this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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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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[–] moistclump 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like the detail that that’s less than the ground beef is going for in the case.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

1.99/lb for preprocessed human is a lot more expensive than 2.99 ground meat.

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

Well you've got to compensate for all the organs and bone in the human which would just go to waste. Pound for pound for just the meat you'd probably be paying more than $2.99 per pound. Plus he looks a little bulky and I guarantee you there's no marbling.

[–] xantoxis 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is one of the more unsettling ones. I've always wondered who or what the guy in the coat is.

[–] Stamau123 18 points 1 year ago

I think it's a crocodile with how lumpy the flesh poking out top is

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Shia Lebeouf.

[–] GrammatonCleric 13 points 1 year ago

A cannibal. He's a cannibal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A chicken. Definitely a chicken.

[–] MorgoFett 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude in coat wants to by some of that delicate assistant meat from the butcher. Butcher is considering it, but trying to keep the assistant (back turned) from hearing the discussion.

Commentary on animal consumption, as a lot of Larson's comics were. I've never looked to see if he was/is a veggie person.

[–] hansl 4 points 1 year ago

Also the assistant would be cheaper than ground meat at 2.99$ per pound. Not sure what that says but it’s dark.

[–] M0ty 6 points 1 year ago

Baby goat is called a "kid"