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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 [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

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

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is there something to get here or is it….. just a guy upset that he has been handed the wrong tool

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

wench (probably referring to 2a):

1 old-fashioned : a young woman or girl

2a old-fashioned : a female servant
b archaic : a girl or woman of a socially low class

3 archaic : a lewd or promiscuous woman : a female prostitute

winch:

2: a crank with a handle for giving motion to a machine (such as a grindstone)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m retarded I read it as winch / wrench, and got the wrong end of the far side as usual 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

No worries, it's easy to misread, and I do it all the time. Hopefully it helps the next person. 😀