That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 26, 2024

You sank my Battleship!

The captain uses his hand to cover the X on the treasure map he found at Denny’s.

C. Columbus: “I have a secret equation that shows that the world is 70% smaller than everybody thinks. China, here I come!”

“Sir, I don’t think math works that way”

6! A 6! on wordle! Curse those obscure words!

Why should we go to Hawaii? I’ve got a bad feeling about that place.

Theo this menu’s greek to me! You got something without zuchini in it?

/// Captain Cook sailed all over the world

blown by winds against canvas unfurled.

Here, on canvas he’s shown

mapping lands once unknown,

with his grey wig impeccably curled.

/// On the voyages he undertook,

his discov’ries filled many a book.

Since he’d caused deaths and pain

he, in battle, was slain,

but Hawaiians did not cook James Cook.

He left them by his cell phone and keys which, amazingly enough, are also lost.

“You’d think they would have decency and be considerate of others?”

“See? Look, here’s the Waffle House right here. I told you I know where I’m headed. And you wanted me to pull over for directions!”

No,no,no beam Q is inserted into strut K with fastener B. This is the last time we order a ship from IKEA.

…three ports of call earlier.

“Chili powder. That’s it, I’ll put CHILI POWDER in the meth!”

Well if I take a left here, won’t I get there quicker?

When Cook with his flotilla landed/

Man’s knowledge of earth he expanded/

He came nattily dressed/

(Even buttoned his vest!)/

But too much deference he demanded.

“Can we send your mother here, please? I hear it is a lovely place to visit.”

“O.K., crew, turn ‘er around. I’m pretty sure they’re somewhere in the Pacific.”

IMHO more like:

“Is this an S or an F? I can never tell.”

Captain James Cook, 1728-79: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Maps in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, 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 6.12, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting (References links all point to the longer museum’s Description). File history has strip coloration image. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #144 (March 7, 2010) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work by him used here (2 times total, including this repeat), the March 14, 2012, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

CRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH :)

“So help me, if I hear ‘My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii’ sung one more time, somebody’s going to get flogged!”

GW wanted a date but i am not ready yet.

And THAT’S where the best little wh*rehouse in Texas is located!!

It was a lovely island, with a palm tree. It shouldn’t be that hard to find again!

“Captain Cook, suddenly remembering where he left his spatula.”

It’s under the W! Oh, it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world!

Some comments from March 4, 2012:

aarken: “You want to go where, for your holidays?”

Plods with …™: PETER! oh wait … I read that wrong. It says ‘Cook’.Never mind

Yukoneric: Why I only buy cheap glasses. Just like the song.

finale: “Traveler’s cheques? What a grand idea!”

lindaf: You know the clothing comments on this strip always make me imagine the future—a strip showing 21st century fashion magazine pictures wearing designer jeans with strategically cut holes to make them look “worn”.

I can hardly wait to see the captions and commentaries on those….

Call me Ishmael: “Bloody triple A maps. This one stops at the 100th meridian. I’ll need an hour to re-fold it, too.”

That is certainly a gorgeous coat. I’d ask where to get one, but I probably couldn’t afford it.