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

8-9-23 www.thefarside.com

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MrSebSin@lemm.eeM to The Far Side@sh.itjust.works · 2 years ago
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  • HipPriest@kbin.social
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    I think the joke is the guy has got as far as saying ‘This is a cow’ and already he’s getting questions

    • MrSebSin@lemm.eeOPM
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      That seems logical.

      • HipPriest@kbin.social
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        It’s why I laughed anyway…

    • dudinax@programming.dev
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      That’s what it is.

  • Weazel@feddit.de
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    I’m serious it seems I’m too stupid for these comics. I get like one in 10 jokes at best…

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      There’s no real pun or anything. It’s just joking that even for the simplest topics, there’s always a guy with questions.

      Don’t overthink these, there’s no hidden joke or anything

      • Dirk Darkly@sh.itjust.works
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        Funnily enough, this panel is a perfect allegory for this community.

      • bionicjoey
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        Don’t overthink these, there’s no hidden joke or anything

        Cow tools begs to differ

        • ThrowThrowThrewaway7@lemm.ee
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          To be fair there wasn’t a hidden joke there either lol. Gary Larson himself admits his mistake in that strip was making the “Cow Tools” look somewhat like regular tools. People read too much into it trying to find the “hidden meaning” when he didn’t mean there to be one. It was supposed to just be an absurdist panel.

    • Julian@lemm.ee
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      Maybe cow tools wasn’t an anomaly.

  • tostiman@sh.itjust.works
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    ?

    • svt@lemm.ee
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      I get it as there is always a guy who have questions on any topic.

      • ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works
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        raises hand

        • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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          Name checks out

      • hughperman@sh.itjust.works
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        I read it as “the guy is so stupid he is lost already”

    • markstos@lemmy.world
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      Possibly the joke is about the cow’s missing tail. So the teacher’s comment about a “a question there in the back” is a pun.

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        deleted by creator

    • iemgus@lemmy.world
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      I dont get it either

    • Gandalf1701D@lemmy.world
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      I interpret it as “who is the arrow pointing at?” between the image and the prof.

    • ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works
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      Is it because of horns and utters together?

      • PriorProject@lemmy.world
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        Apparently female cows (it’s redundant yeah, but trying to be clear) DO grow horns, they just get cut off in captivity when they’re calves: https://www.online-field-guide.com/do-female-cows-have-horns/

        Whether Larson knew this and was drawing an anatomically accurate horned cow or was under the common misconception that cows lack horns and was trying to make a double layered joke about “someone has a stupid question about everything, even a simple picture of a cow” in conjunction with “but actually if you look closely enough there’s something to question about this particular cow picture” I dunno.

        • Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works
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          So many layers

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    Maybe it’s about calling the woman a cow

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