That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 30, 2020

Tonight’s menu: Cabbage soup, sautéed cabbage, cabbage au gratin — and for something different — sauerkraut.

Who spilled my cabbages?! Heads will roll for this!

The English were determined to one up Spain’s tomato fight. Several injuries followed.

The Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival was so popular it inspired a spin-off for Atlantic Giant Brussel Sprouts.

Harry had no idea “cabbage” was just a euphemism for money. If his landlady wasn’t under the same misconception, he’d be sleeping on a park bench tonight.

millie went down to the cabbage market because she just wanted to get a head…

The bad news is that we have nothing to eat but cabbage…the good news is we have lots of cabbage.

Chaos is taking a toll/ Will nobody take control?/ If nobody does/ I’m telling you, cuz/ that some heads are gonna roll !

The alternate energy conference was interrupted by the Natural Gas producer’s lobby.

There isn’t a shred of doubt/ ( you may ask the most lumbering lout)/ that at this time of year/ at least around here/ the kraut’s what it’s all about !

best get ahead of that

The Dutch they are a peculiar race with wooden shoes and a cabbage place…..and Yikes…Dikes!

These wooden shoes are a croc.

We bitch and moan about not getting to go out to dine like we could last year, but them cabbages meant that they would live through the winter. Never wish for the good old days.

Well, I never slaw this one coming.

Cole Slaw Wrestling! What’s more fun watchin’ near-naked girls? And BEER!

Everyone has come to watch the first taping of the new game show, Bowling For Sauerkraut.

Where are the Cabbage Patch Kids? Somebody eat them?

“The Gathering of the Kraut Trampers”(My sainted mother, who was born 106 years ago tomorrow, learned her ethnic slurs in the shadow of The Great War. She never apologized for calling Germans “Kraut Trampers”—but I have never heard that term uttered by anyone else. )

It was only a few years later that they understood they should dress themselves up as cabbages.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,

“To talk of many things:

Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—

Of cabbages—and kings—

And why the sea is boiling hot—

And whether pigs have wings.”

Today’s painting was so dreary I had to go back to last week’s pretty girl for my morning eye-opener.

The annual Cole Slaw and Sauerkraut Festival in Brussels always drew a large following of Cabbage Heads.

I’m told it was a real gas!

You DO know there IS a CabbageCon in the Netherlands . . . it’s the Dutch DiscWorld Convention.https://www.dutchdwcon.nl/en/welcome-3/

When God gives you cabbage, you make……?? cabbage patch dolls??

WE WILL HAVE CABBAGE IN THE STREETS IF WE LET THEM IMMIGRATE HERE!" Early anti-Russian propaganda poster from England.

surprised there’s not more cosplay… or, maybe there is?

Postcard from Sto Lat (Discworld reference).

Hard to tell who farted. Oh, it must have been the young lady that is smiling.

Nope. Not a single one is a cabbage-patch kid.

Cabbage-Con? That’s about the most useless … Uhm, how much are the tickets?

Cabbage market: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bartlett_-_Cabbage_market_watercolor_1900.jpg 

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

 

https://www.artsbma.org/collection/kyoto/ 

https://www.roningallery.com/artists/bartlett-charles 

https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/129/Bartlett/Charles 

https://www.castlefinearts.com/search_results.php?searchByArtist=147 

https://isaacsartcenter.hpa.edu/artist-works.php?artistId=158131&artist=Charles+Bartlett+%281860-1941%29 

https://www.artelino.com/articles/charles_bartlett.asp 

https://www.askart.com/artist_bulletins/Charles_William_Bartlett/88525/Charles_William_Bartlett.aspx 

http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa471.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about the artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is a different caption repeat of the only work by him used here so far. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/06/06?comments=visible 

has the prior caption, which while my comment is still there, with the line breaks removed, its 7 hyperlinks remain inactive, ?&@#!#%&!, but the text may be informative.

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2609 (December 29, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

This is what inspired the little Dutch boy to get out of town and put his finger in the dike.

Giving and getting good head meant something different back in those days.

Thank heavens the corned beef market is just across the street.

Congratulations! You just won a cart full of cabbage!

Now, do you want to keep it or trade it for what’s in cart #1?

Love the Cosplay!

You get a head, and you get a head, and you get a head!

the spinster Evelynn, hearing that children come from cabbage patches, tries to force one into her vagina to make a boy.

“How far ahead ?” my chauffeur said,/ and I, of course, replied/ “about a foot”, and so he put all other cares aside./ And on we flew, though cares anew/ beset us on all sides/ Until at last we’d gotten past/ the village, where resides/ the Cabbage King, who wears the ring/ from which those heads by millions spring./ Thus did I learn/ one dare not spurn/ the lowly cabbage/ for it is a “heady” thing !

“Okay, folks!…first one to find a baby wins!”

Honey? Next year … can we grow radishes?

The original colporteurs.

“Slaw dancin’, swayin’ to the music…” (for Strob, who will “get it”..lol)