That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 24, 2020

SWIPE RIGHT!

For me! Ah shucks, you shouldn’t have,

Pierre wasn’t picking up on Célia subtle hints. Last time, she said she wanted to see his bird. So He brought her a chicken. This time, she unbuttoned her blouse – there’s no way he could misconstrue that!

She’s a very cheerful and perky young woman.

“Would you like to see a cockatoo?”

The phrase, “storming the breatworks” comes to mind…

. . . but I know what I like.

as she tries to maintain a smile, lily thinks, this is for the birds…

“I also have a pair of willow tits around here. They’re usually shy, but sometimes they just hop out unexpectedly. Oops, there’s one now.”

The part of her I like best/ is that flagrantly flaunted breast/ but I’d never complain/(I’ll even remain )/ until she reveals the rest.

The rumor is bruited abroad/ that Marie is a bit of a bawd/ but the boys at the bar/ ain’t complainin’ so far/ an’ it seems they’re about to applaud!

Trying to keep abreast of things.

Nice wiew.

Ok, gentlemen…what color are my shoes?

Dang! Nice parrots!

“Yes they’re real, and they’re spectacular.”

Oh my, look what Santa brought.

…mommy didn’t know that all the pictures from her phone automatically downloaded to Amazon’s tv screen saver…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjfAx_rbq6M

Inquiring minds want to know….Is it a matched set?

The Zoom meetings always went long when Mabel joined the call.

I saw mommy kissing Santa Clause, underneath his buckle shinny bright……

Do you think this outfit is too matchy-matchy?

Even the big bird was embarrassed by the display.

The bird lady at the nudist colony.

The Polaroids were never quite as sharp, but at least they were quick. She’s been holding that pose and appears to be getting chilly.

Police training photo; shown for 5 seconds on overhead projector. Then question comes on screen, “How many birds were in the photo?”

She is holding up very well a hundred years later.

She’s cheerful now, but wait until one of those birds takes a nip.

Pretty young lady is going to get a chest cold!

Initial, rejected design for “that” dress. Even J-Lo though a bit of double-stick tape might be a good idea.

Bertha, the Bird Lady of Burgundy, was fond of showing off her perky pair of …. parrots.

Proud Mary. Very proud Mary.

And have you been a good girl? Aw, who cares, come and sit on Santa’s lap.

Who else is too distracted by those ‘cankles’ to notice anything else going on in this picture? Anyone? Just me? Time for that testosterone level test I guess…

That “thing” by her foot is what happens to you if you take her up on the invitation.

Calm down guys. Lovely as she is (and she certainly is), she’s probably been dead for 30 years.

Then she flipped me the bird.

Marjorie had spent a lot of money on that photographer, dammit, so in spite of chaos caused when the birds escaped and the resulting wardrobe failure, she decided she had no choice but to plow forward with that photo on her annual Christmas cards.

Excerpt from the book: “10 Reason Why YOU Should be an Artist”, Reasons 1, 3, 5 ,6, 7, 9, & 10.

I really need to finish unwrapping my present…

The Familiar Birds: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89mile_Friant_-_The_Familiar_Birds_-_1921.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/friant_emile.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=4279 

https://modjourn.org/biography/friant-emile-1863-1932/ 

https://visualdiplomacyusa.blogspot.com/2019/04/artist-of-day-april-22-emile-friant.html 

https://www.rauantiques.com/blog/friant-emile-2/ 

http://www.daheshmuseum.org/portfolio/emile-friantstudy-for-la-douleur 

http://www.askart.com/artist/Emile_Friant/9001112/Emile_Friant.aspx 

http://www.rehs.com/Emile_Friant_Bio.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the askart.com bio can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 7 works by him have been used here, with 1 repeat (8 times total). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/08/13?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included 6 of the artist info URLs, the second of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2606 (December 23, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Peek-a-boo!

There are sexual preferences. Then there are sexual oddities. But sometimes there’s just loony tunes.

Button up lady, even those budgies could give you a painful nip.

I’ll bet no one even noticed the cockatoo. No, I mean the bird in the corner. Get your mind out of the gutter.

The birds were already stuffed before the picture was painted. The model was stuffed afterwards.

First stop on Santa’s naughty list!

In spite of her wardrobe malfunction, she had nothing to squawk about.

Thanks for the memory……

No wonder they were called “flappers” in 1921.

Polly want a nipple?

Damned parrots are a bit of a distraction. Sort of like an Audubon painting.

is that angel wings at bottom. breasts too big to fly?

Oh, I think I know what happened to Amelia Earhart!

No … this isn’t quite right. Let’s try the same pose … but with snakes instead of birds.

Merry Breastmas everyone!

“Wha ya smiling about?”

“Oh, nuthin.”

Took the day off again?

my favorite so far

This reminds me of the folktale about the clever girl who came into a fortune by finding a way to show up “neither walking nor riding, neither dressed nor undressed…”

Shocking, just shocking -keep it up !

There once was a lass from Devizes / whose breasts were of different sizes / one was so small / it was nothing at all / the other so large it won prizes.