That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 18, 2024

Difficult pose to avoid placing both cheeks on the rocks.

/// A youth stares out to sea. Friends are gone

as he sprawls on a rock— nothing on.

Works by Henry Scott Tuke

won’t bring shame or rebuke;

they’re collected by Sir Elton John.

This painting by Henry Tuke/

Deserves a resounding Rebuke /

It’s a pic of a lad/

who is like to be bad/

Perhaps ‘cause his dad is a duke.

What to wear for that all-over tan.

" I wonder why they all shrieked and ran away. I only asked if they had seen my dingy?

The lad needs to be lying down if Tuke wants his painting to be the centerfold in the next issue of Playgirl.

He’ll have trouble later, explaining to his Mom how he caught crabs.

That awkward moment when Colin thought the mermaid was interested in him.

Amazon fails again.

I remember that commercial “l ship my pants”

“Maybe if I bring my crabs to the beach, they’ll return to their natural environment.”

“The barefoot boy with cheeks of tan” …

I love that scene from “the girl next door” where he standing naked in the street in front of her. He says it’s not funny and she replies, “It’s kinda funny.”

Call him overly sensitive if you want, but Oliver had no intention of going skinny-dipping while there was a jellyfish warning posted. Those things sting!

Times were tough before the invention of elastic.

After his dip in the ocean, Johnny refused to face the painter, proclaiming, “It was the water! It was cold!”

While many people pee in the ocean, Jason looked out towards the horizon with his bold plan of upping the ante.

“No, no! It’s ’get your rocks off…”

Makes “siting on the rocks” take on a whole new meeting.

The ship called “Abercrombie & Fich”?

The following morning, he would seriously regret having neglected to apply sunscreen EVERYWHERE.

“Ya shoulda bet your shorts – you never know when your luck might change.” (Elmore Leonard, “Glitz.”)

He just learned that he should never EVER play strip poker with some drunken sailors.

The Bather: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Coastal rocks" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo 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 1924, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3430 (December 18, 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 the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 4 works by him have been used here, the September 20, 2023, strip being the prior.

Bob was very happy with the “no clothes” policy on the island.

All that hanging out on the beach only to show his shortcomings…

Sittin’ in the mornin’ sunI’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ comeWatching the ships roll inAnd then I watch ‘em roll away again, yeahI’m sittin’ on the rock of the bayWatching the tide roll awayI’m just sittin’ on the rock of the bayWastin’ time (Apologies to Otis Redding)

For tomorrow:

There’s thing you’ve got to say/

For the marvelous Ed Manet:/

When he paints a musician/

(In whatever position/

You can practically hear him play.

It makes me hurt just to see that poor tushie on the rocks, not to mention what happened after he posed so long in the sun.