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I gotta be me, oh I just gotta be me …
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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!
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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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“Well, here comes Stanley now. ... Good heavens! What’s he caught this time?”
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“Listen … you go tell Billy’s mother, and I’ll start looking for another old tire.”
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“Details are still sketchy, but we think the name of the bird sucked into the jet’s engines was Harold Meeker.”
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Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.
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“Now this is … this is … well, I guess it’s another snake.”
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It wasn’t until he got home that Sahib realized the thing had no front end.
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AS IS
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“Oh, my God! Dung beetles! … And in their filthy dungarees, of course!”
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“Two questions, Mitch: How much do you weigh, and what’s the most sensitive part of any elephant’s anatomy?”
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“Well, it looks like Sylvia has latched on to another fly-by-night boyfriend.”
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“It’s just a miracle you pulled through, George. ... Why, it was only a few hours ago the whole family was deliberating on whether or not to wring your neck.”
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“Hey, we’ll be lucky if we ever sell this place! … Well, it’s like everyone says—location, location, location.”
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FOR SALE
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It was a special moment, as father and son watched their weekend project attract its first tenant.
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A few days following the King Kong “incident,” New Yorkers return to business as usual.
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EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
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“One day, Wilson, I’ll be sitting at that desk.”
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“Hey hey hey! … Before you go, pack up this depressing garbage of yours and get it out of here!”
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CARES & WOES
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“Hold it right there, Charles! ... Not on our first date, you don’t!”
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“Say, Carl … forget the Hendersons for a second and come look at this thing.”
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“C’mon! You’ll miss the fun! … All the lemmings are going down to the beach!”
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"Listen, Wadsworth ... as far as I’m concerned we can just go anchor somewhere else.”
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