That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 28, 2024

One of the benefits of this job was the employee discount on linens.

/// It’s not easy to be The Flax Spinners.

There’s no “learning curve” there for beginners.

The Flax Barn at Laren

hires women deemed barren,

and child orphans who get paid with dinners.

Put your backs into it, ladies! Pull!

“Just the flax ma’am.”

synchronized spinning was part of the original Miss America contests, back before they replaced it with the swimsuit competition.

whose line is it anyway?

The spider that just won the MegaMillions is now able to hire help to do her work.

They say this line dancing is all the rage now.

Barely able to make out the pic – after enlarging it to 200%.

Near the end of each growing season just before flax plants were harvested, the flax spinners pulled and stretched enormous amounts of salt-water taffy. (—

Wooden shoe like to know where they got their uniforms?

The ladies who labor at flax/

Are confronted with certain harsh facts/

But there’s standing room only/

Cause they never get lonely/

And they all have each other’s backs..

It’s a tough way to make a buck/

But a lady who’s down on her luck/

Might prefer doing this/

To the “heavenly bliss”/

Of selling her @$$ to some schmuck..///

“Avast! Haul those lines, ye bilge rats!”

“Talk Like a Pirate Day was last week, Helga. Quit it!”

Remembering the March 25th, 1911 anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory tragedy.

Ten years ago, but were the images really that small and that fuzzy back then? Mine weren’t.

Life was brutal in those 19th century dental floss mills!

The Flax Barn at Laren: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1887 oil on canvas paintings in Germany" Wikimedia 

(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 choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string 2,004, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this large painting. Strip coloration image has disappeared, AFAIK. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #964 (1/8/14) (March 27, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here (4 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the March 28, 2014, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. The September 4, 2019, strip has the prior by him.

2014 is before my time. Sorry I missed it.

Other comments from 3/28/2014:

tattooedcyberidiot: Are you getting enough fiber?

orinoco womble: All tied up in her work…

SusanSunshine: The distaff side .I’d get tired of doing that all day … wooden shoe?

BlackTie: I see trouble looming.