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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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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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Boxer nightmares
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I'm trying! I'm trying! … But he keeps moving sideways on me!
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Confucius at the office
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The road may fork, so drive carefully. Do not let the bed bugs bite. Looks like we’re in for some rain.
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“I assume you’re being facetious, Andrews. ... I distinctly yelled ‘second!’ before you did.”
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“Hey! You! … Yeah, that’s right! I’m talkin’ to YOU!”
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After many years of marital bliss, tension enters the Kent household.
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DAILY PLANET / Stupid
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The Vikings, of course, knew the importance of stretching before an attack.
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Excuse me, Zeek, but I have to go over to the neighbor’s yard for a few minutes … be right back. / Yo! We got any magazines?,
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Ancient exterminators
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Thank the Sun God you’re here! … We’re infested with papyrus wasps! / GARUK BROS.
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Why we see news anchorpersons only from the waist up.
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So far, so good! We now control a prime source of their information, and the foolish earthlings do not suspect a thing! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! … Now return to your stations.
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“Curse you, Flannegan! Curse you to hell! ... There, I’ve said it.”
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“Ladies! Ladies! He’s back! … Our mystery man who does the Donald Duck impression!”
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“Notice all the computations, theoretical scribblings, and lab equipment, Norm. … Yes, curiosity killed these cats.”
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“Hey, Jim—go out for a short one!”
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SPORTING GOODS
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Innovative concepts in exposing city kids to nature
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SCORPION PETTING ZOO / FARM ANIMALS
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“Oo! Icky icky! … Something just went down that surrrrrrre wasn’t plankton!”
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Long before his show business career, he was known as Mr. Liberace, the wood-shop teacher.
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“Well, I just feel like I’m living under a microscope.”
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“Well, yes, that is the downside, Fluffy. … Once we kill her, the pampering will end.”
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