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The Far Side

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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

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!

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Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (6 children)

What common Spanish phrase is the third one supposed to be? The best I can do is "bien feo", which obviously doesn't make much sense.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago

Bien feo. Which is Spanish for very ugly.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure it means “Very Ugly”.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Indeed.

As a Spaniard, I don't get that one.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

I think it might be a Latin American phrase. Googling "bien feo" comes up with a lot of people using it to mean ugly, disgusting, bad, etc.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm American, and my Spanish isn't great, but even I was like "Good Ugly?" 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More like "Well ugly" maybe, still weird tho.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

well-uglified

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I think this is the best translation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

In Central America they use “bien” to mean “very”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bienvenidos?

Most of them look like greetings so that’s my best guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Burro demas...

I'm sure that's not a common greeting.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

Bein Vio in Google translates to Well Seen.

The F sound could be a misheard V sound

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago

“bien feo” means “really ugly” 🤣

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dunno why this made me laugh so hard.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The mix of banal situation with just right right amount of anthropomorphic absurdity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Yep, that's the point

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Dohn day ess tahs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Nomen tee ndes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

all a chin god a.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The last one seems to say "bewayno dee us"

So it's something like "something hay dios". I can't make out what it's supposed to be. It's bothering me now 😆.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, it clearly says bwayno dee-us. They're scientists. Do you think they can't speak dolphin?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I can't believe I missed it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Koh-mo S tardies?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Farnsworth: "Crazy gibberish!"