That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 17, 2020

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    DATo  over 4 years ago

    A rare painting of Esmeralda Marlborough-Winston – inventor of the spittoon.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 4 years ago

    “I’ve got it! A young girl goes to a wizard school…” (Oooh, so close)

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    BE THIS GUY  over 4 years ago

    At times like these Greta wished she had learned to read so she would have an excuse to avoid kitchen work.

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    Carolyn Saunders  over 4 years ago

    Do I hit her with the potato or just stab her? Anything to stop her reading out that darn book

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    gopher gofer  over 4 years ago

    googling ‘how to peel a potato’ the old-fashioned way…

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    A Common 'tator  over 4 years ago

    Take one step closer with that masher and see what happens…

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    jbrobo Premium Member over 4 years ago

    “Sorry Martha. I just can’t find the recipe for boiled potatoes. “

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    Buzzworld  over 4 years ago

    “You say potato, and I say potato. Potato, potato, let’s call the whole thing off.”

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    jel354  over 4 years ago

    A performer like that is one way to make sure bars and clubs operate at below capacity.

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    well-i-never  over 4 years ago

    America’s Got Talent has already heard “I Dreamed a Dream”, sis.

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    MS72  over 4 years ago

    Lizzie Borden Wishing she had an axe Instead of a potato peeler.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    “What deity must I implore/ to be freed of this odious chore ?/ Whilst I peel this potato/ she’s reading me Plato../ I just can’t take any more..”

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    rmremail  over 4 years ago

    I see the stereotypes started early: The blond sister is sitting in the sunshine, dressed stylishly and getting ready for guests while the frumpy brunette is sitting in the dark, hunched over a book.

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    Reader  over 4 years ago

    She looks awfully happy for someone trying to peel potatoes with a butter knife. How high is she?

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    rugeirn  over 4 years ago

    With the beautiful warm sun on her face, Sue went off into a lovely reverie. The sun…the knife..her mother…ah.

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    garcoa  over 4 years ago

    No, the book clearly says to hold the knife in the left hand and the potato in the right.

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    Rev Phnk Ey  over 4 years ago

    “If that parrot screams about wanting a cracker one more time, I’m going to slit it’s throat with this razor.”

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    PO' DAWG  over 4 years ago

    " Ah, only forty three more to go."

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 4 years ago

    “A 200 page technical manual for a paring knife with no moving parts? That’s the last time I buy kitchenware from Army Surplus.”

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    Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 4 years ago

    “Coming to you live, from Miss Clarissa’s readathon: It looks like she’s getting ready to turn the page…..yeeesss, her forefinger is between the pages…….”

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    Linguist  over 4 years ago

    “One quick slash across her throat " she thinks, _"and I can shut this bible blatherer up for good!":

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 4 years ago

    Read and Peel, the new kitchen sensation! Order yours today for just $29.99.

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    Calvins Brother  over 4 years ago

    A Prairie Home Companion, the early days.

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Peeling potatoes

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adrien_Jean_Madiol_Peeling_potatoes_1873.jpg 

    has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

     

    Other than van Gogh mentioning him in a letter to his brother 

    http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let164/letter.html 

    I couldn’t find any online info about this artist, besides what’s pointed to by the title URL, which indirectly points to his Dutch Wikipedia page: 

    https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan-Jan_Madiol 

    (currently has his correct lifespan – many websites incorrectly say he died in 1892 – again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessay). First work by him used here.

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2472 (June 16, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

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    Another Take  over 4 years ago

    “Ok. It says here to firmly grip the man’s…OMG. I CAN’T READ ANYMORE!”

    “Come on! I got this prop out and everything! Keep going!”

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    Two sisters in sweet repose/ each in her own specialty’s throes/ the one peels potatoes/ the other reads Plato’s / effusions. Which would you have chose ? (I think I’d want both of those…)

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    GoComicsGo!  over 4 years ago

    ((“Kill or not to kill?… Kill or…”))

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    MissScarlet Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Clarissa took great joy in her work, but a minder was always needed nearby to keep her focused on the task.

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    gcarlson  over 4 years ago

    " It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture – a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." – E.A. Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”

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    JanBic Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Everybody’s concentrating on the potatoes and no one saw the “Dad Joke”? Come on Father’s Day is Sunday.

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    d1234dick Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Silivia just finished carving up the bird in the window and now is working on potatoes,going to be a great dinner. her mother isn’t quite sure.

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 4 years ago

    The president peeled potatoes.

    We must repeal them.

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member over 4 years ago

    This just isn’t any fun anymore. What you say that tomorrow we go back to wearing our lumberjack clothes?

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    calmom75 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    I’m always amazed at how far we depart from the original captions of these comics….

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    FireAnt_Hater  over 4 years ago

    The one reading the book would be much more interesting to know (in whichever way you want to take that).

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