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

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've never heard the expression, "how now, brown cow?" It used to be something people said all the time, it's just a silly phrase meaning "how's everything going." He's just playing around with the phrase "how now brown cow."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] 970372 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Kernal64 34 points 1 year ago

It's a reference to this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_now_brown_cow

Larson is taking the phrase out of its normal context and riffing on it in an absurdist way for laughs.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is one of those stupid comics that has, of its own free will, randomly popped back into my head over the last 20 years.

I had started to think it wasn’t real and I’d just misremembered a Far Side comic and now boom, it’s here like an awkward Christmas gift.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This comic lives rent free in my brain, I think about it far to often.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I bought the collection of far side back in the 90s, once it was finished. So none of these are new to me, but they still make me chuckle

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Why now brown cow?

It's simple. He was just in the moood.

[–] SonicBlue03 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Old people get this. I'm not saying if I did or not.

Ok, fine... I got it.