The Far Side is back

alfaniner said:
So, which side of your bookcase do you keep all those on?

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Right now they are in a Rubbermaid bin with the rest of my rare/signed/first edition/unique book collection awaiting my conversion of a walk in closet to a mini-libary, on which they will be displayed.

It's not even the biggest book I have. My reproduction reprint of Audubon's "Birds of the Americas" Elephant Portfolio Edition is practically a load bearing part of my house.
 
Monza said:
Gary Larson is a true comic genius. The fact that real paleontologists use the term 'Thagomizer' is just tribute!
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You know that "The Far Side" got it's start as a feature in a magazine for Biologists...
 
Trebuchet said:
And unfortunately several of the ripoffs have been posted in this thread.
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Uh-oh, better watch out for the Far Side Thought Police!


OK, alternate snark.


***Two cows in a room, one holding up a badge***

You never expect the Far Side Thought Police.
 
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JoeMorgue said:
The Handwringing over whether or not the Far Side will work in our "PC snowflake everyone's offended cliche cliche cliche" age is already in the discourse.



I've already read one article* where someone went through and cherry picked a couple of Far Side cartoons and presented us with reasons why the strawman in her head was going to be offended by them.



* https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/far-side-returning-can-pc-crowd-handle-it
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Don't think it is anything about "PC" (and what is more PC than complaining about PC) simply that many to fully appreciate do need a quite deep knowledge of the culture they were part of. I suspect many kids today, say those under 35 ( ;) ) would struggle to understand why we found particular ones funny or meaningful.

Humour apart from knock about doesn't travel well along the centuries.
 
From one of his books, Gary Larson complained that his lack of knowledge of cars led to outrage.

The cartoon was simple, a dog dreaming about an upturned car, with the dog howling on the top, with the caption "When car chasers dream"

The underside of the car was depicted with a bulge in the middle (Gary Larson's complete lack of knowledge about the underside of the car.)

The outrage was caused by someone deciding that the dog was humping the car.

I'm firmly of the belief that these things reveal more about the complainer than the author.
 
novaphile said:
The outrage was caused by someone deciding that the dog was humping the car.

I'm firmly of the belief that these things reveal more about the complainer than the author.
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There was a MadTV sketch in which a politician was criticizing an artist for his "disgusting" paintings of naked little boys. The painting were all Rorschach blots.
 
Armitage72 said:
There was a MadTV sketch in which a politician was criticizing an artist for his "disgusting" paintings of naked little boys. The painting were all Rorschach blots.
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"I mean I guess my new therapist is okay. I just wish he would stop showing me inkblots of my parents having sex."
 
Just thought of two more all time favorites...

Einstein standing in front of a blackboard covered in calculations, ending in a dollar sign ($) with the caption, "Einstein proves, Time is Money".

The other has the caption, "In God's kitchen", with the classic "God", with a baking pan in front of him, clearly containing the Earth. On the shelf behind him are a row of shaker style cans labeled: White people, yellow people, red people, brown people..." In his hand is one labeled, "Jerks", while the thought balloon above his head reads, "Just to keep it interesting."
 
Mike! said:
Just thought of two more all time favorites...

Einstein standing in front of a blackboard covered in calculations, ending in a dollar sign ($) with the caption, "Einstein proves, Time is Money".

The other has the caption, "In God's kitchen", with the classic "God", with a baking pan in front of him, clearly containing the Earth. On the shelf behind him are a row of shaker style cans labeled: White people, yellow people, red people, brown people..." In his hand is one labeled, "Jerks", while the thought balloon above his head reads, "Just to keep it interesting."
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Another has Him taking Earth out of the oven. "I think this thing is half-baked."
 
My favorite is the cat looking into the open washing machine because there are signs posted that say, "fud". The dog is hiding nearby going, "oh please, oh please, oh please."

The genius is that the dog misspelled the word 'food', because of course he would. He can write, but he's still just a dog.
 
My favorite is one I might be mis-attributing to Far Side. There's a man in a lounge chair in the foreground with his hand on his stomach a distressed look on his face. In the background is a woman peeking out from where she's doing dishes in the kitchen. In the caption she's saying something like "Well, if it's not worry over your job or the Middle East, maybe it's the stuff I've been slowly poisoning you with over the last 20 years.".

I've done loads of searches and can't find that one, so maybe I'm remembering a Far Side wannabe instead of the real thing.
 
One of my favorites is "How birds see the world" and every person walking has a target on their head.
 
Mike! said:
Just thought of two more all time favorites...

Einstein standing in front of a blackboard covered in calculations, ending in a dollar sign ($) with the caption, "Einstein proves, Time is Money".
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How about the one where Einstein is in front of a black board with all these equations (E=mc^3, E=mc^7, etc.). A cleaning lady is in the office going "Now that desk looks better. Everything's squared away. Yessir, SQUARRRRED away.".
 
Joe Random said:
My favorite is one I might be mis-attributing to Far Side. There's a man in a lounge chair in the foreground with his hand on his stomach a distressed look on his face. In the background is a woman peeking out from where she's doing dishes in the kitchen. In the caption she's saying something like "Well, if it's not worry over your job or the Middle East, maybe it's the stuff I've been slowly poisoning you with over the last 20 years.".

I've done loads of searches and can't find that one, so maybe I'm remembering a Far Side wannabe instead of the real thing.
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Doesn't sound Larsonian to me. More like something you'd see in the New Yorker.
 
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