That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 24, 2022

What have you done to my cast iron pots?!?

“Not the copper pots! The stainless steel ones!”

That’s right. Get on your knees and put your back into it!

the original “pot-shot”

“Psst, I’ve been told you’re the one dealing with pot. Oh pots, nevermind."

/// All the copper pots need to be scrubbed.

With a paste they must firmly be rubbed.

Salt with lemon juice proved

to get tarnish removed,

but when questions arise, maid gets snubbed.

/// The new scullery maid gets no peace,

For her orders to work never cease.

“Ma’am, it isn’t my fault.

I’ve mixed lemons with salt,

But, I’ve searched and can’t find elbow grease.”

Mabel is about to show her a new use for that window squeegee with the long handle.

A “pushover” Mabel was not/

Hence milady was brained with a pot./

Her remains were not found/

But a lump in the ground/

May mark her last resting spot///

She probably lies ‘neath the grass/

With a dent in her head left by brass/

And Mabel left early/

(Her expression was surly !)

I hope they don’t hang her ass.///

On the day that Mabel was tried/

The law was strictly applied../

That it was homicide/

Could not be denied

- But the Judge deemed it “justified”.

Mabel never did hang for her crime/

But she did do a little “hard time”/

Six months breaking rocks/

And she knocks off your socks/

With a figure supremely sublime..///

Better still she was not merely saved/

But her ex-master saw her, and raved../

Now, beyond all distress/

She’s become the mistress/

Of the household where once she slaved !

Transcript of interview by Sgt. Joe Friday: Now let me see if I’ve got the facts straight here. Claudia Cooper, the kleptomaniac from Cleveland caught Clara Clifford cleaning copper cauldrons that Claudia Cooper copped kept in a closet. Now is that about it?

Carson: One other thing.

Friday: What’s that?

Carson: Clara clobbered her.

“Isn’t always the same. It’s in the last place you look.”

The rumor circulated that Alice was partying with a bunch of coppers

Mabel: “I know you meant well, Isabelle, but I don’t consider ‘nice fart box’ as much of a complement.”

“ My mistake, I thought you were the other kind of pot dealer”

“Quick….Hand me that! King Henry needs another chamber pot! I told him not to have a second plate of the stewed corned beef and now he’s spewing all over himself.”

try salt and vinegar, mabel…

“Jeez, June you scared he crap out of me.”

When we hired you and you said you didn’t have a pot to pee in, that didn’t mean you could pee in all of ours!

When the workplace is rife with abuse / And you feel you’ve just got to cut loose / Cut her down, cut her up / Chop her fine, cook her up / Into fine Swedish meatballs — with juice.

Oh Mable, I just needed that little small pot on the bottom!

PHYLLIS: Because copper transfers heat better that stainless steel – that’s why!

“Yeah, let’s see you try to get the smell of pickled herring out of these!”

“Hey, watch where yer pokin’ that finger, Ma’am; I don’t bat fer that team!”

“You missed a spot.”

If you like leggy ladies, the girl on the left is for you.

Poor Mabel never took a shine to the coppers. She always rubbed ‘em the wrong way. Give her a bit of brass had she was a happy lass. She’d spit & polish the knobs all day long!

“THAT’S not the one for marmalade: that’s the pot to piss in”

are you sure her name isn’t Ella?

A Woman Furbishing Copper Pans: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Pehr Hilleström" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and chose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Furbishing, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. If you generally click the image to enlarge it, note that is a .tiff image (will be downloaded instead of simply enlarging if your browser isn’t configured to handle such images; if that’s the case and you only want to enlarge it, choose what you prefer from the list of image sizes under the image).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2931 (May 24, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to some info about this artist. First work by him used here.

after you have finished with the pots, you have help me and my sisters get ready for the ball, Cindy

The tar pots are demanding that the copper kettles be investigated for blackness.

You can stop cleaning them … we won’t be taking them with us. Something called an airhorn has been invented.

And the French Aristocrats wondered why the peasants revolted…

/// “On the bench where you polish with zeal

is a plate with a half-eaten meal.

You got hungry, you pout,

but I’m forced to point out,

my dog’s food you are not free to steal.”