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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:

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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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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 46 points 2 years ago (6 children)

What common Spanish phrase is the third one supposed to be? The best I can do is "bien feo", which obviously doesn't make much sense.

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 years ago

Bien feo. Which is Spanish for very ugly.

[–] heatermcteets@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure it means “Very Ugly”.

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Indeed.

As a Spaniard, I don't get that one.

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

I think it might be a Latin American phrase. Googling "bien feo" comes up with a lot of people using it to mean ugly, disgusting, bad, etc.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm American, and my Spanish isn't great, but even I was like "Good Ugly?" 🤔

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

More like "Well ugly" maybe, still weird tho.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

well-uglified

I think this is the best translation

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

In Central America they use “bien” to mean “very”

[–] harrowhawk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bienvenidos?

Most of them look like greetings so that’s my best guess.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Burro demas...

I'm sure that's not a common greeting.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 years ago

Bein Vio in Google translates to Well Seen.

The F sound could be a misheard V sound

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago

“bien feo” means “really ugly” 🤣

[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dunno why this made me laugh so hard.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The mix of banal situation with just right right amount of anthropomorphic absurdity.

[–] dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Yep, that's the point

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Dohn day ess tahs

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 9 points 2 years ago

Nomen tee ndes

[–] lemmytry@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

all a chin god a.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The last one seems to say "bewayno dee us"

So it's something like "something hay dios". I can't make out what it's supposed to be. It's bothering me now 😆.

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, it clearly says bwayno dee-us. They're scientists. Do you think they can't speak dolphin?

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I can't believe I missed it!

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 2 years ago

Koh-mo S tardies?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Farnsworth: "Crazy gibberish!"