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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

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Caption:

“Mr. Bailey? There’s a gentleman here who claims an ancestor of yours once defiled his crypt, and now you’re the last remaining Bailey and … oh, something about a curse. Should I send him in?”

Alt text:

Bailey & Assoc.

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[–] m_f@discuss.online 11 points 2 days ago

Some context on this comic:

Transcript (sketch):

"Mr. Caldwell.. There's a gentleman out here who claims an ancestor of yours defiled his crypt, and he's here now to place his fingers around your throat & squeeze until your quivering body is forever still... should I send him in?"

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I doubt a mummy would be able to reasonably afford any time with the lawyer. And you better bet Mr Bailey is not taking it as nonbillable hours.