{"id":13752,"date":"2012-05-18T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13752"},"modified":"2012-05-18T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:36:07","slug":"friday-funnies-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13752","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY FUNNIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 17 years since cartoonist Gary Larson ended his comic strip, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Far_Side\" target=\"_blank\">The Far Side<\/a>,&#8221; but it&#8217;s still one of the funniest comics ever drawn, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. We&#8217;re taking a look this week at a few of the many laughs from a man with a bizarrely wonderful sense of twisted humor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/A-mummys-wrath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13753\" title=\"A mummy's wrath\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/A-mummys-wrath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/A-mummys-wrath.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/A-mummys-wrath-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Dogs can learn a lot of commands and they&#8217;re actually rather eager to please, but they don&#8217;t speak English &#8212; contrary to what many owners believe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/What-dogs-hear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13754\" title=\"What dogs hear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/What-dogs-hear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/What-dogs-hear.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/What-dogs-hear-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you hang out with the supposedly brilliant people of the world long enough, you&#8217;ll wonder whether IQ is all it&#8217;s cracked up to be. (Check out a meeting of MENSA if you don&#8217;t know what I mean.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/School-for-the-gifted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13755\" title=\"School for the gifted\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/School-for-the-gifted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/School-for-the-gifted.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/School-for-the-gifted-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Larson had a way of finding humor in scenarios of impending doom. Why is this funny? I&#8217;m not sure, but it works for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mountain-goat-in-a-fog-bank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13756\" title=\"Mountain goat in a fog bank\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mountain-goat-in-a-fog-bank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mountain-goat-in-a-fog-bank.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Mountain-goat-in-a-fog-bank-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, the never-ending battle between a cat and a dog can get ugly sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Cat-fud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13757\" title=\"Cat fud\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Cat-fud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Cat-fud.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Cat-fud-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 17 years since cartoonist Gary Larson ended his comic strip, &#8220;The Far Side,&#8221; but it&#8217;s still one of the funniest comics ever drawn, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. We&#8217;re taking a look this week at a few of the many laughs from a man with a bizarrely wonderful sense of twisted humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-3zO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13752"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13763,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13752\/revisions\/13763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}