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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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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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“Look, Sid! Another snowball! … I tell you, this place is slipping.”
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“Aw, c’mon, you guys—the cat’s away and everyone’s so dead serious.”
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Is the Universe Shrinking? SOCIAL ANARCHY IN RODENTS
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“Now now now. ... You won’t be a lonely road forever, you know.”
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Tension mounts in the final heat of the paper-rock-scissors event.
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AUS / USA / GBR / CAN
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Hospitals to avoid
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DEADER THAN A DOORNAIL / ALMOST AS DEAD AS A DOORNAIL / ABOUT HALF AS DEAD AS A DOORNAIL / MUCH, MUCH DEADER THAN A DOORNAIL
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“Well, time for our weekly brainstem-storming session.”
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The often romanticized image of cowboys and aliens
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“Your dog had both motive and opportunity, ma’am: He hated the cat and he’s had training in operating heavy machinery. … Your husband, we feel, was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
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“Excuse me, but may I assume you're not Dr. Livingstone?”
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AISLE 5 / TABLE SCRAPS / MISC. BONES chicken bones removed / Who knows? / GRISTLE & FAT
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“Just keep starin’, buddy, and I’ll show ya my bad eye!”
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Unbeknownst to most ornithologists, the dodo was actually a very advanced species, living alone quite peacefully until, in the 17th century, it was annihilated by men, rats, and dogs. As usual.
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[mathematical equations on rocks]
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“There’re some, folks! These rare and lovely creations have no natural enemies, but balloon animals never last too long in this harsh land.”
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TOURS
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“Look, marriage is okay—but I also want my own identity. … I mean, how would you like it if everyone referred to you as ‘Chocolate Bar and Chocolate Bar’?”
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COUNSELOR / m m
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“Wow, this place is really packed—or maybe it’s just my compound eyes.”
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“We can’t go this way either, Simmons. ... See those lines? That’s the international cartoon symbol for glass! ... He’s got us good, the dirty bugger.”
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“Well, I’ll be. … I must’ve been holding the dang work order like this!”
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“Yeah? Well, I’ll tell you who your friend saw me with—a decoy! That’s who!”
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Hummingbirds on vacation
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Dad! Dad! There’s a feeder! … Can we stop?
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