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

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2025-07-16 (discuss.online)

submitted 2 weeks ago by m_f@discuss.online to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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Caption:

Simultaneously all three went for the ball, and the coconut-like sound of their heads colliding secretly delighted the bird.

Alt text:

All right!

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[–] m_f@discuss.online 17 points 2 weeks ago

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

When I originally wrote this caption, it read (in part): "...the coconut-like sound of their heads hitting secretly delighted the bird." That's the way it was first published.

Then I got a letter from some fellow who suggested, in this case, the word "colliding" would be a better substitute for the word "hitting."

This was quite strange to me. First of all, I had struggled with this caption and never felt comfortable with the final outcome. And secondly, he was right. "Colliding" was a much better word, giving the caption an improved rhythm. So I changed it.