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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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They're all holding wooden handles that converge to a directional point. Same as what a dowsing stick looks like - it's a forked stick.
This also explains why they all have wheel barrows.
The connection to dowsing rods is a big stretch, I really don’t think that’s the joke at all. Them effectively doing nothing is a closer connection to homeopathy I think, but I don’t think that’s the joke either.
You're confusing rods with a dowsing stick. Also you have no alternative hypothesis, where as I've linked to an article from the time that discusses the cultural phenomenon in question.
Rods or sticks it’s a big stretch to think the wheelbarrow represents dowsing. But also the grip on a wheelbarrow is more like the stick than the rods which are bent about 90 degrees and held like guns. Maybe you don’t know how dowsing rods work. I can link to an article about spinning in circles to align your chakras, equally new age, as likely wrong as dowsing is. I don’t need to propose an alternative to criticize your theory, but I did and you ignored it. Your article is 3 years younger than the comic, and fads come and go in less time than that. You don’t walk in small circles when dowsing. There are more facts and details to go against dowsing being the explanation than there are to support dowsing.
I had no idea there was this many dowsing kooks still around. Learn what a scientific mechanism of action is, then go try to prove one for dowsing. It's bunkem bullshit.
As for the cartoon; think what you will about it. All new age stuff is bullshit regardless.