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UseUrHeadFred		2012-09-12 01:48:10 PM

"Yes, they're all fools, gentlemen. But the question remains: What KIND of fools are they?"

Fano		2012-09-12 01:50:31 PM

UseUrHeadFred: "Yes, they're all fools, gentlemen. But the question remains: What KIND of fools are they?"

"Let's face it, gentlemen. We're not rocket scientists."

kobrakai		2012-09-12 01:53:53 PM

"Yes, Fluffy, that is the down side. When we kill her the pampering will end."

Robo Beat		2012-09-12 01:54:44 PM

"I cuss, you cuss, we all cuss for asparagus."

Kome		2012-09-12 01:55:47 PM

I love that a part of dinosaur anatomy is named after a Far Side comic.

cirby		2012-09-12 01:56:10 PM

"Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying."

Joe_diGriz		2012-09-12 01:56:51 PM

Ultimately, Larson's central principal is really pretty simple: no one is as smart as they think they are.

This particular idea is perhaps best shown in that wonderful classic, "Midvale School for the Gifted"

MadUncleEoin		2012-09-12 01:59:40 PM

Two cavemen facing each other, fists held out. One says "Dang, tied again". The caption read: "Before paper and scissors".

That one always got me. Someone even "borrowed" an overhead projector and traced it on the wall of the lobby in my college dorm.

Tom_Slick		2012-09-12 02:01:35 PM

"Henry! Our party's total ciaos! No one knows when to eat where to stand, what to...Oh thank God! Here comes a Border Collie."

xane		2012-09-12 02:03:19 PM

Cow Tools

roc6783		2012-09-12 02:06:26 PM

Couldn't all of those points been summed up with "People are neither as in control nor intelligent as they think and Far Side used absurd humor to make this point often, now here's the funny," then just listed the comics with out the repetitive commentary?

swankywanky		2012-09-12 02:10:40 PM

list is missing "School for the Gifted - Pull to Open"

and also my personaly favorit, that I still have hanging on my office wall.

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/hot like it is funny.....very

AntonChigger		2012-09-12 02:10:42 PM

A french chef lies dead on the floor in front of a frog husband and wife who are in bed. The husband, with his missing leg and recently fired shotgun says, "I always knew he would come back for the other one."

/Gets me everytime
//Only one I remember offhand, far too many good ones to count

DamnYankees		2012-09-12 02:13:29 PM

While those are solid, they are nowhere near the top 10. Here's a couple random ones from GIS I like more:

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Bossk'sSegway		2012-09-12 02:13:58 PM

Midville school for the gifted.

tarheel07		2012-09-12 02:17:31 PM

I have the "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal" t-shirt. It doesn't get worn/appreciated enough.

palan		2012-09-12 02:18:25 PM

J. Frank Parnell		2012-09-12 02:19:43 PM

notadamnduck		2012-09-12 02:20:11 PM

"Hey! Look at me! I'm a cowboy. Howdy, howdy, howdy."

h2oincfs		2012-09-12 02:21:56 PM

"Looking back on it now, The Far Side is a strikingly analog world; rotary phones and four-door cars are about the extent of the technology. Computers themselves are absent, let alone the internet, cellular phones, or any of the ambient technology that surrounds us."

Oh?

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Runs_With_Scissors_		2012-09-12 02:26:06 PM

Cat Fud "oh please... Oh please..."

Dorf11		2012-09-12 02:32:01 PM

This list does we luposlipaphobics a disservice.

Tax Boy		2012-09-12 02:39:42 PM

Runs_With_Scissors_: Cat Fud "oh please... Oh please..."

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Damn that Gary Larson sure could draw realistically

Tax Boy		2012-09-12 02:40:51 PM

divgradcurl		2012-09-12 02:44:37 PM

Fano: UseUrHeadFred: "Yes, they're all fools, gentlemen. But the question remains: What KIND of fools are they?"

"Let's face it, gentlemen. We're not rocket scientists."

ugh, dang my image posting skills!!!!

farkers at work?

Amberwind		2012-09-12 02:46:13 PM

DamnYankees: While those are solid, they are nowhere near the top 10. Here's a couple random ones from GIS I like more:

I'd forgotten about the duck one!

/Aflac Agent
//Printing it out and putting it on the office bulletin board.

PirateKing		2012-09-12 02:46:43 PM

The woods were dark and foreboding, and Aliced sensed that sinister eyes were watching her every step. Worst of all, she knew that Nature abhorred a vaccuum.

AdolfOliverPanties		2012-09-12 02:48:52 PM

"And next time, it won't just be the furniture we rearrange."

Tergiversada		2012-09-12 02:50:57 PM

"Mr. Osborne, may I be excused? My brain is full."

Tax Boy		2012-09-12 02:52:19 PM

Shostie		2012-09-12 02:53:16 PM

Somehow that article made the Far Side entirely less funny.

dahmers love zombie		2012-09-12 02:53:30 PM

Tax Boy: Runs_With_Scissors_: Cat Fud "oh please... Oh please..."

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Damn that Gary Larson sure could draw realistically

To this day, and for twenty-some years, I have been putting "Cat Fud" and/or "Dog Fud" on my grocery lists. I doubt I've ever spelled it correctly.

Amberwind		2012-09-12 02:54:45 PM

My personal favorite:

I've lived next to way too many of the yappy little bastards.

/Also known in my household as "bait".

Talondel		2012-09-12 02:56:48 PM

From the "Photoshop your favorite Far Side" thread from years back.

kroonermanblack		2012-09-12 03:02:52 PM

swankywanky: list is missing "School for the Gifted - Pull to Open"

and also my personaly favorit, that I still have hanging on my office wall.

/hot like it is funny.....very

I don't get this one remotely.

halB		2012-09-12 03:05:59 PM

"Ultimately, Larson's central principal is really pretty simple: no one is as smart as they think they are. And, that, dear reader, includes you."

And you, the idiot who puts 3/4 of the freaking punch line in big bold letters ABOVE the comic.

BarleyGnome		2012-09-12 03:12:00 PM

swankywanky: list is missing "School for the Gifted - Pull to Open"

and also my personaly favorit, that I still have hanging on my office wall.

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/hot like it is funny.....very

Also my favorite..

Superrad		2012-09-12 03:31:18 PM

It's an impressive feat of Gary Larson's to create something so memorable that I can picture every comic just from the captions.

"Oh hey! I just love these things! ...Crunchy on the outside, and a chewy center!"

Thrag		2012-09-12 03:42:57 PM

On of my favorite far sides, and what I took my handle from (though I remembered the spelling incorrectly and incorrectly inserted an "r").

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The best part is that "Thagomizer" is now the accepted scientific term for a stegosaur's tail spikes.

costermonger		2012-09-12 03:47:04 PM

Bob's Assorted Rodents and Al's Small Flightless Birds is one of my favourites. Along with "Just jump, fool! You don't have to go 'boing boing boing'!"

bentley57		2012-09-12 03:48:08 PM

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

i71.photobucket.com

Farktastic		2012-09-12 03:54:28 PM

My personal favourite, mainly because I have an uncle who feels the need to get his damn accordion out every family gathering:

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greggm59		2012-09-12 04:20:09 PM

downstairs		2012-09-12 04:24:56 PM

Some awesome ones in here, folks!

MusicMakeMyHeadPound		2012-09-12 04:50:39 PM

My personal favorite.

desertgeek		2012-09-12 04:57:04 PM

Joe_diGriz: Ultimately, Larson's central principal is really pretty simple: no one is as smart as they think they are.

This particular idea is perhaps best shown in that wonderful classic, "Midvale School for the Gifted"

My parents got me the t-shirt with that comic on it for Christmas when I was like 12 or 13 yrs old. Seeing how the whole family cusses like drunken sailors, it was hard to not say "you farking bastards" has I was laughing.

SMB2811		2012-09-12 05:04:12 PM

Gonad the Ballbarian		2012-09-12 05:10:48 PM

That and the "Boneless Chicken Ranch" one...

brianbankerus		2012-09-12 05:12:25 PM

halB: "Ultimately, Larson's central principal is really pretty simple: no one is as smart as they think they are. And, that, dear reader, includes you."

And you, the idiot who puts 3/4 of the freaking punch line in big bold letters ABOVE the comic.

This was a nice touch by the author. It only ruined the first four jokes for me. I then learned to scroll more carefully so I could still enjoy the joke as the master intended, rather than having it destroyed by an incompetent "author".