• MrZee@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Anyone know what the joke is? the best I can come up with is just that Larson loves wiener dogs, so they’re wiener oxen.

    Edit: or maybe something to do with the oxen being disturbed by the oxen skull…?

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      1 year ago

      The oxen have just seen an oxen skull in the desert and thinking maybe this trip isn’t going to end well was my take…

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      Larson addresses this specific comic in The Prehistory of the Far Side. He says, “Another example of when a cartoon’s intent is lost on a lot of people. Very simply, I just meant that we all look a little longer and harder at things that fall upon our particular interests.”

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    1 year ago

    Wait, are these all old comics? I assumed that the date in the post title was the publish date, but the copyright year in the right of the image itself suggests otherwise.