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“Well, Captain Grunfield, it says here you were expelled from the belly of a large squid after … ha … after your boat … ha ha … after … ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! …”
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This one confused me so bad so I looked up what other people thought and maybe it’s a pun about him being “cap-sized?”
“… after your boat capsized” definitely fits, but the whole squid thing is very distracting. I suppose it’s to provide us a reason for his changed appearance, but it raises far more questions than it answers.
The squid part had me looking for shit based puns but I couldn’t think of one related to a ship going down.
Makes sense. Thanks, I was confused as well.
Instead of saying the boat capsized, you could also say it turned turtle. I don’t know if this expression is still used today, I remember it from an old song.
I wonder if Larson knew that same song in 1983, because with the dude’s head poking out like that…maybe it works??
Capsized means the boat turned at least on its side (past the point of self-righting). Turtle means it turned completely upside down.
This really makes no sense at all. Even with the assumptions made. Very weird for Larson. It’s not even clear what he’s supposed to be. He’s tiny suddenly but also his clothes are part squid? Wtf? Would not surprise me if this was not actually authentic Far Side.
To be fair, he also made the Cow Tools one which most people didn’t get his reasoning for, either.
I don’t think I’d even remembered that one. I read most of his earliest books but for some reason I didn’t remember that one. Yeah that one is swing and a miss. Weird.
