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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

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!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is their bite strength 10x greater than other dogs? German Shepherds, Great Danes, etc are also big dogs used for guarding and police but you don't hear about them snapping and killing a kid. There has to be more to it than just their potential for damage...

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No not necessarily, but fighter dogs don't let go. I've heard stories where they had to literally, full force kick a bulldog off of a cow or hit a bulldog with a shovel, repeatedly to make them let go of another dog to a point where the bulldog died form their injuries. Rottweilers are not a fighter breed though, so they don't do that. They're just equally intimidating looking, I guess.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

We had to poke a pitbull mix in both eyes to get it to release my elderly mother’s dog after it jumped the 4 foot fence it’s owners thought was enough. And we were all right there having a cookout when it happened. It just wouldn’t let go. Even with 3 grown men holding it down, including the owner.