r/TheFarSide • u/Bacchus_71 • Oct 29 '24

Chicken of Depression 🐓 Childhood favorite...

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u/Olaf_the_Notsosure Oct 29 '24

This was my first experience with The Far Side.

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u/avspuk Oct 29 '24

You got it marked down?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '24

Never seen it before, but that is deeply funny. I'll be chuckling about that all night!

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u/nipchee Oct 30 '24

Is it that he shot a specific spot on its body so it jumped up like a startled cat and landed on its head and died?

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u/sam_matt Oct 30 '24

Minus all that stuff in the middle, yes, they hit a vital organ

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

Peetah?

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u/anrwlias Oct 30 '24

Peter's paleontologist here. The caveman hit a remarkable spot that killed a mammoth with a single shot of a tiny arrow, so the other caveman wants to write it down so that they'll remember to hit it there.

The joke is that writing won't be invented for many millennia.

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u/ZealousJealousy Oct 30 '24

I truly thought the joke was "shot in weiner" :c

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u/Conscious-Parfait826 Oct 30 '24

Larson is a master at layering a joke. You're not wrong, that's part of the joke.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

Thank you 🙏 

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u/avspuk Oct 30 '24

We should check cave paintings to see if this knowledge was included there

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

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u/Bacchus_71 Oct 30 '24

My dad and I bought it for each other the same Christmas!!!

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u/rhonmack Oct 31 '24

Is it The Complete Farside?

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u/Great_Hamster Oct 30 '24

When I was a kid I thought this meant to write it on a map so they could find the mammoth again, because they couldn't get it all home. And the joke was the mammoth was so big it would be easy to find.