That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 06, 2016

“No gold. I can still use the pan to cook in.”

“No wonder I can’t pan gold in this…it’s a pudding basin.”

6 months in the mountains and there are no women in sight.

George! How many times have I told you that it’s not a pan flute!?

hmm made in pannsylvania

Woka, Woka, Woka!!!!!

No cat-house visit for me tonight. . .

In 1853, just as he was about to go home broke, the manufacturer issued a recall. Seems it was a bad idea to print the instructions on the bottom.

RCA ad before they decided to use Nipper the dog.

“Don’t knock the Wok!”

“No, this ones’s an imitation. You can tell by the pattern on the side here. I can give you a dollar for it.”

I’ve actually tried panning gold. My take so far, three tiny specks. I love the instructions that come with gold pans: “First pick out any large nuggets.” Like the pre-wash instructions for my pants; “Remove all large wads of bills.”

Portrait of the relatively unknown bush poet ‘Dobro’ Paterson at his moment of inspiration.

2 URLs (copy each as one long line). 1st has links that point to info about the painting, and artist’s Wikipedia page. 2nd has info about the artist.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julian_Ashton_-_The_prospector_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/an-introduction-to-the-paintings-and-watercolours-by-julian-rossi-ashton-at-the-national-gallery-of-victoria/

2 URLs (copy each as one long line). Both have info about the 1850’s gold rush..

https://books.google.com/books?id=vX9nmtMdQkQC&pg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=N7zfbz1OL4oC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Couldn’t put all 4 in one comment (exceeded new comment length).

For those having trouble using the URLs, GC’s new policy regarding comments no longer allows me to use hyperlinks.

If you don’t know how to copy them, point your mouse at the URL start, and press it while you move it over the URL to the end (that should highlight the URL), then, while holding down the Ctrl (control) key on a PC or the ⌘ key on a Mac, press the c key (what Ctrl-c or ⌘-c means) to copy it, and finally, highlight the full browser address (gocomics.com) and paste (Ctrl-v or ⌘-v).

He couldn’t dump a flake of gold if the instructions were printed on the bottom.

Once when Riders in the Sky were camping in Frankie Valley (“That’s high country!”), Side Meat used his gold pan to do some Chinese cooking, so he could Wok Like a Man. He flavored it with Sherry. Then they went to bed so they could get up at Dawn.

“Oh… No wonder… It’s a chamber pot.”