That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 30, 2024

How about Syphilis?

Portrait time during Christmas was always good business for Rent-a-Baby.

/// They don’t face their Yule tree Christmas Morning,

(which they’d taken scant time in adorning).

Since the baby was born

Clarence spent every morn

heaping scorn on his wife without warning.

/// Though his wife remained proper and prim,

Clarence sat far away, looking grim.

Her good name he’d reviled

since he first saw the child;

it did not, he declared, look like him.

We’re just not FUN anymore.

They’d reached an acceptable, if tense, stalemate: He ignored the fact that she was sleeping with the pool boy, and she ignored the fact that he was sleeping with the pool boy.

.

The only real downside was that the pool never seemed to get cleaned.

The look when you notice that your baby looks a lot like your friend Mike

That’s not MY kid.

The diamond is cheaper.

A diamond necklace would go a long way towards covering legal fees…

The Old Man was not happy about the infant his wife gave him for Christmas. He had been hoping for a bowling ball and a can of Simoniz.

“No we’re not naming him Jesus.”

Or, perhaps that menage a trois he’d been dropping hints about…

Christmas Morning: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Harry Roseland" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, 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 Morning, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1852 (December 22, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there 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 repeat), the December 24, 2017, strip being its first use.

Wow. He’s already given her perfect lighting.

What’s the best way to spend Christmas morning? Sitting there for hours while somebody paints you.

Nice tree. :)

“Will this bloody Hanukkah never end?”

Charles couldn’t decide which annoyed him more, the fact that she was so good at ventriloquism, or that the baby dummy humiliated his lack of bedroom prowess and his inability to give his wife a child.

Lucille Ball alway regretted letting them use her 1973 Xmas special for the product placement of the “My Little Regan” doll!

i am sure santa will be young and ripped like you want.

Some comments from 12/24/2017:

Bilan: That awkward Christmas morning when they both believed each other saying that they really didn’t want a present.

prrdh: Shouldn’t that be ‘that marriage she’d been dropping hints about’ (especially after the kid arrived)?

J Short: Dad knew it was always a good idea to by larger clothing, knowing the child would grown into it.

Yep Mabel. 1.5 more of those, and we’ll be that average family everybody brags about.

Despite all of their talk about having cats, the tree being up and decorated proved otherwise.

That’s probably one of those you can have your family’s faces pasted in on.