# The Far Side - your favorite **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2002, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364 "2002-06-28T11:59:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/121 "2002-07-05T01:11:19Z")
Thanks for reminding me of –hammering nails w/ pistol butt –adios, amoebas –cat fud (my cousin said “I get the cartoon, but what’s Cat Fud”) Cowboy at the bar, next to him is a baby with a bottle “So, you must be the one they call ‘The Kid’” Weapons silo, guy in clown get-up w/ finger over “The Button” General: “Hey! What’s that clown doing?!” ---
**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:** [July 5, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/122 "2002-07-05T03:01:20Z")
## Nobody recognizes the horses medical handbook one? Damn, I’m fairly certain I didn’t dream it and that it was a far side. Anyway here’s another one. The two guys are climbing down into a big hole in the ground. One explains to the other “Because it’s not there.” ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/123 "2002-07-05T07:38:47Z")
- - - I saw/have one somewhere that shows doctors walking around all carrying rifles, and all the patients are horses with broken legs. I seem to remember the other one also, with the instructions to shoot them for anything… ~ - My favorite is the one where “Dr. -somebody- tests his new theory on simultaneously curing fear of heights, snakes and the dark.” - DougC ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/124 "2002-07-05T09:49:46Z")
Pilot to co-pilot: Gee, how did a mountain goat get al lthe way up here in a cloud? ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/125 "2002-07-05T10:35:08Z")
A Sunday color panel. Right around the time of my middle brothers bachelor party in 1986. Fly just touched down in the midst of a dead, beached whale. This fly cries “Dibs!” ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/126 "2002-07-06T08:26:41Z")
Insane asylum, sign on front door: Do not disturb further. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/127 "2002-07-06T12:59:01Z")
A scientist is about to tap a nail into place on a large missile, while his collegue is about to pop a paper bag full of air. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/128 "2002-07-06T17:28:57Z")
Just read one last night that I’d forgotten about: Man is sitting on a park bench. There are some birds standing around. A sign in the foreground says, “Do Not Give The Birds Dutch Rubs”. Of course, the guy is holding one of the birds and giving it a dutch rub. A policeman to the side is pointing and saying, “Hey! You!” ---
**Author:** ![Thrasymachus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Thrasymachus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrasymachus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/129 "2002-07-06T20:27:12Z")
An obviously western bar, with a human sized fly dressed as a cowboy. The bartender is reaching for a flyswatter on the counter. [paraphrased] “I wouldn’t do that mister. Unless of course, you think you’re fast enough.” ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/130 "2002-07-07T00:30:53Z")
“Ok, again on three, one … two …” Two alligators standing under a branch, one holding his “hands” together in a cradle, the other with one foot on the first one’s “hands” ready to be “boosted” up. Above, two monkeys are hanging from the branch by their tails, and there is also just a tail hanging there… Priceless! ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/131 "2002-07-07T01:03:27Z")
My top three have already been mentioned: sad dog who has to stay in and take violin lessons, “Bad dog! No biscuit!,” and “I’m going to get tutored” (we always say “tutored” rather than “neutered” in this house). (Hmmm, any pattern here?) But I also like the ones set in hell: “Welcome to hell. Here’s your accordion.” “And here’s your room, maestro” (room full of banjo-playing idiots) “We’re just not getting through to that guy” But my top hell one has to be Satan standing hand-on-hips over a guy wearing overalls who’s studying a piece of paper. Behind them is a door over which has been freshly painted “999.” The workman is saying, “Well, what the . . . I must have been holding the dang work order like THIS!” At the time I was working in a place where no one seemed to ever read the dang work order. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/132 "2002-07-07T03:00:03Z")
It took me awhile to hunt up the one Far Side I don’t get. Page 56 of Gallery 5. It’s “John Brown’s Body and Fender Shop.” It’s obviously a cultural reference but I have no idea to what. So help me please. * * * I adore cats. So “Thelma’s Curiosity Shop” overflowing with cats just cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/133 "2002-07-07T03:46:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > \*\*It took me awhile to hunt up the one Far Side I don’t get. Page 56 of Gallery 5. It’s “John Brown’s Body and Fender Shop.” It’s obviously a cultural reference but I have no idea to what. So help me please. > \*\* The tune that became the Battle Hymn of the Republic originally had the [lyrics](http://www.contemplator.com/folk2/johnbrown.html) “John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave…His truth goes marching on.” John Brown led the attack on [Harper’s Ferry](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html) in 1859, and became a martyr to abolitionists. Steven Vincent Benet wrote JBB, which became their anthem. Two years later, at the start of the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe, a government official’s wife, added the glory and hallelujah, transforming it into a war song. :::Rilchiam strolls away humming “John Brown’s baby had a wart upon his nose…”::: ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/134 "2002-07-07T03:50:20Z")
Oh, dang it, it was his soul that went marching on, not his truth! And JWH was not responsible for the gloryhallelujah: that was already there! But she did change the tone by introducing the swift sword and the trampled grapes. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/135 "2002-07-07T04:12:22Z")
Are you sure it’s that John Brown? If so then why did he draw it? ---
**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:** [July 7, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/136 "2002-07-07T04:14:30Z")
Ok, since JOHN BROWN’S BODY is much larger then the rest of the text you are right. It’s just one of his ‘the way it is’ spots. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/137 "2002-07-07T04:23:04Z")
a bunch of vultures sitting around in the desert. On has put on a hat and bandana. captions reads “Look everyone, I’m a cowboy! Howdy Howdy Howdy!” It’s the howdy that cracks me up rat to other rat “crimminy, it’s supposed to be a rat hole!” Several questionable people behind a fence. caption “Riff-raff in the zoo” divided panel “Ship of Fools/Car of Idiots” Masai tribesman calling to see if “Mrs. Something, has a little boy Bobby who is lost” child stick figure in bed, only head is correct, body is scrawled. mom stick figure in the doorway with doctor stick figure telling the doctor “I don’t know what happened. I/He (?) woke up all scribbled like this!” I’m sure more to follow ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/138 "2002-07-07T18:54:38Z")
A few of my absolute favorites have been missed! 1. The one legged frog in bed with a smoking shotgun. The caption says something like “I knew that chef would come back one day!” 2. The ink running out of the pen for Iggy Fenton when he was trying to sign the declaration of independence. 3. Poodles plotting in the living room while an old lady is in the kitchen in the background. The caption is “Yeah. But if we kill her the pampering will end.” and my favorite: 1. Another Jeopardy strip. This one features Einsten ($18,000), Edison ($21,000) and a moron looking nobody holding up his buzzer (maybe Iggy Fenton again at -$2000). (Their scores are just my estimates). The caption reads “I don’t know if it is too late to complain by I _think_ there is something wrong with my buzzer!” ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/139 "2002-07-07T18:56:51Z")
OOH! I just thought of another one. Panel one- Car driving around a winding mountain. Sign on side of road reads “Lookout ahead” Panel Two- Same car driving off the mountain. Second sign reads “LOOK OUT!” ---
**Author:** ![Corixidae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Corixidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corixidae)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364/140 "2002-07-07T20:02:39Z")
Single cartoon with six panels… all a view of the cockpit of a jumbo jet. First panel, the pilot says, over PA (paraphrased): “Well folks, looks like we’re coming up on some turbulence.” Next three panels, pilot and co-pilot are jerking the wheel left and right, sending plane into massive jolting movements, then laughing hysterically… Final panel: Pilot over PA again, “Uh oh folks, looks like we’re coming up on MORE turbulence!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-far-side-your-favorite/116364.md?page=8)