Are the ducks meaningful or just opaque absurdity?
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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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 got curious and looked for an explanation, apparently ducks are illegal goods in The Far Side. The wolves are even snorting quack.
I love how is humor is often some pun, references something and sometimes is outright absurd.
And everytime I wonder which one it is.
Can you imagine how terrifying the other side of that door would sound until you actually confirmed that though it is unlikely yes there are 100 live ducks crammed behind that door?
I don't think your brain could make the abstract leap before you open the door that those are sounds from a jumble of ducks, it would likely sound to someone not trained as a homicide detective like some kind of demon hellspawn with a million skittering legs, like a monsterous radioactive millipede ready to bust down the door and eat you alive.
Being a detective on the farside of the law ain't easy.
Oh wow, can you imagine.. entering an apartment and in a closet there's a 100 ducks rummaging about. I'd probably be a lovely blend of concerned and curious.
But of course, I'm no homicide detective.
But of course, I'm no homicide detective.
Me neither I would not be able to put that many ducks in a row without getting totally mixed up, maybe 5 or 10 but not that many.
This might be the best far side I've ever seen. Bravo
It’s definitely one of my favorites
For a second I thought that was a duck hanging from a noose at the top of the closet
This says a lot about society 🤔