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The Far Side

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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!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Four holes? Don't bowling balls normally have three? Maybe that's what made him turn bad.

[–] a_baby_duck@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

First thing I noticed too. I've seen house balls with two sets of finger holes that are differently sized, but they're usually on opposite sides of the thumb hole. I could maybe see this pattern for giving another grip option depending on hand size or where you place your thumb, if the thumb hole were offset. You'd still use two fingers, but you have two options for where to put them in relation to your thumb position.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Technically it would be a trepanation.

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. You're right.

Guess you could say one of them is... ahem... a spare.

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 4 points 3 weeks ago

Rotten to the core.

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

Bowling animations vibes.

[–] Laser 8 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry for linking Reddit but https://www.reddit.com/r/bowlingalleyscreens/ has some hilariously dark animations

[–] kewwwi@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

this is Wreck-It Ralph in an alternative timeline

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

All I can hear is the theme to Jaws