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."
52 1 ReplyThis 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.
18 0 ReplyThis comic lives rent free in my brain, I think about it far to often.
4 0 ReplyI 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
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Can someone explain?
20 3 ReplyI don't get it either
5 2 ReplyIt'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.
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Why now brown cow?
It's simple. He was just in the moood.
16 0 ReplyOld people get this. I'm not saying if I did or not.
Ok, fine... I got it.
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