That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 14, 2023

My original post in 2019:

The first Victoria’s Secret catalog was hard to hide.

/// In his office, The Art Connoisseur,

to his massive art books would refer.

Since his eyesight’s so bad,

all his catalogs had

twenty-four point type. (Smaller would blur.)

Looking up the name of that artist who painted ‘Venus on the Half Shell’ in the days before Wikipedia.

My original comment: Ya gotta love those large print books.

also: The downside of those large books are knee and back injuries.

“Why do they have to print the instructions in 20 different languages and put Deutsch where it’s hard to find?”

These pages are much too big for the outhouse.

A volume of vast dimensions/

Absorbed Abercrombie’s attentions/

Which in order to read/

He knew he would need/

A table with extra extensions.///

The large print version of the manuscript proved too much for the editor.

After climbing the beanstalk, Jack first attempted to read the giant’s newspaper.

CVS receipts used to be even larger than they are today.

Edwin was the first to actually read the website’s terms and conditions

Understanding women chapter1

Take out menus from Hooters use to be much larger, but they did have pictures off all the waitresses. It was a very popular menu to have.

The newest Reader’s Digest Advanced-Senior version.

George, at home, reading his book after being forced to buy it because he took it into the bathroom with him

He told the painter to paint him with a book so people think he’s smart. After the first two versions where he griped that the book was barely visible, Christian provided the version above.

Research required some heavy lifting in the days before Google and Wikipedia.

The Amateur collection : two Ding vases, a Renoyer, a Boccacelli, the Hefflewite chair, Purrsian rugs and the newest addition…….the Guttenberger Bible.

The early versions of Facebook were such a pain.

Back when Cliff’s Notes were about the size of actual cliffs.

Bookworm’s delight..

The double-folio version of War and Peace was much thinner, but unsatisfactory in other respects.

His disdain for publishers’ restrictions was retrenched as he set pen to a foolscap page of fine parchment.

Santa’s naughty list was a bit cumbersome this year.

The Art Connoisseur or The office of an amateur: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1879 oil on canvas paintings" 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 Bokelmann, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2202 (5/15/19) (December 13, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. 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 (3 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the May 15, 2019, strip being its first use. The February 22, 2018, strip has the prior by him.

Volume XXIV of “Who’s been naughty”.

It was examples like this that eventually led the publishing industry to adopt a commonly accepted definition of the term “unabridged”.

Finally he had finished what he considered his Magnum Opus, “An Unabridged History of the Philips Screw”!

due to failing eyesight, James ordered his porn in very large format.

Johann was pleased with the pocket version of his new book and couldn’t wait to see the coffee table version.

Funny … not funny.

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Christian Ludwig Bokelmann: He died after falling off a ladder in his studio, while attempting to hang a laurel wreath that had been given to him by his students on the occasion of his 50th birthday.

Comments from “the original” …

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Charliegirl Before toilet paper came in rolls.

BE THIS GUY Your comment is very close to the truth:

https://en.m.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Toilet_paper#/media/File%3APapier_hygi%C3%A9nique_Le_Troubadour.JPG

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Buzzworld “This Museum Guide to all the picture descriptions and locations is going to take weeks to figure out” .. Steve Melcher

Egrayjames “Don’t bother me!!! I’m reading my GoComics!!!”

Call me Ishmael O give me a home / with an elegant dome / a pool, and a deck / and a bibliotheque / with adequate space for a tome …

I’ll sit there from midnight til morn / contemplating the works that adorn / the walls of my bower / for hour upon hour … / the softest of soft-core porn.

Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss “Thank you for choosing Ikea fine furniture. Read all instructions thoroughly before beginning assembly.”

My originalish post:

… and they STILL needed to add the disclaimer … * Nudes are not actual size