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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:

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

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

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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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[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not sure what this one means.

[–] Kftrendy@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think it’s referencing Clever Hans, a horse who allegedly could do arithmetic and would respond to questions by tapping his hoof (Clever Hans famously could not actually do math - he had just learned to tap his foot until his trainer looked happy with the number of taps).

[–] sab@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I had heard of Clever Hans before, but never knew the trainer himself wasn't actually aware he was giving cues to the house. The horse was actually really smart, just not in the way people imagined.

[–] MrZee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I think that’s it. Also, teacher horse is upset that they’re all giving the wrong answer.

Oh cool! Maybe that's it

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Those are the best ones

[–] Afelia@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think they're trying to count on their "fingers," but they're horses so they only have the one hoof?

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's referencing an old trick some charlatans would do where they would train a horse to stomp its hoof in order to appear like it can do arithmetic. So like the con-man would ask the horse "what's 3+2?" And the horse would stomp its foot 5 times.

[–] Afelia@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That makes more sense.

That's what I was thinking but wasn't sure.