That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 21, 2025

“Sis, what is a thrupple?”

/// Albert’s wife and Emilie Von Etter,

are in Cannes and they’re reading his letter.

Albert wrote: “You’ve been cold.

If I may be so bold,

I have fears you love Emilie better.”

The ménage. She told me she spoke with the roommate and the roommate’s into the ménage too. (Seinfeld)

“I’m bored, too, Emilie. Why don’t we get a Brazilian wax and hit the nude beach for an all-over suntan?”

“He’s lying, there’s no way that’s the measurement of his…”

“He’s only billed me for the flowers!”

“It’s a bill from the resort. Yikes! I thought the stuff in the mini-fridge was free.”

According to this map, we made a wrong turn. I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.

Let’s see….It says "Press 1 for sounds of the ocean, Press 2 for calls of the whales, and press 3 for Enya’s ‘Orinoco Flow’ "

And not only are the words misspelled, they are all capitalized.

And look at the return address – it’s from Mar-a-Lago

“My uncle down in Texas/

can’t even spell his name/

but they cash them just the same..”

“you’re seacret admirerer” is a reel keaper.

On a balcony somewhere near Cannes/

A girl with the grace of a swan/

Reads a brief “billet doux “/

From a man whose IQ/

Is revealed by his use of crayon..

“If you are not Sting, please put this message back in the bottle.”

When happens in Cannes stays in Cannes. What happens in Finland is frozen in time!

Give the guy a break. Some of us have trouble typing with our thumbs on those tiny phone keyboards.

Just an aside, but what a beautiful painting…

Next time lets check the price before getting a room with a view.

“Let me just slowly and casually slip this arm right around here…”

The Artist’s Wife and Emilia von Etter on a Balcony in Cannes: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings of Cannes" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Wikimedia Category: found and once there find the text string 1975, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed by 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 #3465 (February 20, 2025) 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 .jpg 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, 10 works by him have been used here (11 times, including a different caption repeat), the February 17, 2025, strip being the prior.

Is it just me, or does there appear to be a giant insect coming out from under the ledge?

Please accept this vase of flowers as a welcome gift to our humble beach abode. Breakfast is served promptly at 9:00 am. Please be advised that at precisely noon each day, Lord Trotter finds it pleasing to strut past your window Al Fresco. Below the ledge, you will find a basket of water balloons to be thrown in discouragement. He needs a lot of discouragement.

Yore sucret admiral?

Does this suicide note mean he’s leaving me?

He wrote: “Your adorable.” I responded: “No, you’re adorable.” Now he thinks I like him when all I did was point out his grammatical error!