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Francisca Staines (franciscawrites@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 22:46:10 JST Francisca Staines

In honor of Gary Larson's birthday, repost with a Far Side cartoon that you love.
#Farside #comics #WritingCommunity
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1. In an elevator, the doors about to close. Through the gap we see three people. One of them is patting the back side of a lion, whose tail is about to get squeeze by the closing doors. The legend reads: "Don't be alarmed, folks -he's completely harmless unless something startles him."
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  healyn (healyn@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 22:46:05 JST healyn
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  @franciscawrites I scrolled through this, and how is it possible nobody posted this one?
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  1. Gary Larson's Cow Tools cartoon
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  Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 22:46:05 JST Annika Backstrom
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  @healyn thank u for posting cow tools
  
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  TagNachtLampe (tagnachtlampe@norden.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 20:15:29 JST TagNachtLampe
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  It's real:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
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    Thagomizer
    
    A thagomizer () is the distinctive arrangement of four spikes on the tails of stegosaurine dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators. The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name. Cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name "thagomizer" in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education. Etymology The term thagomizer was coined by Gary Larson in jest. In a 1982 The Far Side comic, a group of cavemen are taught by a caveman lecturer that the spikes on a stegosaur's tail were named "after the late Thag Simmons".The term was picked up initially by Kenneth Carpenter, then a paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who used the term when describing a fossil at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting in 1993. Thagomizer has since been adopted as an informal anatomical term and is used by the Smithsonian Institution, the Dinosaur National Monument, the book...
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  Lisa Sass (lk_sass@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 20:15:34 JST Lisa Sass
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  @franciscawrites @bookstodon My two fav Far Side ‘toons:
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  1. Gary Larson cartoon. Ensemble of cave people beating on rocks and sticks, led by a cave person conductor. Caption: Suddenly, second-chair granite rock's jealousy of first-chair granite rock becomes uncontainable.
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  2. Gary Larson cartoons cave person standing in front of audience of other cave people. Pointing to picture of dinosaur tail with spikes at the top. Caption: "Now, this end is called the thagomizer. after the late Thag Simmons."
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