this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024
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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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[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why are there seven dudes in the first and last panel but eleven dudes in the middle panel?

[–] style99@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

The other four can't read.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

12 is on the second

[–] TheSealStartedIt@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fun fact: the German word for to fuck "ficken" has its origin in this act of forced entering. I would guess the English word also derives from that...

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh what?

*fug, *peuk-/peug-, *pei̯k̑- are quite different to forced entering if I understood German WP right.

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

You are right.

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Not true. Wikipedia says it is not sure from where it actually comes from. Either from words meaning moving sth. fast sode to side. Or from the words peuk which means stechen which means sting/pierce.

[–] TheAuthor_13@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I mean… they’re barbarians, not BARBARIANS

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I bet the other side is a pull door.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Gf on her period be like