Just looked it up, and it only took about 34 days to make the crossing. The 287 days seemed ridiculous. Someone used to do commentary on the real sources of the pictures? He gave up, or it isn’t in the comments now?
(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.
https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz77181.html
has German info about this artist (again, Chrome can translate), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1985 (June 28, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 6 years ago
Just when they were about to run out of hair care products, their hopes for a decent salon were raised when they spotted land.
Strob Premium Member over 6 years ago
Alas, it’s only the actual Starbuck on The Pequod, and Quakers don’t drink coffee. How about some nice oats?
Bilan over 6 years ago
Don’t get too excited. Back then, the Starbucks didn’t even have wi-fi.
pcolli over 6 years ago
Guy in the foreground, on the right is trying to look up the skirt of the guy in black.
danketaz Premium Member over 6 years ago
Columbus craps out.
well-i-never over 6 years ago
“It’s true! There are Home Depot’s as far as the eye can see! Easy peasy!
shanen0 over 6 years ago
Just looked it up, and it only took about 34 days to make the crossing. The 287 days seemed ridiculous. Someone used to do commentary on the real sources of the pictures? He gave up, or it isn’t in the comments now?
Cozmik Cowboy over 6 years ago
And they’re excited about over-priced crappy coffee why, exactly?
J Short over 6 years ago
Kids begging Dad to stop at South of the Border.
Call me Ishmael over 6 years ago
(Columbus thinking) “Whew! Two more days, and they’d have hanged me..”
Rev Phnk Ey over 6 years ago
Hey, I found a nickel down here.
Linguist over 6 years ago
" Please, Captain, anywhere but Mar Largo !! "
mabrndt Premium Member over 6 years ago
Columbus discovers the shores of America:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Ruben_30._11._1805-8._7._1875_-_Kolumbus_objevuje_brehy_Ameriky_Kolumbus.jpg
(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.
https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz77181.html
has German info about this artist (again, Chrome can translate), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1985 (June 28, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 6 years ago
“The coffee may not be so great, but they’ll let us bring our blunderbusses in with us.”
battycomic Premium Member over 6 years ago
Man, Starbuck’s is everywhere!
6turtle9 over 6 years ago
Fearing the detention center, the crew begs Columbus to go to Belize instead.
Funny_Ha_Ha over 6 years ago
After two barrels of grog someone asked about the sails and got the reply “We’re 3 sheets to the wind”.
d1234dick Premium Member over 6 years ago
crew getting ready for Chaplin to walk plank after he told them to stop having sex.
MissScarlet Premium Member over 6 years ago
They don’t look like the Indians I saw two years ago, but seeing as they aren’t wearing much clothing….OK, I’m game!
Ed Brault Premium Member over 6 years ago
We better sight land pretty soon. There’s rumblings of mutiny!Really?Yeah, come over here and listen:>>RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE…MUTINY MUTINY MUTINY<<
gcarlson over 6 years ago
Columbus’s first words upon meeting the natives were to his interpreter: “What does ‘Uff da’ mean in Chinese?”
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
Columbus though he had a passage to India and China. Boy was he wrong!
Linguist over 6 years ago
Stan Freberg’s Columbus Discovers America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiqdb518wZ8
Zool Premium Member over 6 years ago
If it was Anybody but Columbus it would be cute! Too soon!
garcalej over 6 years ago
Irony is he was actually looking for a Jim Hortons, and continued to believe he had found one the rest of his life.
BillJackson1 over 6 years ago
No phone, no lights, no motorcar, not a single luxury…