That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 06, 2023

They were duck hunting near Lawrence, but Larry preferred fishing.

/// That balloon’s huge and slow— in our face!!

Not some satellite spying from space.

China cheered when they found

we, of course, had it downed.

(It was built in that Wuhan-lab place.)

Stay down! Those mallards are packing heat!

“When they say shoot for the moon, I thought it just a figure of speach.”

Oh f#! That’s way way too big to be a duck. And ducks don’t breath fire!

How they play “Duck, Duck, Goose” in the south!

These two snakes in the grass never purchased their Duck Stamps.

/// When Duck Shooting with Decoys of wood

and a duck call, you’ll fool those birds good!

Shooting up in the air

from a duck blind’s not fair;

they’d at least have a chance if you stood.

I told him to duck.

We could easily see the balloon. I only had my phone with me so the photo isn’t too good, but we watched it glide over us. We told China that Goober said hey.

Two more birds Ishmael and we’ll have enough Duck Soup to last until you can post on GoComics again.

This one really is PRICELESS!

Timely

From: @Call me Ishmael

https://www.gocomics.com/profile/2288699

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They’d been told that ducks never attack-/

That the weapons required ducks lack/

Now the first hunter whined/

From the bowels of their blind/

“Migod- they’re firing back!”

Let’s stop this Chinese arrogance

Here and now,

Lest they land on the moon and carve

The Face of Mao!

That poor Lab never signed up for this kind of work.

“There ya go, Larry. Ya finaly got a target big enough ya might hit!”

It’s the darnest thing, that one right there keeps saying, “It’s rabbit season!”, and dancing around.

“And you said I was an idiot for sighting this thing to sixty thousand feet.”

Meanwhile, three of them flew over the US during the Trump administration and that fact DIDN’T make the news. Not even the fact that he owes them money and conducts the family’s business with them (while in office, conflict of interest).

What the…really? And we thought Reagan was teflon. Ugh.

“Dang it Mr. Cheney, watch where yer pointing that thing!”

Decades later, Bill dealt with the trauma of December 7th, 1941 the only way he knew how – by shooting down Japanese Zero Ducks.

Haa Haa! Good one!

These guys are better than our new military.

“Ummmmmm … that ‘tink’ sound tells me you probably shot down a wildlife monitoring drone.”

Duck Shooting with Decoys or Duck Hunting near Lawrence: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1861 oil on canvas paintings in the United States" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia 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 with Tait, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3074 (February 6, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

It’s about time we head home … my wife thinks I’m working today.

They actually had to post publicly to ask people not to shoot at the balloon with hunting rifles when it was over 11 miles up in the air.