As Thak worked frantically to start a fire, Cro-Magnon Man, walking erect, approached the table and simply gave Theena a light.
Even the caveman names crack me up
The Far Side – By Gary Larson
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#122Worth noting is Gary Larson's original response to the WWW was an open letter asking fans not to post his cartoons online. Akin to the Bill Gates letter on copying software, but, perhaps, more understandable. This website is a reversal of that original position. He was thoughtful then, and is thoughtful now. The original letter: https://www.portmann.com/farside/index.html?home.html And the reversal: https://www.thefa…
[Men in pith helmets and khaki shorts trekking hip deep through water with their gear held over their heads.]
Piranha: Just nibble at first. … But when you hear them yell “Piranha!” - go for it.
Re: The Far Side – By Gary Larson
#123Worth noting is Gary Larson's original response to the WWW was an open letter asking fans not to post his cartoons online. Akin to the Bill Gates letter on copying software, but, perhaps, more understandable. This website is a reversal of that original position. He was thoughtful then, and is thoughtful now. The original letter: https://www.portmann.com/farside/index.html?home.html And the reversal: https://www.thefa…
The "wings stay on/wings fall off" switch is the one I keep having to dig up at work (alternating with "Why do we even have that lever?" from emperor's new groove.) And then there's "Cow Tools"...
“Now That Should Clear Up A Few Things Around Here” Just has to be the most applicable to software development, assuming that’s what most folks around here are into.
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#124Growing up my best friend and I loved The Far Side. In many ways it was the basis to the quirky humor we both shared, and would continue to explore throughout our youth. In elementary school we had countless Far Side books between us, and by middle school a few shirts too (I remember having "Midvale School for the Gifted"). Well he turned 40 just a few weeks ago, and I needed to find a present. I don't know why, as T…
My mother used to drag me to the Hallmark store as a kid and she'd spend unreasonable amounts of time chatting with the workers and browsing who knows what. I think this was before I had a Gameboy and my only salvation was reading those Farside books. I both enjoyed them and was seriously creeped out by them. They also had Calvin and Hobbes which I adored.
The creepiness is something nobody ever seems to mention about The Far Side and that's my biggest lasting impression of the comics. They're deeply unsettling and have a weird uncanny valley feeling to me.
That's not to say they're bad. But something about them always has a tinge of horror to me.
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#125Why? Anyone less gifted.
(It's very absurdist humor, but anyone into that should and MUST know about Larson, the person who did so much to damage the field by disappearing... willingly... etc. What a fly on the wall he wasn't, etc.)
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
My mother used to drag me to the Hallmark store as a kid and she'd spend unreasonable amounts of time chatting with the workers and browsing who knows what. I think this was before I had a Gameboy and my only salvation was reading those Farside books. I both enjoyed them and was seriously creeped out by them. They also had Calvin and Hobbes which I adored.
The creepiness is something nobody ever seems to mention about The Far Side and that's my biggest lasting impression of the comics. They're deeply unsettling and have a weird uncanny valley feeling to me. That's not to say they're bad. But something about them always has a tinge of horror to me.
Well a lot of it is quite dark. One of my favorites being the jet pilots asking each other why there’s a mountain goat in the clouds.
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#127I wonder why a page like this thinks it needs cookie tracking, and thus the cookie banner. There are no ads, so what's the point?
Re: The Far Side – By Gary Larson
#128Worth noting is Gary Larson's original response to the WWW was an open letter asking fans not to post his cartoons online. Akin to the Bill Gates letter on copying software, but, perhaps, more understandable. This website is a reversal of that original position. He was thoughtful then, and is thoughtful now. The original letter: https://www.portmann.com/farside/index.html?home.html And the reversal: https://www.thefa…
"I'm not content" was especially relevant if you remember the old Darigold Dairies commercial: "Darigold...home of contented cows."
Driving through cow country it’s impossible not to think of all the far side comics involving them and ponder what’s really going on in their heads. XD
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
The creepiness is something nobody ever seems to mention about The Far Side and that's my biggest lasting impression of the comics. They're deeply unsettling and have a weird uncanny valley feeling to me. That's not to say they're bad. But something about them always has a tinge of horror to me.
Well a lot of it is quite dark. One of my favorites being the jet pilots asking each other why there’s a mountain goat in the clouds.
Mine, too.
Re: The Far Side – By Gary Larson
#130Worth noting is Gary Larson's original response to the WWW was an open letter asking fans not to post his cartoons online. Akin to the Bill Gates letter on copying software, but, perhaps, more understandable. This website is a reversal of that original position. He was thoughtful then, and is thoughtful now. The original letter: https://www.portmann.com/farside/index.html?home.html And the reversal: https://www.thefa…
For me it's also a cow one: 'Car!'.
Someone close to me has the original of the “Car” cartoon. Gary gave it to him as a gift shortly after it was published. It is pen and ink and Letratone on paperboard and is about 18” wide.
For a year or two in the late 90s, the artwork went missing and was thought to have been stolen, but was eventually found to have been put in storage.