Here’s a little explanation: back when this was published, the idea of scientists acting like high school students was considered absurd.
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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
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As near as I can tell there is actually infighting over who gets telescope time so this is more accurate than you know.
Absolutely. The institutions with lots of telescope time get very political and cutthroat.
Is this not famously how grants are awarded?
Good thing they left at night.
Aged poorly now we know any workplace can have workplace bullying.
Aged poorly? It's from today.
It was reposted today. This one was originally printed in 1987, as you can see from the copyright on the image.
Interesting. What the hell is with OPs title then?
Booooooo OP.
That's the title from the Far Side site that reposted it today.
The plot thickens... Booooooo thefarside.com
Blocking this community to get out of this insanity. Most far side comics aren't particularly funny anyway.
Typical reddit refugee moment
You do realize that’s Gary Larson’s own site, right? He can post his own comics however the hell he wants.