# Far side, loggers, splinter--is this a real comic? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086 "2017-10-28T18:25:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/1 "2017-10-28T18:25:38Z")
I was thinking earlier today of a Far Side comic that I believe I saw years ago: two loggers sitting in a field of giant stumps, one looking at his finger, saying, “Ow! A splinter!” or something like that. But a half-hour of Googling is turning up no trace of this. Is it a real thing, or am I imagining it? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/2 "2017-10-28T19:55:14Z")
If it’s any consolation to you, I recall that one. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/3 "2017-10-28T19:57:49Z")
As well I. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/4 "2017-10-28T21:38:57Z")
Yup, I have a copy of it. Far Side Gallery 2, page 49. Took 20 minutes of scanning through my book collection to find it, and now my brain hurts from the concentrated weird. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/5 "2017-10-28T22:23:01Z")
Dammit! I sailed right past it; scanned my whole FS collection. Now _my_ head hurts from old book fumes. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/6 "2017-10-28T22:45:15Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Yup, I have a copy of it. Far Side Gallery 2, page 49. Awesome, and dangit–I only have the first far side gallery, I think. Is that what it says–“Ow, a splinter!”? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/7 "2017-10-29T00:22:09Z")
No, I think one lumberjack was examining the other one’s hand, and commenting on the difficulty of getting the splinter removed. Off-topic: ISTR hearing that _splinters_ are larger shards of wood, such as might go flying through the air when a felled tree snaps off the stump and hits the ground, and that a sliver is a teensy piece of wood that kinda slides underneath your skin when you rub your hand along a rough board. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/8 "2017-10-29T00:22:54Z")
[Allow me:](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/6d/b3/4a/6db34a8f9244892b86da2894ed10a982.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/9 "2017-10-29T01:37:51Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > [Allow me:](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/6d/b3/4a/6db34a8f9244892b86da2894ed10a982.jpg) Awesome, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/far-side-loggers-splinter-is-this-a-real-comic/800086/10 "2017-10-29T01:53:32Z")
Those loggers are as big around as the trees. 😉