That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 06, 2024

Sales were hurt when the sign maker dropped an ’s’ and posted a sign that said Le marché aux poisons.

Here, take a sniff – it’s fresh.

for a dinner approved by the Church.

She’d cook fish and not meat.

On The Fish Market Street,

Greet was haggling to purchase a perch.

“It’s a penny per fish. It’ll cost you another penny if you want me to gut and clean it for you. And a penny more if you want to keep the guts.” Chuck was a master of marketing.

Man about to demonstrate the “Bass-o-Matic”.

“Well, of course something smells fishy. But it’s still a dime a fish.”

Monty Python Fish mongers fish slapping dance in FIFTEEN MINUTES!

“This here’s a magic talking fish, Lady. Fifteen extra pazzuzas. But don’t believe a word it says.”

“I know you think of yourself as an artist, Genevieve, but I’m still not convinced this would make a good table centerpiece”.

“I assure you madam, that fishy smell is not from me. I took a bath just last month!”

“What time does the cruise leave? I think the Captain said I was on his ship list.”

The short lived attempt to use fish as currency

His mistress is also his niece./

(She allows it, because she’s obese.)/

When pursuing the odd “piece”/

He puts cod in his codpiece/

Then he practices “catch and release”.

It’s amazing! Slide this under his pillow tonight, and you won’t be able to smell your husband’s breath in the morning.

“Ladies, as much as I enjoy hearing the continuing adventures of Syd the Village Idiot, are you going to buy this fish or not?”

The sale was taking too long, The price that they wanted was just wrong, They had made a demand, And with the fish conveniently in hand, He burst into ‘The Fish Slapping’ Song.

“You want to do what? Mount it on a plaque on the wall and make it sing? Madame, that is madness! Who would ever purchase such a bizarre construct?!”

Three Cod Monte? They must be in Bahston.

Apology to Dr. Seuss)

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One fish, Two fish, Three fish, and Four fish

We urge customers to eat more fish

Some fish have small crunchy bones

These we eat with cream cheese on scones

Other fish we sell could hurt you

Their sharp bones would exsanguinate you

My! To name all the types of fish we sell

Would take a full week or two to tell

So many fish, such diverse uses

All with Omega-3 in their juices

Yes, eat our fish, and if not wealthy

You will at least be very healthy

Take your pick from bins packed with ice

You are bound to pick a fish or two that’s nice

Some are big and though some might seem small

We are very sure you’ll like them all

So go fix fish for your kids and granddad

For which they will we promise be quite glad!

Only a mortician or Egyptian could us exsanguinate in a sentence, LADIES would you date such a man?

“I saaaaiiiiiiddd, I have a handkerchief over my mouth because of the smell! I wasn’t trying to tell you to go to hell!”

The Fish Market: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Jan Van Beers" 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 poisons, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Source in Summary points to the Christie’s webpage used to auction this painting. The webpage currently has a typo (what to search for in the Category: earlier) in the painting’s French title that has spread around the internet and is shown by other websites as that wrong title of this painting: The Poison Market (in English). I corrected the WC file. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3265 (February 6, 2024) 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 info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

the shipment came in and it was fish and not pot, he was very upset.

This is Brussels not Seattle, Ma’am, if you want fish thrown at you you’ll have to go down to the red light district, but it’ll cost you!

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=anSldg46dIQ

in the trade he’s known as the codfather…