That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 27, 2022

“Made.. wrong… turn.. at.. Albuquerque… will.. be.. late.. for.. dinner”

I see some ‘product placement’ in this painting.

My post from 2017:

Secretaries taking dictation from the boss.

“I wish we could edit these messages. Never make smoke messages while angry.”

/// Tribal smoke signals here being shown

were a First Nations long-distance “phone.”

These braves seem baffled by

the inchoate reply.

(It’s a steam geyser from Yellowstone.)

This is very similar to IMing. You can’t unsend, so be sure you’re not saying something you’ll regret

I can’t get over the horses with bobbed tails. Did Native Americans do that?

Historical Fact or Rumor Thatijustmadeup #304:

Among Native Americans of the West, women generally dressed in a modest manner. So it was when one village council realized Frederic Remington continually (and oftentimes inaccurately) painted their warriors in skimpy loincloths destined perhaps to corrupt their females’ sensibilities — that they burned reproductions of his paintings in protest, analogous to later burnings of books considered socially offensive in America and Europe. These “smoke signals” were indeed messages — from outraged village elders.

Ironically, in later years the European tribes that infested the West spawned outrageously immodest fashions in female attire. Although descendants of Frederic Remington might deny it, is it possible that one of them instituted the notorious “Frederick’s of Hollywood” chain of stores (now on-line only) that offer slinky fantasy sexualized clothing and accessories to modern decadents?

It makes sense to me, but … Believe it — or Don’t!

“We’ve been trying to reach you about your automobile’s extended warranty.”

From the Indian adolescent/

The babble is simply incessant/

All day on his “phone”/

And then, when full grown/

He scalps you- which is even less pleasant !

The folks in the wagon train/

Have no one to whom to complain/

No cavalry’s coming/

(Do I hear some drumming?)

At least there isn’t much rain..///

It is said “where there’s smoke, there is fire”/

But it’s probably time to retire/

This method (though cute)/

From its place on the butte/

As the IPhone replaces the wire..

“Your call is very important to us..”

It is cloudy and the signal isn’t getting out.

With the scarcity of fuel out there, you don’t get unlimited minutes.

Like Face Time with the speaker on full. Crazy kids and their fancy ponies. Why, in my day…

Hey, you spelled “attack” wrong.

“Hey, that’s my blanket. I gotta sleep with that.”

“A white man approaches! He calls himself Elon Musk, and he seeks to buy you out.”

They’re discussing what to wear to the prom.

Remind me again, how do you make a vomiting emoji?

Wow one of America’s great western artist featured in today throwback issue. A very good image!

The Smoke Signal: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"File:Frederic Remington smoke signal.jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Yahoo, Bing, Duckduckgo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and click the first File: found for info and links that point to more info about this painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1637 (2/8/17) (October 26, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by this artist have been used here (4 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the February 8, 2017, strip being its first use. The August 1, 2022, strip has the prior.

Rifles for sale. Buy one get one half off.

Smokechat is ok, but Wow, you should check out those Smokeagram girls. They’re hotties!

Dog meat?! AGAIN?!

I’m responding to a Nigerian prince. All of our problems will be solved soon!