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MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to The Far Side@sh.itjust.works · 2 years ago

8 February 2024

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MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to The Far Side@sh.itjust.works · 2 years ago
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  • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    This used to be such a nice neighbourhood before the quack dealers moved in

    • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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      Is this the joke or have you added a better punchline?

      • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Don’t ask me, I’m just a silly duck

      • ArtieShaw@kbin.social
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        I don’t think that this cartoon was an intentional reference to crack. (Sadly - that’s a great punchline.) The date on the cartoon is 1980, which would have been marginally too early for crack to exist. It certainly wouldn’t have been an idea that was floating around mainstream culture.

        I was curious enough to look it up.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_States

        It’s just Larson being a master of weird, non-sequitur humor. And in this case, foretelling the future of underworld transactions in the 80s. Maybe not all psychics are quacks after all.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          Underworld transactions have always been a thing, especially since the prohibition era.

  • Avorn@sh.itjust.works
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    Funniest shit I’ve ever seen

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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

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