That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 11, 2023

Warning: This painting might cause diabetic shock.

These are some really unusual children: I don’t know of any 8 year olds that will stroll along, chatting casually like that

/// Marie stares at the boy she adores,

but young Morton steadfastly ignores

her. The girlfriend he chose

is that flirt with a rose.

Poor Marie has no luck with amours.

/// Because getting all wet she abhors

an umbrella she’ll tote out of doors.

To that girl, Morton crooned,

pouring salt in her wound.

When it rains, Marie now knows, it pours.

Cult leader Jonathan, using his ‘girls’ to draw in new recruits.

Hubert likes them both but he loved the umbrella

“So what do I get if I buy the flowers?”

“Flowers of course silly.”

It’s called post office, silly. We’ll wait for our special deliveries behind the bushes there.

“I swear, Albert, if you look at Rosemary one more time, I’m going to kick you in the shins.”

A lazy day at the Campbell Soup Kids daycare center.

I’m just cheap.

" I promise you this, you take her ‘flower’, it’s over for us. And I’ll beat the crap out of you."

Linus calmly told Sally, “I am not your sweet babboo and I am not buying you that flower from Lucy, it probably has a bee. I only did this walk with you so you would give me my blanket back.”

“Hey Morton Salt girl, where the heck is all the Kosher Salt?”

Harry and Hermione have adapted the puking pastilles spell, so when Ron gives this rose to Lavender and she sniffs it, unpleasant things will happen.

Little girl: “Are you feeling silly?” Little boy: “No, I’m feeling nuts.”

My paternal grandmother had a weakness for these types of sweet childhood vignettes. She had several framed and hung for many years in her small foyer. I have since found many of the old images on the Internet. She also had the “iconic” picture of the dogs playing poker. So, to make a wry or satiric comment about this picture would somehow seem impolite to her.

Hello, Gramma Sophie, wherever you are.

Everyone calm down; they’re just friends. No l’amour, no l’ess.

“I know where we can pick those for free.”

Another painting that was banned as kiddie porn by the Texas Ever-Righteous School Board & Bible Center.

“Silly, you don’t have to buy me flowers. But I have been fantasizing about a three-way lately…”

“…an apartment in the city and a charming cottage in the country, with five or six children running around. Why are you looking around like an animal wanting to escape?”

A rose for your sweetheart?: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Charles Bertrand d’Entraygues" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Rose, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3202 (October 11, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

That awkward moment when you run into your wife when you’re with the mistress.

If this is a classic, I’ll eat/

the socks in the shoes on my feet/

I am less than beguiled/

by “Hallmark “, run wild:/

It’s downright disgustingly sweet..

You know Billy, this umbrella can hide many things………

“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!” From the pilot show for “Verne & Shirley.”

I think that this picture was originally an ad for Un Salon Funéraire d’une Douce Mort with the caption Profitez de l’amour tant que vous le pouvez encore ! ( Enjoy love while you still can! )

They all had once questioned their Santity, Each with super powers like a comic book fantasy, Individually they were sad, But once united they were glad, So they started the Umbrella Academy.

I remember my dating years when a guy would give me “one perfect rose” and I would think how insulting it was that he thought I would fall for such a stupid line from such a cheap jerk.

Timmy’s manhood was believed to be very large, so the girls wouldn’t stop pestering was not going to let them know the true story.

He’s a man in a state of confusion/

Amidst blossoms in endless profusion./

He thinks he is stuck/

Over which one to pluck:/

He will learn that it’s all an illusion.

“A Rose For Your Sweetheart”