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  • 2025-09-12

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  • Is a hard hat enough to make a difference? Seems like it if it's big enough to kill you without a hard hat, it would still be really bad for your neck with a hard hat.

  • 2025-09-11

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  • Yeah. Thick glasses meaning he can't see them well enough to distinguish them from his normal target practice of cans sitting on fences.

  • 2025-09-10

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  • Some background on this comic:

    Transcript (sketch):

    You wanna have to use your brain your whole life like me? No kid of mine's going thru that hell... Here, learn to dribble this thing.

    Caption (sketch):

    Einstein and son

    Transcript (commentary):

    I still sort of prefer the first sketch I made of this, but, for one reason or another, I changed it to the bottom version.

  • Groundcover for a Midwest lawn

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  • Not sure what type of grass, it was there when we moved in. White clover

  • Groundcover for a Midwest lawn

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  • My lawn has grass, clover, and violets, with a few other random plants. The violets are great and look nice and don't really need mowing. The clover and grass eventually require mowing, but not moreso than just pure grass.

  • 2025-09-02

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  • Best guess is that this barber is trying to advertise that he does hairstyling in addition to shaving, but did a poor job on signmaking. He also doesn't have fancy hair himself, so although he wants to think he can style your hair, all of the context clues point at him not being good at it. Kind of an obtuse joke regardless of the actual meaning.

  • Men writing women be like

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  • Cool, good to know 😀 I post a lot of comics like The Far Side where people don't get the joke and need an explanation, so my default is to assume that people are asking questions like that seriously. Not always the case though…

    I now have you labeled as "Gets the joke" so I won't make the same mistake twice lol

  • Men writing women be like

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  • She was the one that was preoccupied. The narration in these old romance comics is almost always from the woman's POV, and this is no exception. Her character is a caricature of a man-hating feminist who throws it all away after a single kiss

  • 2025-08-27

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  • Some background on this comic:

    Transcript (rough draft):

    Early American Cow Dance

  • 2025-08-21

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  • I couldn't tell at first if you were making a joke about people eating feet, but I assume you're referencing the actual monument at the park?

  • 2025-08-20

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  • Some background on this comic:

    Transcript:

    Well, so much for my theory that understatement is an important aspect of humor in The Far Side. Of course, I could make the argument that this guy's nose could've just as easily been made bigger, but my instinct for subtlety knew to play it down.

  • 2025-08-18

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  • Yep, that's the joke, why would aliens have specifically a Mt Rushmore equivalent?

  • 2025-08-12

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  • Some background on this comic:

    Transcript:

    Another example of when a cartoon's intent was lost on a lot of people. Very simply, I just meant that we all look a little longer and harder at things that fall upon our particular interests.

  • Is funnier if you've read about blue zones

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  • Copying my comment from the cross-post:

    Turns out the blue zone studies have likely just identified hotspots for pension fraud:

    The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remarkable longevity include high vegetable intake, strong social connections, and genetic markers. Here, we reveal new predictors of remarkable longevity and ‘supercentenarian’ status. In the United States, supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital registration. The state-specific introduction of birth certificates is associated with a 69-82% fall in the number of supercentenarian records. In Italy, England, and France, which have more uniform vital registration, remarkable longevity is instead predicted by poverty, low per capita incomes, shorter life expectancy, higher crime rates, worse health, higher deprivation, fewer 90+ year olds, and residence in remote, overseas, and colonial territories. In England and France, higher old-age poverty rates alone predict more than half of the regional variation in attaining a remarkable age. Only 18% of ‘exhaustively’ validated supercentenarians have a birth certificate, falling to zero percent in the USA, and supercentenarian birthdates are concentrated on days divisible by five: a pattern indicative of widespread fraud and error. Finally, the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Ikaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.

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    Is funnier if you've read about blue zones

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  • Turns out the blue zone studies have likely just identified hotspots for pension fraud:

    The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remarkable longevity include high vegetable intake, strong social connections, and genetic markers. Here, we reveal new predictors of remarkable longevity and ‘supercentenarian’ status. In the United States, supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital registration. The state-specific introduction of birth certificates is associated with a 69-82% fall in the number of supercentenarian records. In Italy, England, and France, which have more uniform vital registration, remarkable longevity is instead predicted by poverty, low per capita incomes, shorter life expectancy, higher crime rates, worse health, higher deprivation, fewer 90+ year olds, and residence in remote, overseas, and colonial territories. In England and France, higher old-age poverty rates alone predict more than half of the regional variation in attaining a remarkable age. Only 18% of ‘exhaustively’ validated supercentenarians have a birth certificate, falling to zero percent in the USA, and supercentenarian birthdates are concentrated on days divisible by five: a pattern indicative of widespread fraud and error. Finally, the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Ikaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.

  • 2025-08-10

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  • I mostly include that link because it's annoying to have no trace of what comics they post and when after a few days, and the Disqus comment threads are one of the few "official" links that stick around.

  • 2025-08-09

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  • He's making a few new ones over at https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff, but anything else is just a rerun from his newspaper days. It has today's date because it's what was rerun today, not because it was originally posted today.

  • AI-generated search result descriptions

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  • If I search for "steam vs epic" I still see the AI-generated summary. It probably depends on when the page was scraped and when Reddit (I assume) started doing this.

  • 2025-08-04

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  • There's an infamous scene in The Godfather that would scare any horse that watched it.