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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 feel like I'm missing a joke
It's a huge dog that likes to bite people's throats. Instead of restraining the dog, the home owner has a fairly unreasonable set of instructions for the guests to follow to not die.
Just classic absurdist humor.
well since you explained the comic, thanks by the way for explaining it, it's not so absurdist, some dog owners really do expect visitors to adapt their behavior to accommodate the misbehavior of the dogs.
Which is absurd, and also real, which makes it even more absurd, and funny.
Thanks.
Although, I don't know how would I've guessed the dog likes to bite people's throats.
I almost never understand the jokes of this comics.
What's the purpose of doing that around a massive dog?
Is the dog happy or angry? What change is this expected to cause in the dog?
How would the dog cause a massive lawsuit? What does that have to do with someone protecting their throat?
Anyway, it's just kind of absurd that he expects this from everyone who comes to the door.
To protect your throat
To project dominance
By biting guests in the throat
Yes, that's the joke
I’m at a total loss here. What’s that squarish environment they’re in? What’s going on with the sequence of english letters under the picture?
I guess some things will always be beyond my comprehension. Anyway, I’m off to walk my three pit rescues!