{"id":38807,"date":"2019-12-19T17:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/?p=38807"},"modified":"2019-12-19T17:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:22:04","slug":"larson-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/2019\/12\/19\/larson-is-back","title":{"rendered":"Larson is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/dec\/17\/far-side-creator-gary-larson-launches-website-with-promise-of-new-work\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/pix\/2019\/12\/191219_4.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Larson\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caution: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarside.com\/about\">reading this website<\/a> may result in hyperventilation from uncontrollable laughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Andrews McMeel described The Far Side as \u201can unparalleled comic masterpiece\u201d, which it said had \u201crevolutionised conventional considerations of humour in general, and of comics in particular\u201d. According to the publisher, more than 40m books and 77m Far Side calendars have been sold, and it has been translated into more than 17 languages. Terms dreamed up by Larson \u2013 as in his cartoon of a caveman pointing to the tail of a stegosaurus and telling his audience that it is named \u201cthe thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmonds\u201d, led paleontologists to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/watch-out-for-that-thagomizer-98891562\/\">adopt the invented word<\/a>, while Larson himself has a species of chewing louse named after him: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strigiphilus_garylarsoni\">Strigiphilus garylarsoni<\/a>.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarside.com\/about\">The Far Side<\/a> kommt hier in die Blogroll. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/2017\/03\/08\/hyperventilation-from-uncontrollable-laughter\">Ich lach mich noch jeden Tag kaputt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38807?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"PDF anzeigen\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38807?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Inhalt drucken\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_38807 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-de_DE sprite-de_DE\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_38807')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_38807').socialSharePrivacy({\"services\":{\"facebook\":{\"status\":\"on\",\"txt_info\":\"2 Klicks f\\u00fcr mehr Datenschutz: Erst wenn Sie hier klicken, wird der Button aktiv und Sie k\\u00f6nnen Ihre Empfehlung an Facebook senden. 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