This may be the worst joke in /co/ history.
It's a joke so bad it resulted in nationwide confusion.
>Gary Larson would later say that it was the strip he'd gotten the most inquiries about, as people tried in vain to figure out what the hell they were for, when in fact Larson hadn't meant them to be anything but strange. Larson later said that he regretted having made one of the tools look vaguely like a saw, thus implying the rest had real-world counterparts. He got the idea from the recent discovery that some animals could use tools, and then wondered what it would be like if cows had tools. He thinks his biggest mistake was thinking this was funny—which it was, but for different reasons than what he intended.
It's hilariously unfunny. I showed it to a friend once while we were both drunk and we laughed until we couldn't breathe.
Isn't the joke that it causes so much confusion that it results in hilarity?
>>77461681
you must be really autistic if you can't laugh about the cow's face expression. Hilarious.
It's like trying to explain why something in a dream was funny.
It's funny now just because of how much it mindfucked everyone.
>>77461681
>This may be the worst joke in /co/ history.
moron
>>77462234
>joke
All he had to do was expand the caption. "An example of tools used by the ancient Bovinus sapiens" or something.
>But during the stone age...
>>77462353
Brevity is the soul of wit my friend
I'll bet even without the saw like object it would still have created mass confusion.
Cow tools t'was truly the greatest art ever created, Up there with the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Dobson.
>>77462821
Dude, you forgot Donatello.
>>77461681
I wouldn't go so far as to say it is bad.
Of course, my threshold for bad jokes means the joke is not just unfunny, but offends my senses because it is way to obvious or cliché or simply gratuitous, among other things.
This oneis just wierd, which doesn't fall into bad joke country.
>>77461681
I dislike the one with the mechanic in the garage that notices that his dog ran away.
Had to look it up, had something to do with an old confederate song or something.
>>77461681
Isn't the point that it doesn't make sense?
I even understood that when I first saw it, when I was like 10.
>>77463017
No, Larson actually thought it was funny, like what >>77461745 said.
He's got a whole section on it in his Prehistory of the Far Side book. It's a pretty good read.
>>77462710
Brevity is wit
>>77462710
Don't waste my time
>>77462323
/v/edditors constantly posting edits with
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or whatever may be the worst joke ever.
>>77463017
Yes, the joke is that the tools aren't supposed to make sense. The problem is that everyone thought there was more to it than that, to the point where there were news segments where reporters would go around asking people on the street what they thought the joke was.
>>77464042
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnRmSsckbnI
>>77464042
It's okay to be wrong on the internet
>>77464132
Holy shit, this really made me laugh.
No B^Uckley loss edit have the right to be this funny.
>>77464132
Oh my god that made my night.
>>77462323
>implying
Just because you don't find CAD funny doesn't mean it's not a joke.
>>77464132
The best Muppets strike again.
>>77462234
>>77463882
I'd read an entire book just about his misinterpreted and rejected cartoons. The reasoning for why some of them were rejected sometimes rival his comics for entertainment value.
>>77464524
Underrated
>>77461681
I understood it.
>>77470345
upvoted
>>77461681
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
I'm walking a fine line here.
On the one hand, I confess to finding it quite flattering that some of my fans have created web sites displaying and / or distributing my work on the Internet. And, on the other, I'm struggling to find the words that convincingly but sensitively persuade these Far Side enthusiasts to "cease and desist" before they have to read these words from some lawyer.
What impact this unauthorized use has had (and is having) in tangible terms is, naturally, of great concern to my publishers and therefore to me -- but it's not the focus of this letter. My effort here is to try and speak to the intangible impact, the emotional cost to me, personally, of seeing my work collected, digitized, and offered up in cyberspace beyond my control.
Years ago I was having lunch one day with the cartoonist Richard Guindon, and the subject came up how neither one of us ever solicited or accepted ideas from others. But, until Richard summed it up quite neatly, I never really understood my own aversions to doing this: ''It's like having someone else write in your diary, he said. And how true that statement rang with me . In effect, we drew cartoons that we hoped would be entertaining or, at the very least, not boring; but regardless, they would always come from an intensely personal, and therefore original perspective.
To attempt to be "funny" is a very scary, risk-laden proposition. (Ask any stand-up comic who has ever "bombed" on stage.) But if there was ever an axiom to follow in this business, it would be this: be honest to yourself and -- most important -- respect your audience.
So, in a nutshell (probably an unfortunate choice of words for me), I only ask that this respect be returned, and the way for anyone to do that is to please, please refrain from putting The Far Side out on the Internet.
>>77471119
(continued)
These cartoons are my "children," of sorts, and like a parent, I'm concerned about where they go at night without telling me. And, seeing them at someone's web site is like getting the call at 2:00 a.m. that goes, "Uh, Dad, you're not going to like this much, but guess where I am."
I hope my explanation helps you to understand the importance this has for me, personally, and why I'm making this request.
Please send my "kids" home. I'll be eternally grateful.
Most respectfully,
Gary Larson
>>77464524
Nice
>>77462234
Loss is a fucking lifestyle. For example;
>>77464132
>>77464524
>>77464524
I really needed the kek man
Thank you
>>77461681
Every few months we have this thread, and every few months it's a new batch of anons who think this is anywhere close to the worst Far Side strip.
>>77461681
>>77462821
>>77464524
>>77472547
WHAT NOW.
>>77473286
>>77461745
Amazing
>>77463947God damn it.
>>77464132
SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVED
>>77472547
I don't get it.
>>77474163
It's not a joke. The building just used to be called chuck's feed and seed
>>77474163
"Feed" and "seed" rhyme with "Sneed". Replace the "eed" with the "uck" from "Chuck".
>>77473286
Can you swap Larson for Ben Garrison
>>77474163
Do people actually not get it or is it a joke by itself?
>>77461745
>>77461681
Oh thank god. I had been confused by that panel for decades. I always thought it was some joke that I was just not getting.
>>77462234
>>77464132
>>77464524
Is "Loss" the /co/ equivalent of Baneposting?
>>77474902
U U
U ⊂
>>77474902
"Loss" came first, so really Baneposting is the /tv/ equivalent of "Loss"
>>77469141
>>77474942
The original caption was "When dogs dream"
He clarified it to show the dog was dreaming of howling over a kill, not of fucking the car
>>77464080
*claps*
>>77474902
>Loss
>/co/
You stop this shit.
/v/ has done pretty much nothing good for 4chan, but goddamn if they didn't make loss a lifestyle
>>77464279
I think what he meant, was that this strip isn't meant to be a joke.
Tim himself went out to explain this strip a couple of times, each time defaulting back to something along the lines of "It's not supposed to be a comic out of the funny pages. It's a mixed bag of jokes and stories."
Well, at-least back before they did the Time Warp.
>>77473286
You've done it my friend. The epitome of confusing comics.
>>77464524
This is some deep memery.
>>77474255
Oh my good lord.
To this day I never got it.
I was blind, but now I see.
It's way too subtle for a TV gag, but I'm having a blast now.
Thank you Anon!
>>77474163
let's finally settle this. yes, I've been sitting on this for quite a while.
