That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 09, 2024

Mona Lisa’s weird cousin Esmeralda.

Mr. Gere? We are ready for you now.

That ferret is possessed – it looks more intelligent than the woman.

This support animal gives her a feeling of security. It will chew your face off if you get too close.

she wanted a mink, i got her a mink…now what does she want?

A lady that learned the hard way to protect her hair from the cat (or whatever that is).

Look, Martin is pining for the fjords!

/// The Lady is posed with an Ermine.

That’s a weasel, (which truly are vermin).

But the beast’s oversized

so it’s been analyzed

to learn secrets we need to determine.

What you did before the hat with integral chin-straps was invented.

We both had hair once. My ex was a vindictive so and so.

An ermine unleashed on your lap/

Invites an unhappy mishap -/

So might one suggest/

Being casually dressed/

In some garment that sheds ermine cr@p ?

Judith was not aware the “ripping the head off a weasel” was an alternative expression for opening a twist off beer.

“He may be a member of the weasel family, but Ernie would never rat me out! Hey.. are those sirens? I can’t hear anything with this blasted thing covering my ears”!

“What did you call my baby?!”

She hoped the weasel would draw attention away from her blonde unibrow. It did.

He really wanted to paint Mary with her little lamb, but had to settle for Frances and her ferret.

Will someone please call Compo Simmonite and tell him to come get his damm ferret?

I thought this was an ad for the new episode of “Owners Who Look Like Their Pets”

All right, Lucy, get out there and shag shag shag. Make lots of babies. Momma needs a new fur coat for winter.

Worst helmet hair ever!

Taylor Swift figured this pose would put to rest all those questions about her sexuality.

If ermine are white in the winter, why is she so lightly dressed? And, why does she have her hair tied under her chin?

All I ever hear is “Mona, Mona, Mona.” (Said in Jan Brady’s voice.)

Edith shows off her two latest inventions: The hair helmet, and the attack weasel (for dealing with anyone who makes fun of her hair helmet).

Strange picture. Following from her hair part line downward, she would appear to have her hair tied under her chin…and she holds a grotesquely muscled weasel…

Her ski-sloped shoulders forced the girl to hold her weasel at her breast lest it slide off and suffer a grievous injury. (However, her breast did not afford the weasel much purchase either)

“Would you like to pet my weasel?”

This is my pet human. If you want to ‘play’ with her, you have to pay me.

I will accept your soul or your first born child.

Presenting this year’s award winner for producing the largest hair ball proportional to body weight.

After da Vinci constructed his female android, he left a zipper in its forehead to easily remove the top to work on its circuitry if needed.

Lady with an Ermine: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Lady with an Ermine" 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 4,560, 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 (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3249 (January 9, 2024) 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 pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here (the January 24, 2012, strip painting was initially attributed to him; but, that has changed, as I have documented in my comment reply there today), the August 3, 2022, strip being the prior.

The beaded whatever across her brow looks almost like those things people put permanantly under their skin. You can see her browline starting so…weird painting.

The chinstrap beard does nothing for her.

Ok, let’s try out the new camera. Everybody look this way and smile!

Somebody’s been putting ideas in her head, but at least they had the courtesy to sew it back up afterward.

You little weasel, you!

What? Cat got your tongue?

Is she wearing her hair as a hat? And what’s with the unibrow tattoo?

I admired this masterwork when I first met it in 7th grade (Renaissance Italy). A beautiful lady in beautiful clothes—but I never thought till now that unless her left arm’s under there somewhere, perhaps she doesn’t have one? You know, she might have had a birth defect, or an amputation due to an infected bite from, oh, some imperfectly domesticated animal?

Lady with an Arm in a puppet.

For Wednesday:

Among Livia’s numerous talents/Were incredible feats of balance/It mattered not whether/

It was it was liquid or feather:

Or even illegal inhalants ..