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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Help me understand this cartoon. If you remove Jackie, I get it and find it funny. However, add her in and it's confusing to me. She was JFKs widow, right? I did a little reading about her, but didn't pick up why the creator added her amongst the fabled beasts...
Edit: "breasts" to "beasts," because while I'm largely ignorant regarding Jackie Kennedy, she probably deserves better than my silly misspelling.
After JFKs assassination, Jackie withdrew from the public and became kind of an elusive creature. To this day, she's one of the most popular First Ladies America has ever had, so of course people would be concerned with her disappearance from the public eye.
Hmm. I've done a little reading and can see how see pulled away from the public eye. And it was warranted, especially considering how she was treated by the public at times and how the paparazzi assailed her. I'm still a little confused by the idea that she was an elusive creature because of how involved she still was in things, especially after Aristotle's death.
So while the cartoon didn't fully hit home for me, I did get to go on a number of rabbit trails of the kind which I always enjoy. Another TIL moment for myself. 😁
amongst the fabled breasts...
kehehe
Haha! It's the small things in life, perhaps especially the small mistakes. 😁