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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!
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I don’t get it?
Seeing the Guatemalan cow of paradise is a big deal for cow spotters
Maybe this is because I’m swiss and I spent my childhood looking at and taking care of cows.
But is the joke that “cowatching” sounds absurd.
The "absurd" is usually the whole joke with Far Side. I grew up around cows, too. They're so dumb and mundane, he plays on that a lot.
When I was a kid, we had a state park near our house. We would go there and there would be these Japanese tourists abandoning their cars to go try to hand feed deer. To me, they're just a pest that eats our garden. But to the tourists, they were amazed.
I didnt get it until I visited Yellowstone and we abandoned our car to chase a bull moose (which is dangerously dumb, don't do it.)
It's a common thing in the US, not unlike birdwatching. My grandfather loved going out and watching for cows. Then he would come home and tell us all about the cows he saw. Did you know there are like, 150 native species of cow in the US? Back in the early days you could just go out and get milk from wild cows. Now, however, they're overexploited and so you rarely see wild cows.
It's also a play on birdwatching and a bonus pun referencing the Bird of Paradise flower, and also "yes."
Yes, and the idea of spotting a rare fanciful cow while cowatching.