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As the smallest member of the gang, Wendell was used as an attention-getter while cruising for girls.
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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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Through mostly grunts and exaggerated gestures, two fishermen-gatherers attempt to communicate.
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“Man, Larry, I don’t know if we’re up to this. … I mean, this guy’s got kneecaps from hell.”
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Circa 1500 A.D.: Horses are introduced to America.
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“Harry! I found this note from Mary Beth! … She’s run off with a spoon!”
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The living hell of Maurice, Jacques Cousteau’s cat
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Scotty in hell
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Satan! Satan! … It's the main megafurnace! She's losin' power and the temperature is droppin' fast! … I'm not sure I can hold her!
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Each time the click beetle righted itself, Kyle would flip it over again—until something went dreadfully wrong.
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Farmer Brown froze in his tracks; the cows stared wide-eyed back at him. Somewhere, off in the distance, a dog barked.
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Shoulder Chops / throw-away / spare ribs
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After years of harboring his secret desires, Ned finally hits on the senior librarian.
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So, Ms. Clavell … read any good books lately?
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"Amazing! The mummified remains of a prehistoric cave-painter, still clutching his brush! ... Seems he made an enemy, though."
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“Well, well … seems we’ve found what’s been causing that ringing sensation in your ear, Mr. Foley.”
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His wish to be a real person granted, the Visible Man takes his first steps into the real world—not suspecting that most people, upon seeing him, would either faint or throw up.
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Andy's TOY & HOBBY SHOP
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“It’s no good, Dawson! We’re being sucked in by the sun’s gravitational field and there’s nothing we can do! … And, let me add, those are my sunglasses you’re wearing!”
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“And so please welcome one of this cartoon’s most esteemed scientist-like characters, Professor Boris Needleman, here to present his paper, ‘Beyond the Border: Analysis, Statistical Probability and Speculation of the Existence of Other Cartoons on The Known Comics Page.’”
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Scientists, after releasing her deep in the Antarctic, attempt to unravel the migratory secrets of the homing cow.
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Primitive waiting rooms
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MAMMOTH ILLUSTRATED / PALEOLITHIC LIGHTS / Hominid / THAG / Tragic story of the inventor of fire / CAVE & TUBER
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Clayton frequently watched the monsters, until the night he knocked over the garbage can and was subsequently eaten.
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That evening, with her blinds pulled, Mary had three helpings of corn, two baked potatoes, extra bread, and a little lamb.
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“Dang, if it doesn’t happen every time! … We just sit down to relax and someone’s knockin’ at the door.”
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The Deaths
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“Goldberg, you idiot! Don’t play tricks on those things—they can’t distinguish between ‘laughing with’ and ‘laughing at’!”
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