Far side thread

In before Cow Tools.

>>93299678
Farside was my first comic ever, my dad has a bunch of them and i read them a lot. Love it. Wasn't into 'traditional' comics till much much later

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>>93299678
A personal favourite.

Bumpin. On my phone and don't have anything to post..

>>93301683
Amazing!
>>93301755
Kek

>>93299678
Never read much of the far side, but 'there is a hair on my dirt' (its by the same author) was one of my favorite books.

>>93301755
I love it, like it's always sunny title cards.

>dark, med, and light skinned people more different from one another than penguins and hummingbirds.

>>93299678
whats the skin tone of jerks?

>>93301967
depends, whats yours?

>>93301737
What am I looking at?

>>93302008
depends on how much daddy slaps me

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Anyone got the "cow hawk" one? It's my absolute favorite, but I could never find it online.

>>93302011
Penguin and a banana peel, if I remember correctly.

Bump for greatness. Love these.

>>93299847
Why would the Apache have a native word for an animal that prior to the Europeans' arrival to the continent, didn't exist?

>>93299678
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>>93302083

i dont get it

>>93302123
ebin my /b/ro! I wish I could upvote more than once!

>>93301976
Fuck. I am keking at this too much
>>93302059
This is pretty good as well

>>93301934

Now THAT'S menacing!

>>93302116
maybe because there was like 400 years because spanish explorers and the lone ranger, numbnuts

>>93301934
>>93302059
These are the only ones so far that I don't get

>>93302350
Captions on >>93301934 have been switched.

>>93302350
the first one, the newspaper fucked up and the captions are switched.
in the second, the joke is that one of them will cut it down

Where are the Cow Tools?

>>93301976
That's the Argyle Sweater actually

>>93302460
Holy shit. Good find

>>93301709
That's not what bees look like

>>93302116
Languages develop and evolve over time, dipshit.

>>93300024
Is this loss?

>>93302824
12/10 fucking beyond perfect

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>>93302123
All in due time anon.

>>93305616
I... I don't get it? I'm usually pretty smart, I mean, I have an engineering master's from MIT. I think that's pretty smart, even if I just test well. But what's going on here? Why does a cow need tools? How are those even considered to be tools?

>>93305778
maybe it's meant to be some sort of riff on cow pies? the saw especially looks like it could be sculpted out of soft material, but it seems like a stretch

>>93305778
(You)

>>93305778
that's just the far side, sometimes the humor is non-sensical. that one in particular is famous as exhibiting the quintessential gary larson "odd ball" sense of humor.

>>93305616
The deepest lore of Sneed and Heathcliff rolled together in a single comic.

>>93300122
Is this Heathcliff

>>93302642

If you think about it, that makes it more horrifying.

>>93299678
He doesn't like them getting posted online

>>93305616
Congrats! You tripped everyone's autism!

>>93302123
Get back in the bomb shelter, Homer.

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>>93306485
I remember in a compilation Gary described being really damn happy with how this one turned out. The first version had two people looking over and talking about the cat, but he realized that a complete lack of dialogue was the way to go. He was completely happy with the final version, never tempted to overwork it.
It's always nice to share in little moments of an artist's pride.

>>93305778
>I have an engineering master's from MIT.
And over 300 confirmed patents i'm sure

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>>93299678
Guys? Fellas?

Guys, c'mon. Please? Cut it out.

Please? Please stop.

If you like my work, then buy it. That's all I ask.

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>>93306569
I agree, there's one with a king arguing with workers inside a castle that doesn't need the caption given - it's obvious already.

>>93302008

DAYUUMMMMM

>>93301683
Hahaha xD LOOOOL

This is hiralious!

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>>93299678
>I've never seen one here.

They happen. Though very, very rarely.

Not gonna post it outta respect for Mr. Larson's wishes, (also bc it's kinda hard to find) but check out the two animated specials he did Tales From the Far Side I & II, both I think aired on Halloween on CN.

>>93302074
So dark. So good.

You could never get away with this nowadays.

>>93302460
Such a fucking rip off.

>>93306827

This one gets a chuckle out of me every time.

>>93306860

>I'm not going to post but I'm going to recommend it

If you wanted to respect Larson you wouldn't mention it at all

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

>>93308326
Is Lois petty enough to do?

>>93308404
the two wolves halfway in, I was not prepared to feel tonight

>>93305778
That's kinda the point, anon. when Larson made the comic, the "tools" weren't supposed to really be anything in particular. Unfortunately, he made the tool on the right look too much like a saw. This resulted in people endlessly trying to figure out what the other three tools were, under the assumption that their forms were indicative of function.

>>93306637
But I already own all of your books, Mr. Larson.

>>93306637
But I already did, before the Internet was something everyone used

>>93308480
A myriad of silver age covers indicate there's no limit to the depths that either of them will sink.

>>93302008
BTFO

>>93305778
The joke was supposed to be that cows would suck at making tools if they tried. But then people assume there's a deeper meaning to it when there's not.

>>93305778
>I... I don't get it? I'm usually pretty smart

It's the original nerd snipe. Everyone who is like you got obsessed with figuring out what they're for. Rivers of ink were spilled. Careers were lost. Families broken.

>>93306517
Is this a political compass?

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>>93302074
I fucking love this one

>>93302824
I don't get this one. It's the only one(besides cow tools) that I don't understand.

I really like Far Side. It's not sidesplitting funny or anything, but it's always a good wit chuckle. It's definitely a lost art these days

>>93313991
The joke is that dolphins can speak Spanish, but scientists, supposedly educated folk, don't speak Spanish

Anyone have the one where the cavemen are trying to hunt a giant fish using one of themselves as living bait?

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>>93302123
Let the joke killing begin!
>>93299722
William Tell was famous for shotting a apple off a persons head, this implies one of his sons were less fortunate and died during another one of his apple shotting feats.
>>93299847
The Lone Ranger had a side kick who called him Kemosabe. It would be like Robin always calling Batman Asshat and then years later Bruce find the meaning on urbandictionary.com.
>>93300024
It is common to break personalities down into 4 types. This has been done many many times, even all the way back to "Four temperaments" or "Four Humors" tracing back to ancient Greeks and ancient Egyptian receptively. At some point later the glass half empty/full became a common binary test to see if a person was pessimistic or optimistic, which is often inaccurately attributed as personality type. This offers a newer interpretation that combines centuries of basic personality testing along with more modern response structures. The juxtaposition of so old ideas and such modern replies sill holding such relevance is to strike the reader as funny.
>>93300122
Cats are said to dream of eating rodents and birds, thus this is ideal scenario for the cat. It also may play off another joke about how Reese's Peanut Butter Cups came to be.
>>93301683
Defines a fear of a duck watching you, picture of duck watching a person who is implied to have such a fear
>>93301737
penguin on walking around on ice only to slip on a banana.
>>93301976
It is telling the class that class is canceled, however the class is how to read English which is the language used to relay the message.
>>93302074
lost your marbles is slang for gone crazy. in this case they were warning an employee that a coworker had gone crazy but it was misunderstood given they all worked at a marble company
>>93302083
the moat contractor is installing it on the inside of the castle, rather then the outside as is commonly done. The king objects to such an installation and they argue.

>>93302074
>what is your major malfunction, numbnuts

>>93299678
Can someone post the edit where the lid falls off and dumps the entire contents on the world?

>>93306637
I think it's still a bannable offense on Something Awful to post Farside comics because almost everyone who posts there are the exact type of morbidly obese turbonerds who stick flying spaghetti monsters on their car bumpers and wet their pants whenever an officially sanctioned nerd icon like Larson makes a request.

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>>93301934
I prefer this one

>>93302824
>"Bonjour!"
>"Crazy gibberish!"

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>This triggered so many people, calling it an insult to Jane Goodall.
>Jane Goodall saw this comic and thought it was hilarious

>>93315303
Retarded outrage isn't a modern phenomenon. It's just under a different skin

>>93306368
Oh no! Someone doesn't like us posting things online

>>93315303
Kek. Jane Goodall has a fantastic sense of humor. All her talks are just enjoyable to watch for her humor and general delightful personality. And her science was great.

No. I am not an ape...

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>>93316923
>Apes are now posting on 4chan
>I can be shitposting with an ape right now
>I can be an ape right now

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>>93316923
>mfw the chimp lady that's been parodied so often in pop culture is still alive
Huh.

>>93317947
She just turned 83 in April.

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>>93314569
Not the requested one but related.

>>93306637
I'm working my way through all of your collected volumes and picked up two books last week

>>93299678
Where's the /pol/-version with w instead of k?

>>93318245
instead of r and k

>>93308404
>>93308717
what the fuck

>>93317051
If apes can understand human speech, and learn to communicate via sign language and lexigrams, why haven't we let them post on the internet yet?

Anyone else have the Pre-History book? It's really interesting seeing how it evolved and what got rejected.

>>93299678
> Only the dark skinned people jar is not full
What did he mean by this?

>>93318672
My parents had that when I was young actually, I liked reading it but I have no idea what happened to it. I know we donated a bookshelf to a local gathering area but nothing like the Farside book there, just some Stephen King and other novels.

>>93308876
Oh wow that flew way over my head. This was the first time I've ever seen it but I just figured it was that these tools were made out of cow bones.

>>93318644
Do you really want to shitpost with a bunch of damn dirty apes anon

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>>93316923
well I mean technically you are. we all are. humans are just apes with ambition.

>>93302803
"we were right!"

>>93305616
>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>93318644
Homo sapiens are apes.

>>93306485
It's totally tried this twice.

>>93306485
This is one of my favorites. Simple, subtle, perfect. My sister didn't get it, and explaining it kills the joke.

>>93302074
That look on Wagner's face sells it every time.

>>93318644
Because they can't read.

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>>93315129

Can someone post the one with the old guys arthritis' acting up?

>>93302116

shit, piss, cocksucker, motherfucker, goddamn

The Penguin affair panel will never not make me laugh.

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