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.
apology for poor english
when were you when babmi mom dies?
i was sat in tree eating a corn when shotr ring
"babmi is kill"
"no"
I remember the conversation we had at work the day this one popped up. We all talked about places we were when someone died. For me it was Elvis. I was pretty young sitting in floorboards of a 77 ford Ranchero. I only remember it because my mama immediately started trash talking Elvis for living his life his way. She never failed to pass harsh judgement on anyone who ever did something other than what she would have done. What she always did was hate them for their choices and talk shit about them.
For most of the others there it was the challenger disaster. .
My mother remembers the moon landing and challenger (she was in education so that was rough). I remember 9/11.
I remember the last moon landing or more to the point I remember being very sad it was the last one because my very young self thought it would be fun to go there. I just couldn't tell you where I was when I saw the news about it.
There are moments in time for every generation. D-day. Pearl Harbor. Challenger and Columbia. OJ verdict. 9/11/01.
People who are judgemental like your mama are so annoying. Not everyone wants an office job, not everyone wants to drive a truck.
I had to check the publication date of this one. I assumed it was one of the newer ones, after 2001.
I wonder if it's referencing JFK?
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.
Yes, JFK would 100% be my assumption!
“Where were you when you heard JFK was assassinated?” was the one I had always heard before 9/11. It had become kind of a meme by the 1980s or 90s.
When 9/11 happened I was like “well now I know what that feels like.” The Columbine shooting comes to mind nowadays, but obviously that got overshadowed by 9/11.
I actually even remember my mom telling me about how she heard about JFK, she was in grade school and they gathered all the kids for an assembly to tell them. That’s how common it was, we definitely talked about it when I was a kid!