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8-20-23 www.thefarside.com(i.imgur.com)

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DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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the sign should realistically say 24/7

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heeplr@feddit.de
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Most Hornet species are actually pretty chill fellas. Wasps otoh… not so much.

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DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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Can’t say, my only experience is with Killer Hornets defending their newly aquired raised garden bed

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ChronosWing@lemmy.zip
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They do actually sleep, they become very lethargic and slow at night. Unless it’s a murder hornet, those fuckers are fueled by Satan himself.

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The other hours are furious hours, this is their downtime

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Kor@lemm.ee
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It’s fun to see comic strips from before everything became instantly referencable at the push of a button. Like what are these weird Mosquito-headed hornets? I choose to believe that the artist could not be arsed to look up pictures of hornets at the library or bookstore, so they filled in (or hallucinated :D) their knowledge gaps on hornet anatomy by making stuff up.

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JowlesMcGee@kbin.social
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I read one of his behind the scenes books (artist is Gary Lawson). If my memory is correct, he had to crank at least one of these out a day and there were times where he wouldn’t have a good idea until later in the day. When that happened he sometimes threw his hands up at problems he would otherwise fix. Given the schedule, I don’t blame him for saying these fly wasps were good enough haha.

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Kor@lemm.ee
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Good insight. Seems to fit the puzzle. I also suspect time constraints to be the biggest factor behind the “can’t be arsed” part and not the artist’s laziness.

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Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml
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Flame thrower would take care of that

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WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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Not everything needs a solution.

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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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