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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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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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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think I understand this one. The woman represents the artist introducing insight and novelty into the lives of their audience, the dogs. Notice the can’s jagged edge symbolizing the lengths they went through to hone their craft and the small intellectual space they’re afforded to explore with their instrument, the spoon. Jewelry adorns her, representing her success. She’s not tired, not angry, just resigned to the perpetual slog of existence. She scoops the dog food. Her dogs eat it. She lives another day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

( nods existentially )

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think I might love you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Gary Larson probably identifies more with the dog than the woman, and wonders why anyone thinks this panel is funny.

[–] LolcatXTREME 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been eating dog food all week because it's all I have until the 9th.

Which sounds sad and pathetic and gross, but I make my own dog food by browning some ground turkey, boiling some mixed veggies and cooking some brown rice, then drizzling it with a tablespoon of high quality olive oil. It's basically a sheppard's pie without the crust.

I am quite bored of it tho...

[–] AngryCommieKender 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can eat spices. Add some curry powder, sesame oil, chilies, garlic. Something....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For sure. Salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and some good ol' MSG in my own bowl (no spices for the dogs). It's not that the food is bland, it's that I've had nothing but that 1 thing for 4 days. I need variety. 😅

[–] Ddhuud 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I don't understand the implication, what was she feeding them before?

Copyright 1982? What was happening then?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It's about dogs tending to be excited over the same things over and over again.

[–] flucksy_bango 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The green bowl represents the greed of politicians. The woman is obviously Nancy Pelosi, or maybe Elizabeth Warren. The food is our money. They want us to eat dog food. The cabinets behind us (the animals they view us as) represents the Biden administration sneaking up on us. The red ketchup represents the communists.

Jesus, this is easier than I thought. Alex Jones is a hack lol

[–] AngryCommieKender 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now the real question is do you have morals, or do you want to fleece the idiots. Anyone can make a fortune pandering to their base, I'm just couldn't live with myself making it that way.

[–] flucksy_bango 2 points 1 year ago

I think about this so much when I start getting stressed at work. Like, it can't be that hard, Gavin McGinnis does it! Then again, all of their grifts are cooking around them right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dogs just being dogs. No concept of: kitchens, culinary delights, wide variety of foods, grocery stores, etc. They be hungry... you make... dog love you. Dogs don't know. ☺️

1982? Perhaps foods was fattier or tastier then. Only time I have my tongue like that was when Shakey's Pizza was still around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably a boomer joke about how the dog food is better than her cooking.
I can't imagine how much bored one needed to be to find all these comics entertaining back then.
Going through them now is a bit different, they're not exactly entertaining, they're, idk, a weird echo of a time long gone.