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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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I don’t get it, some sort of riff on white wine?
I'm assuming it's a joke based on "campari" wine sounding like "calamari", and thus the squid is being dropped into the barrel to stomp on the grapes. Tell you something though, seeing all of the comics on Lemmy makes the Far Side collections, where they've selected out all the ones that make sense and/or are funny, into a revelation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campari
I drink Campari but have never heard of Campari Blanc.
I was wondering if it was maybe trying to tie in a joke about squid ink, which was a trendy ingredient in the 1980’s.
To be honest, that's equally likely. Some of these comics are head-scratchers.
when your job is constantly putting out jokes you will inevitably just not have a joke at some point, at which point the best recourse is to just be absurd and hope people find it funny anyways