It's absurdist comedy, the joke is cows don't have opposable thumbs so can't use tools, let alone make them. There are other opposable thumb jokes in the world too, it's almost a subgenre of "animals struggling with human things."

I tell you farside has way more leeway to do this sort of comedy, because it's such a short strip so you haven't invested much attention span given the relatively high rate of pay offs per comic.

Personally if a comic has a certain amount of text to read I often won't gamble on it, I'll skip it. The attention economy predates the Internet if you ask me.

Basically no one did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

Wouldn't that be the one where a dog was dreaming about howling atop an overturned car (having caught it) and a bunch of newspapers pulled it because they thought the dog was having sex with the car?

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