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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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[–] FiniteBanjo 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I feel like there is a pun here that I'm not getting.

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm assuming it has to do with him wishing a couple of times to get a bigger reproduction organ, using common euphemisms.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Thanks to xoxox above I think elephant sized was misheard as elephant sided.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He wished for an elephant cock.

[–] FiniteBanjo 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah but why is it spotted? Maybe that's artistic preference?

[–] FiniteBanjo 9 points 2 months ago

OH! "A giant cock, a spotted dick see, like an elephant's arm." Would fit the prompt perfectly then.

[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

An elephant cock with the endurance of a cheetah maybe? Or maybe an elephant cock that's easy to spot.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

He wanted an elephant sized cock.