The Far Side · 9 months ago

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The Far Side · 9 months ago

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9 months ago
Funny how that band is pretty much forgotten but the name lives on.
- raydenuni@lemmy.sdf.org
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  The phrase predates the band by a few hundred years, so probably unrelated.
  
  It appears the band became known slightly after this comic, but there is some overlap.
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  What band are you talking about?

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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

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