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
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More facts of nature: All forest animals, to this very day, remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard that Bambi’s mother had been shot.
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I was down by the edge of the lake at the time. / I was just getting ready to cross the interstate. / I was in the glen, just finishing a new burrow when I got the news. / I was looking for crawdads in my favorite creek. / I was under a rock, getting ready to shed.
Its referencing Bambi's mom dying as one of those deaths or disasters that leave a person with a vivid memory of where they were when it occurred. I'm sure anyone who remembers JFK being killed have a vivid memory of where they were. I have a vivid memory of many such things. I already mentioned Elvis but I also can remember plenty other such things vividly.
Not the full list but I remember Challenger, Columbia, 9/11 and the 2004 tsunami which is the largest death of people in a single day of anyone alive before or after 2004. Its never mentioned here because it wasn't real to my countrymen. I think that one is with me because I knew someone who was there at the time and it was several days before we found out they were okay.
All the events mentioned above though I can tell you exactly where I was and for most part everyone I knew that was there.
Its clear that 9/11 is your go to for this perfectly normal human reaction to a traumatic situation.