That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 09, 2022

Agnes had to take out that ugly tea set every time Aunt Lillian visited (you know why).

/// With her Strawberry Tea Set she poses,

and close scrutiny just now discloses

what she’d not seen before

in the fine china store.

When she bought them, she thought they showed roses.

Eunice loved the tag sale at Martha Stewart’s house!

“Who do I sacrifice to the chinaware gods today?”

To tea or not to tea. That is the luncheon.

Note to self: Do not register for a china pattern when stoned out of your mind.

Still looking for the one that sings, “I’m a little teapot” …

If she had seen the cartoon about the guy finding the singing frog, she would not be looking…

If something suspicious ever happened to have “accidentally” been poured in her late husband tea, the jury will give a fortune for this pic..

Agnes finally started to realize that what made Aunt Lillian’s tea so delicious was not the tea set, but what she put in the creamer.

“Made in Hong Kong!” As I SUSPECTED!!! A Chinese knock off.

Another day another “why do I keep snooping at Amazon?” moment.

Probably got the set at Dollar Tree…..before inflation.

The multiple-times-great granddaughter of Lucretia Borge fondles the old family tea set and wonders what it was like in the old days … So many wonderful advances in Chemistry since then … especially Russian chemistry.

Agnes was starting to get discouraged. She’d bought twenty boxes of laundry detergent and still hadn’t been able to get the gravy boat she so dearly wanted and needed to complete her set.

“Do I price each piece separately or the whole set together for the yard sale?”

I’m sorry, Creamer, but we have to downsize and — let’s face it — nobody will miss you.

Perhaps I could be a detective. I think I see a pattern here.

“And to think— my grandchildren don’t want you or the rest of the set!”

I need to lay off browsing the Amazon website ….

Mrs. Potts managed to keep Chip’s delinquent brother under the spell, and under control.

“Hmm..do I use my Royal Daulton for my candlelight riparian repast….”

She used to be pretty hot/

But now she is visibly not./

It’s well before sundown/

And she’s in her nightgown !/

Milady is going to pot !

Poor Erma, she bought tea set after tea set but none of them come alive and sing “Be Our Guest” to her.

(Sigh) I’m tired of teal chinoiserie. I think I’ll toss this out and pick up a set of Royal Staffordshire red. Of course then I will need a new peignoir and slippers, new sheets and duvet cover and new table linens to match my new tea set. Well, I guess that gives me a reason to get dressed today. (Sigh)

I’ve rubbed the sh!t out of this thing and still no genie — oh wait

Millicent stood debating whether to regift the ugly tea set to her new daughter-in-law, or just give it to Goodwill.

Miriam reflecting on how long her otherwise unused shoplifting hiding place hurt after sneaking that particular piece out of the store.

“Delft. Delft. That’s fun to say. D-e-e-e-lft…”

“A ‘Drink me’ bottle, an ‘Eat me’ cake, and now this. I’m getting tired of getting ordered around.”

In the lower left corner, there seems to be a tiny man in an overcoat and hat, facing left.

“I’m a little teapot, short and stout.”

♫Strawberries, cherries and an angel’s kiss in spring My summer wine is really made from all these things♫ Those silver spurs will soon be mine.

Strawberry Tea Set: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:American paintings in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string 50903322938, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2974 (August 8, 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. The November 23, 2020, strip has the prior (the artist info URLs in my comment there are here links in my blog comment).

Matching your tea set to your favorite shade of lipstick: A bad time to find out you’re colorblind.

/// In a move that was just a bit risky

she ensured that each tea time got frisky.

What was meant as a creamer

had been used by this schemer

to dispense, on the sly, Irish Whiskey.

Mrs. Bucket admiring her Royal Doulton, Royal Albert Old Country Roses 12-Piece tea set like she was the Queen.

She always remembers the day/

She was introduced to Earl Gray../

At birth, she’d been dipped in/

The tea of Tom Lipton/

But the Earl simply blew her away!

Sir Thomas was said to “skipper”/

The swiftest tea-transporting clipper/

So logic dictated/

That Milady was fated/

To have only Sir Thomas dip ‘er…

But she wasn’t Tom’s kind of a girl/

At the sight of a wavelet, she’d “hurl”/

A whiff of sea air/

Left her trés “mal de mer”/

So she ended up wedding the Earl.

I can’t believe I traded the old man for all of this!