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MrSebSinM to The Far Side · 2 years ago

13 October 2023

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13 October 2023

MrSebSinM to The Far Side · 2 years ago
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  • lyam23@lemmy.world
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    I’m always surprised how many comments I see in these posts confused about the absurd humor. IMO it’s very much like absurdist Gen Z humor.

  • Steeve@lemmy.ca
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    I can never tell if I’m missing a pun or if this is one of the “funny because it’s bizarre” Far Sides

    • Sharkwellington@lemmy.one
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      I believe it’s playing on the concept of the Perfect Wave that surfers always hope to catch.

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        You are a scholar and a gentleman

      • Steeve@lemmy.ca
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        Fuckin genius

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      It’s funny because it’s bizarre. There’s no punchline

    • clearleaf@lemmy.world
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      I thought this was a very late joke about the app called vine. The idea of a chimp travelling the entire world on a magic vine was good enough even without getting it.

      • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Well the comic is © 1993, so…

        • clearleaf@lemmy.world
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          So it’s not a reference to vine. Somebody already explained the joke.

          • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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            No dude vine the app was way later than this

            • clearleaf@lemmy.world
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              Yes it was. Good work.

      • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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        What in the fuck

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        Exactly. Chimp on a magic vine ride is good enough. And the elephant almost being bowled over at the sight.

  • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
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    So good… This is the height of absurdity :)

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    Delightfully absurd

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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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