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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The sign says: "U.S. department of (unfinished business) Trzbmnbb"
It's the department of unfinished business, and that means the guy always has unfinished business. Also, the government is known to be wasteful, so almost redundant.
Or maybe, that guy also made that sign and never finishes anything?
What's the deal with the sign being unclear as to what department it is? If he didn't want to specify the department surely some alternative framing could be used... I thought I got the joke until I read the sign, now it seems like the gibberish is part of the joke somehow and that confuses me.
The sign looks like a post I saw from a guy trying to make memes with stable diffusion
I don't get this one...
I think the joke here is that a government employee is going in on a holiday to work, which is rare enough to warrant historical note.
"Take care of some unfinished business" often has an ominous portent to it, but in this case he looks like he's just literally working
Either the sign or the name of the department itself is the unfinished business? Doesn't explain the holiday part though.
Unintended dark joke 💀