Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 05, 2009

OH Santa! What you said! Tsk tsk.

This reminds me of a Christmas Story. Constarn the flang flingin digastan prang floggin fliparitan mangastatatn flimigigans.

Now THAT is how you can swear in the forum without getting bleeeped…

Pops is channeling “Yosemite Sam”.

Hey, I know that language, and what he said…for shame!

Uh oh….pottymouthed Dad just made Santa’s naughty list!

Calvin’s about to get a lesson in classic Anglo Saxon linguistics. Otherwise known as, “Pardon my French!”

wonder what Calvin’s gettin this christmas.. Love Hobbes face in Panel 1

well, you who know what’s dady saying, could enlighten us, non native English speakers :) I thought it’s meaningless, so if you could explain me the pattern… I would be grateful! :)

Fine swear, Daddy, get well again soon!

Calvin’s gonna think Santa’s a pottymouth and wonder why he’s been trying so hard to be good since Santa ain’t so good. He’ll think Santa’s a hypocrite.

cleokaya says:

This reminds me of a Christmas Story. Constarn the flang flingin digastan prang floggin fliparitan mangastatatn flimigigans.

Cleokaya, is that Finnish or Norwegian? :=/

hogar, we could explain it to you, but first you have to drop an 80 pound box on your toe to be in the right mood to understand, lol

Hogar: You can’t print swear words. Author is just using other goofy words to symbolize swearing. Much like using “@#&**!!”

If that would have been my husband, everybody on our block would have heard him.

Of course I’m awake. Silly Calvin.

Imagine the dissapointment of thousands (millions?) of kids when they opened the newspaper the day this strip first ran; when they turned to the comics section to read their favorite ‘toon; and when they discovered that Santa was really Calvin’s dad …

Kids who read on their own already know about Santa. Kids who still believe in Santa think that mommy and daddy are just his helpers. I would draw the obvious parallel with religious faith and science, but that would probably start something. (evil grin)

Let the kids enjoy being kids…grow up and got the silly but beautiful memories to think of.

What, you mean there is no Santa? Of course there is! Where do all my presents come from?

@Roger (with the evil grin on face), yeah let’s not go there again!

calvin might think aleins are coming

slippin rippin dang fang rotten zarg barg-a-ding dong!!!!!!!!!!!!1

JonD17. You are indeed a linguist, as I am both Finnish and Norwegian.

Clumsy ol’ dad…ding-a-ding-dong

ROFL LOL !!!

Drystyha, since about 1972 my presents have generally arrived by USPS or one of the parcel services. Maybe that’s just ‘cause I haven’t had a chimney anywhere I’ve lived, but I always suspected it had more to do with my parents not living in the same state.

As if Calvin’s extensive vocabulary wasn’t enough…here’s a few more!

hehe I told my kids Santa is a myth…when they figure out what a myth is, we’ll go from there.

Actually, I think Dad is cursing in mock-Swedish (ala muppet chef)

A Christmas Story, what a great movie! **Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

I was SOOO busy watching my favorite cartoon “Beanie & Cecil” That I didn’t even hear my Dad Thumping & Banging up the stairs with my Swhinn

I agree with you wholeheartedly, LittleBlackWidow. That IS a great movie! Christmas just would’t be Christmas without it (along with “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, too)! Even though it’s February and ten months away yet from Christmas 2009, you make me want to go pop this movie into the dvd player and watch it again right now!!!!!

Hey Daddy, bite your tongue instead of swearing out of your mouth.

I love Hobbes face in panel 1! Nice goin “dad” nice clothes “mom” Calvin, who isnt awake at 11:00 at night anymore, especially on Christmas Eve? =]

so funny. love it. calvin looks terrified as i dont know what. lol

*FUDGE. Only I didn’t say “Fudge.” I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the “F-dash-dash-dash” word!

This is so sweet and reminds me somuch of childhhod christmas eves!!! Love you both so much!!! xx

I only wish this was run a couple months ago….

@Truechristian

Go away, we don’t want propaganda on a comic strip. I bet even some conservatives would agree with me.

@cleokaya: Do you have any idea how many Finnish people you just swore at?

@truechristian: jesus didn’t come to wipe sinners off the face of the earth, he came to die & come back. thinking like you’re at war with islamic people makes you one of them.

…please let the debates be over…

Zarg?

I hope this isn’t encouraging Santa not being real… GASP!

And @ TrueCristian.. STOP.

Had to help a mate play Santa and put together a trampoline. His next door neighbour thanked him the next day for 4 hours of entertainment listening to us curse and carry on. The instructions were in Chinese and we may have had a couple of beers. To true Cristian- where do you get that stuff your smoking?

Can we ban people from here altogether, like TRUECHRISTIAN?

mark, I bought a 4x5 camera, which is the kind of camera where you put a hood over your head to block out light. All the directions were written in English by a Chinese individual who thought he could speak English. It was hilarious! Absolutely nothing made sense. The directions were in English alright, but words were put together that had no rhyme or reason.

TRUECRISTIAN, you are forgetting to follow the words of your avatar. Also, I’m wondering if you are posting as a hoax.

DrystyhaPro says: Can we ban people from here altogether, like TRUECHRISTIAN?

…. a true Christian.

Cleokaya LOL. In Australia we buy a lot of goods from China and we get a lot of translations like those. We have a name for these translations- Chinglish.

alife says:

I was SOOO busy watching my favorite cartoon “Beanie & Cecil” That I didn’t even hear my Dad Thumping & Banging up the stairs with my Swhinn

alife, WOW, I was starting to think I would NEVER find another fan of Beanie and Cecil. You made my day!

cleokaya says:

JonD17. You are indeed a linguist, as I am both Finnish and Norwegian.

Cleokaya, Thank you for the compliment. It is somewhat deserved, but I grew up in northern Wisconsin and both languages are second nature.

Ah yes JonD17. For me it was North Dakota. I miss…Yah, you betcha!!! And you are indeed well versed in languages, and I am well versed in mutilating them.

JonD17. I checked out your website. Very nice idea, very much needed. Beanie and Cecil rule. Remember Hector Heathcoate?

hahahhah :)) Thanks @Wenthral

I read what @cleokaya wrote afterwards, so I thought it’s kind of a slang :))

We have a slang where syllables are rotated, so “Calvin” would be “Vincal”. I even searched for the pattern, but everything was stubbornly meaningless :)) I feel so stupid now! :)

beep beep beeeeeeeep

whats in that box

Waiting for Santa

Waiting for Santa

…Sounds like my dad.

See also Yosemite Sam in the toon where he inherits a bazillion dollars if he can keep his temper. Of course, he falls off a balcony down a 500 foot + cliff, and all the way down, it’s “Brackin’ Frackin’…. mutter mutter.”

Further consider that “Snow” is a four-letter word which begins with “S”. It’s not a swear word, but it certainly is a curse.

Hogar all you need is a 30 pound skid of the dimensions 48"X48" and a sneakered foot with someone rushing you around a pallet plant and you will certainly know what Calvin’s Dad was saying. Voice of experiance here.

shh! He’s saying something