The Far Side
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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Ok, kid's! It's time for Uncle Ŝan's Story Time!
So, it takes place in the spring in a little Italian town called Olmo in the Alps, not too far from the Austrian border. I'm living in Munich at the time, and am staying at a cabin the parents of my German friend own, with yet another friend who's visiting from the US. We're walking around on the paths through the villiage and meet this old guy ("old" -- I was in my 20's at the time, so he might have been 40 for all I know) who says something to us in Italian, which neither of us spoke, and I reply that, sorry, we don't speak Italian. Undeterred, he starts rattling on to us in Italian. Now, although I was living in Germany, I'd just gotten through 3 years of French in college, so I'm picking out a word here or there, and we're just barely sort of able to communicate by using latin roots.
So, we're talking to this guy for, like 45 minutes in this sort of pidgin latin and a lot of gestures, when he picks up on the fact that I'm not actually an American tourist in Italy, but that I'm visiting from Germany, at which point he says in German: "oh, so you speak German?" And from there we have a regular conversation. I don't know what he thought, but I thought it was the funniest thing, and that's how I learned to do the "try every language, just in case" thing like in the comic.
That's the end of the story, except a fun detail: I learned that this guy was on his way into the hills to count his sheep. Then he was going to go home, have lunch, and that was his work day. I'm sure keeping sheep throught the year is a lot harder than just that, but at the time I was terribly envious, because it sounded so idyllic.
Tune in next time, kids!