That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 06, 2023

Leiv Eirikson discovered America but Christopher Columbus had the better publicity agent.

“Wow, look at that wave. It must be over 100 feet high. I say we ride it out.”

Leiv Eirikson discovers a new continent when his GPS sends him the wrong way from Greenland.

/// To the “New World” Leiv Eiriksson sailed;

reached America (and thus prevailed).

In five hundred years Chris

sailed from Spain hit-or-miss.

If Chris hoped to be first, he had failed.

How about instead of calling you Ishmael, we call you “obnoxious”

Surf’s up!

Not on your life! We’ll just call it Moby, in case children want to read about it too.

An immortal classic:

“aboard good ship Venus/

My God – you should have seen us !/

the figurehead /

was a wh*** in bed /

and the mast was a petrified p***$..”

“I can’t tell if it’s mist over land, or burning forest fires. Since we didn’t bring any proper masks to protect against smoke, we must Leiv and return to Greenland..”

Leiv Eriksson, whose father was Erik the Red

Might just as well have stayed home in bed.

Did he by accident sail off course?

An embarrassing thing for a man called Norse!

A few measly vines and lots of stony cold ground —

Not much incentive to long stick around.

It took an Italian man with Spanish backing

To provide what poor lame Leif was lacking:

Greed to seek out riches and plunders

And Old World diseases to reduce natives’ numbers..

“Is that your wife come after ya?”

Just pee overboard. The ocean’s big enough to absorb it seemingly unaffected.

Any pot in a storm!

Better yet, just go to the Leeward side and relieve yourself….

“Captain….please let me take the rudder and save us all…..YOU ARE NOT A TEAPOT!……..You’re Mad!”

“Thank God, there’s a Starbucks.”

When as a kid I took sailing lessons. “Pee to the Lee” was instilled.

Izzzat one of those fancy submarines Trump was telling us about?

These Vikings are not very cute/

But at sea they’re supremely astute:/

You can count on the Norse/

To plot the right course:/

They’re just taking the scenic route.

Captain distracting his crew so they wouldn’t notice he was about to loose his do-rag.

“This is the ACIFIC OCEAN. Notice there is no P in it. Please keep it that way.”

Bjarni Herjólfsson ( pictured above ) was really the first to spot Vineland but Lief Erikson got the credit because his name was easy to pronounce and spell! Lucky Leaf, Poor Barney!

there’s a reason they called it the poop deck

Herman Melville – “Thar she blows!” Thus coming up with the idea for a very long novel about his whaling adventures.

Land Ho! But we’re too late, they finished building the wall.

Leiv Eirikson discovering America: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1893 paintings in Norway" 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 4,594, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this huge painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3199 (October 6, 2023) 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 have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the January 8, 2018, strip being the prior.

They knew him as “Lucky Leif”/

For he never once came to grief/

His skilled navigation/

Built his fine reputation../

And he never once struck a reef

“If you listen real hard, you can hear the ocean!”

“Leiv Erikson Discovering America,” 1893

there is Hawaii guys now they all hate us. load up the pineapples.

You dare not soil the nest!

Thanks to Mabrndt’s helpful information, if you look closely in the top left corner, you will see that someone has been splicing the main-brace.

Of all of his numerous talents/

Leif’s best was his keen sense of balance/

He never lost face/

When he spliced his main brace/

And he clambered among the t’gallants.

Ay, look thar buckoos, a topless mermaid……

This much can be said of the crew/

They can sleep through the worst I can do-/

Thus my pitiful jokes’ll/

All fail in the foc’sle/

No matter how tasteless or “blue”.