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[–] 35 points 6 months ago
[–] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    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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    [–] 17 points 6 months ago

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

    Larson you wanker

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    His most controversial cartoon.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    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?

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    Cow friggen' tools!!

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago
    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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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Ol' Reliable

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I've solved it

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    But why is the cow a Cyclops?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago