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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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Before things like PowerPoint were invented presentations were done with projectors and slide decks. Each slide was on a piece of film and had to be interested into the slide deck one by one and in the correct orientation. It seems that whoever put the slides in put multiple ones upside down.
I appreciate the clarification zzz711 :) . I'm with accideath, however. I'm old enough to remember classic photo projectors, but I fail to see the punch line.
Maybe there's a joke about the Air Force failing to distinguish between Up and Down? Or perhaps the leadership of a project involving such complex mechanics as Nuclear Warheads is not expected to be comically inept with a simple projector.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That was my first thought
I get that. I just don’t get why that’s funny. Have that with the vast majority of the farside cartoons. They always feel like they’re missing the punchline, to me.
The military is making WMDs but can't get the slides presented properly.
If that's it, it's pretty good IMO.
Every time I see one of these in my feed I feel exactly the same. Even those that I understand the humor of, I find not particularly funny.
They have not aged well. 12 year old me found them endlessly hilarious.
I agree pretty strongly with this generally. The farside has a way of having jokes that are so simple on it's face that I'm left thinking "surely I've missed something?" Usually it turns out that no, in fact, I got the joke and was just vastly underwhelmed.
For whatever reason I found this one to be mildly funny. Couldn't tell you why. Perhaps it's the idea that the people who built the atomic bomb weren't that smart after all?