I don't get it!
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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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
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Hotels used to do this all the time after they cleaned your room. The picture implies they're 100s of miles from anyone, but someone cleaned his campsite and left him a mint. (I think)
Oh thank you! I was not familiar with this tradition
No idea if this story is true: https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-origin-of-the-hotel-pillow-chocolate-3301205
I've stayed at chain business hotels that did it in the 1990's
There is a lot of ambiguity here and I think that was what Larson found funny.
These two hard-bitten cowfolk are out in the middle of nowhere, clearly no-one around but each other. It is obvious that the sleeping cowboy placed the mint...but why?
The contrast between the rough environment and the tender act if mint placing is already kind of funny. Your mind then starts to try to complete the story. Was this a romantic gesture? Or maybe it was something more sinister. A reference to past misdeeds thought forgotten?
Larson loved ambiance and sometimes used it in place of a punchline.