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:

Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

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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The often romanticized image of cowboys and aliens

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“Your dog had both motive and opportunity, ma’am: He hated the cat and he’s had training in operating heavy machinery. … Your husband, we feel, was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

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AISLE 5 / TABLE SCRAPS / MISC. BONES chicken bones removed / Who knows? / GRISTLE & FAT

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“Excuse me, but may I assume you're not Dr. Livingstone?”

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“Just keep starin’, buddy, and I’ll show ya my bad eye!”

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Unbeknownst to most ornithologists, the dodo was actually a very advanced species, living alone quite peacefully until, in the 17th century, it was annihilated by men, rats, and dogs. As usual.

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[mathematical equations on rocks]

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“There’re some, folks! These rare and lovely creations have no natural enemies, but balloon animals never last too long in this harsh land.”

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TOURS

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Early wheel gangs

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The Mastodon Mothers

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“Look, marriage is okay—but I also want my own identity. … I mean, how would you like it if everyone referred to you as ‘Chocolate Bar and Chocolate Bar’?”

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COUNSELOR / m m

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“Wow, this place is really packed—or maybe it’s just my compound eyes.”

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“We can’t go this way either, Simmons. ... See those lines? That’s the international cartoon symbol for glass! ... He’s got us good, the dirty bugger.”

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“Well, I’ll be. … I must’ve been holding the dang work order like this!”

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999

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Houdini’s final undoing

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CHINESE HANDCUFFS

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“Yeah? Well, I’ll tell you who your friend saw me with—a decoy! That’s who!”

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J. W. Miller with his staff and rod

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Hummingbirds on vacation

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Dad! Dad! There’s a feeder! … Can we stop?

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“My dad can act deader than your dad.”

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Out there, ominously moving toward its destiny, was a truck with Reuben’s name on it.

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REUBEN

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Taxidermist!

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Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775: An unfortunate twist of fate for one young redcoat, Charles “Bugeyed” Bingham, was not knowing that the opposing American general had just uttered the historic command, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”

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Some of our more common rescue animals

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CEREAL / FLOSS

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“Curses! ... Quick, Igor! Run down to the store and get two size D flashlight batteries!”

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Click! Click! Sputter!

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And by a lucky coincidence, Carl had just reached the “m’s.”

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LITTLE ANIMALS I HAVE EATEN

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“Somebody better run fetch the sheriff.”

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SALOO

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Suddenly, everyone turned and looked—there, standing in the doorway, was one wretched, mean-looking ingrown.

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