You've never heard the expression, "how now, brown cow?" It used to be something people said all the time, it's just a silly phrase meaning "how's everything going." He's just playing around with the phrase "how now brown cow."
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2023
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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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Can someone explain?
I don't get it either
It's a reference to this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_now_brown_cow
Larson is taking the phrase out of its normal context and riffing on it in an absurdist way for laughs.
This is one of those stupid comics that has, of its own free will, randomly popped back into my head over the last 20 years.
I had started to think it wasn’t real and I’d just misremembered a Far Side comic and now boom, it’s here like an awkward Christmas gift.
This comic lives rent free in my brain, I think about it far to often.
I bought the collection of far side back in the 90s, once it was finished. So none of these are new to me, but they still make me chuckle
Why now brown cow?
It's simple. He was just in the moood.
Old people get this. I'm not saying if I did or not.
Ok, fine... I got it.