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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:

Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] DarkCloud 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

If anyone wants to see it (it's how bungee jumping started):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6hXnYW_2ac

[–] ameancow 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's the relevance and context of this comic strip, when it was first published in the 80's people hadn't heard of bungee jumping nor did it exist as far as I know, but people did see Nat Geo's documentaries.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is super hardcore. Definitely a lot of trust in those vines!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah, and the person measuring them. It would totally suck to be the tall one of the tribe...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Holy shit! I wonder if those vines are more dynamic than they appear.