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m_‮f@discuss.online to The Far Side@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 days ago
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Cow tools

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
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    THE LEGEND HAS APPEARED!

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    I don’t get it

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
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      Basically no one did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

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        (That’s the joke)

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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      It’s absurdist comedy, the joke is cows don’t have opposable thumbs so can’t use tools, let alone make them. There are other opposable thumb jokes in the world too, it’s almost a subgenre of “animals struggling with human things.”

      I tell you farside has way more leeway to do this sort of comedy, because it’s such a short strip so you haven’t invested much attention span given the relatively high rate of pay offs per comic.

      Personally if a comic has a certain amount of text to read I often won’t gamble on it, I’ll skip it. The attention economy predates the Internet if you ask me.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

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    Its been about 30 years since I first saw it. It still bugs me.

    Larson you wanker

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    His most controversial cartoon.

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      Wouldn’t that be the one where a dog was dreaming about howling atop an overturned car and a bunch of newspapers pulled it because they thought the dog was having sex with the car?

      Edit:

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        I think it is a theee way tie between that one, faster fifi! and the Jade Godall tramp one

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          I was gonna say the Jane Goodall tramp one too. FWIW, she liked that comic, it just went over a lot of people’s heads.

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    1. Pile of grass (pre-chewed).
    2. Grass masher.
    3. Back scratcher.
    4. Slow saw.

    All cow tools are 100% approved by cows, the bidding for the first item will start at 3 licks.

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    I was here

  • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works
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    Cow friggen’ tools!!

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    🙌

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    I’ve solved it

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    Ol’ Reliable

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    But why is the cow a Cyclops?

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    Ack

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