That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 31, 2023

My original post back in 2019:

It was about this time they realized diving off a board high above the water would be a better competition.

/// Four young Bathers were rowed far from land,

where they swam and took turns getting tanned.

Matelot manned each oar.

Why not bathe at the shore?

Can’t stand crevices rasped from the sand.

My original comment: Jodi just realized that she forgot to record her favorite show “Housewives of Leon.”

“You take a look – I can’t find Ned’s car keys anywhere!”

That’s going to be a belly flop

Training exercises for the RMS Titanic.

Wherever the h€££ you’re going/

Whenever Maurice is rowing/

There are always two oars/

And a couple of ‘ores/

That is why his “cruise business” is growing.

Where’s your sense of sport? Pull off your tops he did retort. The ladies obliged and they found out he lied when he promised to only look and not touch.

Will her leg break, or will it be the oar? Watch tomorrow night’s thrilling instalment of The Love Boat…..

Now Mungo Jerry’s 1070 Skiffle music hit “In The Summertime” is stuck in my head.

♬If her daddy’s rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy’s poor just do what you will…♬

“Help, something has got me.”

“No! My cell phone!”

She looked around and saw no playground in sight. “I’m out of here,” she said as she dove in and swam to shore. Edna completely misunderstood the meaning of a “swingers’ cruise.”

“Does this dive make my butt look big?”

In today’s episode: Jenna takes a dive

“That’s something you don’t see everyday, Chauncey.” “What’s that, Edgar?” “Why, a four ?hore oarsman.”

That’s okay – fish have been peeing and huh… having sex, in that spot for years!

“All this drama just because Louisa forgot to take her d@mn contacts out before swimming!”

Knowing Jenna had used the ol, “I lost my swimsuit bottoms” to steal her boyfriend once before, Kristen decided she would go back in after them.

How many times do I have to tell, Fredo, don’t go in until I’M READY!

Jenna never dove- she was pushed!

She’d been caught in a wicked ambush

When asked why, Captain Eddy

His voice even and steady

Said, “I just wanted to look at her tush.”

As master of this boat…clothes off when going for a swim!

Stare as long as you like, fella, that top is never going to be peeled off by a dive.

What did you think the ocean was made of?

That’s an amazingly stable boat!

“Les Baigneuses,” 1851

Quite a elaborate set up just to teach diving.

Bathers or Swimmers in a boat: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Undated paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Yahoo, Bing, 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 Baigneuses, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. The original strip coloration image was at a website that has been archived, but not fully, and unfortunately the webpage that has the strip coloration image was not part of the archive.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2341 (12/3/19) (August 30, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work this artist used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the December 3, 2019, strip being its first use.

Oh dear. Now we will never get that smell out of the ocean.

Madame in the bow must be the chaperone, engaged to insure the boatman behaves.