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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!

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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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Some of our more common rescue animals

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CEREAL / FLOSS

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I’m too dumb to understand this or it’s more esoteric than I’m thinking.

Can someone help me get the jokes please?

  • St Bernard = alcohol because cold ✅
  • Dolphin = missing swimmers because they washed off ✅
  • Rhino = pizza because you’re so hungry you eat a rhino ✅
  • Beetle = pencil because??
  • Chicken = floss because it gets stuck in your teeth ✅
  • Snake = keys because??
  • Cow = cereal because they give milk ✅
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Larson riffing on the "St Bernard dog with a barrel on its collar" myth that found its way into cartoons of its day: https://beerconnoisseur.com/articles/truth-about-saint-bernard-dogs-and-barrels

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

All of which are more useful than a dog delivering alcohol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

You never been up the mountains the St Bernard live in. A wee drop of schnapps is a godsend!

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

I’ll take the dog and rhino together please.

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

And maybe the chicken later, but absolutely not the dolphin.