That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 26, 2020

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    BE THIS GUY  over 4 years ago

    You can put the boy’s camp on an island but the girls will figure out how to get there.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 4 years ago

    “Find a spot where we don’t have to parallel park.”

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    Strob Premium Member over 4 years ago

    “Yes, get back here; you have to wear actual flotation devices.”

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    rmremail  over 4 years ago

    Yeah, I saw it too. Either it was the lock Ness monster, or Jaws. And we aren’t in Scotland.

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    rmremail  over 4 years ago

    Are you certain there are hot guy over there? There better be hot guys. Hot single guys. Because let me tell you, rowing in a corset is hell!

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    Papared25  over 4 years ago

    “I don’t know why Dad gets so nervous when I dock this next to his Chris Craft. It’s not like I intentionally sank the last one.”

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    pcolli  over 4 years ago

    “Those sailors were more interested in each other than us.”

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    gopher gofer  over 4 years ago

    cover of the 1898 sports illustrated swimsuit edition…

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    Kind&Kinder  over 4 years ago

    “Don’t worry, Father. You can see she’s all dressed up in her finest, and we just want to be “paddlin’ Madeline home!” (apologies to Jackie Gleason)

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    jbrobo Premium Member over 4 years ago

    “Keep looking. I know my hat blew off somewhere around here. “

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    Egrayjames  over 4 years ago

    Ghislaine Maxwell making her first delivery to the Island.

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    Buzzworld  over 4 years ago

    “This isn’t the Kennedy yacht either. Let’s try that one over there”

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    P51Strega  over 4 years ago

    Just look at those ’ors out there.

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    Reader  over 4 years ago

    “Don’t look back you fools! Keep rowing and pretend you can’t hear her.”

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    J Short  over 4 years ago

    Look, back there on the dock. Did we leave our poles?

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    PoodleGroomer  over 4 years ago

    The oarsperson’s workouts is showing good back and chest development.

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    lagoulou  over 4 years ago

    Row, row, row your boat…

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    Well, the good lord knows I tried/ but you simply would not be denied/ that last dab of lipstick/ you dim-witted dipstick/ and now we’ve missed the tide !

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    Delivering the first female harbor pilot to the Great Eastern was a historic moment.

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    VT8/VF84  over 4 years ago

    “Who are these guys, TomSawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky?

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    Indianapolis Smith  over 4 years ago

    “Why is that man over there naked?”

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    wincoach Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Wait, did you see that? There was plenty of room on that door for him, she just let him slip off into the abyss!

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    stamps  over 4 years ago

    How do I put this thing in reverse?

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Girls in A Rowing Boat or Summer in the Archipelago:

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Edelfelt_-_Girls_in_a_Rowing_Boat_(Summer_in_the_Archipelago).jpg 

    (best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

     

    http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/edelfelt_albert.html

    https://www.wikiart.org/en/edelfelt-albert

    https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/e/edelfelt/biograph.html

    https://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Albert_Edelfelt/11028608/Albert_Edelfelt.aspx 

    https://www.artiststudiomuseum.org/studio-museums/albert-edelfelts-studio-museum/ 

    https://kansallisbiografia.fi/english/person/3217 

    https://www.albertedelfeltinateljee.fi/ 

    all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays, and Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 6 works by him have been used here. 

    https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/06/22?comments=visible 

    has the prior (my comment there used the same artist info URLs).

     

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2522 (August 25, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

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    Another Take  over 4 years ago

    ETHEL: When the Carpathia was picking up survivors, you said "NO WAY, THOSE BIG SHIPS AREN’T SAFE! HELEN: AWH, QUITCHERBITCHIN! We made it didn’t we…

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    bobpeters61  over 4 years ago

    The wives of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker.

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    Egrayjames  over 4 years ago

    The search for that man from Nantucket continues.

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    Bookworm  over 4 years ago

    After gob-smacking the deckhand after his unfortunate mispronunciation, Maggie told him angrily, “I’m a ‘rower’ I’ll have you know!”

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    bobpeters61  over 4 years ago

    Beatrice was certain that when they found a way home, these two would think twice before demanding to ride on her husband’s dinghy.

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    MissScarlet Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Yeah, yeah, it was fun for you and Becky, but I’m not rowing next time.

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    anomaly  over 4 years ago

    “Push one oar forward and the other back. I’m sure that’s the way it’s supposed to go, but we’re just going in circles.”

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    rugeirn  over 4 years ago

    The caption would be funny if they were leaving. But they aren’t. They’re returning. The pointy end is aimed at the dock. They’ve gone out, they’ve come back. They obviously know how to row.

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    cameron_scarlett  over 4 years ago

    “Really girls, this is the best way I’ve found to meet hunky sailors! We just have to pretend we are terrified, in great peril and don’t know how to work the oars.”

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member over 4 years ago

    When I get by the dock, jump! Save yourselves!

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    GoComicsGo!  over 4 years ago

    “No… No, I don’t think that’s Paris. I think we may have took a wrong turn.”

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    Last effort: I don’t know which one of youse/ decided to take THIS cruise/ but I wish you had not/ because this cruise has got/ no music,no sex, and no booze!

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