• 4.48K Posts
  • 871 Comments
Joined 6 months ago
cake
Cake day: December 11th, 2024

help-circle




















  • m_f@discuss.onlineOPtoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works2025-06-11
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 day ago

    Some background on this comic:

    Transcript:

    A few days after this cartoon was published, I started getting a considerable amount of reaction from people who enjoyed it. But I found it interesting that, without exception, they were enjoying it from a different standpoint from the one I had intended. If you look at the enlargement of the two little calves, you’ll see that one of them is doing the old hoof-behind-the-head trick to its sibling. Apparently, it was just too subtle in the original. (In fact, it sort of looks like the one calf is just wearing a ribbon.) I wish now I had developed this into a series of places the Holsteins had visited. (“The Holsteins visit Three Mile Island” would have been interesting.)







  • m_f@discuss.onlineOPtoThe Far Side@sh.itjust.works2025-06-09
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    3 days ago

    Some background on this comic:

    Transcript (comic draft):

    “Look at that… Man, in our day, Bernie, we could skeletonize a cow in less than two minutes.”

    Transcript (commentary):

    Just about every time I’ve heard or read anything about piranhas (as you might imagine, I’m drawn to the subject), it’s always mentioned how quickly a school of them can skeletonize a cow. I’m not sure why a cow is always the standard unit of measurement for this sort of thing, but pondering it eventually led to this cartoon.









  • m_f@discuss.onlinetoFediverse@lemmy.worldMissing project?
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    edit-2
    7 days ago

    Are you maybe looking for flohmarkt?

    The name flohmarkt is a german word and translates to flea market or garage sale in english. This is a symbol for each flohmarkt being meant to be a small place for a somehow connected group of people. All the flohmarkts willing to federate make up one big place for small advertisements about exchange of goods and services.