Stupid shit like this is the only thing that ever made both me and my dad break down in hysterics.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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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!
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I think people probably don't realize just how boring life could be as a kid back then. Things like The Far Side in the newspaper gave me hope as a kid that there was a bigger, funnier world out there. :)
And what have you found?
Far side archives on Lemmy. Other than that, it's been pretty boring. ;)
I don't get it but it's pretty good either way.
Welcome to the Far Side.
The joke is that you usually call an exterminator for (physically) small things, not tyrannosaurus rexes.
I think the "I think there's at least three or four more running around" is the funniest part, like how the fuck you don't know exactly how many t-rexs they are?
Those ones are purple, and we all know purple is the sneakiest color. Have ever sern a purple dinosaur? I think not.
I have. Barnie.
Barnie from black mesa? He owes me a drink.
I think the joke is how a pest exterminator is being called on an extinct species. Play on the mutual concept of extinction.
This link doesn't open for me in Jerboa
Let the developer of Jerboa know there’s an issue so they can work on it.
Have you changed something about the way you're posting? Your posts from earlier than today seem to show up fine. Today's posts don't.
Todays posts are through an app instead of browser/desktop.
Well then, just FYI, it's doing something different. Obviously lots of people are still able to see it, so it's not the end of the world, just wanted to give a heads up that there's been some kind of regression here.
They're showing as an external link for me (on liftoff) that I have to click through to display. Whereas previously they were an image directly in the post.
Looking at the URLs, both types of image are webp's hosted on sh.itjust.works, the only difference is the new ones have an additional format=jpeg parameter. I think the errors are on our side (ie the user's apps, not the uploader's), to treat these posts the same.
On sync, I didn't notice a difference so jerboa probably needs a bug report
Works for me on connect! Also, thanks for posting!
I'm on Connect too and the image loads and then quickly becomes a "failed to load"-placeholder black image. Very strange.
Maybe too mamy people are trying to send you nude girls?
Not a single one, buddy.
I don't like it, Carl. That T-Rex in the corner of the walk-in keeps mean mugging me whenever I go back there to grab more chicken. I think he's getting ready to make a move.