Mid-Morning Art Thread

Old Dock
John Cunning

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 TOOOOOT. TOOOOOT

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 13, 2026 09:30 AM (kDAZw)

2 Nd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 09:30 AM (bFq8h)

3 In before the cabin boys.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 13, 2026 09:31 AM (kDAZw)

4 No boobs. No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 13, 2026 09:31 AM (XLHdq)

5 Soundtrack to the painting: "The Big Ship" by Brian Eno

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 09:32 AM (2Drhq)

6 Subject of painting is not centered. Fail.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 09:33 AM (Jr5Lq)

7 Not quite The Edmund Fitzgerald but it's nice

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2026 09:33 AM (kuZER)

8 This painting sucks old crusty balls

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2026 09:33 AM (GA003)

9 Old Dock
John Cunning

So, it's a Cunning Stunt.

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 09:34 AM (2Drhq)

10 Rain is coming.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 09:34 AM (bFq8h)

11 Must be low tide if that ship is moored at the Old Dock...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2026 09:34 AM (s2iZv)

12 This is sexual, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2026 09:34 AM (Wp1X1)

13 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; And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 13, 2026 09:35 AM (/+uur)

14
RIP SS United States

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2026 09:36 AM (eRlcH)

15 Alterate title:

"Cunning Won His Bet That He Could Make a Painting That Looked Like It Was Hung On the Refrigerator By the Proud Parents of a Five Year Old, But Using Professional Artist Painting Techniques"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 09:36 AM (YSUhf)

16 It sank.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2026 09:37 AM (RORbl)

17 This seems like something that was created in the draft shop of an advertising agency. I get the impression that he was using a straightedge to draw the lines.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 13, 2026 09:37 AM (l2PW0)

18 This is sexual, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2026 09:34 AM (Wp1X1)

It's not doing anything like that for me, but whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2026 09:37 AM (kuZER)

19 Super high tide this morning at 11.6ft. just after 8. Might get some local flooding.

Going to be tricky on the big boats.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 13, 2026 09:38 AM (yEz+x)

20 That's a wharf, not a dock.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 09:38 AM (DF/rX)

21 Or it could be a quay.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 09:38 AM (DF/rX)

22 That is not a cunning painting. But it is a Cunning one

Posted by: 18-1 at November 13, 2026 09:39 AM (sKqQm)

23 I like it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 09:39 AM (77rzZ)

24 I like the Cubist elements and flat, head-on perspective.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 09:39 AM (RIvkX)

25 I like big boats I cannot deny...

Posted by: Sir Mix A Lot at November 13, 2026 09:39 AM (sKqQm)

26 very angular!

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 09:40 AM (AKptf)

27
B ring
O n
A nother
T housand

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 13, 2026 09:40 AM (/+uur)

28
What's Up, Dock?

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 09:40 AM (YSUhf)

29 Former crew members of the SS United States were angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at November 13, 2026 09:40 AM (2Ez/1)

30 24 I like the Cubist elements and flat, head-on perspective.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 09:39 AM (RIvkX)

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"Down the throat" we used to say.

Posted by: Cdr. Mush Morton at November 13, 2026 09:41 AM (DF/rX)

31
The artist seems anchored to the idea of childish paintings.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 09:41 AM (YSUhf)

32 This is sexual, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2026 09:34 AM (Wp1X1)

It's not doing anything like that for me, but whatever floats your boat.
Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2026 09:37 AM (kuZER)

I could see it hanging in a whorehouse just across the border in Mexico.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2026 09:41 AM (+Twih)

33 Needs mermaids
Would hang though, pretty simple
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 09:42 AM (FroOw)

34 Whitney Museum of American Art

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 28 3/16 × 25 in. (71.6 × 63.5 cm)

Accession number
31.157

Credit line
Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 13, 2026 09:43 AM (/+uur)

35 It's certainly Cunning.

Posted by: S. Baldrick at November 13, 2026 09:43 AM (LEj5u)

36 Sailors belong on ships and ships belong at sea.

Posted by: Thus it has always been at November 13, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

37 Sailors belong on ships and ships belong at sea.
Posted by: Thus it has always been at November 13, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

Who you tellin'??

Posted by: Brandy at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM (kuZER)

38 I'm gonna deck anyone who makes ship puns.

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM (2Drhq)

39 This is sexual, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2026 09:34 AM

You mean like a row of cunning stunts?

Posted by: My 14 y.o. self at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM (2Ez/1)

40 Looks more like a huge weir than a dock.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM (aKiSo)

41 "Down the throat" we used to say.
Posted by: Cdr. Mush Morton at November 13, 2026 09:41 AM (DF/rX)
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Do submarines fire torpedoes head-on? I thought they always aimed for midship.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM (RIvkX)

42
Q: "Seaboard?"

A: "Yes, I saw it and was bored."

- From "naturalfake's Big Book of Dad Jokes and Elephant Funnies"

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 09:46 AM (YSUhf)

43 38 I'm gonna deck anyone who makes ship puns.
Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM

I'll just bow out now.

Posted by: Oh, no... at November 13, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

44 "Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney"

She was probably glad to be rid of it. Did she get a charitable tax deduction by gifting it?

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 09:46 AM (Jr5Lq)

45 38 I'm gonna deck anyone who makes ship puns.
Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM

A stern warning.

Posted by: Groan at November 13, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

46 I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 13, 2026 09:48 AM (yEz+x)

47 I like it . Not that it's a British Navy ship but it does encourage to go back to reading "Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brian which I first read a very long time ago.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2026 09:48 AM (JrHfD)

48 I'm gonna deck anyone who makes ship puns.
Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM

I'll just bow out now.
Posted by: Oh, no... at November 13, 2026 09:46 AM (2Ez/1)

I can't say we mast you.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 09:48 AM (YSUhf)

49 43 38 I'm gonna deck anyone who makes ship puns.
Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM

Stated rather sternly, I would say.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2026 09:48 AM (J4Dwc)

50 I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 13, 2026 09:48 AM (yEz+x)

51 shit, too late

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2026 09:48 AM (J4Dwc)

52 Down the throat" we used to say.
Posted by: Cdr. Mush Morton at November 13, 2026 09:41 AM (DF/rX)
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Do submarines fire torpedoes head-on? I thought they always aimed for midship.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM (RIvkX)

Either way you're going to scatter the seamen.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2026 09:49 AM (+Twih)

53 Any sport in the dorm.

Posted by: Late on a Saturday night at November 13, 2026 09:49 AM (2Ez/1)

54 The cabin boys will be much afraid with the ship safely anchored at the docks and will need to be comforted both night and day.

Posted by: Capn Ned (Raging Queen) at November 13, 2026 09:50 AM (/+uur)

55 How to sneak in a political comment before #100

************

Election Fraud - a limerick

When you inventory the shipyard take notes:
You must include every vessel that floats
To tally the proper amounts
It's not who boats that counts
What matters is the one who counts the boats

Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 09:51 AM (qgHp7)

56
*sings*

When I was a young boy
I wanted to sail round the world
That's the life for me
Living on the sea
Spirit of a sailor
Circumnavigates the globe
The lust of a pioneer
Will acknowledge no frontier
...

Posted by: Zombie Split Enz at November 13, 2026 09:51 AM (YSUhf)

57 My painting of a tanker. Actually a grain tanker. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at November 13, 2026 09:53 AM (OXhw3)

58 >>RIP SS United States

She's not dead (Jim). She's been given a second career as an artificial reef and a charter fishing and dive boat destination.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2026 09:53 AM (J4Dwc)

59 Bravo muldoon!

Posted by: The ghost of Lenin at November 13, 2026 09:54 AM (2Ez/1)

60 What matters is the one who counts the boats

***********

Also, the one in charge of the ballast boxes...

Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 09:54 AM (qgHp7)

61 Do submarines fire torpedoes head-on? I thought they always aimed for midship.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM (RIvkX)

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USS Wahoo torpedoed the Japanese destroyer Harusame as the destroyer was attempting to ram the sub head-on.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 09:54 AM (DF/rX)

62 A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 09:55 AM (viF8m)

63
Well, this painting certainly reminds me of the sights I saw in WWII as captain of the PT-109.

Posted by: Zombie JFK at November 13, 2026 09:56 AM (YSUhf)

64 I'm gonna deck anyone who makes ship puns.
Posted by: Delurker

I capstan ship puns.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 09:56 AM (77rzZ)

65 I'm gonna deck anyone who makes ship puns.
Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 09:45 AM

Why are you in such a hullacious mood?

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2026 09:57 AM (kuZER)

66 Thanks CBD and thanks Muldoon.

Posted by: Buck (Ofama) at November 13, 2026 09:57 AM (hXmGs)

67 "I capstan ship puns."

Coul this be restated to make some sense?

Posted by: I lost my nick. Can I borrow one? at November 13, 2026 09:57 AM (UaAEB)

68 "My painting of a tanker. Actually a grain tanker. See nic."

I like that far more than Cunning's. Well done!

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 09:58 AM (Jr5Lq)

69 62 A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 09:55 AM (viF8m)

pier-reviewed as being accurate

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2026 09:58 AM (J4Dwc)

70 A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 09:55 AM (viF8m)

Plenty of boats sink at docks or at moorings during big storms. Sometimes it makes sense to go to sea.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 13, 2026 09:58 AM (k5CNB)

71 What matters is the one who counts the boats
Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 09:51 AM (qgHp7)

To avoid any slips
as the Danes count their ships
when the Royal Fleet comes in,
Some bar codes are stenciled
on the sides of their vessels,
then they Scandinavian.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 09:58 AM (aKiSo)

72 65 Why are you in such a hullacious mood?

I was just floating the idea.

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 09:58 AM (2Drhq)

73
All these ship puns sail right over me.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 09:59 AM (YSUhf)

74 Posted by: polynikes at November 13, 2026 09:53 AM (OXhw3)

Will you shoot me an email to the address in the sidebar?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 13, 2026 09:59 AM (k5CNB)

75 The word "posh" is actually an acronym.
When transiting the stormy North Atlantic, the most desirable passenger ship cabins would be those on the side of the ship facing the south. So when traveling from Britain those cabins would be Port Outbound Starboard Home.

Posted by: Nautical trivia for $200, Alex at November 13, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

76 Cute. My First Pastels kit.

The trick is ton not drag your drawing hand across the black parts or you'll get smudges everywhere. Little Jonny Cunning hasn't learned that lesson yet.

Posted by: red speck at November 13, 2026 10:00 AM (Ve/HL)

77 Miami has a bay with a lot of abandoned boats that the homeless live in. They call it Water World.

Posted by: polynikes at November 13, 2026 10:00 AM (OXhw3)

78 "It was saaaaad,
it was saaad,
it was sad when the great ship went down,
(to the bottom of the sea)
husbands and wives, little children lost their lives,
it was sad when the great ship went down.

Kerplunk! She sunk!
Cha cha cha!!"

Grade school bus songs were brutal.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 13, 2026 10:02 AM (xrAei)

79 The word "posh" is actually an acronym.
When transiting the stormy North Atlantic, the most desirable passenger ship cabins would be those on the side of the ship facing the south. So when traveling from Britain those cabins would be Port Outbound Starboard Home.
Posted by: Nautical trivia for $200, Alex at November 13, 2026 09:59 AM (2Ez/1)

Stop trying to educate me, daammit!!!!111!!11111!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 10:02 AM (YSUhf)

80 Plenty of boats sink at docks or at moorings during big storms. Sometimes it makes sense to go to sea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 13, 2026 09:58 AM (k5CNB)

Forest Gump agrees.

Posted by: polynikes at November 13, 2026 10:02 AM (OXhw3)

81 The word "posh" is actually an acronym.
When transiting the stormy North Atlantic, the most desirable passenger ship cabins would be those on the side of the ship facing the south. So when traveling from Britain those cabins would be Port Outbound Starboard Home.
Posted by: Nautical trivia

Nope, that's a common myth. It comes from the Romani (Gypsy) language.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

82 then they Scandinavian.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

*********

Boo hiss!

Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 10:03 AM (qgHp7)

83 No glot. Clum fliday.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 13, 2026 10:03 AM (Hr7F/)

84 When my folks and I went to Hawaii, the tour bus drove us by the harbor that's shown at the beginning of Gilligan's Island.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

85 But now she stands upon Southampton dock
With her handkerchief, and her summer frock
Clings to her wet body in the rain
In quiet desperation
Knuckles white upon the slippery reins
She bravely waves the boys goodbye again

Posted by: red speck at November 13, 2026 10:04 AM (Ve/HL)

86 The word "posh" is actually an acronym.
When transiting the stormy North Atlantic, the most desirable passenger ship cabins would be those on the side of the ship facing the south. So when traveling from Britain those cabins would be Port Outbound Starboard Home.
Posted by: Nautical trivia

Nope, that's a common myth. It comes from the Romani (Gypsy) language.
Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:02 AM (77rzZ)

Really?

I thought posh was the past tense of pish.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 10:04 AM (YSUhf)

87 Nope, that's a common myth. It comes from the Romani (Gypsy) language.
Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:02 AM

Consider my timbers shivered.

Posted by: J. Depp at November 13, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

88 85 But now she stands upon Southampton dock
With her handkerchief, and her summer frock
Clings to her wet body in the rain
In quiet desperation
Knuckles white upon the slippery reins
She bravely waves the boys goodbye again
Posted by: red speck at November 13, 2026 10:04 AM (Ve/HL)

Oooh! I love this game! I'll play!

That's..... not Iron Maiden? No wait, it is, it is! Final answer.

*waits for bell or buzzer sound*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 10:06 AM (aKiSo)

89 Plenty of boats sink at docks or at moorings during big storms. Sometimes it makes sense to go to sea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

***********

♫ ♫ ♫
When a storm cleans your clock
While you're tied at the dock

That's a mooring!

Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 10:07 AM (qgHp7)

90 *sings*

I can well recall the first time I ever put to sea,
It was on the old "Calcutta" in eighteen fifty-three.
I was just a lad of fourteen years, a midshipman to be
To make my way in sailing ships of the Royal Navy.

By the time that I was twenty-one I'd sailed the world around,
Weathered storms in the China seas with the hatches battened down,
And made my way by starlight off the coast of Newfoundland
And dined on beer and herrings while the waves blew all around.
...*

*Great song by the way:

https://tinyurl.com/2x7us53p

Posted by: Pre-Zombie Al Stewart at November 13, 2026 10:10 AM (YSUhf)

91 The best poem about life at sea, IMHO, is Kipling's "McAndrew's Hymn."

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

92 We came on the sloop John B.

Posted by: My grandfather and me at November 13, 2026 10:12 AM (2Ez/1)

93 All those making boat puns are demonstrating their dedication to their craft!

Endeavor to persevere!

Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 10:13 AM (qgHp7)

94 Weird I can't find a wiki page on the artist but this painting hangs at The Whitney.

Posted by: polynikes at November 13, 2026 10:13 AM (OXhw3)

95 Is that the Edmund Fitzgerald?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 10:13 AM (PB58D)

96 We put her on the hit list
Of a common CUNNING linguist,
A master of many tongues.

Now she eases gently
From her Austin to her Bentley,
Suddenly she feels so young.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 13, 2026 10:13 AM (xH+YD)

97 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Old Dock? I hope Muldoon isn't offended by this.
Goes looking for coffee

Posted by: Diogenes at November 13, 2026 10:14 AM (2WIwB)

98 FRIDAY THE 13TH

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 13, 2026 10:16 AM (xH+YD)

99 Boats docked can have the survive all except when the wind catches and sink them .

Posted by: polynikes at November 13, 2026 10:16 AM (OXhw3)

100 Dock of the bay…

Posted by: Eromero at November 13, 2026 10:17 AM (LHPAg)

101 95 Is that the Edmund Fitzgerald?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 10:13 AM

That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed.

Posted by: G. Lightfoot at November 13, 2026 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)

102 One of my neighbors has just been awarded Epic Neckbeard Prize for 2026:
https://tinyurl.com/yprrzwrm

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 10:18 AM (Jr5Lq)

103 Add Popeye the Sailor Man to the weather deck and It gets a thumbs up from me.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 13, 2026 10:18 AM (M0I1r)

104 Plenty of boats sink at docks or at moorings during big storms. Sometimes it makes sense to go to sea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 13, 2026 09:58 AM (k5CNB)

Forest Gump agrees.
Posted by: polynikes at November 13, 2026 10:02 AM (OXhw3)

So does the east coast of Japan.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2026 10:20 AM (g8Ew8)

105 62 A ship in harbor is safe...
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 09:55 AM (viF8m)

Unless the harbor is Pearl Harbor, Taranto, or Scapa Flow, perhaps

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at November 13, 2026 10:20 AM (igCg8)

106 Plenty of boats sink at docks or at moorings during big storms. Sometimes it makes sense to go to sea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 13, 2026 09:58 AM

Others just waste away.

Looking at you, Hesper and Luther Little.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2026 10:21 AM (LEj5u)

107 A ship in harbor is safe...
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 09:55 AM (viF8m)

Unless the harbor is Pearl Harbor, Taranto, or Scapa Flow, perhaps
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey

*waves*
-- Port Arthur

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

108 >>>88 Oooh! I love this game! I'll play!

That's..... not Iron Maiden? No wait, it is, it is! Final answer.

*waits for bell or buzzer sound*

Well, it's Final-*something.* The Final Cut. Arguably Pink Floyd's last album. The line is from Southampton Dock, one of the few lyrically beautiful songs among the disjointed psychoanalyst-session of an album, that was completely a brain dump of Roger Waters, with the rest of the band relegated to performing as studio musicians.

Posted by: red speck at November 13, 2026 10:22 AM (Ve/HL)

109 We still maintain she'd have made Whitefish Bay if she'd put 15 more miles behind her.

Posted by: The searchers at November 13, 2026 10:23 AM (2Ez/1)

110 Twelve minutes of Bononcini:
youtube.com/watch?v=L71oWlsRq-o

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 10:23 AM (Jr5Lq)

111 Full rainbow visible now to the west. Baruch hashem!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 10:24 AM (RIvkX)

112 Old What's Up.

Posted by: Bugs at November 13, 2026 10:24 AM (k7GNr)

113
Talk Nauti to Me, Baby - a limerick

Scupper me timbers and whatnot
Athwart the larboard bow, and such rot
Trim the mains'l on the port side
Avast, we've all been Shanghaied
Yours truly,
/Jason and the Argot-nauts

Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 10:25 AM (qgHp7)

114 During a hurricane of significant strength, a harbor might be the last place you want your boat to be.

It's not the wind. It's the water being pushed by the wind... that tosses all those boats onto the shore.

Or bashes them into little pieces at the docks.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2026 10:25 AM (RORbl)

115 84 When my folks and I went to Hawaii, the tour bus drove us by the harbor that's shown at the beginning of Gilligan's Island.
Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

Took a helicopter tour in Maui that flew us up the same canyon that is flown at the beginning of the first Jurassic Park movie.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2026 10:26 AM (g8Ew8)

116 114 During a hurricane of significant strength, a harbor might be the last place you want your boat to be.

H.O.S.S.

Posted by: Eromero at November 13, 2026 10:29 AM (HVGoY)

117

Where's the poop deck?

Posted by: Amber Heard at November 13, 2026 10:30 AM (YSUhf)

118 gp: "what's the best steamship painting evah?"
AI: "The most iconic and celebrated painting featuring a steamship is The Fighting Temeraire (183

by J.M.W. Turner."
gp: "C'mon! Really?"

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 10:31 AM (Jr5Lq)

119 Forgive if this has already been mentioned but today's painting looks like it should be on the cover of a children's picture book.

Posted by: Tuna at November 13, 2026 10:33 AM (lJ0H4)

120 Nope, that's a common myth. It comes from the Romani (Gypsy) language.

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Pretty much any theory that holds that a word is derived from an acronym is bullshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 10:34 AM (DF/rX)

121 Full rainbow visible now to the west. Baruch hashem!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Slava Bogu!

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

122 99 Boats docked can have the survive all except when the wind catches and sink them .

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*ahem*

Posted by: A Tsunami at November 13, 2026 10:36 AM (DF/rX)

123 Another exception to safe harbor: Port Chicago.

Posted by: Rex B at November 13, 2026 10:36 AM (FOVlA)

124 Forgive if this has already been mentioned but today's painting looks like it should be on the cover of a children's picture book.
Posted by: Tuna

There's a children's book author named Donald Crews who specializes in transportation books. This looks very similar to a picture that would have been in one of his books.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

125 Pretty much any theory that holds that a word is derived from an acronym is bullshit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 10:34 AM

Never
Again
Volunteer
Yourself

Posted by: USN at November 13, 2026 10:38 AM (2Ez/1)

126 Any port in a storm...

Posted by: LizLem at November 13, 2026 10:39 AM (Toos7)

127 Slava Bogu!
Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:35 AM

сегодня пятница!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2026 10:39 AM (LEj5u)

128 Pretty much any theory that holds that a word is derived from an acronym is bullshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 10:34 AM (DF/rX)

SCUBA

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 13, 2026 10:40 AM (k5CNB)

129 Snow? Snow? I blame Trump’s failed climate policy. You have to go all the way back to Nov 2025 to find the last time it snowed here in November.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 10:41 AM (PB58D)

130 Pretty much any theory that holds that a word is derived from an acronym is bullshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 10:34 AM

*waits quietly for some sovcit to mention the bar*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2026 10:42 AM (LEj5u)

131 SCUBA

*********

SWAT

Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 10:42 AM (qgHp7)

132
Better
Not
Start a
Family

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 10:42 AM (bFq8h)

133 Hickory, dickory dock
The boat was in the dock
the dock was old
the painting still sold
this art sucks.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 13, 2026 10:42 AM (xJHN3)

134 128 Pretty much any theory that holds that a word is derived from an acronym is bullshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 10:34 AM (DF/rX)

SCUBA

----------

I'm reframing my theorem. Get back to you asap.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 10:42 AM (DF/rX)

135 "Donald Crews" His stuff is closer to conventional graphic design than to Cunning's whatever-it-is.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 10:43 AM (Jr5Lq)

136 Pretty much any theory that holds that a word is derived from an acronym is bullshit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 10:34 AM
-----
I think you mean fubar...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2026 10:43 AM (s2iZv)

137 Slava Bogu!
Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:35 AM

сегодня пятница!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

SBSP!

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

138
Ain't
Really
Marines
Yet

Posted by: USMC at November 13, 2026 10:44 AM (2Ez/1)

139 Goto baraktu nicktoe

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 10:44 AM (PB58D)

140 Pretty much any theory that holds that a word is derived from an acronym is bullshit.
--
We are too a real name for our country and not an acronym.
/s/ Pakistan

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 13, 2026 10:45 AM (xJHN3)

141 Pogey boats had nowhere else to go during Katrina.

https://tinyurl.com/yuytpfu4

Posted by: javems at November 13, 2026 10:46 AM (zFsEm)

142 Doesn’t
Ever
Leave
The
Airport

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 10:46 AM (PB58D)

143 STAT

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 13, 2026 10:47 AM (f81tH)

144
Poor Old Ninny Thinks It's A Cadillac.

Posted by: GMC at November 13, 2026 10:48 AM (2Ez/1)

145 So, the 'Edmund Fitzgerald' … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at November 13, 2026 10:49 AM (ayRl+)

146 The quiet fart...
Silent
But
Deadly

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2026 10:49 AM (RORbl)

147 GULAG

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 10:49 AM (AKptf)

148 Falls
Off
Rebuilding
Dock

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 10:49 AM (PB58D)

149 144: way to clean it up.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 10:50 AM (bFq8h)

150 I'm sure all the clever puns on Mr. Cunning's name have been done already. Was this an Art Deco period painting?

"Art Deco. Very nice."
( -- Egon Spengler, on seeing what a ruin Dana Barrett's hallway has become because of Gozer)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 10:50 AM (56Qyq)

151 Fix Or Repair Daily.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 10:50 AM (Jr5Lq)

152 YOLO?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2026 10:50 AM (6ydKt)

153

Fucking
Old
Rebuilt
Dodge

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 10:50 AM (bFq8h)

154

Fix
It
Again,
Tony

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 10:51 AM (bFq8h)

155 131 SCUBA

*********

SWAT

they did the m*a*s*h. they did the monster m*a*s*h.

Posted by: anachronda at November 13, 2026 10:52 AM (v3pYe)

156
Ugh!
Send
More
Crayons

Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 10:52 AM (qgHp7)

157 Rum. Sodomy. And the Lash.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 13, 2026 10:52 AM (iini1)

158 Does NAMNALSAM still come by?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 10:53 AM (PB58D)

159 Ha. It is from 1927, Art Deco days. Oil on canvas, a little over 2 feet by 2 feet. JC was a standout in FDR's WPA artist roster, apparently.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 10:53 AM (56Qyq)

160 119 Forgive if this has already been mentioned but today's painting looks like it should be on the cover of a children's picture book.

it looks like a folding page from the back of mad magazine.

Posted by: anachronda at November 13, 2026 10:53 AM (v3pYe)

161 Found On Road Dead.

Posted by: FoMoCo at November 13, 2026 10:53 AM (2Ez/1)

162 Pretty much any theory that holds that a word is derived from an acronym is bullshit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 10:34 AM (DF/rX)

No word is "derived" from an acronym. An acronym IS a word -- created by an abbreviation.

Then there's a "backronym" -- taking a word and then assigning words to fit each letter.
AMBER alert, USA PATRIOT Act are 2 examples.

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2026 10:54 AM (kuZER)

163 Old Dock, 1927
John Cunning (1889-1953)

It's fine for a Friday, and on display in the Whitney Museum of Art.

John Cunning's 1934 painting “Manhattan Skyline,” was created for the Public Works of Art Program, is at Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Thanks

Posted by: L - No nic... at November 13, 2026 10:54 AM (NFX2v)

164 Nice to see we are all focused like a laser on coming up with acronyms. I did not have that on my radar this morning.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2026 10:54 AM (s2iZv)

165 Pretty much any theory that holds that a word is derived from an acronym is bullshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 13, 2026 10:34 AM (DF/rX)

SCUBA

---------

Speaking of, I saw on YouTube that there's a new device that's more or less a revolution to the age-old buoyancy problem. Looked pretty nifty. Too bad I'm past 29 years old to really take advantage of it. I would have liked to try it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2026 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

166 Poor Old Ninny Thinks It's A Cadillac.
Posted by: GMC at November 13, 2026

***
In the South, people used another word for "ninny."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 10:55 AM (56Qyq)

167 "I did not have that on my radar this morning."

WSWYDT.

Posted by: SONAR at November 13, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)

168 >Speaking of, I saw on YouTube that there's a new device that's more or less a revolution to the age-old buoyancy problem.

Link?

Posted by: Inquiring minds at November 13, 2026 10:57 AM (2Ez/1)

169 John Cunning's 1934 painting “Manhattan Skyline,”

This is a bit better:
https://tinyurl.com/mpu5232y

Neither painting is in the style of Art Deco, IMHO.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 10:58 AM (Jr5Lq)

170 Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 used to say she looked like the Wreck of the Hesperus when she got out of bed in the morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 10:58 AM (56Qyq)

171 As a linguistic experiment, I've toyed with the idea of writing a story using nothing but acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations, but I haven't been able to come up with anything yet.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

172 Argot naut!

(snicker)

Posted by: muldoon at November 13, 2026 11:00 AM (qgHp7)

173 Then there's a "backronym" -- taking a word and then assigning words to fit each letter.
AMBER alert, USA PATRIOT Act are 2 examples.
Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2026

***
Then "U.N.C.L.E." was this. In the show's universe, it would have been an acronym. The founders of the organization, I'd suppose, named it, and the letters spelled "uncle."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 11:00 AM (56Qyq)

174 171 As a linguistic experiment, I've toyed with the idea of writing a story using nothing but acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations, but I haven't been able to come up with anything yet.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

A good title would be: "etc."

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 13, 2026 11:01 AM (6ydKt)

175 Naut times naut is naut.

Posted by: J. Bodine at November 13, 2026 11:01 AM (2Ez/1)

176 Noodus Throckmortiensis.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2026 11:01 AM (OTgAC)

177 169. Neither painting is in the style of Art Deco, IMHO.
Posted by: gp

Yours is more substantial, less childlike.

I know little about art but, yes, I also think you're right about neither being Art Deco.

Posted by: L - No nic... at November 13, 2026 11:01 AM (NFX2v)

178 Speaking of, I saw on YouTube that there's a new device that's more or less a revolution to the age-old buoyancy problem.

Link?
Posted by: Inquiring minds at November 13, 2026 10:57 AM (2Ez/1)

Just get on YouTube and search scuba buoyancy. I'm sure you'll find it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2026 11:02 AM (g8Ew8)

179
Goto baraktu nicktoe

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 10:44 AM (PB58D)

What is this lame bullshit???!!!!11111!!!

Posted by: Klaatu barada nikto at November 13, 2026 11:03 AM (YSUhf)

180 nood

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 11:08 AM (Jr5Lq)

181 Goto baraktu nicktoe

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 10:44 AM (PB58D)

What is this lame bullshit???!!!!11111!!!

Posted by: Klaatu barada nikto at November 13, 2026 11:03 AM (YSUhf)

It means "eat shit" in Gort's language. It never ended well.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 13, 2026 11:08 AM (g8Ew8)

182 Looks like a Far Side cartoon.

Posted by: MH-53J at November 13, 2026 11:21 AM (9ZxcS)

183
Screenwriter William Goldman noted that during his time as an Army draftee, he spent all of that time in a basement coming up with military acronyms. This was his JOB, it wasn't a matter of the E4 Mafia shamming.

His greatest achievement was coming up with an acronym that was longer than the phrase he was supposed to be summarizing. And getting the Army to actually adopt it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 13, 2026 11:22 AM (iqcvy)

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