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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:

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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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Caption:

Hummingbirds on vacation

Alt text:

Dad! Dad! There’s a feeder! … Can we stop?

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I love the iconic Far Side glasses on the mother bird.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Nice catch!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago

The nectar at home: a dirty flower.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

But we're on vacation!

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago

its amazing how many of these I have not seen given how many I have seen. Love this one.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"Are we there yet?"
"No"
"Are we there yet?"
"No"
"Are we there yet?"
"No"

But seriously, hummingbird migration distances are amazing in relation to their size.

https://www.hummingbirdcentral.com/hummingbird-migration-spring-2024-map-animation-video.htm

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

“We stopped TEN MINUTES ago!”

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Weird choice of bird given how often hummingbirds need to eat

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

A lot of Far Side comics don't make a lot of sense. They were much more funny 30 years ago, when I was 9 and didn't have ubiquitous internet access that allowed me to easily fact check this stuff.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

It's like a giant M on a pole along the highway and kids are suddenly starving