That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 23, 2019

The last time the Saudis entered a boat in the America’s Cup.

That one guy is thinking, why do people always put their boats in my swimming pool?

Some shortcut to this turned out to be. Now they are stuck on a sand bar and are going to miss the first half of the game. One guy even lost his pants.

“Hello sailor!”

“Push harder you unworthy pole pushers! The prince will never get up on one ski at this speed!”

“Sorry men, GPS says we need to go that way”

So he says, “Come on down to my boat baby, come on down where we can play.”…….and this what I get. Should have stayed tied to the dock.

We’ve got him! Hold him down with these poles. There.. yeah! Watch it, he’s big, he’s orange, and he’s angry. Stupid but angry.

That guy on the right looks amusing – swimming up in waist-high water.

They didn’t know which way to go, so they took a pole.

A sandbar, low tide, a drunken captain, a belligerent crew, what could possibly go wrong ?

I said to ROW the boat ashore, Michael. That’s it! Alleluia!

But the sign said the boat’s draft was 3 feet – oh, it says 3 meters. Darn metric, forgot I wasn’t in the U.S.

Wiki: “1855–6 he visited Egypt, travelling up the Nile in the company of another painter, Edouard Imer. A second trip to Egypt in 1856 was largely spent making studies for his painting Pilgrims going to Mecca, now in the Musée d’Orsay.” So at least he came by his orientalism honestly.

I.S.I.S. lands it’s crack S.E.A.L. team

How now, dhown dhow?

I’m gonna move to Venice and become an independent pusher.

La dahabien engraveé, Égypte: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%A9on_Belly_-_La_dahabieh_engrav%C3%A9e,_%C3%89gypte_(1877).jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/belly_leon.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=4285 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Belly2.htm 

https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/belly.php 

https://books.google.com/books?id=j89YnPJ7CmMC&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q&f=false 

all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2122 (January 22, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“We barged right into that one, didn’t we? Don’t look at me like that.”

“Listen, guys. I have to be at the school in ten minutes to pick up the kids.”

Leon Belly…. hee hee.

Oh, wait, I figured it out! I was reading the tide table upsidedown.

Shoot! I forgot to wear my cargo pants!

the crew stuck on a sandbar thought, HEY! good time for skinny dipping.