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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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[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't get it?

Edit* oh does the dog think they're begging? That's kinda funny I guess

[–] ontothenext@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My take. Most people get uncomfortable when you stare at them eating.
People generally don’t look at other people eating for that reason, but they’ve probably done that to the dog.
You’ve been making the poor dog uncomfortable for years, but it’s mans best friend so its let it go.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And also when dogs look intently at people eating, they're usually hoping for some of that food to come their way

[–] hughperman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yes I'm pretty sure this is the intended joke

[–] ontothenext@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yepp, that also works. Always cool when something can be funny in many different ways.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean who really watches their dog eat though? I'll glance over to check she's done, that is about it.

[–] ontothenext@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough:) I recon a non insignificant amount of dogs would probably be confused about this comic strip too - if asked.