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34 Years Later, the Best-Ever 'Far Side' Quote Will Still Leave You Speechless
Gary Larson's comic strip The Far Side was known for its visual humor, but this is the best-ever quote from the series
polygon.com
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On the hive, 8 by 4 modules at column 0, row 0.
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Source 1: polygon.com
34 Years Later, the Best-Ever 'Far Side' Quote Will Still Leave You Speechless
Gary Larson's comic strip The Far Side was known for its visual humor, but this is the best-ever quote from the series
Marked as found on the page, exactly, October 17, 2026 at 10:01 PM EDT. The check history below is the evidence.
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| October 16, 2026 at 12:01 AM EDT to October 17, 2026 at 4:01 AM EDT | Link resolves | Passed | 200 | 2 checks over about 28 hours, the same result every time. 200, text/html, 283185 characters, landed on https://www.polygon.com/best-far-side-quote-ever/ The wording varied; every check is below.Every one of the 2
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| October 16, 2026 at 12:01 AM EDT to October 17, 2026 at 4:01 AM EDT | Page contains the quotation | Passed | 200 | 2 checks over about 28 hours, the same result every time. the page contains the quotation, exactlyEvery one of the 2
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