It's absurdist comedy, the joke is cows don't have opposable thumbs so can't use tools, let alone make them. There are other opposable thumb jokes in the world too, it's almost a subgenre of "animals struggling with human things."
I tell you farside has way more leeway to do this sort of comedy, because it's such a short strip so you haven't invested much attention span given the relatively high rate of pay offs per comic.
Personally if a comic has a certain amount of text to read I often won't gamble on it, I'll skip it. The attention economy predates the Internet if you ask me.
Wouldn't that be the one where a dog was dreaming about howling atop an overturned car and a bunch of newspapers pulled it because they thought the dog was having sex with the car?
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RustyNova@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 119d
THE LEGEND HAS APPEARED!
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 119d
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 119d
I don't get it
jqubed@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 119d
Basically no one did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 119d
(That's the joke)
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 119d
It's absurdist comedy, the joke is cows don't have opposable thumbs so can't use tools, let alone make them. There are other opposable thumb jokes in the world too, it's almost a subgenre of "animals struggling with human things."
I tell you farside has way more leeway to do this sort of comedy, because it's such a short strip so you haven't invested much attention span given the relatively high rate of pay offs per comic.
Personally if a comic has a certain amount of text to read I often won't gamble on it, I'll skip it. The attention economy predates the Internet if you ask me.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 20 pts · 119d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 119d
Its been about 30 years since I first saw it. It still bugs me.
Larson you wanker
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 119d
His most controversial cartoon.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 119d
Wouldn't that be the one where a dog was dreaming about howling atop an overturned car and a bunch of newspapers pulled it because they thought the dog was having sex with the car?
Edit:
Tanoh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 118d
I think it is a theee way tie between that one, faster fifi! and the Jade Godall tramp one
cokeslutgarbage@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 118d
I was gonna say the Jane Goodall tramp one too. FWIW, she liked that comic, it just went over a lot of people's heads.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 119d
I was here
frosch@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 119d
🙌
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 119d
Cow friggen' tools!!
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 119d
All cow tools are 100% approved by cows, the bidding for the first item will start at 3 licks.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 119d
I've solved it
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
Ack
emmy67@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d
But why is the cow a Cyclops?