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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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Eh, most cultures has a concept of a day off. Ancient Babylon arguably created the 7-day week with the seventh as a special observance (and the 28th as a mandatory day off). Judaism has had the Sabbath (arguably related to the Babylonian 7th day off). The USSR, in trying to eliminate religion, changed the work week to 5 days (later six) and had one day off to rest. The French Republic had something similar, but used 10 days. The Chinese had a similar concept (forgot the number of days) where people would have a day off to wash their hair (among other things).
So there's a lot of evidence that people generally value having a day off now and then.
Anyway, I was going to end it all in a joke, but now I'm thoroughly sidetracked with seriousness. Hmph.
TIL, thank you!