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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:

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] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's just that they've been arguing for years and the wives are fed up about it.

[–] RoundSparrow 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the equal portions, starting gun, and ready to dive in pose implies that they are having a speed contest, a classic kind of American thing like 1972 onward hot dog eating contest, a race of 10 minutes (they have adjusted the minutes allowed, but time is the key to the race).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wish there were eating contests like that where I live :(

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

It's obvious that they are having a race... But the question is WHY. Was it a common thing to brag about how fast you can eat your dinner?

[–] RoundSparrow 1 points 1 year ago

That's why I linked the hot dog eating contest, which is a drag race

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

Old people think how fast someone eats or whoever finishes their meal first is a virtue.

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

I never understood this boomer shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was the original text?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Okay, I was confused because of the replaced text, I'm so used to the font Larson used.