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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 !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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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[–] Bigtiddygothgrany@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really hate the way that tally is set up

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

They hadn't done a "how to record a tally" tally yet.

[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We had to figure out which mushrooms were poisonous somehow

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

This one is delicious, this one killed Tom instantly, and with this one Gary talked to the forest spirits for a week straight.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That one's easy! Learned this 30 years ago when I was trying to pick up mycology.

You don't hork the whole shroom down, just a tiny, tiny nibble. All good? Bigger nibble. Heartburn? Wonky guts? Stop. Tripping balls and seeing the ancestor's Dreamlands? Maybe a bigger nibble. You get the idea.

Won't take long until the tribe figures out what local fungi are safe or not.

[–] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

That's a very patient mammoth. 🦣