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The Far Side

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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

For some reason, this far side has always stuck with me. I often open my mailbox and quote this, and no one gets it. I love it, great share, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Ea-nasir is behind this, I just know it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I just realized today I was accidentally filtering all the posts in this community and now I'm glad I have it back.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't get the joke. Could someone explain it to me?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He ordered something, but got a rock instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I question that because its the stone age so what else could he have ordered? I kind of wonder if the joke is that its not a regular rock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I laughed but I didn't really understand it for some reason. Pumice is a light inferior rock and he doesn't like it. I think that's what I got out of it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you're right. It's like the styrofoam of rocks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That makes sense, thanks for the clarification

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

i'd imagine he ordered some nice flint for tool-making, but got a crummy pumice stone