That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 13, 2023

“Grandpa, this is not the iPhone 15. And theses are DEFINITELY NOT AirPods!

Shh! The Russians will pay good money for this. Or do you actually have the cash to pay for my college education?

/// Grandpa points to the clock as a sign

Henry’s up past his bedtime of nine.

Short-wave signal’s erratic,

the boy’s heard mostly static;

his addiction is hard to define.

But Pop! Captain Midnight is just about to remind us to buy Ovaltine!

The show on the radio/

Is coming from Kokomo/

And (unlike the wireless)/

grandpa isn’t tireless/

And so off to bed we must go..

“You have to stop thinking like a liberal. We’ll start with you listening to one hour of Glenn Beck.”

I said, it’s rude to wear your Beats when someone is trying to talk to you!

Those newfangled radios are ruining the youth these days. Parents should not allow their kids to use them.

That new-fangled way of learning Algebra doesn’t seem to be working very well.

I know they hurt, They don’t call them headbangers for nothing.

His mood is sour and what he’s getting from all those dots and dashes is only making him Morse oh.

The cringe over Aaron Rodgers injury report.

Little Timmy was both hurt and let down. Being behind the trends, as usual, his grandfather had just Rick Rolled him.

My old father once set up for me the old crystal radio he built as a kid. He was still so proud of it, it made me almost cry. His folks were so very poor they had no radio when he was young. Later on, when their kids bought them a good radio and television, they had them on all day, and Grandma always listened to Arthur Godfrey and Liberace.

The position of the lampshade makes him look like a cheesehead. In which case, he’s listening to an early radio broadcast of a Packers game.

I don’t give a crap what’s on, it’s past nine and time for bed!

Inspired by his grandfather,one of the chamber’s brothers comes up with the song “time has come today!”

Oh my! I have that clock.

It’s got to be better than Taylor Swift.

Yes, yes, it can.

“I didn’t ride with Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan hill so’s you could set up all night listening to ‘Sergeant Preston of the Yukon’..now you git yorse’f to bed, young’un !”

Listen here, you little brat, as you can see, it’s time for the Matlock Mystery Radio drama, not get those off! And stay off the lawn!!

I’m telling you, if the Rollling Stones were brilliant when I was a kid they must be even better now. Just keep listening to the new track until you realize their genius.

No, it is far worse.

“Alright, boy, it’s past nine. You need to listen to Otis and the Skunk for the Phrase that Pays so we can win those Taylor Swift tickets.”

Gramps, what is a bodacious bosom?

Early moment in Green Bay Packer Cheesehead history…

Jimmy was trying to contact aliens on his home made set, but Pop said it would be at least an hour before the signal reached them.

The Short Wave Radio: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Short Wave" Loomis "Heritage Auctions" 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and find the text string Short Wave (pointing to a fineart webpage, GC doesn’t allow me to provide the complete website) in the matches, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Those instructions may be time dependent and may not work in the future.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3186 (September 13, 2023) 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 .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the June 15, 2022, strip being the prior. Again, as I said in my comment there, I can’t put this on Wikimedia Commons due to copyright issues – the artist died in 1959.

She actually tries to sing on this one.

no idea who that is … and not bothered a bit

Getting ready to test the prototype of the “Cone of Silence”.

" It’s late. It’s past 9 o’clock son. Do you know where your parents are? "

A century later it would be hard to find anyone of any age so fully dressed at home at that hour.

The invention of Signor Marconi/

Is so feeble it calls for “head-phoni” (that’s “Italian” for headphones-lol)

But some sly Japanese/

Will bring him to his knees:/

When they cover the world with Sony.

They have booted Charlie McCarthy for the Edge of Night.

He didn’t have the guts to tell him how bad it was.

it’s time for you to go to bed, fiber Magee and molley are on then “the shadow” knows

Reminds me of the mandatory hearing tests as a child.

What on earth is the original title (or purpose) of this picture ?

Home schooling: “9 am, time for your French lessons. Ecoutez et repetez – La plume de ma tante…”