CHAT: One of my favorite Far-Sides

[Andrea Dec]

Just perusing the squalor which is my desk and came across an old
Far Side cartoon (from April of last year) that just happens to be
a personal favorite. Here goes:

Top half of the toon:

-The Names We Give Dogs-

(Two men standing in a yard with a dog)

Man says to other man: "This is Rex, our new dog."

Bottom half of the toon:

-The Names They Give Themselves-

(Rex talking to two other neighborhood dogs)

Rex says: "Hello. I am known as Vexorg, Destroyer
of Cats and Devourer of Chickens."

Other dog: "I am Zornorph, the One Who Comes By Night
to the Neighbor's Yard, and this is
Princess Sheewana, Barker of Great
Annoyance and daughter of Queen La,
Stainer of Persian Rugs."

Hope you enjoyed this!

/andrea (Slave of Max)
& Max (Master of All He Surveys, Lord of the Golden-Eyed
Beasts, MOST Beautifullest of All Goldens *sorry Dixie*
:), Eater of Disgusting Things and, consequently, King
of Projectile Vomiting)
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[John W. Bates]

In article <Ctz0p...@apollo.hp.com> andr...@apollo.HP.COM (Andrea Dec) writes:

> Just perusing the squalor which is my desk and came across an old
> Far Side cartoon (from April of last year) that just happens to be
> a personal favorite. Here goes:

One of my favourite doggy Far Sides features one dog hanging
out of a (parked) car's window, talking to another dog. He says, "First,
we're going to the supermarket, and then I'm going to the vet's to
get tutored!" Tail wags, of course.

John

[elin edwards f]

I like the one with an old guy in lederhosen digging in the neighbours
tulips with a couple of sheep. The neighbours are saying something like:
"The german shepherd's in the tulips again."
AE

[Melanie L Chang]

Another great one shows a street with a bunch of dogs with little talk
bubbles over their heads which say "Bark bark bark." The caption is "what
humans hear."

Frame two is captioned, "what dogs are saying." The talk bubbles say, "Hey
hey hey! Hey hey! Hey!"

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[Leslie Baxter]

In article <Ctz0p...@apollo.hp.com>, andr...@apollo.HP.COM (Andrea Dec)
wrote:

My favorite is "what little nervous dogs do while their owners are
sleeping." It shows a little dog standing on a stool, making espresso! I
wrote "Ruby" over the dog. I gotta get up earlier...

Leslie

[Redmond Young]

My favorite was a cartoon by Bizzarro:

A man is walking along a picket fence that's strewn with ripped
shirts, torn boots, broken glasses, shredded pants, and a sign
that says "Beware of Dog".

On the other side of the fence is a little white fluffy dog
(looks like a Bichon/Westie) standing on top of his doghouse
with his name, "Puddin'".

Says Puddin' to the man, "Just a few mementos for the handful
of disbelievers ..."

It was great!
Red

[Sandy Fraser [29695]]

I'd love to see that one! Here is one I have in my office (also a Far-Side):

A group of dogs in suits are having a meeting in a board room. On the whiteboard is
a chart tracking "cat chasing", "gardun digging", and "garbidge dumping". One of the
dogs is obviously licking his private parts, and the dog holding the pointer says:

"Now if you all would examine the chart, you will notice that -- well, well . . . seems
Mr. Sparky has found something more engrossing than this meeting."

[Anne Cotton]

I know this is by now a Golden Oldie, but there may be someone out there
who missed it last year, in the New Yorker:

Dog sitting at a computer keyboard, looking down at a smaller dog on the
floor (who is looking upward eager to learn), and telling it: "On the
internet, no one knows you're a dog."

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[Roger Fradenburgh]

My favorite is captioned, "When Irish Setters Go To Work." It
depicts two of them standing erect in a living room. One wears
an apron, the other holds a lunch box and is part-way out the
front door. The one leaving says, "Well, I'm off to go run in
circles and act like there's nothing in my head."

Being the owner of a Golden Retriever who likes to do that very
thing on occasion, I relate.

[Meredith Morris-Babb]

Because I own a Lab who constantly digs in my garden, yard, bed, etc. I
hung on my frig the following Far Side:

A dog is driving a bulldozer through a garden. The owner of the garden is
running adfter it frantically waving her arms. The caption sez: Ginger
finally decides to take Old Mrs. Kessel's garden forever.

meredith and Marti, who thankfully does not drive bulldozers

[Glenn M. Poorman]

Ok! How about the one where the couple is driving down the road
in their car and the woman looks out the back window at a taxi
right behind them with a dog riding in the back seat. The caption
reads:

"Blast it, Henry! I think the dog is following us."

------------

Or another of my favorites,

Three dogs are out in front of a house attacking the mail man
(having a wonderful time) and inside the house there is a lone
dog staring sadly out the window with a violin in his hands.

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[Anne Cotton]

This one isn't a Far Side, but our latest issue of our NorthEast
FlatCoated Retriever Club news just came. Two dogs are walking down the
street in serious conversation, looking a bit angry. One is saying to
the other, "It's always heel, sit, stay! Never think, use initiative,
or be yourself!"

[Sanders, Beth]

What we say to dogs

Okay, Ginger! I've had it! You stay our of the garbage! Understand Ginger?
Stay out of the garbage, or else!
____________________________________________
What they hear

blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah...

____________________________________________

I've had this taped on my desk for years! Imagine scolding my Ginger for
eating garbage, kleenexes or the bathroom trash ...I manage to think of that
stinkin' cartoon every time I yell. Blah blah blah. God gave her the sense
to hide under the table, watch me earnestly and act chagrined. It does keep
me from giggling and totally losing control!

Beth
Ginger's Mommy (Gingerblah blah blah)

[JB]

In article <31t979$q...@eccdb1.pms.ford.com> Glenn M. Poorman,

poo...@cc4032.pms.ford.com writes:
>|> > Just perusing the squalor which is my desk and came across an old
>|> > Far Side cartoon (from April of last year) that just happens to be
>|> > a personal favorite. Here goes:

On my desk:

A party full of sheep, lady sheep says, "Henry! Our party's total chaos!
No one knows when to eat, where to stand, what to ... Oh, thank God!
Here comes a border collie!"

JB

[Susan Cole]

Someone stuck that one on my door.

Wife: There's a German shepherd out diggin in the garden!
Husband (not looking up from paper):
Hit him will a rolled-up newspaper.

I don't think it was a Far Side, though (it's not there anymore so I can't
check). Unless two cartoonists used the same joke?

Among bona fide Far Sides, two of my favorites are:

[Two dogs excitedly watching owner open can]
- "Oh boy, it's dog food AGAIN!!"

(When I had two dogs who were always excited about dinner, I wanted to get
a poster of this for my kitchen. Now I only have one dog and he's kind
of off his feed so it's lost some enjoyment :-( )

[Dog at back door speaking to owner, while space ships piloted by dogs
hover overhead]
- "Well, they've finally come. But before I go, let me see you roll over
a few times."

--
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[Anne Cotton]

Another one (non-Larson) from the latest Flattie newsletter:

Dog sitting puzzled at a computer keyboard; owner (portly middle-aged male)
yelling at it: "BAD dog. Can't you understand a simple command?"

[Viola Chung]

I think my favorite one is:
Dog drinking out from a hose by the door, wife-dog standing in the
door way said,"Going out with the boys tonight?".

It's very fitting for Blue because he always tank up before we
go for a walk.

Viola and Blue the ("let me drink some water first") chow

[Mark Shaw]

Mine is the two-panel one where the dog has chewed something up,
and the owner is standing over her: "Ginger! Blast it, Ginger,
I've told you time and time again, I'm not going to put up with
this sort of behavior! Do you understand me, Ginger?" The panel
is captioned "What we say to dogs." The next panel is identical,
except that it's captioned "What they hear us say," and the word
balloon says "Ginger blah blah blah blah blah Ginger blah blah
blah Ginger." This one always gets me.

And, of course, the cat equivalent: The scenario is essentially
the same except the second-panel word balloon is completely blank.

---
Mark Shaw
(my opinions, not Texas Instruments')
"The radio didn't kill Edward. Edward killed the radio."
- Marilyn Whirlwind

[Cindy Tittle Moore]

I have a Bizarro cartoon strip where a fellow is talking to another.

"So what kind of dog is he?"

"Half lab, half shepherd."

The front half of the dog has an arabic turban on and a shepherd's
crook in his mouth. The back half of the dog is part of a table (two
legs) with various laboratory paraphernalia on it.

Another one is one where two dogs are sitting and talking to each
other while their owners are running frantically toward the nearby
pond. The one dog says to the other "Oh, God, I hate it when they do
that." I think this one is a Larson one.

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[Cindy Tittle Moore]

will...@netcom.com (William E. Homer) writes:

>Had to add my favorite: A Far Side shows a dog on leash with his nose to
>the ground. Behind him are about a hundred people with torches, spears,
>rocks, gun, knifes, anything they can find. The dog has this thought
>bubble "I can't smell a d*mn thing!"

Another one: the dog has led two police officers to a plucked chicken
and the officers are saying angrily "No, the scent ON the pillow. ON
the pillow!!"

[Glenn M. Poorman]

I kept one of my dog favorites! It shows some scientist walking down the
street with this helmet on and says:

"Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the
first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually
saying"

Then in the picture, every barking dog is running around saying:

"Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey"

[Edell Marie Schaefer]

I know this isn't a Far Side cartoon - but it is my absolute favorite:

A couple of puppies are watching teenagers dancing
One puppy says to the other: "If we did that, they'd worm us"

Edell
scha...@omnifest.uwm.edu
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[William E. Homer]

Had to add my favorite: A Far Side shows a dog on leash with his nose to
the ground. Behind him are about a hundred people with torches, spears,
rocks, gun, knifes, anything they can find. The dog has this thought
bubble "I can't smell a d*mn thing!"

I often feel that way at work :)
William
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[Bob Alman]

I have a coffee cup with a Larson cartoon on it. There is a cat
following a trail of "CAT FUD --->" signs with the final one scrawled on
the inside surface of an open clothes drier door. The arrow is pointing
into the open drier. The cat is now looking at the door (sign) while a
dog (hiding behind the clothes washer) is thinking; "Oh Please! Oh Please!"

Bob Alman

[m...@xp.psych.nyu.edu]

: v...@ten-fwd.airpcs.com (Viola Chung) said,
]
]I think my favorite one is:

]
]

Gary Larson sure had a way with DOGS. My favorite (well, *one* of
them) is of a man yelling at a dog, who is listening nonchalantly:

Top of frame: "What we say to dogs"

"Okay, Ginger! I've had it! You stay out of the garbage! Understand,

Ginger? Stay out of the garbage, or else!"

Bottom of frame, contains same illustration: "What they hear"

"blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah GINGER blah
blah blah blah blah..."

Moy Wong (m...@xp.psych.nyu.edu) Dept. of Psychology, New York University
with blah blah Newman blah blah
blah blah blah Tycho blah
*blah* Labs (blah/blah blah), blah blah blah Labs.

[Mark Diller]

In article <31s0b8$2...@netnews.upenn.edu>, mlc...@mail.sas.upenn.edu
(Melanie L Chang) wrote:

> Another great one shows a street with a bunch of dogs with little talk
> bubbles over their heads which say "Bark bark bark." The caption is "what
> humans hear."
>
> Frame two is captioned, "what dogs are saying." The talk bubbles say, "Hey
> hey hey! Hey hey! Hey!"

Mine is one encaptioned "Dog threat letters", showing two cats reading a
message tied to a brick that had been thrown through their window, on which
letters had been pasted to spell out "Arf! Arf! Arf!"

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[Lucas Adamski]

m...@xp.psych.nyu.edu writes:

>: v...@ten-fwd.airpcs.com (Viola Chung) said,
>]
>]I think my favorite one is:
>]Dog drinking out from a hose by the door, wife-dog standing in the
>]door way said,"Going out with the boys tonight?".
>]
>]It's very fitting for Blue because he always tank up before we
>]go for a walk.
>]
>]Viola and Blue the ("let me drink some water first") chow
>]
>]

>Gary Larson sure had a way with DOGS. My favorite (well, *one* of
>them) is of a man yelling at a dog, who is listening nonchalantly:

>Top of frame: "What we say to dogs"

>"Okay, Ginger! I've had it! You stay out of the garbage! Understand,
>Ginger? Stay out of the garbage, or else!"

>Bottom of frame, contains same illustration: "What they hear"

>"blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah GINGER blah
>blah blah blah blah..."

Then there's the one with cats...
"Bad Spots, bad! Very naughty, you'll get no treats tonight, ..." etc etc

What cat hears:
" "

//Lucas.

[Marty Zimmerman]

In article <31tjnc$8...@unix.sri.com>, co...@unix.sri.com (Susan Cole) wrote:

> Among bona fide Far Sides, two of my favorites are:

[deleted]

I haven't seen mention of my favorite yet. A male dog and a female dog are
in a car with the male driving. The glovebox is open, revealing a can of
"Worm Away" inside. The caption reads "Then the car hit a pothole, the
glovebox flew open, and Rex knew the date was basically over"

Marty & Obie the Omniverous
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Analex Corp. - NASA Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, Ohio USA Zone 6

[Holly]

In article <Ctz0p...@apollo.hp.com>, andr...@apollo.HP.COM (Andrea Dec) writes:
> Just perusing the squalor which is my desk and came across an old
> Far Side cartoon (from April of last year) that just happens to be
> a personal favorite. Here goes:
>

> Top half of the toon:
>
> -The Names We Give Dogs-
>
> (Two men standing in a yard with a dog)
>
> Man says to other man: "This is Rex, our new dog."
>
> Bottom half of the toon:
>
> -The Names They Give Themselves-
>
> (Rex talking to two other neighborhood dogs)
>
> Rex says: "Hello. I am known as Vexorg, Destroyer
> of Cats and Devourer of Chickens."
>
> Other dog: "I am Zornorph, the One Who Comes By Night
> to the Neighbor's Yard, and this is
> Princess Sheewana, Barker of Great
> Annoyance and daughter of Queen La,
> Stainer of Persian Rugs."

Oh, I'd *love* to see this one. :-) One that someone had mentioned
here a few months ago (when Winter was still very baby-sized and totally
clueless about housebreaking (as opposed to her just slightly clueless :-)
showed a puppy in subsequent panels...

"What was that!?"
"What was that!?"
"What was that!?"
"YEOW! GOTTA PEE!"
"What was that!?"
"What was that!?"

>
> Hope you enjoyed this!
>
> /andrea (Slave of Max)
> & Max (Master of All He Surveys, Lord of the Golden-Eyed
> Beasts, MOST Beautifullest of All Goldens *sorry Dixie*
> :), Eater of Disgusting Things and, consequently, King
> of Projectile Vomiting)

-Holly &
Chloe (Lady Emilypost Snaggletooth, Daintiest of Eaters,
Digger of Dirt, Sponge of Love, Most Expressive
of Talkers, and Expresser of Dominance in Socially
Unacceptable Manners)
& Winter (Princess Bimbo Bigears, Champion Hunter of Flies,
Fireflies and Moths, Eater of Large Sticks, Car
Barfer Extrordinaire, Protector from Men in Padded
Suits Making Scary Noises, Stitch Remover, Lover of
Mother Alpha Dog, Most Clueless of the Clueless and
Lovliest of the Lovely)

[Heather Deal]

The dog names one shares our fridge space with:

(paraphrased)

2 dogs looking through branches at another dog who is
sitting around a fire with primative people. One dog
says to other; "Yup, it's Bob. But look at the stupid
grin, the vapid look....he's domesticated, all right".

Heather and Bob, who is most ceratinly vapid, but
sometimes still works on domesticated.

[Holly]

In article <Cu18v...@info.uucp>, eedw...@mach1.wlu.ca (elin edwards f) writes:
> I like the one with an old guy in lederhosen digging in the neighbours
> tulips with a couple of sheep. The neighbours are saying something like:
> "The german shepherd's in the tulips again."

This one is on the board over at the training school (they raise GSDs).

It's "There's a German shepherd digging in the garden." "Swat him with
a newspaper."

-Holly

[Gordon Baldwin]

One of my favorites is a two parter where the top half is a guy reading
a poorly written note that says "Me and Rex are taking the car into
town. STAY! ha ha" and the bottom shows the dogs in the car driving
down the road.
--
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gba...@usin.com
Olympia Washington

[Holly]

In article <rfradenb....@labs-n.bbn.com>, rfra...@bbn.com (Roger Fradenburgh) writes:
>
> My favorite is captioned, "When Irish Setters Go To Work." It
> depicts two of them standing erect in a living room. One wears
> an apron, the other holds a lunch box and is part-way out the
> front door. The one leaving says, "Well, I'm off to go run in
> circles and act like there's nothing in my head."
>

Oh, boy! That's one I wish I had for my sister!!! She had a lovely
Irish Setter (rescue) named Abby who did just that... she'd go sniffing
down the beach and would get lost trying to find her way back (even if
we were calling her). Beautiful. Sweet. Gentle. Steady as a rock and
twice as smart.

-Holly

[Bosworth]

My alltime favorite Far Side showed a dog standing on his front porch with
a hose in his mouth. The "wife dog" is saying, "So, another night on the
town with the boys!" (or something like that.)

[Lara Vesper]

I have this one on our refrigerator:

A man and woman are sitting at a table, eating dinner. Their dog is standing
next to them, pointing a gun at the man.
The caption: "Hey, bucko...I'm _through_ begging."

Lara & Data ("Hmmm... seems like a good idea!")

[Gargoyle]

Ive seen that one!The far side is hilarious!!

[Steven Abrams]

My favorites...

Two insect-looking creatures in what appears to be a jungle with huge
blades of grass towering over them. They are staring at a sign with a
picture of a dog on it, and an arrow. The sign reads... "You are here."

And, from New Yorker, I think...
Frame 1: Leashed dog sniffing at a tree. Owner calls "Fido, Heel!"
Frame 2: Dog sitting right alongside where owner *was* standing, but
since the dog ran *around* the tree to get there, owner has been
pulled *splat* into the tree.

~~~Stevge
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[S. Mudgett aka little gator]

In <31tjnc$8...@unix.sri.com>, Susan Cole writes:

>
>[Two dogs excitedly watching owner open can]
>- "Oh boy, it's dog food AGAIN!!"
>

this one is on my fridge, slightly modified. one dog has been colored in
mostly black to match rikki's markings, and the other has stripes drawn on it
to match brindle.
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-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine

[Dan Masi]

In article 7268@ivax, hst...@indyvax.iupui.edu (Holly) writes:
>In article <rfradenb....@labs-n.bbn.com>, rfra...@bbn.com (Roger Fradenburgh) writes:
>>
>> My favorite is captioned, "When Irish Setters Go To Work." It
>> depicts two of them standing erect in a living room. One wears
>> an apron, the other holds a lunch box and is part-way out the
>> front door. The one leaving says, "Well, I'm off to go run in
>> circles and act like there's nothing in my head."
>>
>Oh, boy! That's one I wish I had for my sister!!! She had a lovely
>Irish Setter (rescue) named Abby who did just that

Gary Larsen loves to pick on Irish Setters, I guess...

How about the one entitled something like "How to Recognize the Many Moods
of an Irish Setter"? There are about a dozen small panels, each one labelled
with a mood such as "angry", "happy", "depressed", etc. Each panel has the
exact same picture; an irish setter with a dazed, hyper, wide-eyed-and-tongue-out
look!

---
Dan Masi
Mentor Graphics Corp.
da...@warren.mentorg.com

[Andrea Dec]

Forgot about the one I dropped off at the vet's a couple of weeks
ago.

Shows the side view of a dog (belly to the tail section) with a
very obvious shaven area. Two fleas are talking and one says:
"Not only has the forest been clear-cut, but the mountains are GONE!"

/andrea & Max (is that what happened to *me*?)

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[Richard M. Macheske]

One of my favorite cartoons since I have two dogs is
something like this:

An old dog and a puppy are sitting in the middle of
a bed. The puppy is tearing up a pillow. The old
one says to the puppy, "Good, now go poop on the
oriental rug".
The caption underneith says:
How dogs pass on knowledge.

This is how I remember it anyway.

I have a good story from this weekend. I decided I need two more
electrical circuits to my garage. Unfortunately, the only way
to run the wire is through the crawl space. If you've been in
a crawl space you know how hard it is to move around. Of course
I forgot to bring the tools I needed after taking 15 minutes to
crawl to the spot I had to be under the house. My wife tied the
tools to Casey, #1 pup, and she brought them to me under the
house. What a good dog. Now I just have to teach her to run
coaxial wire!

Rick

[Craig B. Foltz]

I've been gone a while so this might have been posted already, but I love
the one with a bunch of dogs sitting around a board room table, watching
a presentation by a dog who is saying: "Now if you will all examine this
chart, you will see that -- well, well...it seems Mr. Sparky has found
something more engrossing than this meeting." Mr. Sparky is seated at the end
of the table, looking up sheepishly, having been caught in the act of cleaning
his privates in that charming way known to all dog owners.

---
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Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory Tel (602) 621-1269
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Fax (602) 670-5740
"As long as you're walking on thin ice, you might as well dance."

[Mike West]

Cindy Tittle Moore (tit...@netcom.com) wrote:
> I have a Bizarro cartoon strip where a fellow is talking to another.

Bizarro has done a few good ones:

- Two women are standing in a huge living room while one woman's
dog comes in the front door carrying a briefcase in his mouth. The
woman says "We don't know what he does all day, but he pulls down
$140,000 a year."

- Bulldog is angrily staring at a picture on the mantle above
the fireplace and says "It's been over two years and they *still*
have a picture of that cheap poodle on the mantle!"

- Two dogs talking to each other, one wearing a sweater. The
one wearing the sweater says something like "Do it make sense
to you to put a sweater on someone who is already covered with
*fur*!?"

- Older woman putting her little Yorkie (who is wagging her tail)
into her husband's lunchbox and says "Now be very quiet Precious
and Daddy will have a big suprise for lunch!"

And, back to the Far Side, my all time favorite dog one has
a standing dog holding a bazooka with two bandoliers (sp) of
ammo across his chest and wearing a bandana. He is standing
right next to the mailbox and there is a crater in front of
it with many letters floating to the ground. The caption
says "Neither rain nor sleet nor snow could stop him. But
he never counted on Rexbo!!"

Mike West
we...@esd.dl.nec.com

[Liz]

Dog standing under a tree. Second dog butting him in the stomach, Cat flying
out of first dog's mouth.
Caption: Fortunately for Sparky, Zeke knew the famous "Rex manuever."

Liz

[Gene Wagenbreth]

THE SIMPSONS had a show from the dogs point of view. All the dialogue
was muffled. It was pretty good.
Gene

[Jennifer Louise Lund]

My yellow Lab, also known as the "Suicide Blonde" for some
of the things he has tried to consume (e.g. a butcher knife,
a bottle of antibiotics, 6 bars of soap at once, a 1 lb. box
of Fannie May candies, my eyeglasses, a sand dollar) has brought me:

a well-soiled article of feminine hygiene taken from my
roommate's bathroom trash can.

also, he didn't bring me these, but instead barfed them up
on the bedroom floor in the middle of the night: several
(used!) condoms.

And who says birth control can't be spontaneous or romantic?

[Kathy S Leggitt]

san...@cobaf.unt.edu (Sanders, Beth) writes:

>What we say to dogs

>Okay, Ginger! I've had it! You stay our of the garbage! Understand Ginger?

>Stay out of the garbage, or else!

>____________________________________________
>What they hear

>blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah...

We occasionally have to bring this cartoon in at work when things get
out of control at meetings. When someone says "Blah, blah, blah
blah, TELEPHONY THREE-LETTER-ACRONYM, blah, blah", then we know that
the meeting has definately gotten out of hand.

Kathy Leggitt
k...@adc.com

[Doug Bonnell]

Another good one from the Far Side shows some creature, bulging eyes (6),
tentcles and giant jaws with razor sharp teeth coming into the house through
the window. A small dog is looking at this and "saying":

"Whoa, guess I'll pass on my usual barking jag!"

Bizzaro has some good ones, especially with Labs. One had "Sunshine" on the
floor with one hind paw stuck in the mouth of a bear rug. A front paw is
reaching out to a man on the sofa as though the dog is being dragged away by
the rug.

"Mom" comments to the man that "Sunshine has always been a real kidder!".

The Bizzaro in last Saturday's paper had another dog as the main charater.
"Mom" is commenting to her friend that "Saturday is Bruno's favorite day.
That's when I let him wear my wig!". Needless to say, Bruno was very pleased
with himself, his tail was just a blur!

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Sunday is MY favorite day. I get to wear the panty hose with the cut out....
Oops, never mind! :-)
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[Holly]

In article <Cu85H...@esd.dl.nec.com>, we...@esd.dl.nec.com (Mike West) writes:
> And, back to the Far Side, my all time favorite dog one has
> a standing dog holding a bazooka with two bandoliers (sp) of
> ammo across his chest and wearing a bandana. He is standing
> right next to the mailbox and there is a crater in front of
> it with many letters floating to the ground. The caption
> says "Neither rain nor sleet nor snow could stop him. But
> he never counted on Rexbo!!"

Not a dog one, but I have a greeting card that's similar... only it's a
sheep decked out with bazooka, grenades and the like... the inside
caption is "Lambo". :-)

-Holly (who for some strange reason collects sheep-things... and is
sheepish about it... )

[Rose A. Wilcox [cw]]

Did anyone post the one with the owner getting the note
from the dogs "Master, we took the car and gone to town.
Stay! Stay!"

The bottom half shows two gleeful dogs driving a car.

And of course, the one with the signs that say: Cat Fud
pointing towards the dryer, a cat warily looking into
the dryer, and a dog upright pressed against the side
of the dryer saying "Please, oh, please!"

**********************
Rose A. Wilcox

[Sue Ledoux]

OK, I'll bite... (sorry :-) )

Another of my favorite Far Side dog cartoons:

A guy is sitting at the dinner table, eating dinner.
His dog is standing on his hind legs beside him,
pointing a gun at his owner. The caption reads
something like "OK, buddy, I'm THROUGH with begging!".

[Gordon Baldwin]

Another of my favs, but not a Far-Side. A dog is sitting at the keyboard
typing into the computer and two people are looking at him through the
doorway. One says "Nah, he's not so smart, he doesn't consistantly name
his files, forgets to backup, and drools on the keyboard."

[Pat Farr]

from Meg Raymond
c/o pf...@leo.vsla.edu

My favorite Far Side has a picture of a guy with some kind of
electronic, hi-tech looking helmet on his head which, through
the miracles of modern science, can translate Dog Bark into
English. The translations are all the same: "Hey, hey. Hey
hey hey".
This loses a little without the visual...

[Valerie Chapman]

i haven't seen this one mentioned yet: Man putting dog treat on dog's
nose, saying "steady, now hold it, not yet" and the dog thought balloon:
"This is it. I'm gonna kill him."

We did this (dog treat on nose, telling her to wait) to our sweet
Aireheadale, Sara, and she would flip it in the air and catch it when we
said OK. The cartoon had us ROTFL.

-----
Valerie, owned by Norm, Nick and Dot, who would *kill* me if I did that
to them, and earl would might be persuaded to try it

[Ralph Rajaballey]

How about this one:
The top panel is titled "The Names We Give Dogs" and
has two owners, one pointing to a dog with a bubble "This
is Rex, our new dog". The bottom panel is titled "The Names
They Give Themselves" and has the dog from above talking to two
other dogs. He says "Hello, I am known as Vexorg, Destroyer of
Cats and Devourer of Chickens" and one of the other dogs responds
"I am Zornorph, the One Who Comes By Night to the Neighbor's Yard,
and this is Princess Sheewana, Barker of Great Annoyance and daughter
of Queen La, Stainer of Persian Rugs.

[Susan Kennedy]

One on my fridge, author unknown right now:

Three toy poodles are standing in the living room
talking. Their human mom in in the kitchen, puttering
around. One poodle says to the other two, "Yes, Fluffy,
the down side of killing our owner is that all the
pampering will stop".

--
Susan Kennedy Network Systems Corp. Minneapolis, MN USA
(susan....@network.com) (612) 391-1332

[Tamara D. Hicks]

My favorite one (sorry if this has already been mentioned) depicts a dog sitting
in a fenced yard looking at a car--in the car, a man is preparing to drive away
whilst his dog leans out the window, eagerly wagging his tale, and says,
"Ha, ha, ha, Biff. Guess what? After we go to the drugstore and the post office,
I'm going to the vet's to get tutored."

Tamara

[Karen M. Page]

In article <31u7lh$p...@zaphod.usin.com>
gba...@usin.com (Gordon Baldwin) writes:

> One of my favorites is a two parter where the top half is a guy reading
> a poorly written note that says "Me and Rex are taking the car into
> town. STAY! ha ha" and the bottom shows the dogs in the car driving
> down the road.
> --

I'm new so this may have been posted before. There is a great song by
the folk duo "The Story" called "Dog Dreams" which expands upon this
particular far side cartoon.

Karen who is hoping to get a puppy soon

[Andrew Bajorinas]

In article <genewCu...@netcom.com> ge...@netcom.com (Gene Wagenbreth) writes:
>From: ge...@netcom.com (Gene Wagenbreth)
>Subject: Re: CHAT: One of my favorite Far-Sides
>Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 18:02:19 GMT

>THE SIMPSONS had a show from the dogs point of view. All the dialogue
>was muffled. It was pretty good.
>Gene

There was another far side. It had a dog in it but it would apply just as well
(or better) to cats.

The top panel had a man reprimanding his dog and pointing at it.

That was bad ginger.
Bad ginger bad.
Ginger never do that again.
Bad ginger.....

The caption "What owners say"

The lower panel, entitled "What dogs hear" featured the
same picture with the text:

Blah blah blah Ginger
Blah ginger blah
Ginger blah blah blah blah
Blah ginger....

I am sure this is what my cat hears. Unless he ignores me totaly which is more
likely. I can almost hear _him_ think "When you can be civil I will listen".

Gary Larson definetely has owned pets!

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[Colleen Cicarelli]

Sorry to all the dachshund owners, but I've always liked the Far Side of
the "Weiner Dog Distribution Center," where the picture is a warehouse
with a bunch of tubes that say things like "Any Side Up."

Colleen and Annie and Kingsford

[Charlotte Thompson]

My favorite:
Three distinguished guests are sitting in the shadows. The
announcer says, "When we come back - Dogs that drink from the toilet bowl."

The moment you see the cartoon you know that you could not change the
channel (even if you NEVER watch talk shows) because YOU know someone
really lovable that does this -- but WHY??? WHY do they do it? Actually,
this is not a problem in our house - we have dachshunds.

Charlotte Thompson
c...@umd5.umd.edu

[Peter A. Schuman]

On Fri, 5 Aug 1994 22:36:32 GMT,
Bob Alman <alm...@sr.hp.com> wrote:

>I have a coffee cup with a Larson cartoon on it. There is a cat
>following a trail of "CAT FUD --->" signs with the final one scrawled on
>the inside surface of an open clothes drier door. The arrow is pointing
>into the open drier. The cat is now looking at the door (sign) while a
>dog (hiding behind the clothes washer) is thinking; "Oh Please! Oh Please!"
>
>Bob Alman
>
I love the one where two dogs are standing under a porch light. The one in
the doorway is wearing a pearl necklace and carrying a handbag. The other
is speaking: "Oh Ginger, you look stunning, and whatever you rolled in
sure does stink!"

---- Peter A. Schuman, U. of MN Law School (3L)
Peter.A....@umn.edu
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians
But, your Honor! My client's NOT a reasonable man: he's a NINCOMPOOP!

[Dena Delgado]

My favorite cartoon is also not a Far Side, but appeared last year in New
Yorker Magazine. It is a dog sitting on a chair in front of a P.C. talking to
his friend, another dog sitting on the floor.

The dog on the chair says to his friend, "On the Internet, no one knows your a
dog."

Dena Delgado (a.k.a. the dachshund lady) :-)

[Craig B. Foltz]

One more classic doggy FS that I have not seen refered to yet is the
one where three dogs are seated on a couch, behind which is a fourth
dog tending a slide projector. On the screen is a slide of two dogs on
the field in a crowded football stadium. One of the dogs is `greeting'
the other in the nose-to-butt posture. One of the seated dogs is
glowering at the dog at the projector who is saying "Oh, Misty always
hates me showing this slide...It's halftime at the `88 Detroit-Chicago
game when we met."

---
Craig Foltz cfo...@as.arizona.edu
Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory Tel (602) 621-1269
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Fax (602) 670-5740

"Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge;
knowledge isn't wisdom."

[Sharon Hasting]

My all-time favorite:

Male dog, sitting in grungy recliner, beer in hand,
crushed dog-treat bags and sundry dog items surrounding him.
Female, in housecleaning garb, looking at him indignantly.

Caption - He: "You KNEW I wasn't a working breed when you
married me!"

Sharon Hasting
Kunikpok Siberians
"If it's not wet and sloppy, it's not a real kiss!"

personal opinions

[Kathryn Howarth]

I haven't seen this one posted yet, and it's probably my *most* favorite
Far-Side because it reminds me so much of my oldest dog, Chad.

There's two dogs looking inside a furniture store window, and the one
dog says to the other, "Oooo...I'd get up on that big, fluffy one!".

It cracks me up everytime, because I swear that's what Chad thinks when
he sees the couch :) Thankfully, Kerry hasn't discovered that trick yet!

ObDogsCanDriveYouCrazy: Kerry's latest trick is somehow getting out of
her crate and going on chewing rampages. Thankfully, she restricts
herself to the basement, but I'd like to know how much longer she's going
to do this?! She'll be 2 in November, and hopefully the ClueBus(TM) will
arrive soon!

Kathryn

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