Taken from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prehistory_of_The_Far_Side

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Also, the strip on the right was adopted for the name for those spikes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

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I wonder why the caption in this one has been changed. Gary Larson doesn’t seem like he’d request that

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Speaking of cow tools, next time it comes up in this community, he wrote a bit about the comic and the public response it got that I’ll have to post.

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Is there a joke here beyond “farmer is improbably in a business meeting”? I couldn’t find a meaning for sodbuster that added anything, nor did I see any common 90’s business slang about farming.

Apparently a reference to this series of beer commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLK4MxAiF7c

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He was proud of his skill in drawing that sort of mouth. Here’s him being happy about drawing a horse’s mouth like that:

Parody is pretty well protected, but it also helps that he’s so bad at drawing Goofy that he could argue it’s a different character