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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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[–] m_f@midwest.social 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Apparently a reference to this series of beer commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLK4MxAiF7c

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

awesome, every now and then I'm completely perplexed by a far side cartoon.

this was one of them.

thanks

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah this is a reference to an ad on TV when I was about 1 year old.

It did have koolade man vibes too though (which we saw plenty of later in the 80s), so I kinda associated it with that, but didn’t fine it very funny that way.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't even make sense.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was like the koolaid man for adults. The guy was popular in a show called get smart. He was a secret agent who had a shoe phone.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Missed it by that much.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Taste Great, Less Filling! was my favorite beer commercials when I was a kid. Made worse since both of my parents were against drinking.

John Madden and Rodney Dangerfield plus others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehhH9rfnaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6SBtg9VQ9M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrqJUh2B2P8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2HiIdObYTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7j56AywNNQ

Oh and OJ Simpson was the hertz rental dumbass.

Winners rent from hertz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO2E41xwaBI

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Jesus christ