“Go to the countryside they said, you’ll love it they said. All that fresh air they said. Become a farmer you’ll love it they said, toil and be one with the soil they said. Bullf@&$h!?”
Johnny ‘Appleseed’ was a real person. He spent his life traveling ahead of where he thought settlers were going to go next and setting up orchards there. And when settlers moved in, he was there, selling them apple trees (apple cider was the most popular drink in colonial America). He was the largest land owner in pre-civil war America, but he didn’t do it for the money – he did it so that he had an opportunity to get to know / talk to people.
all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (the last in German; again, Chrome can automatically translate), perhaps in addition to than what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2264 (August 13, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
This is not how the Xuán Sino-Peruvians brought their rolling red devil weed to the American Empire. (A lower order biological weapon to use against their enemies.)
BE THIS GUY over 5 years ago
It was a thankless job, but somebody had to feed the gophers.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 5 years ago
Johnny feared that if he didn’t feed those Pterodactyls, they would eventually eat him.
Strob over 5 years ago
Disturbing moments in phallic portraiture #53.
santa72404 over 5 years ago
Richard’s testicular elephantiasis once more got him run out of town.
PICTO over 5 years ago
As ye sow, so shall ye reap…Got papers Johnny?
GoComicsGo! over 5 years ago
“Go to the countryside they said, you’ll love it they said. All that fresh air they said. Become a farmer you’ll love it they said, toil and be one with the soil they said. Bullf@&$h!?”
ccomebacktour over 5 years ago
“A doobie a day, keeps BIG PHARMA away !
pcolli over 5 years ago
“Now, did mother say I should learn to sow or sew?”
Khatkhattu Premium Member over 5 years ago
Well, he is reputed to have worn a pot on his head, maybe what they meant to say was pothead.
rmremail over 5 years ago
Johnny ‘Appleseed’ was a real person. He spent his life traveling ahead of where he thought settlers were going to go next and setting up orchards there. And when settlers moved in, he was there, selling them apple trees (apple cider was the most popular drink in colonial America). He was the largest land owner in pre-civil war America, but he didn’t do it for the money – he did it so that he had an opportunity to get to know / talk to people.
Egrayjames over 5 years ago
Call me Ishmael over 5 years ago
The big right-hander had speed/ but he overindulged in “weed”/he was losing his arm /when sent down to the farm/ he was visibly “going to seed”..
ptnjbrown over 5 years ago
Rare picture of Michael Jackson’s choreographer working on some of his signature moves.
Bookworm over 5 years ago
Another happy investor in the Trump Atlantic City Casino trying to recoup some of his investment.
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 5 years ago
Sew? So what?
lagoulou over 5 years ago
When asked how his day was, he said “ Sow, sow…”
Radish... over 5 years ago
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag,
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag
“Feed the birds, " that’s what she cries
While overhead, her birds fill the skies.
Another Take over 5 years ago
Hitchhiking through the Outback with swollen testicles is no picnic.
loveabulldesign over 5 years ago
…the Scarecrow transformation had begun….
Linguist over 5 years ago
Clint Eastwood sowing his wild oats, 1903.
mabrndt Premium Member over 5 years ago
The sower:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egger-Lienz_-_Der_S%C3%A4mann_-_1903.jpeg
(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/egger-lienz_albin.html
https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=4257
https://www.wikiart.org/en/albin-egger-lienz
https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Albin.Egger-Lienz
http://www.richardrhoda.com/index_Albin_Egger_Lienz.htm
http://www.albin-eggerlienz.info/en/biography
http://www.museum-schlossbruck.at/albin-egger-lienz/allgemein.html
all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (the last in German; again, Chrome can automatically translate), perhaps in addition to than what’s pointed to by the title URL. This is the first work by him used here.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2264 (August 13, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
PO' DAWG over 5 years ago
Johnny Ditch Weed you stayed too long at the fair.
d1234dick Premium Member over 5 years ago
seath found a way to exercise and feed the birds at the same time.
Indianapolis Smith over 5 years ago
This isn’t what Johnny expected when he went to sow his wild oats.
Radish... over 5 years ago
An then one day an alien saucer landed and he was shown how to make a hole in the ground with a pointy stick to put the seeds in.
danketaz Premium Member over 5 years ago
Concessionaire working the Stoned Crows concert.
gopher gofer over 5 years ago
early colostomy bag prototype…
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
This is not how the Xuán Sino-Peruvians brought their rolling red devil weed to the American Empire. (A lower order biological weapon to use against their enemies.)
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
http://mentalfloss.com/article/62113/9-facts-tell-true-story-johnny-appleseed
PatsyL.Paul over 5 years ago
John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman spread more than apple seeds. He fathered lots and lots of children everywhere he went.
PatsyL.Paul over 5 years ago
After Ansel sowed his seeds, the pesky blackbirds would swoop down and eat them all.