# Life imitates The Far Side **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909 "2018-11-21T17:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/1 "2018-11-21T17:57:14Z")
You’ve probably heard of the [remote uncontactedish tribes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese)on islands off India that don’t take kindly to strangers around there. Well, an American preacher got it in his little head that he wanted to bring them to Jesus, so [he had some fishermen smuggle him on to one of the islands](https://www.foxnews.com/us/american-believed-to-have-been-killed-by-tribe-on-indian-island.amp). The fishermen have been arrested, but the missionary’s body hasn’t been recovered. Now, he probably didn’t _actually_ spend his final moments sitting in a huge cast-iron pot wearing a pith helment, but that is how I like to imagine it. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/2 "2018-11-21T18:18:21Z")
And here I was visualizing a roomful of scientists mulling over cow tools. But yeah, thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/3 "2018-11-21T19:17:44Z")
[Here](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6413235/American-tourist-27-killed-protected-tribesmen-remote-island.html) is a much longer article. (And no, I didn’t see the Pit thread about this before posting this one.) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/4 "2018-11-21T19:41:19Z")
Jesus may be able to save you from some obscure hazard, but he does not seem to be able to save you from your own folly. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/5 "2018-11-21T19:47:43Z")
God working in mysterious ways again. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/6 "2018-11-21T19:57:53Z")
[Earlier thread here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=865944). ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/7 "2018-11-21T23:07:45Z")
My wife is pretty sharp, but no matter how big the sign on the door, [this is her](https://goo.gl/images/DXWKXE), every single time: ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/8 "2018-11-22T00:14:43Z")
> [@K364](#): > > God working in mysterious ways again. God works in ways so mysterious as to resemble not working at all. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/9 "2018-11-22T00:17:55Z")
^ [Sorta like this?](https://goo.gl/images/Q3HP64) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/10 "2018-11-22T01:03:55Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ [Sorta like this?](https://goo.gl/images/Q3HP64) I thought I had seen every Farside cartoon, but that was a new one! 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:** [November 22, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-the-far-side/824909/11 "2018-11-22T01:32:51Z")
^ I know, right? I have all the books and have read them all until my eyes bleed and I still find ones during a Google search that I haven’t seen. Life is good!