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Topic: Gary Larson's The Far Side
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Cup_Caddy
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posted December 02, 2000 02:09 AM
  
Please link this to any old threads, if this has been done before.Can you describe you favorite Far Side Cartoon? Why was it your favorite?
Was it funny at the time, but not so, in retrospect?
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I, like many others have many fav's, but one I kept for a long time with me where ever I went was the one with 2 cavemen under a box, half propped up with a stick. A string is attatched to the stick, and one caveman is holding the other end of the string. A piece of "bait" is under the box with them, and a horrible beast (Sabre Toothed Tiger?) is off in the distance approaching...
I forget the quote, but the pic is funny enough...
________________________________________ Part of my sick desire here is to see how people describe a visual piece of cartoon humor. It is kind of like people who read the same book describing what celebrity should play which character in a book. Which is another game altogether. * No fair putting a hyper-link to the actual image of the cartoon!
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Lord Cavity
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posted December 02, 2000 10:43 AM
One of my favourites is the one that shows a lot of people standing around in a field, with a car full of cows driving past, and one of the cows is leaning out of the window and shouting 'Yakity yak yak yak' at them.IP: Logged |
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posted December 02, 2000 01:08 PM
Pssssst, hey Cup Caddy, this isn't exactly a good spot for this thread. It will likely get moved to Mind Numbingly Senseless BS or Hilarity Ensues. Not biggie, just we try and keep this forum for games.I like several of them, my favorite either being, "You kids better be quiet or I'll knock three times and summon the floating head of death." or "Billy, you're soaking wet, your shoes are untied, your hair is a mess, and get that horrible thing out of your mouth" . Runner up has to be "Thog and Ag test their brand new invention, the time log". Heck, it's hard to go wrong with Gary Larson! ------------------
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beccca_bo
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posted December 02, 2000 02:14 PM
i love the one that's like 'this was going to be the funniest cartoon ever, but these two rednecks had to mess it up' or something to that effect.and there's always the clown in the gun store saying 'laugh at me, will they?' or 'i'll give them something to laugh about'. something like that ------------------
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posted December 02, 2000 09:21 PM
Caption: "How Santa discovered the new world"
Picture: Santa in a 1400s-like boat, in the crow's nest, with a talk bubble saying, "Land ho, ho, ho!"- PS IP: Logged |
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posted December 03, 2000 03:47 AM
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Cup_Caddy
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posted December 03, 2000 04:08 AM
Oh please...Says the dog, muttering to himself... IP: Logged |
Earl
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posted December 03, 2000 08:15 AM
Farmer walking from a chicken coop to the house with a basket full of eggs. Hen walking from the house to the coop with a baby.------------------
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posted December 03, 2000 09:39 AM
"Ok, again on three, one ... two ..."
Two alligators standing under a branch, one holding his "hands" together the other with one foot on the first ones hands. Above, two monkeys and three tails hanging from the branch.Also (no caption) baby crib with a teddy bear and a boa constrictor in it, but the boa has a big lump and so can't get out of the crib. ------------------
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posted December 03, 2000 11:01 AM
I've got two favorites.The first has a couple of cows sitting in a barn with a meat-cut map of a person.
The farmer opens the door. The caption: "Farmer Brown, upon entering to milk Bessy, looks at the cows for a long time..."
The second has a man in a white lab coat working out physics equations on a black board in circus ring. An alien stands with a whip in his hands.
Caption: "Captured by aliens, Professor (I forget his name) is forced to perform physics equations for the audience, center ring." I can't explain why they appealed to me, but they make you think about the meat you eat and the circus..... ------------------
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posted December 03, 2000 02:54 PM
My fav has 3 fish with styrofoam cubes tied to their feet and the caption says "They were punshined by being sent to swim with they humans" or something like that. I still laugh at the mere though of it. Hahaha.IP: Logged |
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posted December 03, 2000 03:12 PM
Two alligators on a riverbank, by a bunch of tattered clothes,"That was great! No claws, no horns, no fangs...just soft and pink..." Or something rather similar... I am proud to be the spam of the animal kingdom... IP: Logged |
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posted December 03, 2000 04:21 PM
"The deadly couch cobra, coiled and alert in its natural habitat."
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posted December 03, 2000 08:04 PM
The no-caption ones can be the best.In a pet store: A cobra is curled up on the floor with a large bulge amidships, in the wreckage of (a) a glass terrarium and (b) a janitor's mop-and-bucket setup.
Overhead hangs a parrot's cage. In a word-balloon, the parrot is saying:
AAAAAAA! Get it off me! Get it off me! AAAAAA! ... Hello, my name's Joey ... AAAAAAA! Get it off me! ....
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posted December 04, 2000 06:13 AM
Okay, I'm being a mod kinda girl and moving this thread to "Hilarity Ensues". It's a great thread, just not a game. So here goes nothing...*vrooms mirror encrusted scooter* ------------------
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Skatie
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posted December 04, 2000 06:16 AM
Since the moving worked (Yeehaaa) I'll give you one of my favorites.Two deer are talking, one has a big target on it's chest. The other is saying "Bummer of a birthmark". IP: Logged |
Cup_Caddy
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posted December 04, 2000 06:20 AM
Thanks for the move, Skatie, I just haven't been able to figure out what goes where in this here board...I just need a little guidance... IP: Logged |
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posted December 04, 2000 11:05 AM
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posted December 04, 2000 11:27 AM
My favorite is two guys getting coffee in hell. One looks at the other and says, "Oh, man! They thought of everything...even the coffee is cold!"------------------
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posted December 04, 2000 11:31 AM
A couple on a jeep safari encountering a lion..."Drive, Harold, drive! This one's got a coat hanger!!" IP: Logged |
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posted December 04, 2000 02:49 PM
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Acsumama
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posted December 04, 2000 07:32 PM
(1) A cow is pondering three objects of no conceivable use to humans. The caption: "Cow tools." I read he got a lot of letters about this one because he made the mistake of making one of the tools look vaguely like a saw, so people kept asking what the other two were "supposed to be."(2) An Indian chief holds up a weird looking thingy to a young Indian boy. Caption: "This is the only part of the buffalo we don't use." In other news, Yay, there's finally new stuff in my forum! IP: Logged |
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posted December 04, 2000 08:53 PM
Back when I still had my pet cat, I tended to write 'Cat Fud' on our fridge's grocery list in reference to that one strip ^_^;I paticularly like the one about the New York mob-squirrels in a park, dealing nuts. My favorite, though, has ducks quacking in it, and I can't remember it right at all >_< The caption was something about running out of ideas (or something to that extent) and had little to do with the actual art. It was fucking funny, though. ------------------
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posted December 04, 2000 11:50 PM
I've got two; the first is captionless.It is of an artist in a garbage dump, with trash everywhere, and there are seagulls on the ground, picking at filth. There are more seagulls in the back ground, flying; in the forground, is a seagull about to land and pig out on crap. On the artist's easel is a canvas of a solitary seagull, rising into the sky triumphantly, with the sun behind it, and no trace of garbage anywhere. I like it on all the implied levels: seeing the bright side of life, that cynical feeling that everything is fake, just the picture of the artist in a garbage dump... actually painting! It's clasic. The second is of a jail cell. We see the back-view of a short convict standing in the open doorway of his home, looking up. A gaurd is holding open the gate. There are bunk beds, and, on the top bunk is a large bald guy with big teeth, chewing ravenously on his pillow. The caption reads: "Friend, Durk! New roommate... friend!" Boy can I relate to that. And the idea of the gaurd acting like a mother... nobody realizing the severity of the situation but the doomed... And knowing there is nothing this guy can do to reason, or even get away from this creature he has to interact with. Lord, how I know that feeling! Also, the first picture was a back-view as well. I think they're the best. IP: Logged |
Jesse Dangerously
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posted December 05, 2000 09:37 PM
My favourite could very well be.. well, let's say the guy's name is Humphrey - three panels of approaching space craft, then "Humphrey never knew what hit him". That kills me.Then there's always "The glass is half full!" "The glass is half empty." "Half full.. no, half empty... no wait..." "Hey! I ordered a cheeseburger!" They really really got dull when he came out of retirement, but I think I'll go read some early collections right now. IP: Logged |
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posted December 05, 2000 10:25 PM
"Prehistoric Peer Pressure"Three cave-teens standing around, smoking logs roughly a foot in diameter. I just love the picture. Also the "Midvale School for the Gifted" one. Kid shoving with all his weight against a door clearly marked Pull. IP: Logged |
Spritelord
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posted December 06, 2000 02:03 AM
Hmmm...apart from the ones mentioned my next favorite has a pufferfish, a rattlesnake, a hissing cat and a couple other animals, as well as man in a coat, with a boot upside down on his head, one of those kiddie floation things around his waist, and a bazooka.the caption: ways nature says "hands off" ------------------
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posted December 06, 2000 02:20 AM
I like the one comparing what people say to what cat's and dogs hear. (Dog hear's "blah blah blah Ginger blah blah Ginger blah. Cat hears " ".Any cartoon that includes a blank speech bubble is comedy. (I think I feel a Calvin and Hobbes thread coming on sometime soon.....) IP: Logged |
Cup_Caddy
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posted December 06, 2000 04:04 AM
IsMaryann! Quit reading my mind!
Then go to the www.crap and see the Calvin & Hobbes link.
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Acsumama
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posted December 06, 2000 07:12 PM
Oh, and the one where there's this orchestra with the cymbal player thinking "I won't screw up, I won't screw up" and the caption: "Bob (or whatever his name is) screws up". And the one with the guy walking out of a store with a piano clearly "concealed" under his trenchcoat. The clerk is running after him holding a piano stool and saying "Sir! I think you dropped this!"IP: Logged |
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posted December 07, 2000 03:28 AM
Typical Larsonish white bread family (giant beehive mom, snot-nose, bowl haircut kids) of four gaze out their front window to onto the yard. Dad exclaims happily (or maybe it's Mom): "Hey kids! The slugs are back!" The yard is full of dozens of rather largish slugs. I laughed until my tummy hurt.I also like the one where the caption informs us that it's the sound guy's last day with the band. They're on stage, and in the foreground you see the sound guy cranking the "SUCK" knob on the mixer. [This message has been edited by Cropherb (edited December 07, 2000).] IP: Logged |
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posted December 07, 2000 06:38 AM
The one where a group of cows are standing up in a field. One of them shouts "CAR!" and they all stand on al fours. The car goes past, and they get up again.------------------
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aslum
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posted December 07, 2000 02:21 PM
"The anthropoligists are coming! Act like bean bags."
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Michigan Troll
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posted December 09, 2000 05:37 PM
Haven't seen this one in a while, so I may not be remembering it perfectly.Title: Gary Larson, age 9.
Rather crude drawing:
Stick figures playing volleyball.
One round object lying in sand.
One round object in players hand.
One headless stick figure.
Caption: "AAAHHH!! THAT'S NOT THE BALL!" ------------------
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posted December 09, 2000 06:18 PM
I cannot believe nobody has mentioned this one yet!Midvale Scool for the gifted- the door says "pull," and the kid is leaning hard on it, pushing. I also love the woman peering into the fishbowl, with her eye like half an inch away. Meanwhile there is a giant eye peering into her living room. ------------------
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posted December 09, 2000 06:55 PM
Ahem. genuine artifical already did mention the Midvale School one.*stands aside to give ga room to boot* ------------------
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posted December 09, 2000 06:57 PM
Ah, forgive me for not having noticed that. Apologies to genuine artificial.------------------
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posted December 09, 2000 07:21 PM
i have the midvale school for the gifted one on a coffee mug (or as i use it a tea mug)------------------
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genuine artificial
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posted December 09, 2000 07:21 PM
Nah, I don't boot unless there's extreme provocation. It just speaks to futility's taste that she likes the same cartoon and took Latin.I am, however, going to point out her sig typo again. And point out that, as Michigan Troll so astutely noticed, it's eruditiones.(Edited because I gave futility a sex change before. Oopsies.) [This message has been edited by genuine artificial (edited December 09, 2000).] IP: Logged |
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posted December 09, 2000 07:49 PM
I second the motion on the sig. I've got my doubts about "erudationes" too, but I don't have my dictionary here to confirm it.(Edited to reflect the sex change and to suggest "eruditionis.") ------------------
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