Bernice thought that having a few drinks before boating would be fun, then she jokingly tried to push her husband into the lake, and they all ended up in the drink!
Professor Chauncy Clusterbuck thinks he’ll impress the ladies with his nautical prowess. Instead, he’s prowerless to prevent the inevitable. His plans of naval conquest are on the brink.
(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, 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 Moment, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this chromolithograph.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3341 (June 19, 2024) 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 my blog comment with links pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the December 29, 2023, strip being the prior.
Solstice*1947 5 months ago
/// The klutz boatman is vulgar and bumbling.
Lost his balance while for the dock fumbling.
At A Critical Moment
blanked what “go with the flow” meant.
Like his pipe, in the water he’s tumbling.
rmremail 5 months ago
The ladies darn well better tip their boatman!
rmremail 5 months ago
Quick, Margaret – you can walk across his back to the pier!
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member 5 months ago
Another hair-raising experience on Golden Pond…
Jayalexander 5 months ago
Grab something QUICK!
GoComicsGo! 5 months ago
“Because of your fat Rs got us into this mess, I’m going to walk over your fat Rs to get off this thing.”
The Wolf In Your Midst 5 months ago
On the upside, she can tie her scarf to an oar and make it across the river in record time!
Call me Ishmael 5 months ago
“There is a tide in the affairs of men…”. – Shakespeare
Call me Ishmael 5 months ago
On the shores of the St. Lawrence Seaway/
He thought he had left ample leeway../
But his failure to dock/
At the Lake Huron Lock/
Dashed his dreams of a nautical three way…
Call me Ishmael 5 months ago
Stupid Suzanne stood up in the stern/
(Some people will just never learn)/
Clever Chloe, however,/
Being somewhat more clever/
Was still dry upon their return..///
The craft didn’t capsize (thank God!)/
But this “Captain” was clearly a clod/
Clever Chloe resolved
That she’d next get involved/
With the Kennedy clan at Cape Cod…
phritzg Premium Member 5 months ago
No problem; Mary Poppins can just open her umbrella and fly them to shore.
Lady loves a joke 5 months ago
Bernice thought that having a few drinks before boating would be fun, then she jokingly tried to push her husband into the lake, and they all ended up in the drink!
MS72 5 months ago
Payment BEFORE embarking!
Linguist 5 months ago
Professor Chauncy Clusterbuck thinks he’ll impress the ladies with his nautical prowess. Instead, he’s prowerless to prevent the inevitable. His plans of naval conquest are on the brink.
jel354 5 months ago
He needs his cap size after the capsize.
aerotica69 5 months ago
Failure to Launch?
mokspr Premium Member 5 months ago
But the ladies did “wig out” after he fell in!
MuddyUSA Premium Member 5 months ago
A Laurel and Hardy early movie…that is Oliver!
Ken Holman Premium Member 5 months ago
Schrodinger’s job as a boatman wasn’t very successful, but it helped him illustrate his experiment.
mabrndt Premium Member 5 months ago
A Critical Moment:
Paste (including the quote marks)
"Category:Edmund Birckhead Bensell" Wikimedia
(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Brave, 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 Moment, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this chromolithograph.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3341 (June 19, 2024) 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 my blog comment with links pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here, the December 29, 2023, strip being the prior.
Bilan 5 months ago
You have to admire the boatman’s ability to hold that pose during the entire painting.
Call me Ishmael 5 months ago
Would it be unseemly to mention/
That the Captain seems under some tension?/
Having painted the scene/
Did Bensell intervene?
Or did he eschew intervention ?
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member 5 months ago
He’s just showing the ladies that he is in tip-top condition… but not in any way he expected…
mistercatworks 5 months ago
I didn’t think there was anything more dangerous than standing up in a boat but this boatman has figured out something worse.
He must have thought it was a pun(t).
markkahler52 5 months ago
He wasn’t able to pass the pipe later, either, since that hit the drink!
tinstar 5 months ago
They might not have had toupee, but, what if one, or both had topee?