passing Cloud: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_Hughes,_1908c_-_A_Passing_Cloud.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this before 1901 painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image. A Passing Cloud is the short title. Its full title is: 

A Passing Cloud 

‘O how this spring of love resembleth 

The uncertain glory of an April day 

Which now shows all the beauty of the sun 

And by and by a cloud takes all away’ 

Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona 

by far, the longest title I’ve posted here so far.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2015/02/masterpiece-1143.html 

So far, 6 works by this artist, have been used here (7 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2012/12/21?comments=visible 

has the first time this was used here (the 16 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative), and my 

https://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/08/masterpiece-2772_16.html 

comment has the artist info that I used to point to here.

My smartphone changes ‘lol’ to ‘LOL,’ making me sound overexcited.

“Don’t look at me like that, Spot. My kid brother named you, not me.”

It might get her that promotion she’s been wanting.

Griselda’s sanity’s reeling

from visions her senses are dealing.

The book, to her eyes,

seats two tiny guys

Lydia: Ooooh! I don’t feel so well after eating that Clementine!

Trixie: I feel fine after eating that book! Maybe you should have had some!

Beautiful red setter pose.