That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 11, 2024

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    Solstice*1947  about 2 months ago

    /// The Slovakian Glass Seller’s plan

    was to dress in the garb of a man.

    Girls who go door-to-door

    are assumed to sell more

    than the wares that they lug in rattan.

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    Bilan  about 2 months ago

    “My invisibility potion is the best around. See, it’s invisible!”

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    Jayalexander  about 2 months ago

    I found it helps to empty the bottles, Not as heavy but frequent pit stops.

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    Call me Ishmael  about 2 months ago

    “There Stands the Glass…”—Webb PIerce

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    MS72  about 2 months ago

    we used to get 2 cents for each reusable pop bottle.

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    Slowly, he turned...  about 2 months ago

    That’s the way I look taking my meds each morning!

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    mrwiskers  about 2 months ago

    Clarity, thy name is …

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    PraiseofFolly  about 2 months ago

    “The Fuller’s Bottle Man” had a depressing job — going door-to-door collecting urine for his Master’s clothes-cleaning business. But at least he wasn’t a Foot Stomper.

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  about 2 months ago

    Jakub’s door-to-door bottled air salesman job didn’t take off like he’d hoped.

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    Econ01  about 2 months ago

    Living in a town that doesn’t have a glass recycling pickup service just makes it annoying. I’ll be back in a half-hour.

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    Call me Ishmael  about 2 months ago

    “I have one word for you, Benjamin. Plastics !”

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    rmremail  about 2 months ago

    That was some party… Jessica staggers home the following morning with her basket of empties.

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    jbrobo Premium Member about 2 months ago

    “ knock knock! I’m here to take donations for the fertility clinic!”

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    Lady loves a joke  about 2 months ago

    “Mom asked me to help with dishes. If I drop these now, she’ll never ask me to help with them again”.

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    cldisme  about 2 months ago

    That is EXACTLY what my wife would say to me pulling this kind of stunt. Unfortunately, she does not wear glasses, otherwise I probably would have done it a million times by now.

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    Linguist  about 2 months ago

    “Any old glass today, lady? … Any old glass, today? How’s about a little bitty piece of … gl-ass … today?”

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    prrdh  about 2 months ago

    “You’re Czech, for God’s sake. If you meant something other than Pilsner glasses, you should have said so.”

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    Khatkhattu Premium Member about 2 months ago

    How much to turn these into bongs?

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    mokspr Premium Member about 2 months ago

    The moonshine business really took off when they started offering home delivery!

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    Call me Ishmael  about 2 months ago

    Though they travel by different means/

    Still, Slovaks are as slow as Slovenes..

    Both are Slavic and sly/

    So the difference (say I)/

    Is not worth a hill of beans..///

    To my mind, the greatest Slovak/

    Was good old Antonin Dvorak/

    Whose labors titanic/

    Begat music Germanic/

    Which to some folks may come as a shock…

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    mabrndt Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Slovak Glass Seller

    Paste (including the quote marks) 

    "Category:Undated paintings" Wikimedia 

    (syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Brave 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 Antonin, 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 #3390 (October 11, 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 will be adding a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

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    Another Take  about 2 months ago

    “No – I asked if you wanted a piece of glass

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    Impkins  Premium Member about 2 months ago

    Have you met the Fuller Brush man? : )

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    KEA  about 2 months ago

    What do you call glasses when they’re not made out of glass?

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member about 2 months ago

    I’m down to 10 bottles on the “wall”. Would you care to help me?

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    Call me Ishmael  about 2 months ago

    Slovakians seem to amass/

    Inordinate masses of glass/

    Which they promptly re-sell/

    To persons who dwell/

    In households that smell of grass.///

    It’s a hard way to get ahead/

    But Slovakians (so it said)/

    Agree with one voice/

    That- given a choice-/

    It’s still better than being dead.

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    Call me Ishmael  about 2 months ago

    ‘Perhaps Rembrandt wasn’t that thin/

    (At least, he’s not thought to have been)/

    But his works in the Louvre/

    And doesn’t that prove/

    That a chubby old Dutchman CAN win ?

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