• aoidenpa@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 months ago

        I don’t know what are these, just see them in my feed. At first I thought they followed a story because they were weird when I consider them individually. But sometimes they are funny, I can see that lately.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          11·
          10 months ago

          Individual cartoons, originally published in the 80s in newspapers, like Family Circus. Artist is Gary Larson, strip is called The Far Side.

          Mostly absurdist humor with some old references dotted in, like this one which references the stereotypical “cement shoes” mobsters used to send people to “sleep with the fishes.” The phrase sleep with the fishes originated in the 1800s (or was first recorded then, anyway), but it was popularized by the movie The Godfather. The joke here is simply the opposite of that phrase, and the concept of a fish mafia.

  • monsdar@feddit.de
    14·
    10 months ago

    Does not make much sense, it should’ve been helium balloons. But then he’d sleep with the birds, not with the humans.

    Or is there some Mafia i didn’t know about that puts small boats into their victims’ feet? Could be made out of styrofoam now that i think of it.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    It’s disturbing how many people fail to see how this doesn’t make sense.

    • hansl@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 months ago

      I can’t wait for you to explain to my pea-brain why all those “a man died and went to heaven” jokes don’t make sense. Or how a priest, a minister and rabbi would never hang out together in a bar…