# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/141 "2014-01-11T03:20:07Z")
> [@moejuck](#): > > 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!” “Hey! Look at me, everybody! I’m a cowboy! … Howdy, howdy, howdy!” My girlfriend and I used to quote that one to each other all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/142 "2014-01-11T03:28:57Z")
A man is walking his dog. They look up and there are flying saucers landing, all being flown by dogs. The dog looks at the man and says “Well, they’re finally here. Before I go: Roll over! Play dead!”. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/143 "2014-01-11T14:20:14Z")
Mine is this one, where God is adding jerks to the Earth. [“And just to make it interesting…”](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Zippozeppo/farside-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/144 "2014-01-11T15:31:31Z")
My absolute favorite Far Side: An oil covered dragon with the caption: An unfortunate accident in a land called Honalee. ---
**Author:** ![Donegal\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Donegal\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donegal_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/145 "2014-01-11T15:33:18Z")
Absolutely," The Boneless Chicken Ranch" is my all time favorite. This also reminded me of another favorite cartoonist, Gahan Wilson, another very disturbed mind ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/146 "2014-01-11T22:22:01Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > My favorite Far Side shows two spiders sitting on a leaf. One of them has just jumped out wearing a mask and scared the other one. The other spider has a huge pile of spiderweb piled up on the ground underneath him and is saying, “Don’t ever do that again! You scared the STRING out of me!” > > Just thinking about it makes me laugh. 😃 I think [this](http://www.stubbornfool.com/2012/06/30-day-writing-challenge-spiders.html) is the one you mean–the one I came in here to post! ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/147 "2014-01-11T22:39:56Z")
I didn’t even _notice_ this was a zombie thread–oh, well! The Far Side is timeless! And [here](http://kittenita.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-understand-you-but-do-you-understand.html) is another of my favorites! ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/148 "2014-01-13T17:17:22Z")
A kid’s sitting on the floor, apparently frozen in terror mid-tantrum. His father’s sitting in an easy chair with his finger on a small button that’s connected to a device that’s pounding on the inside of the basement door a few feet away. Dad’s saying something along the lines of, “Uh oh, Billy! Sounds like the monster in the basement heard you. Let’s stay _reeaaalll_ quiet and hope he goes away.” ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214/149 "2014-01-13T20:32:28Z")
Many of my favorite Far Sides have already been mentioned. The Professor Waxman’s time machine warm-blooded vs cold-blooded one ([bottom right seen here](http://www.pulse.org.za/pulse/farside.html)) I found years after Larson stopped drawing them; somehow I’d missed it before, so I found it side-splitting. Mad Magazine, I remember a Ripley’s parody (“RipUp’s Believe it or Don’t!”) which had two unforgettably funny items: Man speeding downward, look of horror on his face, caption: “Renfrew Zets FELL from a 50-story window – and LIVED!”\* \*(Fortunately there was a fire escape right outside the window.) A strange stone carving, caption: Ancient South American _symbol of death!_ Too bad if you looked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-far-side-memories-mad-too/183214.md?page=7)