That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 17, 2021

“Destiny, pestiny! Just for the fun of it, I’m going to deliver some of these to the wrong address!”

/// Schöbel’s “Destiny” painting’s abstruse:

Eight tots swaddled; each like a papoose.

Bedecked babies who modeled

were quite clearly not coddled.

Is this parable? No! Child abuse.

The day that the stork had been dreading finally. Today, she had to deliver another baby to Joseph Wolf. Last time, that lunatic had set his falcon on her. She had barely escaped with her life!

What’s that pile of white stuff under the stork? Dirty diapers?

With the supply chain being such as it is, fresh baby prices were sky high and the stork was way behind on its delivery. Some people might have to settle for a cat this year.

i know the supply chain is a problem but this is ridiculous!

/// At this season the storks are all flocking

to make special deliveries shocking.

Their new unstated goal:

To put babies, not coal,

into each SCOTUS rightist’s Yule stocking.

/// There’s a line-up of eight tots today,

for delivery in the old way.

It is storks and not owls,

(with their hooting and howls),

who will bring in the Hogwarts Pre-K.

“German hangs eight infants on Christmas Eve! Details at eleven on Fox 13 !”

I always wondered what a baby assembly line was.

Nuthin is more shocking than an infant in your stocking in the mor-or-ornin’…

Eeny, meeny, miny, ….TWO? What the hell man?

early adoption center prototype, featuring stuffed stork mascot…

Victorian coat check.

At the end of the nineteenth century, when throwing the baby out with the bathwater had become politically incorrect, the proper way of discarding unwanted babies was to put them into sacks above the fireplace on Christmas Eve. This too, eventually became frowned upon. However, the tradition of hanging Christmas stockings exist even to this day.

Training for future “Elf on a Shelf” candidates, starts very young.

“Time to move some of these out because they’re really getting “ripe”."

Read this in conjunction with today’s “Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal”.

There I am in the middle – with the wine “IV,” stealing my neighbor’s wine, and playing cards falling out of my swaddling.

The day Storks unionized.

Okay. This one’s just weird.

The finest political cartoon

Can lose its relevance soon

As the swine who recanted

Is swiftly supplanted

By a still more egregious buffoon.

All is not well at the Amazon baby delivery station. Rumor has it that the little rug rats and ankle biters are organizing a union!

While Santa put the presents under the tree, the Xmas Stork filled the stockings.

Stork thinking that Fed Ex guy had a good idea.

@Steve Melcher – like your commentary. Timely.

“…..and they take only babies that smile, even triplets and twins if they smile.” – “The Baby Tree,” Rosalie Sorrells.

Danny “Stork” Glover thinking I’m gettin’ too old for this sh*t

Jim Henson’s Conqueror Babies.

“My father hung me on a hook once. ONCE. Then he hung a bunch of other babies on hooks. It was an OCD thing.”

Twins??? I’m gonna need a chiropractor after that one!

Is that the discount and returned shelf?

The stork was considering retirement when he realized he had to deliver to a location that it was necessary for a baby to be delivered with its own weapons and armor.

Yikes! Pedophile Xmas wish list??

Rub a dub dub

Eight babies to scrub

And hang them out to dry.

But who are the dads

Of these little lads,

I don’t know so I cannot lie.

The butcher? the baker? the candlestick maker?

Or anyone of the rest?

I need to know who fathered them so -

I’ll ask for a DNA test.

An Allegory of Destiny: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Sch%C3%B6bel_An_Allegory_of_Destiny.jpg 

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

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

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/12/masterpiece-2845.html 

I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 2 works, by this artist, have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/12/21?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there pointed to the same artist info webpages as the blog comment).

P.S. Details (links, etc.) have been added to the Summary section of yesterday’s title URL.

Ed could see right off the TSA would not allow his fourth passenger to bring that halberd along on his flight.

I’m sorry, but the bag limit during baby hunting season is 5. You will have to release 3 of them; or face penalties and fines.

Georg and Ursula woke up on Christmas morning to find these hanging from their mantle. Ursula felt overwhelmed with joy. Georg felt that his life had essentially come to a halt that minute.

NO Mary jane that i not how babies are born, it’s a lot more complicated than that.

What the heck am I looking at????????????????? :)

The practice of “baby suspension”

Has caused more than a little tension

With the peeved populations

Of neighboring nations

Who don’t see Krauts as “Übermenschen”..

The French think the Krauts are a Joke

The Italians they merely provoke

The Greeks think they’re nuts,

The Poles hate their guts

Only they call themselves “Herrenvolk”…

Though the kiddies aloft you suspend

And the practice you fiercely defend

By the facts you’re bedeviled

By reality leveled

For we’re all brought down in the end.

/// In the spotlight these kids remain calm.

Being watched causes nary a qualm.

To call them demure

would be premature.

They were born to the famed Octomom.

The doctrine of Predestination

was well known in each Calvinist nation

They thought it well planned

but were too soon unmanned

by the output they forgot to ration.

I refer you to my Gœbbels and Mengele comments, ‘Herrenvolk’ indeed . . .

Much more challenging since Stork Prime was introduced.

In hindsight, Nadya Suleman did not regret writing Santa 8 times to ask for a baby, but admitted that hanging 8 stockings was a bit too much.