That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 23, 2025

Hey!! Where’d everybody go??

“Oh, I’m the guest of honor at this dinner!”

“What if… What if I put chili powder in the meth?”

My Comments from five months ago are consolidated in this string:

/// 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.

In Hawaii Captain Cook was hit on the head

Then to honor his high rank once he was dead

His innards removed, he was baked, and then

The meat stripped from his bones, as relics taken

His crew watched in horror, much filled with dread

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Cook had kidnapped natives from their native lands

To punish their reluctance to fulfill his demands

To help in his plans to explore their coasts

But they resented to be thus forced as hosts

To future English colony commands

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The exploration of sea coasts across the Earth

Seems a noble goal and one of worth

But was the purpose of all his explorations

Not a prelude to European exploitations

And to far flung colonial empires give birth?

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There’s less need for sea ships to explore thus these days

Satellites out in near space do the job many ways

Little is hidden from those spies in the skies

But again there are invaders casting covetous eyes

On green lands and sea islands upon which they gaze

Like when I walked out of the house yesterday and left my phone behind.

In my book, Cook was a crook. If you look at what he took, the royal rook was really Captain Hook!

I’d rather not go to that “Going Away” party for the outgoing party in D.C.

“What is that woman in the window over there doing?? —-Oh!’

“This is where the Husky’s go, so don’t you eat the yellow snow!”

Captain James Cook, 1728-79: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Captain James Cook (Nathaniel Dance – National Maritime Museum)" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Wikimedia Category: found (except for DuckDuckGo, which again finds its alternate name and needs an extra click), 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 (17 May 2006) image. 

A slightly larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #144 (3/7/10) (January 22, 2025) 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 (3 times total, including this THROWBACK THURSDAY and a prior 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. The July 26, 2024, strip has the prior by him (the other repeat).

The ship’s captain upon being informed that his crew of rookie sailors apparently has an entirely misconceived idea regarding the purpose of the poop deck.

Captain Cook, who discovered Australia,/

Lost a piece of his prized paraphernalia/

In a stroke of bad luck/

When his glasses were struck/

From his nose at a wild saturnalia..

“why yes, I do have grey poupon”

From Newfoundland and the St Lawrence River, to New Zealand, Australia, Hawai’i, and even Vancouver Island, he paved the way for British colonialism and the spread of British Imperialism around the world.

What? You wanted to go to AUSTRIA? I thought you said Australia. NOW you tell me. (If someone had previously posted this or something similar, I apologize for seemingly copying your idea.)

Maybe at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii?

Artist: Yeah, point at a random spot on the map like you really mean it. Yeah, like that.

Captain Cook, trying to find the closest rest stop with a functional bathroom.

If Cook had been portrayed in a T-shirt, would you be impressed ?

A ) Did he find them in time to observe the Transit of Venus — or did he act like you-know-who and and look at the sun without them??

B ) When the ship’s Chaplain was preaching on The Ten Commandments and got to “Thou shalt not commit adultery” — did he suddenly remember where he left them?

hey mojone i found the sandwich islands, lets eat.