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10-12-2001, 12:10 AM
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You favorite "The Far Side" cartoon strip...
Oh man, do I miss seeing this work in the newspapers. Gary Larson and Matt Groening are two of the funniest and best people at mixing slapstick and high brow humor. What's your favorite cartoon strip? List as many as you want. Mines:
Where there's a couple in the background, the farmer's holding a chicken while arguing with his wife, but two guys are in the foreground. Caption reads, "Suddenly, two bystanders stuck their heads inside the frame and ruined one of the funniest cartoons ever."
Guy is sitting in an airplane and complains about his seat. Caption reads, "Dang, Why do I have to sit next to some weirdo?" Guy is sitting next to a weird person, but some Sesame Street lookin character comes in and is about to sit in the empty seat next ot the Guy.
Peg legged dude thinks he can tell a better story than peg headed man (looks funnier than it sounds)
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10-12-2001, 02:50 AM
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10-12-2001, 03:25 AM
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The Far Side is my favorite comic strip ever!
I can't really pick one favorite, but a few:
Pet Shop - on one side there is a fish tank housing a Piranha, on the other a cat missing to legs...
Monster kid scares monster mum with a little human doll.
A man standing on a soup box, shouting "vampires, vampires everywhere!" and he is surrounded by a bunch of people. There are some workers on the side with a large piece of glass where only the reflection of the man can be seen.
And many, many more.
Btw. If you like the Far Side, check out the book "The Pre-History of the Far Side" which documents Larson's life story, the origin of the Far Side and (my favorite part of the book) a section showing cartoons that where rejected by his editor... There is some really sick (and great) stuff there...
cheers
Bernhard
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10-12-2001, 04:42 AM
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The 'gifted' kid pushing on the door that says 'pull', trying to enter a school for the gifted. The best ones are those without words or captions. THe picture tells the story.
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10-12-2001, 05:35 AM
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Amoeba wife viciously berating her ameoba husband: "Stimulus, response, stimulus, response. Don't you ever think?"
"Midway through the exam, Billy pulled out a larger brain."
Two men fishing in a rowboat. Huge mushroom cloud on the horizon. One says to the other, "You know what this means, don't you? Forget the size restrictions and screw the limit!"
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10-12-2001, 08:46 AM
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A guy is having brain surgery and one of the doctors pokes parts of his brain to make his body parts move.
Some vulures are eating a cowboy and one of the vultures has his cowboy hat on and says "Hey look everyone, I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!" I'm convinced Pixar ripped that strip off in the first Toy Story, when the shark has Woody's hat.
[Edited last by Richard Kim on October 12, 2001 at 09:22 AM]
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10-12-2001, 08:56 AM
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I like the one with the two dogs sitting on a porch, watching an unmolested cat/mailman walk away. "We're gettin' old, Jake!" one of them says.
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He thought on homeland, the big timber, the air thin and chill all the year long. Tulip poplars so big through the trunk they put you in mind of locomotives set on end. He thought of getting home and building him a cabin on Cold Mountain so high that not a soul but the nighthawks passing across the clouds in autumn could hear his sad cry. Of living a life so quiet he would not need ears. And if Ada would go with him, there might be the hope, so far off in the distance he did not even really see it, that in time his despair might be honed off to a point so fine and thin that it would be nearly the same as vanishing.
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10-12-2001, 08:57 AM
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The 'gifted' kid pushing on the door that says 'pull', trying to enter a school for the gifted.
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"Midvale School for the Gifted" is my favorite.
Another one of my favorites is the one where an alien monster is entering a home (in the evening) through a window, and a little weiner dog is poking his head around the corner for a look with a caption, "Whoa! I think I will skip the usual barking frenzy."
I buy the daily desktop calendars every year. I still laugh my ass off.
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10-12-2001, 10:40 AM
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The one where the guy is lying on the couch in the psychiatrist's office and the psychiatrist is writing on his notepad, "Just plain nuts."
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10-12-2001, 11:22 AM
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All of them, I really miss The Far Side, but the one that really sticks out in my mind, is "Boneless Chicken | |
