That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 18, 2024

/// With “The Captain” young Jim liked to loiter,

to hear tales of a pirate exploiter.

The boy itched when he neared

the drunk’s full white neck beard,

(which was grown out to cover a goiter).

My original post in 2019:

The moment little Charlie realized he didn’t want to be a sailor.

My original comment: “Grandpa, I think you were suppose to build the ship in the bottle.”

See, Timmy? My boat is bigger than yours is.

“Another one of Grandpa’s boring stories. And he still smells.”

And THAT! is why Peter Pan is a fairy tale.

“This is an incomplete model. It’s missing one thing you MUST remember to take on the sailboat, dear lad – the sails!”

Based on what I’m smelling, Grandpa, should we call this the poop room?

And I said “fetch me my brown pants”

I really enjoyed studying this painting. My brother has a similar ship model with historical significance attached to it and my home town in Massachusetts. The history goes back to colonial times when the locals rebelled against the British imposing taxes and scuttled the ship. This happened before The Boston Tea Party, but never got the same publicity. Anyway, when I look at this picture I can’t help but think of Bruce Springsteen singing “Glory Days”. When that old man was young and sailing on ships…… those were his glory days.

“Yeah, yeah. And then the big white whale appeared. Can I go now, Grampa?”

There be those who bemoan and bewail/

The end of the age of the sail../

Who lightly esteem/

The arrival of steam/

Preferring the gust of the gale…

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,

__________John Masefield

And then, one day, we landed at a port in Thailand, and there was this girl who would do anything! And that’s how I met your grandmother.

The boy is absolutely riveted.

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Rivets were the only thing that could stop him from leaving. He broke the leather straps.

Bill Murray’s latest gig since he’s not allowed at Pebble Beach anymore.

Kid realizing the only thing worse than a dad joke is a granddad joke.

Boy: Sheesh, he tells me the same story everyday how he saw a whale swallow someguy named Jonah………

Santa, that’s what I wanted for Christmas. What do you mean you’re keeping it?

“Yes Sir, this ship and I sailed many a time, in the bath tub.”

Their fleet is sailing towards us over the horizon.

Bring me my brown pants.

“Ok, Bobby – here goes:

Aboard the good ship Venus/

Migod- you should have seen us../

The figurehead/

Was a wh*** in bed/

And the mast was a petrified p****…..”

“Soon I will have spun enough of my whiskers into threads I can use to make the sails!”

A Story of the Sea: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Models of ships 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 Story, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2311 (10/20/19) (January 17, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 9 works by him have been used here (11 times total, including this and a prior Throwback Thursday repeat), the October 21, 2019, strip being its first use. The October 24, 2023, strip has the prior by him.

I admit, it’s a bit cold during the winter, but still it was worth it to use all my facial hair for the rigging ropes.

in just a few years joe, we can sail away to Tahiti and get married.

Looks like a model of the ‘Constitution’ (Old Ironsides)

In the tone of “that’s not a knife …”

That’s not a ship Billy … THIS is a ship!

Some comments from the 10/21/19 posts:

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Papared25: “When we were in port we’d all see who could get the fattest woman up the gangplank. That’s why they were called whalers.”

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Kind&Kinder: We called him Ishmael, and he saw me battle the white whale. I remember it well. Used to write rhymes, I think. He was a watcher. That’s when I died, dear little cherub. He was scribbling something about some young lady from Dallas when the whale took me under. Good times!

Call me Ishmael: I were there when ‘e took ye under/ an’ it tore me ol’ ‘eart asunder/ I were just rhymin’ “Dallas”/ wi’ “mast like a phallus”/ but might I ’ave saved ye ? I wonder…

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Call me Ishmael: A wise sailor once to me said / as sternwards he hastily fled / “you may pee o’er the rail/but don’t soak the sail / and be certain to poop in the head.”

“We wuz laden wi’ tea from Kowloon/ when we ran into that typhoon/ by the end o’that squall/ it were clear to us all/ that our schooner would no longer ‘schoon’ "

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Bookworm: Don’t you just hate it when the grownups won’t let you play with your birthday presents?

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Linguist: The ole Capt. explaining how the sailors would dive off of the crow’s nest … and occasionally even hit the water.

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Masterskrain: In case you have ever wondered… In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or “aft”, part of the superstructure of a ship.

The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis. Thus the poop deck is technically a stern deck, which in sailing ships was usually elevated as the roof of the stern or “after” cabin, also known as the “poop cabin”. On sailing ships, the helmsman would steer the craft from the quarter deck, immediately in front of the poop deck. At the stern, the poop deck provides an elevated position ideal for observation.

@Running Buffalo: thanks for the post! It was a Golden Age !