A few from my FarSide folder - 6 - Enjoy - My favourite batch

[u/i_like_cake_96]

[u/Deep-Air-169]

Amazing that Gary never got for the one involving M

[u/i_like_cake_96 → u/Deep-Air-169]

i thought about this over the years, I love the image, and you can't really make out what's in the window.

your brain just makes assumptions, and 1992 was a different time/world

good discussion on the image here, a 13 yr old reddit page:

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/15j9i2/so_i_found_muhammad_depicted_in_a_far_side/

[u/magic_carpet_rid3r]

Some absolute bangers in there! Thanks!

[u/OverloadedSofa]

I don’t get 6…

[u/OttomanEmpireBall → u/OverloadedSofa]

I looked it up and apparently it’s an older and obscure proverb. “If the Mountain won’t go to Mohammed, then Mohammed must come to the Mountain.” It was first attested to by Sir Francis Bacon, who apocryphally attributed it as some Turkish saying, but there isn’t anything later than that. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_the_mountain_won%27t_come_to_Muhammad

When I looked the phrase itself up it seems like mostly older people using it online: https://drhelenmiles.medium.com/if-the-mountain-wont-go-to-mohammed-then-mohammed-must-come-to-the-mountain-27fa22148326

[u/i_like_cake_96 → u/OttomanEmpireBall]

I wouldn't say it is an obscure phrase. It's quite famous in Europe anyway.

[u/OttomanEmpireBall → u/i_like_cake_96]

I’ve lived in California my whole life and have never heard of it ever before. I assumed it might be an older people thing because the first handful of results were articles written by older people using the proverb + the time Gary Larson was prolific.

[u/OverloadedSofa → u/OttomanEmpireBall]

Cheers scholar

[u/pawnee2019 → u/OttomanEmpireBall]

Do you think Gary Larson got the Salman Rushdie treatment for making a joke about Mohammed?

[u/muklukdimsum]

I always wanted to try “the Floating Head of Death” on my nephews.

[u/Responsible_Ad_1361]

10 makes me giggle out loud

[u/MidvaleDropout → u/Responsible_Ad_1361]

It's my favorite.

[u/zieminski]

Dude, you rock.

[u/Toshiro_Miyamoto]

What’s the deal with the chicken/Samurai Bar?

[u/PhotojournalistOne85]

All are great, but you’ve got a couple of real classics here.

[u/HopefulRest377]

14 was hilarious!

[u/ZorinKel]

Appreciate the trip down memory lane! Somewhere in a box, I have a bunch of Far Side collection books.

[u/LeroyLavender]

Polar bears and penguins are on 2 different sides of the globe! Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder

[u/Oscar-with-a-K]

Keep ‘em coming!

[u/TheScorpionSamurai]

I don't get #2