That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 11, 2024

My original post in 2021:

The artist Raphaelle Peale: Self-portrait

Some of my Comments from November 3, 2021:

/// In my mind’s eye, Steve chuckles with glee

when this painting and caption we see.

“On a book, there’s cut fruit.

Now, go type something cute,

if you think you’re as funny as me.”

/// In addition he’s set a big snare

for a writer of limericks to dare.

Try to rhyme the word “orange,”

and you’re stuck writing “door hinge,”

an odd phrase that won’t fit anywhere.

/// So, I guess that Sol may as well quit.

Crown Steve Melcher the Wizard of Wit.

Orange you waiting for

someone clever to soar?

(Surely Ish’s stuff will be a hit!)

My original comment: Either cut the orange or peal it, not both! (yes I did misspell peel)

I like Raphaelle Peale’s work, but I prefer that of Judith Nude

Well, that’s kind of kinky.

If you’re into that sort of thing.

it does have a certain apeel…

Raphaelle Peale was a starving artist. He couldn’t afford a model.

But at least when he offered to paint somebody’s fruit, they left before he was finished, so he got something to eat.

The paintings of Raphael Peale/

Possess an intrinsic appeal:/

The depiction of fruit/

Is a futile pursuit-/

Yet Raph’s are astoundingly real..///

His talent was almost seraphic:/

His likenesses – near photographic/

But he never paints nudes/

So some of the dudes/

Would be happy if Raph’ played in traffic.///

His name has a feminine ending/

Hence to research Raph’ I am depending/

On some diligent souls/

With more serious goals:/

(If he’s female, my rhymes need amending..)

“I’m getting so forgetful in my old age. I had a piece of fruit, sat it down to answer the phone, and now I don’t remember where I put it. But, it sure does smell great in here”!

Official portrait of the 45th President of the United States.

Orange you glad for this throwback?

It has a certain a-peel to it.

Nuthin’ comes to mind

Cept for that danglin’ piece of rind

And tho’ everything looks fine

Tis just a matter of time

Before we hear the words

“Who the hell left this orange stain on my book?”

Orange you glad it isn’t another male nude?

“… orange you glad I didn’t paint banana again?”

You’ve read “The Grapes of Wrath”, now try “The Orange of Whimsey”.

(Think “Home on the Range” title reversed)

Orange unpeeled on the tome:

I hope that it won’t leave a stain

The Library’s fine would be stiff

For the damage — and sniff —

That stale fruit smell would remain.

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Have you walked among old books?

The paper has begun to decay

As the books on the shelves rot,

The less Oxygen you’ve got

And it nearly takes your breath away.

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Soon those books will be trashed,

The pages having been digitized.

I’ll mourn for the true touch

Of paper pages as such,

But the words will survive in new guise.

Oh my gosh! Is that orange…. nekked? Who was the model?

An orange a day keeps the doctor…..no, wait that is an apple isn’t it?

A historical moment captured on canvas: The first snack ever interrupted by a phone call asking about your car’s extended warranty.

I just don’t find it a-peeling

Ya baby, let them juices flow…What soft looking pith you have…

Still Life with Orange and Book: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1815 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 orange, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly A4 paper size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2820 (11/2/21) (January 10, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work by him used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the November 3, 2021, strip being its first use.

Argh! Stephan Pastis wants his pun back. Why, we’ll never know.

“Thank you for returning my bookmark … at least I didn’t lose my page!”

One of my favorite artists. Took the old European still lifes and redid them in American. I like his work better than his father’s or brothers’ too.

I asked for Gray Poupon! I see that you don’t know what it is!

Some comments from the 11/3/21 posting:

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moondog42: If anyone has any more puns to add, the lime forms on the left.

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sparklite:

I really like Emma Stoned

and watching Leon Redboned.

But had I my druthers

I think I would rather

have been there when Al get Caponed.

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rmremail: Clementine is doing a striptease.

linguist: … Right down to the Navel.

gcarlson: “I could swear that she was padded from her shoulder to her heel, / But later in the second act when she began to peel /She proved that ev’rythin’ she had was absolutely real!” – “Kansas City,” Oklahoma!

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ronaldspence: When the publisher asked the author to write a book with appeal, I don’t think this is what she meant!

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Call me Ishmael: Now orange you glad you can read? / And here is the book that you need/ to get out of the bind/ if you’re more inclined/ to go read your Twitter feed/// what? You say things are going to seed ?That books are impeding your speed ?/ That the turning of pages/ takes ages and ages -/ time which you could be using to breed ?/// Well, I’m not gonna beg or to plead/ and my presence is not guaranteed/ at your odd exhibition/ I’ll appear on condition/ that you call my work “surreal indeed”.

Takes a special kind of a guy/ to paint a good “fool the eye”/ but to properly say/ “trompe l’oeil” the French way/ is a feat that I won’t even try.

For this painting, Peale did not dare/ to resort to a peach or a pear./ There being no melon/ to be found in his dwellin’/ an orange is lying there.///A banana is easy to peel/ but the fruit stand denied him a deal/ and a pun on his name/ was a ticket to fame/ though the juice is inclined to congeal…

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Buzzworld: “Hey Julius where did you put the Vodka?”

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wincoach: Orange you glad you didn’t buy War and Peace.

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Gah! 11/3/21 postings continued …

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Plods with …™: Don’t look Ethel!

…but it was too late. Mooned her right there in the novel section.

For tomorrow:

Shortly after this painting was completed, someone unexpectedly threw a bucket of cold water over them..