That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 24, 2024

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    Bilan  about 2 months ago

    Well, this is one solution for when a member of PETA wants a fur coat.

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    phritzg Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Lions, leopards, and hyenas: Briton Rivière knows how to put the Afro in Aphrodite.

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    Call me Ishmael  about 2 months ago

    And to think that she started as humble “childless cat lady”…

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    jdculhane46  about 2 months ago

    Wailing at the moon after she got the feed and vet bills

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    jdculhane46  about 2 months ago

    Sylvia just now realizing thar she needs to order poop bags in bulk and in the XL size

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  about 2 months ago

    “One day my singing will draw crowds. You’ll see!”

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    chaosed2  about 2 months ago

    As a pet owner who has tried to eat a snack in peace, I can relate to this.

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    fritzoid Premium Member about 2 months ago

    “Sorry, guys, this is as far as I can reach. You’re not all going to fit in the selfie.”

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    P51Strega  about 2 months ago

    ♫ She’s a man eater… she’ll chew you up ♪

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    fritzoid Premium Member about 2 months ago

    “Dudes… Have you ever really, like…looked at your hand? Or your paw, whatever.”

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    fritzoid Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Music Hath Charms to Soothe the Savage Beast. I Know It’s Supposed to be “Breast,” but This Isn’t That Kind of Painting. Why Don’t You Click Back to Yesterday? Perv.

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    fritzoid Premium Member about 2 months ago

    “I’ve pulled thorns out of your paws hundreds of times, but I get one splinter in my palm and you’re all useless. Where’s an opposable thumb when you need one?”

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    PraiseofFolly  about 2 months ago

    Aphrodite in her crimson nightie strolled

    Through the darkened forest bold

    Among the hungry canids and felines

    That groveled in adoring, swarming lines.

    What romantic human tryst might unfold?

    .

    And she does acknowledge up above

    One symbol of her as goddess is a dove

    For among mortal men she makes lies

    To say she is no goddess lest it terrifies

    Them in consuming lust from making love

    .

    Thus was was caught shepherd Anchises

    Who met the goddess in her mortal disguises

    As morning light revealed her deception

    She gave him news of her conception

    Of Aeneas, from whom Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’ arises

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    prrdh  about 2 months ago

    That wolf with the back of her skirt in his mouth seems to like the view.

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    fritzoid Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Aphrodite’s Lament: “I get so tired of being nude all the time. It’s only here in the solitude of nature, surrounded by none but beasts, that I’m free to wear a nice frock.”

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    rugeirn  about 2 months ago

    From a label the artist attached to the back of the painting:

    “Aphrodite

    There clad herself in garments beautiful / The laughter loving goddess. Gold-adorned / She hasten on her way down Ida’s Mount, / Ida, the many-rilled, mother of wild beasts / And in her train, the grey wolf and the bear, / the keen eyed lion and the swift footed pard, / that hungers for the hind, all fawning came.

    Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite"

    The Homeric Hymns date to the 8th-9th century BC.The note comes from the page devoted to this painting at the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York City, which seems to own the work.

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    Holden Awn  about 2 months ago

    You are past due for a shower, Lady.

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    Rev Phnk Ey  about 2 months ago

    Emily flipping the bird.

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    fritzoid Premium Member about 2 months ago

    "Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful. Although I am composed of every desirable feature melded in perfect harmony — truly, I am Beauty Incarnate — yet it is divine Nature which draws every envious eye to fix upon me, not my design nor my heart’s wish. I have a soul. I long merely for understanding, and… Hey, you by the pool! Look at me when I’m talking to you!

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    Solstice*1947  about 2 months ago

    My slightly edited comments from 19 August 2021:

    /// For the love she inspired, wild beasts sought her,

    and she led them all down to the water.

    When they stopped at the brink,

    one pard took the first drink,

    and her spell broke, which started a slaughter.

    /// Aphrodite was caught unawares.

    “There is blood in that stream,” she declares.

    With one taste they grew fierce.

    Claws gouge flesh; sharp fangs pierce.

    Deceased lions, and tigers, and bears.

    (Oh, my!)

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    Calvins Brother  about 2 months ago

    “Who wants treats?”

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    Bookworm  about 2 months ago

    There are a number of theories. / But the most common among these, / Is the scheme used to dupe us / Is the sly Canis Lupus / Donning the apparel of the meek Ovis Aries! ;>)

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    mokspr Premium Member about 2 months ago

    And the bear growled to the lion “I’d pay serious money if she’d just shut up!”

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    Call me Ishmael  about 2 months ago

    Aphrodite the Romans called Venus:/

    Here portrayed showing litheness and lean-ness/

    Would have shrunk back in fright /

    (Or viewed with delight)/

    Arnold Palmer’s phenomenal p***s !

    (This information comes from a “model of probity” – a former President of the United States – It doesn’t get more honest than that!)

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    Ken Holman Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Mrs. Noah got lost getting back when the gathering clouds made it too dark to read her compass.

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    mabrndt Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Aphrodite

    Paste (including the quote marks) 

    "Category:Paintings of bears" Wikimedia 

    (syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia 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 Briton, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large painting. 

    Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2774 (8/19/21) (October 23, 2024) 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, 11 works by him have been used here (12 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the August 19, 2021, strip being its first use, and the latest strip to use one of his works.

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    Solstice*1947  about 2 months ago

    I just noticed that my first long string of limericks from yesterday has disappeared (along with the replies of others). They are no longer on My Profile page either. As far as I can recall there was nothing offensive there, so I may try to reconstruct a few of them at some time.

    Right now is time for a nap after a red-eye flight from Phoenix to JFK, a too-long ride home in a cab that reeked of cigarettes, unpacking a few essentials, and just dealing with an almost legitimate sounding phone call trying (unsuccessfully) to get bank and or credit card info. (Called the actual fraud dept. to confirm my suspicion that I’d been speaking to a scammer.)

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    fritzoid Premium Member about 2 months ago

    While the Audience’s Attention Was Fixed on Her Right Hand, Aphrodite Deftly Slipped the Queen of Hearts Into Her Bodice with the Left. “Animals are Suckers,” She Thought to Herself. “If They Had Any Money, I Could Make a Fortune Off Them.”

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    NWdryad  about 2 months ago

    I’d like to hear the story behind this painting

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    anomaly  about 2 months ago

    She does bring out the beast in everyone.

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    fritzoid Premium Member about 2 months ago

    RuPaul’s Guide to Wilderness Survival: If you find yourself alone in the woods, surrounded by ravenous beasts, don’t try to outrun them. Strike a pose, Queen!

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    Call me Ishmael  about 2 months ago

    “They followed me home, Ma ! Can I keep them ? Pleeeez…”

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    bunrabbit99  about 2 months ago

    single childless cat lady owning it!

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    JH&Cats  about 2 months ago

    “Leo got one sleeve—good start.”

    Actually, it looks as if she’s missing her left arm, it’s so hard to see.

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