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!

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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] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I remember when this used to occasionally happen.

They'd start the movie and it would be out of focus, or the film would be shifted up out of frame, and people would shout at the projectionist to fix it.

Then if that didn't work, someone would have to go to the lobby to complain.

The one thing that I assume happened but I never experienced is that someone forgot to change the reels. Although I had the similar experience of having the film break a few times.

As the audience, I think you can tell the difference because while they're splicing the film together, they turn the lights on in the theater. I assume that wouldn't happen if the projectionist simply forgot to change reels because they were asleep or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

One reason for the in movie break was to change the reels.
The focus issue mostly gone now with digital projectors, but I encountered one in a new complex where the AC cause condensation on the glass between the projector and the hall, and the staff need to wipe it often or else it's messed up.