36 points

I just took it as the typical middle class home, except it’s a caveman, so everything is all tattered and instead of a bowl of fruit it’s a bowl of meat. Not sure if that’s correct.

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8 points

Because we all know that fruits weren’t invented until the 1800s Duke of Fruit got bored of having to dirty his fingers with honey and grass while playing cards at his Château.

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6 points

That’s how I read it as well, haha!

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5 points

It was what I first thought but that’s basically just the Flintstones

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16 points

Gary was drunk for this one

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13 points

This one got me puzzled, so I googled it and the best I could find is

Some are as simple as claiming that the man in the comic is blind, explaining why the newspaper is blank and that he possibly mistook a bowl of meat for a bowl of fruit. Other theories are as deep as thinking that the comic is meant to symbolize the mistreatment and deterioration of the American middle class by the upper crust. Whichever theory is correct is still up in the air, but one thing is for certain is that no one truly knows what this strip is about.

From screenrant

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9 points

Knowing how poorly run Valnet is, I’m pretty sure that article is AI generated, and even if it’s not, ScreenRant is notorious for nonsensical “theories”.

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5 points

Those seem pretty unlikely

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3 points

I thought the guy was a caveman/brute and therefore had a bowl of meats where others would have a bowl of fruit.

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Can I get an explanation, please? 😶

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17 points

Newspaper has no writing on it, because writing hasn’t been invented yet.

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13 points

He’s a prehistoric man, so meat instead of fruits will be my guess

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4 points

I meant to reply to you, but looks like I made a top level comment

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It works. I’m just glad I wasn’t the only one.

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7 points
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Why post a copy that has the caption cropped out?

Edit: my bad, apparently there isn’t a caption.

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11 points

I cannot find a version that has a caption

https://www.thefarside.com/2024/07/16/2

https://archive.org/details/1980-to-1994-complete-far-side (on page 22 of the 1983 PDF)

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7 points

Thanks for the sources! I can’t recall ever seeing a Far Side that didn’t have one.

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2 points

Most do, but some don’t. This one didn’t.

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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

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