this post was submitted on 30 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!

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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[–] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Snake oil salesmen

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an automatic constrictor gadget. Like a human salesman might be selling a dishwasher or a food processor

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

Ah, I was thinking that they were supposed to go into the actual tube for some reason. Maybe it's because I just woke up, idk. :p

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No, I thought that too, I couldn't figure it out.

[–] PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbt 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that is confusing. This gadget should have caps on the ends.

He's selling a machine that constricts prey for the snakes so they don't have to

This is pretty good