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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 !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

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

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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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[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 ✅
[–] m_f@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

Snakes are able to fit into tight places, so they'd be able to easily retrieve keys that are e.g. dropped into a sewer grate. Kind of the reverse of what rescue animals tend to do though. Beetles with pencils because the teacher won't notice them delivering you a pencil? They could also just be a bit of absurdism, but it's kind of weird that the other ones are themed.