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[-] 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

One of, if not the most, popular comics of his.

[-] firkin_slang_whanger@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago
[-] Sigma_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

This comic has lived rent free in my head for pretty much my whole 30 years of life.

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

A true classic

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

I knew someone who wore a shirt with this on it

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Might have been me. My mom got me one in 6th grade when I got into a gifted program

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Did you also have a Wayne’s World shirt, and a “Red Hot SILLY Peppers” shirt? (This guy had some cool shirts now that I think about it.)

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, sadly I am not that cool. Hence the gifted program

[-] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

My now wife was wearing this shirt when I met her.

[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nice to know upfront that she's a keeper

[-] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I had this shirt 20+ years ago. Wore it out.

[-] thesprongler@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I think about this damn comic so much.

[-] FiniteLooper@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Every time I do this in real life or see a door with the wrong label on it I think of this comic!

[-] Avorn@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

My favourite panel ever.

[-] ChimaericDesire@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 year ago

Love this. "Midvale School For The Gifted" has been my go-to example of irony.

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This was on the door of of my magnet school, with the magnet school's name subbed in on the sign.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

What's the joke? I know that a supposedly gifted child is using the door wrong but there should be more to it, right?

[-] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Nope, it's a simple mismatch, funny because it would be unexpected.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de -2 points 1 year ago

I expected satirical commentary of the education system... oh well

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Our standards were lower 30 years ago.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That is indeed the joke, as far as know. Though I wonder if the artist was aware that the closing mechanism would usually be on the other side...

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best Far Side ever published.

[-] synceDD@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Haha it says pull but he pushes hilarious

this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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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

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