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“Well, yes, that is the downside, Fluffy. … Once we kill her, the pampering will end.”
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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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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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Mike Wallace interviews the devil.
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Hey! I didn’t know we were gonna talk about that pestilence thing, so you turn that camera off!
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Professor Glickman, the lab practical joker, deftly places a single drop of hydrochloric acid on the back of Professor Bingham’s neck.
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“Excuse me, but must you smoke that foul thing around here?”
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“Man, this is ugly—sheep and cattle never do mix well.”
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“Hello, Emily. This is Gladys Murphy up the street. Fine, thanks. … Say, Emily, could you go to your window and describe what’s in my front yard?”
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“Look. If you’re so self-conscious about it, get yourself a gorilla mask.”
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Executioner understudies
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Dang! / It’s my big chance!
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“Well, here he comes … Mr. Never-Makes-a-Dud.”
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Another photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope
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The Viking longcar was once the scourge of European roadways.
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“New guy, huh? Well, up here, you walk the edge! And the edge is a fickle hellcat. … Love her, but never trust her, for her heart is full of lye! ”
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CONSOLIDATED LYE CO.
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“This is it, Jenkins—indisputable proof that the Ice Age caught these people completely off guard.”
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“Okay, okay, little Ahab. … Which one is it going to be?”
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Tropical Fish 15 cents
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Darren’s heart quickened: Once inside the home, and once the demonstration was in full swing, a sale was inevitable.
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Little Wonder DOMESTIC TRACTORS,
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Anatidaephobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
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And for the rest of his life, Ernie told his friends that he had talked with God.
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Hello? Hello? This is God! Who’s this? / Uh, this is Ernie Miller, sir. / Ernie who? Is this 555-1728? / No, this is 555-1782 / Sorry. / Click
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“Can I look now?”
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMOK / SMO
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For several hours, confusion reigned.
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CENTER FOR ILLITERACY / ACME INDUSTRIES / THE BLIND AGAINST ACME / ACME VS. BLIND / ACME UNFAIR TO THE BLIND / ACME UNFAIR TO THE BLIND / ACME UNFAIR TO BLIND
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“Holy cow! What’s gotten into our La-Z-Boy?”
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You never see it coming.
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Honk Honk / the OLD AGE TRUCK / WHAM! / Jim! You, too? Bummer!
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“Bootsy! … Booooooootsy! … We are calling you from the world of the living! … Meowwww! … Are you there, Bootsy? … Give us a sign!”
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Madame Zoe’s
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