That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 16, 2021

It was Junior’s job to catch it if Polly pooped during the painting session.

They were very rich, but that didn’t give them big heads.

Is it just me, or does the woman in pink look like a praying mantis?

In a few years, we’ll commission another painting when we have a bigger table to show off.

Today’s women are so much more peaceful than yesterdays painting. And more fully clothed. And dull.

Johan, showing off his trophy wife, expensive art and fancy clothes. He wanted to include his pure bred Arabian stallion, but he had to settle for a parrot for fear of scuffing the floor.

Father’s framed portrait appeared to be looking at him. Mother and Sissy had posed for the figures on the clock behind them. And both Sonny and Polly were the models for the stone figure on the family tombstone.

A live installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A test of the actors’ ability to maintain the posed tableau vivant, they are allowed a break whenever the sweet bird flies off to find his youth.

It’s a high-prestige BBC drama, / (Laura Linney is playing the Mama), / but success was undone; / folks preferred Bridgerton / where, in bed, they don’t wear a pajama.

Ironically, the parrot was the only one of them who didn’t think of themself as a bird in a gilded cage.

Is that a portrait of Dad on the wall behind Mom?

The Reich family’s unnaturally stiff. / There’s more action in your average GIF. / Later each grownup sups / laudanum from small cups. / (If they could, they would light up a spliff.)

Mama’s corset is laced up so tight, / that to get one good breath she must fight. / From the stiff whalebone stays / her slim waist garners praise, / but Papa won’t get “lucky” tonight.

Johann Michael Neder placed a fortune in gemstones into a decorative box and buried it somewhere in Austria. He had hidden multiple arcane clues to finding it in his painting, Familienbild. Treasure hunters from all over the world attempted to solve the puzzle, and before identifying a single clue would fall asleep.

sis was hesitant to pose for this portrait and one understands her feelings, since she’s a pencil neck geek…

What’s in Mama’s tea? She’s listing to starboard.

The Amazing Marionettes and their dirty, disgusting, filthy, lice-ridden boid.

“Hi. We’re the Schmucks. We’re here for the weekend.”

The woman in pink may not be a praying mantis, but she sure has her legs working on that table leg.

Mom, wearing the new parrot feces catching headgear.

It took several sittings, you see, / To paint this dull family. / It’s bland, unexciting. / No emotion igniting. / And is that cherub (upper left) taking a wee?

John Jr inherited his father’s knack for befriending animals. Sadly, Julia only inherited her mother’s long neck.

Did you ever notice how some folks resemble their pets?

Proof that nobody ever smiled during family pictures.

So then, what we have here is a bird’s eye view of a picture within a picture of a picture of a painting?

What are you looking at?

President Jefferson Davis shown here teaching his bird to say POLLY IS A CRACKER

Woman Spreading on public transport disappeared with the disappearance of voluminous dresses. It was only then that men had the room to Man Spread

(Think of that ladies the next time you get annoyed with some jerk taking up two seats – WOMEN DID IT FIRST!)

The daughter somehow survived her microcephaly, amazing.

“Well son, a bird in he hand is worth two at the table.” “No Dad, that’s not how it goes!”

’Polly want a portrait?"

Original copy of Marlin Perkins’ audition for Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom? With a very young Jim Fowler.

Family Portrait: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Michael_Neder_-_Franz_J%C3%A4ger%E2%80%99s_family.jpg 

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

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

https://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/07/masterpiece-2750.html 

I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s OK) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by this artist have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/07/13?comments=visible 

has the prior.

Son: this parrot is dead! Father: no it isn’t, it’s a Norwegian Green Parrot and it is pining for the fjords!

“Daddy, why do ladies drink tea together?”

“It gives them something to do with their minds while they are talking.”

They tried teaching some phrases in German / to their little green parrot called Hermann, / but he never learned one. / Yet from Hermann, their son / learned to SQUAWK during last Sunday’s sermon.

before the new sex change operations, you just had to live as you were born.how ever wrong.

Keeping new Comment guidelines in mind, / I will stay, to the topic, confined: / Her green dress didn’t swish / when the bird squawked out, “Ish?” / “You OK? You are missed,” it opined.

Their creepy and their kooky. Mysterious and spooky. Their all together ooky! The Adams family…..circa 1836.