Might be a reference to the this, but in reverse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_of_nails

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For me, the caption (if there is one) and the drawing are a simultaneous concept. In this case, however, I knew these bears would be pretty excited about their “find” but it took some time to decide how best to express it.

What jurisdiction? In the US, factual information that you simply compile likely isn’t copyrightable, there’s been some court cases about e.g. telephone books:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc._v._Rural_Telephone_Service_Co.

Won’t stop big companies from harassing you if they feel like it, though. Nintendo is petty enough that they might

Just in case it’s confusing, this was posted with today’s date because there’s no good way to automatically know the original posting date

Plug for the !ccp@discuss.online community I started to celebrate the creative commons and public domain. I’ve been posting the wikimedia picture of the day there daily, and other sorts of posts including questions like this are very welcome!

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This is perhaps a good example of how I’ll break a mental block (other than getting out my contract and rereading it). I scribbled out this strange little street musician, hoping to get something happening. It started me thinking about mimes, jugglers, and other street performers―and the possibility of other professions moving into the same scene.

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The Far Side and Dennis the Menace used to be side by side in the Dayton Daily News. One day, back in August of 1981, someone “accidentally” switched their captions. What’s most embarrassing about this is how immensely improved both cartoons turned out to be.

Interesting that the same basic joke shows up 45 years later in today’s strip: https://discuss.online/post/36921506

It was Ratatouille

Here’s Larson talking about that:

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In my hometown, The Far Side is carried by the Seattle Times, which “crops” the cartoon so that it fits a little better on their comic page.

On the day this cartoon was published, friends started calling me for an explanation as to its meaning. I hadn’t seen the cartoon myself (other than when I had drawn and submitted it weeks before) and the conversations sort of went in circles before I got a few clues that something was amiss

I opened the newspaper to the comic section and discovered that someone, in order to compress the cartoon’s size, had chopped off a rather vital part of the humor.

The newspaper ran a correction the following day but, all in all, it’s sort of nice for a change when no one understands one of my cartoons but it’s not my fault.

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I’ve always been drawn to swamps and wetlands and the things that live there. In those places, I find myself mostly looking downward for frogs, fish, salamanders, or whatever.

I think if I ever lived in feudal times and stormed past a castle gate, I’d have to check out the moat on the way across.

I suppose I like this cartoon not only for the suggestion that the usual crocodiles have been replaced with goldfish, but because that’s me yelling on the bridge.

HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA

This originally appeared in Nature’s Way, Gary Larson’s earlier cartoon before The Far Side:

I don’t think it’s AI, it’s likely just laziness. There have been a few comments in here showing how often the 3 panels were literally copy/pasted in the newer strips.

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You know, we could really use a spatula.

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“Man, this is our lucky day, Bob… Smashed bacon + eggs on the road.”

I assume so. An ace lead is pretty good but not the best in most trick taking games, so I can see that as “Teddy bears are nice and let you win”

Hi from Lemmy 👋

There isn’t a good way of knowing the original date, and there aren’t good titles, so they’re posted with the “rerun date”.

Here’s some pics for scale:

I was slightly confused and wondering about beetles the size of a beer bottle, but it seems like not really, the males just like big mates and don’t discriminate much.

Yeah, I don’t see anything beyond “the bears are mugging him instead of eating him”