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howe_sam posted:In terms of all time classic Far Sides, this one has to be up there. If I'm remembering my Far Side book commentary correctly, he got a lot of angry letters about this one, but allegedly Goodall herself thought it was funny.
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Bobulus posted:If I'm remembering my Far Side book commentary correctly, he got a lot of angry letters about this one, but allegedly Goodall herself thought it was funny.
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Presto posted:I believe there were lawyers involved, until someone actually bothered to ask Goodall about it, and she loved it. IIRC they put it on T-shirts and stuff to raise money for gorilla research. Yes, the Jane Goodall Institute almost immediately contacted Larson and the syndicate and called the comic "an atrocity," threatening legal action. Goodall herself, meanwhile, was in the middle of a field expedition and didn't see the strip until sometime later when she returned from Africa. She liked it, dropped the Institute's objections and instead arranged an agreement to use it as a fundraising tool. Larson was invited to visit her in Tanzania just a year or two later (where he was promptly attacked by a chimp named Frodo.)
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JethroMcB posted:Yes, the Jane Goodall Institute almost immediately contacted Larson and the syndicate and called the comic "an atrocity," threatening legal action. Goodall herself, meanwhile, was in the middle of a field expedition and didn't see the strip until sometime later when she returned from Africa. She liked it, dropped the Institute's objections and instead arranged an agreement to use it as a fundraising tool. Larson was invited to visit her in Tanzania just a year or two later (where he was promptly attacked by a chimp named Frodo.) Goodall working the long con for revenge I see 
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Haifisch posted:Bonus: Dehumanize yourself and face to casserole. I made the casserole. 
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Selachian posted:Okay, I'll admit it: the "The Smythes" shirt with a picture of Flo from Andy Capp is clever. F Minus  Mark Trail  If it's Dirty I'm gonna plotz. Mary Worth  Finally! A new story! Everyone's way too happy at this hospital. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth
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Moominposting But yeah, as a lot of you have mentioned, the custom dividers continue unabated, and remain wonderful. SubNat fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth
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Comic Strips 2021 - Interesting Mix of Ills!
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Bad Machinery The Giant Bee is a reference to an old Scary Go Round story, the Great Tackleford Show.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery  Horticulture at its most "Lavish" edit: holy hell is it difficult to find anything SGR related/why are image formats so complicated these days JethroMcB fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (September 11, 1952) This is a weird one to see after listening to The Uncertain Hour's coverage of how minor league players don't get categorized as employees and therefore get no protections and paid garbage, all for the chance that they might someday get to play for the majors.
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That's literally what you have to do though. Decades ago I worked at a Safeway and that's all we ever did. Wouldnt even bother to call the cops unless they attacked us(happened once). We did have inhouse security when i first started but they got layed off/let go.
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The only thing "wrong" with it is panel 5. Stores don't avoid confrontation for fear of lawsuits, but because very few stores have anything small enough to shoplift and expensive enough to outweigh the cost of paying for an employee's injury or death.
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What do you do someone tries walking out the door with a huge TV? Would that rise to actually calling the police? Just mark the time down and let surveillance cameras in the store and parking lot do the work? If the guys at Lowe's aren't allowed to physically confront me, what If I show up to the riding mowers outside with bolt cutters and a can of gas and try driving one off?
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Huxley posted:What do you do someone tries walking out the door with a huge TV? Would that rise to actually calling the police? Just mark the time down and let surveillance cameras in the store and parking lot do the work? Mostly they will just film you. They aren't supposed to follow you outside either and definitely not off the property. That's policy, though. Someone will often try to be a hero for their employer. When I worked for RadioShack back in the day, a store manager chased a shoplifter outside over a $50 TV remote and got stabbed and died
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Kennel posted:Dustin Is that...is that an actual loving familial exchange--in a Dustin comic? I honestly didn't think the writer of that strip knew that such a form of human interaction was even possible!
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Some Guy TT posted:Despite seeming to be a nostalgia strip due to the hybrid Asay/Kelly presentation I get the impression that we're not supposed to always interpret the old days as being better. It just seems like that because we're not used to seeing the format used in any other way. Maybe, but the baseball one definitely is supposed to be "Those drat kids these days are so unreasonable!" That's why the dude in the second panel is like "But you're only 16 and don't have any real experience," it's to show that the kid is being too greedy and demanding whereas in those good ol' days the kid just wanted to play because he loved the game by golly. I now love Richard Thompson even more because he apparently was one of the few people in the world who would have immediately spelled my name correctly. The Bloop posted:When I worked for RadioShack back in the day, a store manager chased a shoplifter outside over a $50 TV remote and got stabbed and died Dying to make sure a corporation didn't lose a few hundredths of a cent in pocket change of profit. An American hero. 
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Lychnis posted:Is that...is that an actual loving familial exchange--in a Dustin comic?
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I don't know if any of us would've given Comics Curmudgeon sole credit on the invention of ironically liking jackel rod. Unless you mean who outed him as a sexual harasser on twitter and got him fired - that was Vargo.
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Thank god we have a new Mary Worth storyline! Is it just me, or does the art look kinda weird on these new characters? The artist may have forgotten how to draw anything but Saul, Eve, traumatizing business suits, and dogs. Also lol@ Moominpapa being too high to function after hitting that pipe. E: Jane Goodall wrote the foreword for one of the big Far Side collections, apparently she and Larson developed a friendship after the fact even though she sicced a chimp on him! Bibliotechno Music fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Also lol@ Moominpapa being too high to function after hitting that pipe. it is not Moominpappa, but Moomin, who is choomin
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How many times has Axa found a "beautiful untouched" location, only to promptly get captured/attacked/nearly eaten? Hope springs eternal, i guess...
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The Dinette Set asks a valid question. Working Daze starts of the week with a lazy one.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is so relatable!  Cul De Sac believes it, and that's all that matters. 
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