I'm glad nobody has posted the most controversial far side yet...

[This message has been edited by TexasRebel (edited 10/29/2011 1:42a).]

He's gettin it with that car. HAHAHA

This is one of my favorites because I worked for a Doug, and this really was how he was with salesmen!

This is probably still my favorite!

What am I missing on the Cow Tools one?

Stive, not sure if you are serious?

There was a thread that went 5 - 10 pages on this specific cartoon, and I am too tired to go through it all again.

I don't get it either. Are those his testicles?

http://agonist.org/jimbo92107/20080321/cow_tools_revisiting_a_comic_masterpiece

Here are my favorites...I hope they hotlink OK.




"oh, here she is now...Bobby just got sheared today, Luann."

And the piece de resistance is my very favorite, which is one featured in the book Wiener Dog Art, which has the two safari guys walking along and they are covered with bugs, and the second guy is holding a can and the can reads, "ON."

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Stive

What am I missing on the Cow Tools one?


katelynaggie05

I don't get it either. Are those his testicles?

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On the most basic level, cows do not have opposable thumbs, so they can not make tools! Hence the most basic element of humor in the Cow Tools comic strip.

Texas Rebel, nice find on the link for one of the more complex explanations.

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Gary Larson would later say that it was the strip he'd gotten the most inquiries about, as people tried in vain to figure out what the hell they were for, when in fact Larson hadn't meant them to be anything but strange. Larson later said that he regretted having made one of the tools look vaguely like a saw, thus implying the rest had real-world counterparts. He got the idea from the recent discovery that some animals could use tools, and then wondered what it would be like if cows had tools. He thinks his biggest mistake was thinking this was funny—which it was, but for different reasons than what he intended.

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Professor Frick, I have heard of primates using sticks to dig with, and grass to get ants and termites out of burrows. I have even seen the primate using a frog as a sexual aid. What other animals are known to use tools? I am curious?

lmgtfy

This one always bugged me. The second panel should be

"blah blah GINGER blah STAY blah blah" etc

Another favorite of mine...