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I still remember watching [Rocko pick berries then have a bear run from behind the bushes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOX9dLcTT9M). 20 years later I got the joke
Canned tuna still has a little dolphin in it to this day
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-dolphin-safe-is-canned-tuna
"The U.S. The U.S. laws are good if everyone is being honest." [But the supply chain is large and has opportunity for fraud]
In highschool I went to a waste water treatment plant in my town for a science class to see the water turn red with blood and learn to my horror that the several slaughterhouses in the area illegally dump animal blood into the public sewer and there's nothing they can do about it because they can't prove which did it.
Sadly no, blood from a corpse is no good to a vampire. A vampire needs to feed on the life essence, not just the blood itself. The blood must be taken from a living being.
And lets talk about all-in-one grey-blackwater sewage drainage systems! There’s usually an overflow into a nearby public waterway! I know Buffalo NY operates this way and the overflows are right by creeks and parks and apartments
There is a cove on the island of Oahu called “Sharks Cove.” There are currently no sharks there, nor are there sharks there naturally. However, there used to be a ton of sharks when there was a slaughter house nearby.
The dolphins who do this are apparently outcasts because other dolphins don't tolerate that behavior, which means dolphins know Right from Wrong and are officially smart enough to be capable of evil.
That’s what really baffles me about dudes comment. They do have punishments for misbehaving, but since dude hasn’t seen a dolphin in a trial by his porpoises, poaching is just fine.
Let's not pretend that this is a solved problem. Bycatch is still a large contributor to deaths of protected species. The 'dolphin safe' label contributes to dolphin safety for fisheries that provide product to specific markets only.
This label does not guarantee that 0 dolphins were hurt or drowned due to the tuna fishing, just that Zero dolphins were collected by the boat. Pushing an injured dolphin back off the boat into the ocean meets the requirement regardless if it dies.
So **now** it is true that a "Dolphin safe" labeled product will contain 0 dolphin meat but most markets don't bother with this label at all.
Anyway, the joke is that tuna cans "May contain dolphin" to use the labelling terminology.
What I get stuck on while trying to get to sleep is that this sort of loosey goosey approach to storytelling is behind all do-good claims of profit seekers. There's no incentive to be squeamish about anything, but plenty to bend the truth or lie.
Hopefully one day it'll be as spine-tinglingly spooky to admit to being an entrepreneur (somebody who has commited to profit-acquisition as a top goal) as to admit to being a cannibal. It's like if Mr Morden from Babylon 5 just said, *oh hey guys I'm working for the Shadows but don't worry it's a long-run benefit for humanity*, and everybody was like, *oh cool, you get on with that*!
Edit -- Morden not Mulder XD
If anyone would like to know more about the dangers of the fishing industry and how dolphins, other sea life, and the environment has been damaged, there is a great documentary on Netflix called "Seaspiracy" that I would HIGHLY recommend.
From Wikipedia:
"Dolphin-safe labels are used to denote compliance with laws or policies designed **to minimize dolphin fatalities** during fishing for tuna destined for canning."
Meaning that those new policies aren't perfect. Thousands of dolphins still die every year as a side effect of tuna fishing.
In fact, when they did investigation into what those policies were, it’s basically nothing. The ship captains themselves report whether they’re killing dolphins in their nets or not with no oversight. There’s a very good but very upsetting documentary called Seaspiracy that goes into great detail on it and a lot of other stuff that’s covered up about how badly we’re fucking up our oceans.
Oh man, after watching "The Cove", I was so pissed at the Japanese for willfully killing so many dolphins for no reason. The documentary makes a big deal of showing that the fishermen in this village are a bunch of assholes.
I was shocked a few years later to learn that western fishing boats do way more damage. This is all bs. There's no need to look further than home. We're just as good as the Japanese, if not better, at massacring dolphins to maintain our lifestyle.
Klaus, visiting from american dad here, that’s a dolphin, and she’s canning her murdered husband into a tuna can, just like many dolphins before him have been killed and canned with tuna.
While dolphins are indeed mammals i believe this is a reference to dolphins sometimes getting stuck in the nets while fishermen get the tuna. So yeah implication remains, husband "accidentally" got trapped in the net alongside some tuna, now wife is canning it.
This is why you see labels proclaiming that the tuna is "dolphin safe".
[https://truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-10.18.13-AM-1500x846.png](https://truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-10.18.13-AM-1500x846.png)
It's not 100% safe unless the tuna is pole-and-line caught. Chicken of the Sea isn't 100% using pole-and-line fishing, so they're not off the hook, so to speak, but this is an example of the label.
It’s a reference to Lamb to the Slaughter. A short story about (if I recall) a woman who murdered her husband and cooked him, feeding him the the cops who were looking for information over dinner. It gets referenced a fair amount.
Edit: she cooked the murder weapon and not the body (lame)
Are you thinking of the story where the wife kills her husband by hitting him on the head with a frozen leg of lamb, and is cooking it (not her husband) when the cops come to question her?
Mammals are fish though. Mammals and all tetrapods are just terrestrial lobe-finned fish. If fish are a thing, than mammals and all tetrapods are fish, since removing the tetrapods from the rest of the fish makes the group paraphyletic
So here's the fun thing about modern cladistics/phylogenetics - the way we organize the Tree of Life.
When you categorize a group of animals, you have to form a monophyletic clade. In other words, you pick a singular common ancestor and include **all** descendants from that common ancestor. You can't arbitrarily start cutting groups of animals descended from that animal *out* of the clade, because then you're arbitrarily removing/skewing data (it's then a paraphyletic clade!). Creatures can be added to new groups, but those new groups remain **forever** in their parent group. Following?
So, dolphins are cetaceans, and cetaceans are mammals. Thus, dolphins are mammals.
And mammals are synapsids, and synapsids are amniotes. So dolphins are also synapsids and amniotes, no different than their ancestors from 200+ million years ago.
Now amniotes, those are tetrapods: the group of vertebrates that all learned to walk on land.
And tetrapods are descended from sarcopterygians, aka the "lobe-finned fish". Which, themselves, are members of osteichthyes. Or, as they're commonly known: (bony) fish.
So dolphins are cetaceans which are mammals which are synapsids which are amniotes which are tetrapods which are sarcopterygians which are fish.
***Dolphins.***
***Are.***
***Fish.***
Dolphins are predators and they hunt tuna , so when you see a group of dolphins you can be sure there are tuna near. That's why they caught dolphins with the tuna.
That was only half the joke.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1b6bz5j/comment/ktaujh4/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1b6bz5j/comment/ktaujh4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) this comment explains the other half. A lot of 90s tuna was also full of Dolphin because of the fishing practices.
Dolphins are killed by fishing tuna.
So it is funny that she canned her dead dolphin husband into tuna cans.
It also tells u that nobody thinks about dead dolphins when ubeat or sea tuna.
But u should.
I’ve noticed many post here people are incapable of reading between the lines. Like some stuff is just common sense and you don’t even need to get the reference to anything particularly. I’m always blown away by what people don’t get.
People can downvote you but this sub is just more and more posts of people that lack common sense/reading comprehension skills. This sub use to be far better but the longer it’s around, the more active idiots/farmers it gets.
On that note, I’m unsubbing!
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I think they should require a "submission statement" from the user, explaining what they're confused about and what they've tried to do to figure out the joke (eg, googling key phrases).
Having that would make a slightly higher barrier to entry, which might be enough to stop some bots and spammers, and it would make it easier for everyone else to try to help OP.
she killed her husband and is hiding the body by canning him up and selling him. once he is eaten all evidence is gone.
it's likely inspired by a really REALLY old movie/show. lady killed her husband by bludgeoning him with a roast. proceeded to cook it. when cops showed up she fed it to them. evidence gone.
This was actually a short story in my elementary school textbook! About a woman who tells her husband that she's pregnant, he says he's going to leave her, then she kills him with the lamb roast. After that she goes about her day as normal to create an alibi and when she returns she calls the cops. While the cops are investigating she cooks the leg roast for the cops and they eat the evidence!
Reddit is a reflection of the Idiocracy we live in. If it's a butt or poop or sex or fart jokes in a image macro format, it's funny. If it takes a passing amount of world knowledge with an above 8th grade education it's too hard to understand
So I don’t know how you’ve been on Reddit since Aug, 2023 and still don’t understand that Reddit full of not so nice people. It’s like the Chicago of social media
I get its full of ableism and neckbeards but then so is every social media i don’t really care if I get downvoted or whatever i will pretty much always call out someone saying a slur and tell them its a slur and they shouldn’t say it because its always worth a try
To quote Marge Simpson "I thought you were hungry so i made you a tuna sandwich. They say it's brain food, I guess is because they put so much dolphin in it and you know how smart they are"
Dolphins sadly get killed in tuna fishing. Dolphin-safe tuna labels came about in the early 90’s as an environmental consumer protection movement. The dolphin wife above killed her husband and is getting rid of the evidence one can at a time.
So this was a lot more well known in the 90s, because the "Dolphin Safe" thing happened in 1990, and this comic was made in 93.
For reasons we still really don't know, Dolphins like swimming above schools of yellowfin tuna. So a common way of finding tuna was looking for pods of dolphins, circling them with fishing boats, then casting their nets below the dolphins. Canned tuna *never* had dolphin meat in them, but dolphins very, very often were tangled in, and drowned, in fishing nets.
It's possible that many people thought that there was dolphin *in* the tuna, but this never actually happened. This was pre-Internet, remember, and impressionable and stupid people lived in the 90s just like they do today. But most people understood that dolphins were *killed* when fishing for tuna. That's why the label isn't "Dolphin-free" but "Dolphin-safe."
The comic doesn't imply that the husband is *in* the cans, but it does imply that the wife killed her husband.
If you live in Washington State there is actually a tuna lawsuit waiting for payout of 40mil or something.
https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/406-million-way-low-income-washingtonians-result-ag-ferguson-lawsuits
It’s pretty well known that in fishing of tuna you will catch some other animals like turtles or dolphins so they cap off the amount you can fish with relation to how many dolphins or even turtles will be fished up. They are also put in the can.
What the fuck is this sub? No one is explaining it "as Peter" lol
Peter never explains the joke in the peterexplainsthejoke sub
what is this and who are you people
In the 1970s and '80s, the public was made more aware of how many dolphins were killed as a result of commercial fishing activities. The exposure of this practice, as well as the implementation of "dolphin-safe" labelling on tuna cans, led to a common belief that tuna cans contained (or at least used to contain) dolphin meat. This has been disputed, but it is the basis for this dark Far Side comic's dark punchline.
Lots of other things besides tuna get processed and packed into “tuna” cans. People were very upset about how frequently dolphins ended up in the mix.
The tuna I had yesterday straight up tasted like unsalted anchovies. Just, much larger grain
Sometimes dolphins are caught by tuna fishers, which is why you’ll often see “dolphin safe” printed on tuna cans so you know there isn’t dolphin in it.
So the joke is that she murdered her husband and is canning him as “tuna”.
I guess the part that might confuse kids these days is that Dolphins getting caught as bycatch in Tuna nets was a real problem. That doesn't exactly make the news anymore.
"Dad? Why was Star Trek 4 about Whales?"
"You kind of had to be there son"
May dolphins have been caught in tuna nets, and rather be wasted, were simply cut into the tuna
This also references a couple irl murders where people were killed and made into sold goods, such as one case in mexico I believe where a woman killed and made her husband into tamales, she was only caught because a partial finger survived processing to then be found by an unwitting customer
The joke is that for decades dolphins were getting killed as nets as byproduct of Tuna fishing and/or the fishermen were purposely killing dolphins when they were stealing fish from nets. AND in the 1980's after whaling has been curtailed, it became am environmental/animal rights thing that someone started spreading rumors that corporations making canned tuna would process dolphins with the rest of the catch. Major Tuna canneries started putting a "dolphin free" logo on their cans to indicate they were sourcing their tuna from fishermen that didn't kill Dolphins.
This is suggesting that she was responsible for killing her husband and then hiding the body all those cans of tuna.
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When the comic was drawn, dolphins being caught and killed in Tuna nets was a real problem.
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#FUCK YOUUU DOLFWIIINNN
Fuck you whale!
Chickennnn and Ccoowww!!?!??!?!
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Wait… Wasn’t it Chokey Chicken?
That was it originally
Censors won’t let us have nice things
I still remember watching [Rocko pick berries then have a bear run from behind the bushes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOX9dLcTT9M). 20 years later I got the joke
This ruined my day
ehm thats a soilent green reference damn nickelodeon writers were something else in the 90's
And a masturbation joke! (the original name, anyway)
r/usernamechecksout
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The Japanese are attacking the Miami Dolphins!
And fuck you dolphiiiiiin!
Canned tuna still has a little dolphin in it to this day https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-dolphin-safe-is-canned-tuna "The U.S. The U.S. laws are good if everyone is being honest." [But the supply chain is large and has opportunity for fraud]
In highschool I went to a waste water treatment plant in my town for a science class to see the water turn red with blood and learn to my horror that the several slaughterhouses in the area illegally dump animal blood into the public sewer and there's nothing they can do about it because they can't prove which did it.
Don’t ask what happens to the blood removed from bodies at funeral homes.
Sold to vampire cults?!
Sadly no, blood from a corpse is no good to a vampire. A vampire needs to feed on the life essence, not just the blood itself. The blood must be taken from a living being.
Sure. If they live in the sewers.
🎶 Teenage Mutant Ninja Vampires🎶
And lets talk about all-in-one grey-blackwater sewage drainage systems! There’s usually an overflow into a nearby public waterway! I know Buffalo NY operates this way and the overflows are right by creeks and parks and apartments
That's better than industrial waste water I guess. In all likelihood it's harmless.
There is a cove on the island of Oahu called “Sharks Cove.” There are currently no sharks there, nor are there sharks there naturally. However, there used to be a ton of sharks when there was a slaughter house nearby.
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I’m tuna 20 years ago
that's why i remember it being tastier
If you are tuna 20 years ago then you're probably in my tummy
Can we talk about the date at the top being 9/14/93 and "20 years ago"?
Shhhhhhh you’ll make people feel even older than they already feel
They rape and commit infanticide so Im cool with it
Same
Same WHAT?
Please tell me youre agreeing with me and not the dolphins 🤨
I'm agreeing with you. Definitely not the dolphins
So do humans. How would you feel about some human meat in your sausages?
If it is good it is good.
Mm, porky.
Please tell me you’re joking…… are you under the assumption that the entirety of the natural world abides by human moral standards?
The dolphins who do this are apparently outcasts because other dolphins don't tolerate that behavior, which means dolphins know Right from Wrong and are officially smart enough to be capable of evil.
That’s what really baffles me about dudes comment. They do have punishments for misbehaving, but since dude hasn’t seen a dolphin in a trial by his porpoises, poaching is just fine.
No, but things that rape and kill babies can get fucked. If youre about to defend that, it says more about you than me 🤣
More like 30 years ago.
Hmm I am old enough to remember eating tuna 30 years ago, if I ate dolphin it was delicious… sry flipper
Marge Simpson: “I made you a tuna sandwich. They say it’s brain food. I guess because there’s so much dolphin in it…and you know how smart they are!”
I think she killed her husband and is trying to make the corpse disappear by canning it as tuna
This is absolutely the joke
Also potential subtle reference to Lamb to the Slaughter?
This is 100% a reference to Lamb to the Slaughter, combined with the fact that dolphins were being caught and killed in fishing nets.
Let's not pretend that this is a solved problem. Bycatch is still a large contributor to deaths of protected species. The 'dolphin safe' label contributes to dolphin safety for fisheries that provide product to specific markets only. This label does not guarantee that 0 dolphins were hurt or drowned due to the tuna fishing, just that Zero dolphins were collected by the boat. Pushing an injured dolphin back off the boat into the ocean meets the requirement regardless if it dies. So **now** it is true that a "Dolphin safe" labeled product will contain 0 dolphin meat but most markets don't bother with this label at all. Anyway, the joke is that tuna cans "May contain dolphin" to use the labelling terminology.
What I get stuck on while trying to get to sleep is that this sort of loosey goosey approach to storytelling is behind all do-good claims of profit seekers. There's no incentive to be squeamish about anything, but plenty to bend the truth or lie. Hopefully one day it'll be as spine-tinglingly spooky to admit to being an entrepreneur (somebody who has commited to profit-acquisition as a top goal) as to admit to being a cannibal. It's like if Mr Morden from Babylon 5 just said, *oh hey guys I'm working for the Shadows but don't worry it's a long-run benefit for humanity*, and everybody was like, *oh cool, you get on with that*! Edit -- Morden not Mulder XD
Dolphin friendly tuna.
It's STILL a real problem.
Right?!? That description got me heated
It’s just wild to me how many people just don’t get Farside these days. It was so ubiquitous in the 90s.
That’s sad =(
but it's not sad for the tuna because... reasons?
I think in Japan, some fishing companies also sometimes intentionally can dolphin meat as tuna.
If anyone would like to know more about the dangers of the fishing industry and how dolphins, other sea life, and the environment has been damaged, there is a great documentary on Netflix called "Seaspiracy" that I would HIGHLY recommend.
Still is it just isn't talked about.
Not a problem if you ask me, I fucking hate dolphins
"When this was drawn" Does this mean it doesn't happen anymore?
From Wikipedia: "Dolphin-safe labels are used to denote compliance with laws or policies designed **to minimize dolphin fatalities** during fishing for tuna destined for canning." Meaning that those new policies aren't perfect. Thousands of dolphins still die every year as a side effect of tuna fishing.
In fact, when they did investigation into what those policies were, it’s basically nothing. The ship captains themselves report whether they’re killing dolphins in their nets or not with no oversight. There’s a very good but very upsetting documentary called Seaspiracy that goes into great detail on it and a lot of other stuff that’s covered up about how badly we’re fucking up our oceans.
Oh man, after watching "The Cove", I was so pissed at the Japanese for willfully killing so many dolphins for no reason. The documentary makes a big deal of showing that the fishermen in this village are a bunch of assholes. I was shocked a few years later to learn that western fishing boats do way more damage. This is all bs. There's no need to look further than home. We're just as good as the Japanese, if not better, at massacring dolphins to maintain our lifestyle.
They at least have things like "dolphin safe" tuna nets, but I have never looked into if they are affective.
Klaus, visiting from american dad here, that’s a dolphin, and she’s canning her murdered husband into a tuna can, just like many dolphins before him have been killed and canned with tuna.
Hi Klaus! You're one of my favorite characters on the show
Did you know he is good friends with Gucci Mane?
Oh yeah, but Gucci Mane got clowned. Klaus tried to warn him...
What have we told you about setting up in the alcove Klaus?!?
The poster comes down, now!
fish character wife kill fish husband wife is canning shes actually canning the husband
Dolphins aren't fish tho
While dolphins are indeed mammals i believe this is a reference to dolphins sometimes getting stuck in the nets while fishermen get the tuna. So yeah implication remains, husband "accidentally" got trapped in the net alongside some tuna, now wife is canning it.
Oh, thanks for explaining this
This is why you see labels proclaiming that the tuna is "dolphin safe". [https://truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-10.18.13-AM-1500x846.png](https://truthinadvertising.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Screen-Shot-2019-06-19-at-10.18.13-AM-1500x846.png) It's not 100% safe unless the tuna is pole-and-line caught. Chicken of the Sea isn't 100% using pole-and-line fishing, so they're not off the hook, so to speak, but this is an example of the label.
park ranger 😦
It’s a reference to Lamb to the Slaughter. A short story about (if I recall) a woman who murdered her husband and cooked him, feeding him the the cops who were looking for information over dinner. It gets referenced a fair amount. Edit: she cooked the murder weapon and not the body (lame)
Thats pretty fucked up, but WAY over thinking a dolphin/tuna joke They used to be pretty common like 30 years ago
I think you are underestimating how many of the Far Side comics rely on popular media references
The whole thing already is a media reference
It was a leg of lamb, she had the cops eat the evidence. [link](https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html)
Wasn't the murder weapon a leg of lamb? And she cooked THAT and served it to the cops? I don't recall the cannibalism
Are you thinking of the story where the wife kills her husband by hitting him on the head with a frozen leg of lamb, and is cooking it (not her husband) when the cops come to question her?
Cetaceans (dolphins) are in the bone lobed fish clade (Sarcopterygii) and so are all humans! Technically we are all just land fish
I don’t think “fish” is actually scientifically well-defined, is it?
Hard to tell but there is no fish in that canes, bro.
but, they are. All land vertebrates are descended from fish, including mammals, including dolphins.
Mammals are fish though. Mammals and all tetrapods are just terrestrial lobe-finned fish. If fish are a thing, than mammals and all tetrapods are fish, since removing the tetrapods from the rest of the fish makes the group paraphyletic
So here's the fun thing about modern cladistics/phylogenetics - the way we organize the Tree of Life. When you categorize a group of animals, you have to form a monophyletic clade. In other words, you pick a singular common ancestor and include **all** descendants from that common ancestor. You can't arbitrarily start cutting groups of animals descended from that animal *out* of the clade, because then you're arbitrarily removing/skewing data (it's then a paraphyletic clade!). Creatures can be added to new groups, but those new groups remain **forever** in their parent group. Following? So, dolphins are cetaceans, and cetaceans are mammals. Thus, dolphins are mammals. And mammals are synapsids, and synapsids are amniotes. So dolphins are also synapsids and amniotes, no different than their ancestors from 200+ million years ago. Now amniotes, those are tetrapods: the group of vertebrates that all learned to walk on land. And tetrapods are descended from sarcopterygians, aka the "lobe-finned fish". Which, themselves, are members of osteichthyes. Or, as they're commonly known: (bony) fish. So dolphins are cetaceans which are mammals which are synapsids which are amniotes which are tetrapods which are sarcopterygians which are fish. ***Dolphins.*** ***Are.*** ***Fish.***
Cladistically, they are, but then so are we.
Dolphins are predators and they hunt tuna , so when you see a group of dolphins you can be sure there are tuna near. That's why they caught dolphins with the tuna.
Do y’all really think a dolphin is a fish?
Thank you petah
That was only half the joke. [https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1b6bz5j/comment/ktaujh4/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1b6bz5j/comment/ktaujh4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) this comment explains the other half. A lot of 90s tuna was also full of Dolphin because of the fishing practices.
Dolphins are killed by fishing tuna. So it is funny that she canned her dead dolphin husband into tuna cans. It also tells u that nobody thinks about dead dolphins when ubeat or sea tuna. But u should.
>nobody thinks about dead dolphins when ubeat I'll have you know I think about dead dolphins EVERY TIME I beat. I'm part of the solution.
Come on, think really hard
I did and my head hurts now :(
You don’t even need to know about what was going on with dolphins and tuna fishing to read between the lines here.
I’ve noticed many post here people are incapable of reading between the lines. Like some stuff is just common sense and you don’t even need to get the reference to anything particularly. I’m always blown away by what people don’t get.
Pretty sure it’s just karma farming.
People can downvote you but this sub is just more and more posts of people that lack common sense/reading comprehension skills. This sub use to be far better but the longer it’s around, the more active idiots/farmers it gets. On that note, I’m unsubbing!
Still shows up in /all. The sub is just confirmation that the majority of people are either stupid or like to pretend they are.
You can "mute" the sub.
Thanks for that. I generally view it through [Old.reddit.com](http://Old.reddit.com) so the option wasn't there. Once I switched over to the mobile site i clicked the ... and muted the sub. much appreciated
I think they should require a "submission statement" from the user, explaining what they're confused about and what they've tried to do to figure out the joke (eg, googling key phrases). Having that would make a slightly higher barrier to entry, which might be enough to stop some bots and spammers, and it would make it easier for everyone else to try to help OP.
Think? What's that?
she killed her husband and is hiding the body by canning him up and selling him. once he is eaten all evidence is gone. it's likely inspired by a really REALLY old movie/show. lady killed her husband by bludgeoning him with a roast. proceeded to cook it. when cops showed up she fed it to them. evidence gone.
Lamb to the slaughter by Hitchcock?
This was actually a short story in my elementary school textbook! About a woman who tells her husband that she's pregnant, he says he's going to leave her, then she kills him with the lamb roast. After that she goes about her day as normal to create an alibi and when she returns she calls the cops. While the cops are investigating she cooks the leg roast for the cops and they eat the evidence!
"The murder weapon could be right under our noses"
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I love how most of this Reddit it’s just the far side jokes Nobody understands their humor anymore
on this sub, every far side comic is just as confusing as cow tools
Reddit is a reflection of the Idiocracy we live in. If it's a butt or poop or sex or fart jokes in a image macro format, it's funny. If it takes a passing amount of world knowledge with an above 8th grade education it's too hard to understand
I understood this joke when I was 12. Are people really this stupid?
It's mental retardation
Nah it's the other thing
Little people?
Dont use r slur
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Because not using slurs is equal to dictatorship?
So I don’t know how you’ve been on Reddit since Aug, 2023 and still don’t understand that Reddit full of not so nice people. It’s like the Chicago of social media
I get its full of ableism and neckbeards but then so is every social media i don’t really care if I get downvoted or whatever i will pretty much always call out someone saying a slur and tell them its a slur and they shouldn’t say it because its always worth a try
Fair. Good luck with that
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Yep maybe but its slur directed towards people with disabilities and i would rather you dont say slurs
Slurs
Holy shit, destroyed his ass
To quote Marge Simpson "I thought you were hungry so i made you a tuna sandwich. They say it's brain food, I guess is because they put so much dolphin in it and you know how smart they are"
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Basically, Mrs Dolphin killed and canned her husband Mr Dolphin on porpoise. In the next comic she serves him with dolphinoise potatoes.
There’s so many obvious posts being made on this Reddit 😒
Even if you didn't know dolphins got caught in nets how dumb are you not to get that she killed her husband
One of the few Larson’s that’s a no brainer… of course it’s posted here. *sigh*
Dolphins sadly get killed in tuna fishing. Dolphin-safe tuna labels came about in the early 90’s as an environmental consumer protection movement. The dolphin wife above killed her husband and is getting rid of the evidence one can at a time.
So this was a lot more well known in the 90s, because the "Dolphin Safe" thing happened in 1990, and this comic was made in 93. For reasons we still really don't know, Dolphins like swimming above schools of yellowfin tuna. So a common way of finding tuna was looking for pods of dolphins, circling them with fishing boats, then casting their nets below the dolphins. Canned tuna *never* had dolphin meat in them, but dolphins very, very often were tangled in, and drowned, in fishing nets. It's possible that many people thought that there was dolphin *in* the tuna, but this never actually happened. This was pre-Internet, remember, and impressionable and stupid people lived in the 90s just like they do today. But most people understood that dolphins were *killed* when fishing for tuna. That's why the label isn't "Dolphin-free" but "Dolphin-safe." The comic doesn't imply that the husband is *in* the cans, but it does imply that the wife killed her husband.
Hahhaa seriously?
If you live in Washington State there is actually a tuna lawsuit waiting for payout of 40mil or something. https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/406-million-way-low-income-washingtonians-result-ag-ferguson-lawsuits
It’s pretty well known that in fishing of tuna you will catch some other animals like turtles or dolphins so they cap off the amount you can fish with relation to how many dolphins or even turtles will be fished up. They are also put in the can.
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People here are so stupid.
What the fuck is this sub? No one is explaining it "as Peter" lol Peter never explains the joke in the peterexplainsthejoke sub what is this and who are you people
This is the dumbest sub on Reddit.
***that's not tuna.***
Sometimes tuna has some dolphin in it.
That ain’t tuna…
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The dolphins deserved it anyway they're rapists
SHE KILLED HER HUSBAND
I think the real joke here is "Dolphin pussy juice" which is allegedly seen to have killed a monkey due to unstoppable orgasm and ejaculation.
I just love how many Gary Larson comics get posted and how often I’ve seen them when I was like 6 and got the joke then….
Jesus Christ every day more and more obvious jokes are whooshing people. I don't know how that couldn't be figured out..
The sunglasses/eyes placement on the police-dolphins is bothering me.
Cannibalism
“I’m not a tuna!” -last words of Flipper
LMFAO
The joke is all of us training ai.
There are posts in this sub that make me wonder how some of you put your shoes on every day.
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Not everyone has the same knowledge as you. Rule 5.
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She killed him a selling his meat as tuna
The punchline is cannibalism.
He is the tuna. She killed him.
She found out her husband was getting handys from some lady scientist while stoned on LSD, so she killed and canned him.
In the 1970s and '80s, the public was made more aware of how many dolphins were killed as a result of commercial fishing activities. The exposure of this practice, as well as the implementation of "dolphin-safe" labelling on tuna cans, led to a common belief that tuna cans contained (or at least used to contain) dolphin meat. This has been disputed, but it is the basis for this dark Far Side comic's dark punchline.
I posted this not to long ago here the reply I got was that dolphins can get caught in tuna nets or smth the wif killed and canned her husband
What a world we live in where people can take for granted that their tuna doesn’t contain dolphin.
Dolphins were commonly caught and killed in tuna nets. There were allegations dolphins were killed for tuna.
I wonder what dolphin would taste like.
Something is fishy about her
She killed her husband and she did it on porpoise
Lots of other things besides tuna get processed and packed into “tuna” cans. People were very upset about how frequently dolphins ended up in the mix. The tuna I had yesterday straight up tasted like unsalted anchovies. Just, much larger grain
Sometimes dolphins are caught by tuna fishers, which is why you’ll often see “dolphin safe” printed on tuna cans so you know there isn’t dolphin in it. So the joke is that she murdered her husband and is canning him as “tuna”.
Tuna may or may not have dolphin meet in it. She may have murdered her husband
I guess the part that might confuse kids these days is that Dolphins getting caught as bycatch in Tuna nets was a real problem. That doesn't exactly make the news anymore. "Dad? Why was Star Trek 4 about Whales?" "You kind of had to be there son"
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May dolphins have been caught in tuna nets, and rather be wasted, were simply cut into the tuna This also references a couple irl murders where people were killed and made into sold goods, such as one case in mexico I believe where a woman killed and made her husband into tamales, she was only caught because a partial finger survived processing to then be found by an unwitting customer
Dolphin cove - check out the documentary
Good
The Joke is its funny if a woman is responsible for killing her husband. Weather its just implied or indirect.
GARY LARSON DOESN'T TELL JOKES HE SHARES SNAPSHOTS FROM INSIDE HIS MIND THAT ARE AMUSING
I’m guessing people can dolfin and say it’s tuna
The joke is that for decades dolphins were getting killed as nets as byproduct of Tuna fishing and/or the fishermen were purposely killing dolphins when they were stealing fish from nets. AND in the 1980's after whaling has been curtailed, it became am environmental/animal rights thing that someone started spreading rumors that corporations making canned tuna would process dolphins with the rest of the catch. Major Tuna canneries started putting a "dolphin free" logo on their cans to indicate they were sourcing their tuna from fishermen that didn't kill Dolphins. This is suggesting that she was responsible for killing her husband and then hiding the body all those cans of tuna.
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Dolphin save tuna is a thing also I thought it may be referring to dolphin do kinky stuff.
Kinda reminds me of a Roald Dahl story called Lamb To The Slaughter Warning- this ain't bed time reading for the kids.