Cow Tools
Cow Tools
Logan Wood
Anthony Walker
fuck yeah
Zachary Jenkins
Cows with guns
Cooper Perez
"please no meat touching, ma'am"
Bentley Ross
I never got this one
Liam Kelly
There's nothing to get, really.
Gary Larson attended a lecture about animals and tool usage and thought it'd be funny if cows could use tools of their own.
It's like an inside joke that only makes sense to Larson alone.
Hudson Baker
It's one of those things like the Mona Lisa's smile. It's a secret only the artist can know, but everyone desperatly wants to understand.
Cooper Young
Taking over
David Richardson
And he STILL gets questions about it to this day.
Adrian Jones
They were also all supposed to be very alien to us, but he made one too close to a saw.
Asher Edwards
it has been at least 5 years since I first saw this
and I still don't fucking get it
Hunter Price
Larson thought to himself, "What if cows had tools? Wouldn't that be silly! They'd probably be stupid and useless, because cows made them!" So then he drew a picture of a cow with some tools, and went, "Look, it's like human tools, except for cows! haha! Cows don't need tools!" That's the joke.
Brandon Brown
One comic that ruined a man's life. Poor bastard.
John Morris
It's a cow, because he likes cows. He said he always found them to be "fascinating" creatures.
They're supposed to be caveman(cow) tools. He said one of his mistake was making the saw look too much like a saw. was a wake up call that published work aren't little doodles you make for yourself.
Joshua Jones
Delete this comic, please.
>t. Larson
Juan Reed
Crazy how one identifiable tool makes people search for meaning in the randos. It's like a machine learning algorithm gone awry.
Joseph Perez
I think the joke is that a species of intelligent sapient cows would obviously use tools much different to humans, but they would still need some sort of cutting tool to be able to create things. Among the tools shown there is nothing there that could cut except the saw looking thing so the punchline is that saws/cutting tools will always be useful and included in the repertoire of any highly intelligent anthropomorphic species' toolset.
Jace Kelly
Easy does it
Liam Long
I don’t think he was even really that miffed by the response. The only time he mentioned being genuinely bothered by something after publication was when a reader notified him that he drew bananas growing upside down.
Carter Hernandez
What do you think they're for? There's obviously two varieties of udder cover, but how about the other? A backscratcher perhaps?
Ryan Lopez
Every once in a while, I get the opportunity to post this.
Adrian Kelly
>The first mistake I made was in thinking this was funny.
kek
Caleb Garcia
There's something so fascinating about Cow Tools.
Instead of being dismissed as just a bad comic strip, it was just absurd and ambiguous enough that it actually captured people's curiosity and imagination.
It's like that meme about Garfield's pipe strip, except completely unironic.
Jonathan Gomez
Jeremiah Roberts
Also when he thought he had offended Jane Goodale.
Evan Morales
Drinking out
Owen Sanchez
Does the strip NOT imply she fucked a chimp?
Nathan Morris
No, it doesn't. It's the bitch chimp wife accusing her husband of cheating on her with Goodall; a patently ludicrous and nonsensical claim. That's the fucking joke.
Joshua Brown
Someone is storytiming It Hurts on a Yea Forums lol thread and he's already over page 100. The reactions are exactly as you can imagine
Asher Garcia
The cow is wondering how to use the tools brianlets
Isaiah Anderson
Good on them
Jeremiah Perez
>when you discover the Thagomizer was adopted as the actual term for the Stegs tail because paleontologist are autistic
how can one man be so based
Aiden Hall
Sneed Tools