Cartoons: Whatever Floats Your Boat

Whether you prefer to sail, canoe, or motor across the water, you know you can always count on the unexpected!

Men carry a canoe off a cliff

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Woman singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" as she and her partner navigate through rapids in a canoe
“Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream; merrily, merrily…”
Reg Hider
August 21, 1954

 

Two men sit in an upside-down boat after they've washed up on a beach.
“Quite a large wave, wasn’t it?”
Ralston
August 14, 1954

 

Woman threw out her husband because his guitar playing was annoying her.
Scott Taber
June 7, 1952

 

Woman clings to her partner after seeing a water snake
“…and that, as well as I can describe it, is how a water snake looks.”
Reg Hider
June 5, 1954

 

Woman asks her patner what the bucket in the boat is for.
“That’s a bailing bucket. I’ll show you what to do with it a little later.”
Dick Cavalli
May 19, 1951

 

Men carry a canoe off a cliff
“How far are we from the river, Sam? This thing’s getting heavy.”
Vahan Shirvanian
March 8, 1952

 

Man sits in a sinking boat.
“How’s the new boat?”
Frank O’Neal
November 20, 1954

 

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Comments

  1. I really love them all almost equally, and didn’t know canoeing was that popular. Here I’d have to say numbers 1, 3, 5, 6 & 7 are my favorites.

    Of all of them though, I have to go with number 3 as the most degrading. She is one p—– off lady!! She’s using the guitar her husband or ‘beau’ was going to serenade her with as a makeshift paddle to get away as fast as possible from him. Perhaps he said something about her mother, and that’s exactly where she’s off to; to sulk with mother!

    Maybe he got a little to friendly, and she knocked him out of the canoe with the guitar, screaming “FRESH!”

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