# Favorite "Far Side" Memories (MAD, too) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214 "2003-06-20T17:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![KinSaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@KinSaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinSaba)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/41 "2003-06-20T23:35:21Z")
A few of my favorites: Two bears looking down at a rifle on the ground (or possibly other bear is holding it.) One bear says to the other, “Thunderstick? … Thunderstick! That, my friend, is a 30.06!” Old man frog and old woman frog driving along. Man is driving, woman is wearing these great cat eye glasses and maybe a Minnie Pear Hat. She says to the old man frog, “Harry, look out! Watch the road! You’re driving like you’ve been pithed or something!” (perhaps only funny to biology majors) A tree with many raptors perched in its branches each wearing a walkman. The caption is, “Birds of Prey are cool.” And, finally, for my father-in-law: A man with a pocket protector is standing on a rock overlooking a valley and the caption is: CPAs of the wild frontier. All the ones mentioned above are also some of favorites - especially the cow one, and did anyone mention why dinosaurs went extinct? (They were all smoking cigarettes.) Sigh. I miss The Far Side. ---
**Author:** ![KinSaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@KinSaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinSaba)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/42 "2003-06-20T23:37:12Z")
Oh, yeah, and who can forget The Boneless Chicken Ranch? ---
**Author:** ![Donut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@Donut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donut)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/43 "2003-06-21T00:05:13Z")
From Far Side: A bunch of scientists stand around a badly put together rocket while the head scientist-guy exclaims “Hey, come on guys, this isn’t brain surgery!” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/44 "2003-06-21T00:06:21Z")
South of the border, the most feared dinosaur was Tyranosaurus Mex [drawing of T Mex in pancho and sombrero] ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/45 "2003-06-21T00:09:06Z")
[Stampede of animals break down fence and head for space shuttle about to be launched] Gaurd on phone: “They must know something we don’t know!” or something like that ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/46 "2003-06-21T00:42:39Z")
[Start saving your money now…](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0740721135/qid=1056156413/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-9249280-3697718?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) More sensible comments in a later post. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/47 "2003-06-21T00:46:14Z")
There’s a dolphin in a pool trying to talk to these scientists. “We’re getting another of those ‘Ah blah es panyol’ sounds.” A T-Rex is chasing a bunch of cavemen. Catches them and gets a mouhtful. Looks very shocked and spits them out. “In the days before soap.” There’s a baby in a stroller and a bunch of birds are sitting around it. “It’s still hungry and I’ve been feeding it worms all day.” A very shocked and well down horse is roasting over a campfire. Says the cowboy “Well, old Roy here said he was hungry enough to eat one, and then I thought, well, shoot, so am I, and one thing sort of led to another … I guess it was some kind of hysteria.” Man the look on that horses face. Man I loved “The Far Side.” And I enjoyed MAD too. That’s where I saw my first female full frontal in the media. Thank you Sergio. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/48 "2003-06-21T00:46:14Z")
A kangaroo with a cast on his leg and holding a pogo stick is talking to another kangaroo saying “the cast comes off in two weeks, then I should be off this thing”. ---
**Author:** ![TheRealJohnPeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TheRealJohnPeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheRealJohnPeat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/49 "2003-06-21T00:51:28Z")
On my desk is… “The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression” 🙂 TTFN JP ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/50 "2003-06-21T00:52:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mobo85 \* > \*\*[Start saving your money now…](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0740721135/qid=1056156413/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-9249280-3697718?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) > > More sensible comments in a later post. \*\* Ooooh. Now if only they’d release the videos on DVD. This is wierd. I’m looking at this thread and my post comes just before Qadgop’s and yet when I preview I see my post coming just afer Qadgop’s. Curious. Let’s see when happens when I post this. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/51 "2003-06-21T01:09:40Z")
My favorite MAD moment: the potrzebie system of measurement, designed by _the_ Don Knuth. ---
**Author:** ![moejuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/52 "2003-06-21T01:10:08Z")
Salesman and homewoner standing outside house with dog lying half in and out of doghouse with chainsaw under his front paw. “Watch out Mr., Old Zeke’s liable to fire that sucker up.” A bunch of Vultures standing around a cowboy carcass, and one standing in the back with a cowboy hat on. “look everyone, I’m a cowboy, howdy, howdy, howdy!” Surgeons operating, and holds out a long piece of internal organ. Dog is seen waiting on his haunches for the doc. to drop the goods. Courtroom scene with lawyer pointing to the stand. Stick figure with huge smiley face head sits there. “Now I ask you ladies and gentleman, does this look like the face of a killer?” ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/53 "2003-06-21T01:16:44Z")
A lion tamer in the circus has his head in the mouth of one of his lions. Another lion is saying “Ernie’s a chicken, Ernie’s a chicken…” Also, the one showing a chihuahua drinking espresso. The caption read, “Nervous little dogs prepare for their busy day.” Also, the one where one dog is in the yard and another dog is in the car. The one in the car says, “And we’re going to the post office and the grocery store and the laundromat and the pharmacy and then I’M going to get neutered!” He was so excited… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/54 "2003-06-21T01:16:59Z")
Potrzebie!!! And axolotls. “I wandred lonely as a clod Picking up old cans and bottles When all at once I came upon A herd of lovely axolotls” (paraphrased all to hell, I’m sure) Thanks, Mr2001 ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/55 "2003-06-21T01:18:54Z")
Oh yeah, and the one where dog scientist attempted to master the doorknob. ---
**Author:** ![BlueMit11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@BlueMit11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMit11)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/56 "2003-06-21T01:44:15Z")
After Dave Barry made a crack about accordians, he was sent an angry letter saying that he could be boycotted by all accordianists just like Gary Larson. Dave said in his next column that this would be horrible, seeing as Gary Larson was reduced to drawing pictures of cows all the time as a result of this. It’s a lot funnier if you read Dave Barry’s column, but the mere mention of Larson by Barry makes me laugh. ---
**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:** [June 21, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/57 "2003-06-21T02:00:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Super Gnat \* > \*\* The one in the car says, “And we’re going to the post office and the grocery store and the laundromat and the pharmacy and then I’M going to get neutered!” He was so excited… 🙂 \*\* Not quite. He said “I’m going to get tutored!” ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/58 "2003-06-21T02:22:42Z")
Tubby school kid is going down a playground slide - Two eager little spiders have made a small web the bottom of the slide - One says expectantly to the other “If we can pull this off we’ll eat like kings!” ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/59 "2003-06-21T02:24:12Z")
I’m a cat lover but I love the peg-legged cat (he lost both of his front legs) sitting by the piranha in a fish bowl. Also the dead cats in the laboratory with all the computations on the walls. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/60 "2003-06-21T02:31:27Z")
I remember these Star Trek parodies Mad had (TOS, of course LOL) that cracked me up desperately at the time. My favorite Far Side is “Butterflies From the Wrong Side of the Meadow” (tattoos and little cigarettes… well you can guess) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214.md?page=4)