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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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I never understand why these exist. Like why not just have him eat grapes and say “The grapes of wrath”? Not that it would be funny either but like, it’s right there.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pun
Humor can be hard to explain (and explaining it sometimes makes it less funny).
I think what makes crepes funnier than grapes is the American association of crepes with sophistication and "fancy restaurants". The juxtaposition of the genteel with an embarrassing demise is funny to some people. Especially with the woman looking on with vague disapproval, as if the choking man is commiting a faux pas.
A joke like this definitely won't land for everyone. I find it mildly amusing, but not that funny.
They're also pretty light and thus unlikely to pose a choking hazard. Grapes can be big and are much more likely to get stuck if not chewed.
So there's a layer of absurdism there as well, and I'm here for it.
Don't be absurd. Most French cafés don't serve grapes.
Oh? maybe there is some nuance i don’t get. Or is this just fricken cow tools all over again?