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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!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

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Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

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] 14 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Why aren't their feet covered? Do people really sleep like that?

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

Also, why are their curtains shaped like feet

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

i think its a cartoon technique so you dont wonder if there might be a person hiding on the other side of the bed, which would derange the context here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you want to lie straight on your back and it's really cold, you have to choose to cover either your feet or your chest.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

This varies by human size and blanket size.

One of my friends recently said he never had his shoulders and feet covered at the same time, and another friend who is shorter than I am shared a look of horror with me. I'm 5'3" and regularly tuck excess blanket under my feet and legs like a makeshift sleeping bag, it never occurred to me that this isn't something everyone can do. Anyway, we decided it's not okay for him to live life that way and made him an 8'x6' quilt. He almost cried when we gave it to him lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I have slept with hands and feet uncovered for as long as I can remember. I have mild Reynaud's though, and heating of extremities can be exceptionally uncomfortable and sometimes painful. I can't sleep with socks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely, critical for temperature regulation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I refuse to believe this, so I'm not going to search anywhere

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is kind of like that 'what he's really thinking about' meme.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Larson did it first!