<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Far Side author working for Conservation Intl.]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:45:03 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/1 terrific!

This is wonderful!  I can check off a few people on my Xmas gift list, including my godsons.

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

]]> terrific!

This is wonderful!  I can check off a few people on my Xmas gift list, including my godsons.

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

]]> Comment #2 by sunflower http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:53:16 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/2 Gary, friend of swamp things...

Gary was a Fox Island neighbor and I often thought his "Beware of Doug" panels were about me.

]]> Gary, friend of swamp things...

Gary was a Fox Island neighbor and I often thought his "Beware of Doug" panels were about me.

]]> Comment #3 by Biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:35:22 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/3 I have given my wife his date book

for Christmas every year since it first came out. She has them all and they may be worth money some day because they also record the trials and tribulations of a family. Just today my youngest and I were looking at the latest one. Oh my God. There was a bear returning home to his den. He was late and his wife was saying "What's your excuse this time?" The poor bear had an ear tag, a radio collar, numbers spray painted on him and a tranquilizer dart in his ass. They get better every year.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

]]> I have given my wife his date book

for Christmas every year since it first came out. She has them all and they may be worth money some day because they also record the trials and tribulations of a family. Just today my youngest and I were looking at the latest one. Oh my God. There was a bear returning home to his den. He was late and his wife was saying "What's your excuse this time?" The poor bear had an ear tag, a radio collar, numbers spray painted on him and a tranquilizer dart in his ass. They get better every year.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

]]> Comment #4 by Biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:21:00 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/4 or more likely, I am getting senile.

That's the beauty of a fading memory, you can laugh at the same cartoons (and jokes) over and over again...

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

]]> or more likely, I am getting senile.

That's the beauty of a fading memory, you can laugh at the same cartoons (and jokes) over and over again...

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Help acquire and protect ecological hotspots, give to a conservation organization: http://www.saveourbiodiversity.com

]]> Comment #5 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:02:28 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/gary-larson-speaks/5 just like the first time ...

Or the one where the three-generation family of rattlesnakes are seated at table before plates each holding a rat, and the mother says to the son, "Shake Grandpa's dinner, so he thinks it's alive."

It was a while ago that Natural History gave Larson that unofficial award.  But it certainly is true that his cartoons have adorned more office doors of science professors than anyone else's.

And by the way, I certainly do not mean to exclude Andrew Sharpless's excellent idea, adopting marine animals through Oceana, as an important direction for my Xmas giving -- including for my godsons.

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

]]> just like the first time ...

Or the one where the three-generation family of rattlesnakes are seated at table before plates each holding a rat, and the mother says to the son, "Shake Grandpa's dinner, so he thinks it's alive."

It was a while ago that Natural History gave Larson that unofficial award.  But it certainly is true that his cartoons have adorned more office doors of science professors than anyone else's.

And by the way, I certainly do not mean to exclude Andrew Sharpless's excellent idea, adopting marine animals through Oceana, as an important direction for my Xmas giving -- including for my godsons.

Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

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