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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:

Bello Bear !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

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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“Soup of the day is ready!”

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[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (3 children)

i don't get it

it's got something to do with his shoe?

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

During famines, for example the Irish Potato Famine, people have resorted to making "soup" from belts and footwear. There are lots of other examples throughout history.

[–] shifty@leminal.space 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Specifically leather belts and footwear.

[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Well, shit. I've been doing it all wrong. I thought this nylon belt tasted weird.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 days ago

Leather! It's what's for dinner.
It did take me a while to spot it.

[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago

I think so? It might also be a jab at the notion that "soup of the day" is more of a concept or a placeholder, as it is not a type of soup, but I think you are spot-on with the shoe.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Now that's a great depression joke.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

It's a shoe-in for joke of the year (1935)

[–] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] ech@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago
[–] Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Lotta people loving the taste of boot soup these days.