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“Well, we’ve tried every device and you still won’t talk—every device, that is, except this little baby we simply call ‘Mr. Thingy.’”
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I love how "Cow Tools" comes back to haunt him.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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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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The thingie with the stick didn't work, so now we try the thingie with the carrot, lol
I can't believe Gary Larson killed Shinzo Abe.
Some background on this comic:
Transcript (top left):
"Uh-oh...He's using the thingy."
Transcript (top right):
"So! Still won't talk?..I guess it's time to use a little device we like to call around there 'the thingy.'"
Transcript (bottom left):
This cartoon developed as shown, and I was satisfied with the final—except to say I'm always worried some people will try to figure out what exactly it is that the "Mr. Thingy" does. (I'm sure this is a residual paranoia from the "Cow tools" cartoon, see page 156.)
I think Far Side readers just have to come to terms with the fact that Gary Larson likes to draw strange contraptions of dubious usefulness.