That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 12, 2023

/// She’s a gypsy girl loaded with luck.

Corn cobs “fell off the back of a truck.”

Placed a pile in her lap

and inquires of each chap

who walks by, “Gadjo man, wanna shuck?”

The first reported instance of the epithet “SHUCKS” occurred during an extensively frustrating corn harvest.

My original post in 2018:

Other ideas Mazola oil marketing had before going Native.

Coping with cornucopia.

Samantha Sanders, the original kernel. Her descendants are suing KFC for copyright infringement.

Would you like a snack?

“I think I need some “womanscaping”."

Esmerelda made an appointment with the ear Dr. the next day. Though it didn’t make sense, she guessed her date DID say he was feeling kinda “corny.”

I remember riding in the wagon behind the corn picker. These days, they use a picker/sheller that throws the corncob away.

An early portrait of Clara Bow, done before she became the “It Girl”.

OMG!!! She……With a corncob?!?!?

In the long-lost prequel to his scandalous novel, “Sanctuary,” William Faulkner presented Temple Drake’s ironic early familiarity with corn cobs.

It’s too easy to view with scorn/

A lass with a lapful of corn../

Has some tragic mishap/

befallen that lap ?/

And yet she seems far from forlorn..///

Perhaps she has reason to mourn/

For a tissue that’s newly been torn/

By a friendly invasion/

(She succumbed to persuasion ?)/

-Or maybe she simply likes corn.

Minnie Pearl once saw this painting and, no fool she, modified it to fit her appearance as a lovable hillbilly hick. Hoooow-dee!

https://m.youtube.Com/watch?v=zpBbHN1_FNg

When your headgear with coins you adorn/

You’re a sheep who just begs to be shorn./

Never toot your own horn;/

Wealth is not wisely worn/

Was it just yesterday you were born?

Hearing of a famous ear model, the state of Iowa hired her for their publicity photos, boy was she surprised when they wanted her to wear a hat!

Miss Armenia Corn Cob Queen, 1842.

Eric was sure his Gypsy Maiden costume would get him elected Queen of the Iowa Fall Fair.

Funny

Trip down memory lane for you reprobates: how many remember this punchline to an old and atrocious joke: “Never mind the robbery, pass me some more of that buttered corn”?

Ooh, now I want to go down to the high fructose extraction plant and see some soft pore corn!

“You have a proposition for me? I’m all ears.”

Fun fact: you have to say “corn” on tiktok, because their filtering regime is so strict that the rhyme word that starts with the letter “p” will get your video taken down and/or your account suspended as “adult content”

“Romanian Maiden,” 1885

A young woman: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Franciszek Ejsmond" Wikimedia 

(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 choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Romanian, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this painting.

That larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1881 (2/7/18) (October 11, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment and reply there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work by this artist used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the February 7, 2018, strip being its first use. This painting is privately owned. It was auctioned at an auction house in Kiev, Ukraine, December 20, 2008. The auction house’s webpages no longer exist, possibly due to a Russian missile.

“I told you to look natural… Oh never mind.:

A charming Roumanian maiden/

with clusters of cornhusks sits laden/

In a prominent spot/

on a car dealer’s lot-/

He accepted her as a trade-in..

Salome, not wanting to buy more feminine aids ended up with this, lot less expensive.

/// The priest smiles and his eyes start to glisten

as, this Gypsy, he offers to christen.

And that’s why corn is here.

She will lend him an ear,

just as long as she won’t have to listen.

For Friday/In Denmark, convention’s defied/

When convention contrives to divide/

The conventional need/

For couples to breed:/

Here grandfather meets his new bride.

And the url of this creepy corn website? Asking for a friend