One day, when I was about six, the neighborhood bully tried to beat me up and I pushed him into a mud puddle. About 20 minutes later his father came over to talk to my father. Fortunately, all the did was talk. More fortunately, the bully never tried to beat me up anymore. Calvin is on the right track; he just needs a little more beef on his bones. He also needs to throw the first punch.
I had a bigger kid pull a chair out from under me one day in the lunchroom while saying, ” I need that.” I remember hitting the floor and the lunch table on the way down pretty hard. I’m not sure if I passed out for a minute or not but I remember seeing stars and just sitting there in shock from the whole incident. It took a minute or two before I started to cry and feel the pain as I saw the principal litterly drag the kid out of the lunchroom.
Happy holidays to everyone!
I’m sorry you had to remember something like that on Christmas Dino. I remember having bullies pick on me in the third grade and they’d chase me home from school to beat me up. It started because I had a big mouth but eventually I just left them alone and didn’t say anything to them anymore but they kept beating me up. Finally my parents had to get involved. And I learned to run home real fast. That came in handy later on when I was running home from school to watch my favourite show of all time.
Having trouble finding the answer online - Can anyone tell me if Calvin’s middle name or last name was ever revealed or known??? Thanks-
Neither was ever revealed, nor were the first names of Calvin’s parents. Bill Watterson simply never bothered with such details, since he considered them irrelevant.
I guess back then there where no rules about bullies.
When I was in Jr. High, this is ages ago but I never forgot, a black girl jabbed my right arm with a pencil that hurt the teacher sent us both to the principle and the girl lied saying I called her names. The principle didn’t know who was tellin the truth I told him she poked me with a pencil and I had proff he threathen to suspend us. years later last day of school 12th grade the same black girl came to me at my locker and tried to get me to fight her I would not she inturn made mince meat out of my right arm I reported this to the a teacher, then principle, then police and the girl got kicked out of school I was in tears and it took over two weeks for my arm to heal. All the kids turned against me for turning her in. I told them she hurt me didn’t make any difference. I’m white.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
I Timothy 1:15
The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
John 1:29
Have a ‘swinging’ Christmas! That’s all there is; there isn’t any ‘Moe’!
Maybe not, ratlum. Bill W. wrote (in one of his book collections) that he thought bullies like Moe spawned on locker room floors. :)
Susan001: Calvin “Spaceman” Spiff? OK, I’ll go with that. (LOL)
BONUS QUESTION: What was the name of the “stupid” cat who lived next door to Snoopy (in Peanuts)? Yes, he did have a name, but you had to be reading the strip at exactly the right time to spot it…Charlie Brown gave it.
OK. His name was “World War II”. See, Snoopy and Peppermint Patty had gotten into a fight with the cat the day before (in the strip). Charlie Brown saw it and exclaimed (for the reader) that “Snoopy and Peppermint Patty are fighting World War II, the cat who lives next door!”
Next frame:
Charlie Brown - “It’s over! It’s over!”
Next frame (our heros are badly mauled):
Peppermint Patty: “Did we win or lose?”
Snoopy: “Yes!”
A bully tried to take my lunch money. I didn’t have any, but I figured he was broke & hungry, so I gave him my sandwich. He’s been friendly for more than 40 years, but is now a local derelict.
Thank you Legaleagle48 and Johanan, that’s what I thought (and later read in various articles).
The gift my wife and I gave each other this year was opening up a box with the results of what sex our baby is (expecting in May, it’s our first child). We’re having a boy and we love the name Calvin - not after Calvin & Hobbes directly, but I admit I have a genuine adoration for the comic strip and saw a lot of myself as a boy in Calvin’s character and always thought if I had a son, he’d be like Calvin!
So being careful not to make such a direct link, we wanted to make sure we didn’t give him a middle name that was by coincidence the same as the cartoon strip because then it would just be creepy!
I realized that the bully was putting himself in front of me coming at him feet first with a little momentum behind me, so it wasn’t until I got off the swing on my own later that I ended up like Calvin.
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Moe is Calvin’s Achille’s heel.
Flintstoned almost 15 years ago
Calvin needs to carry a big stick.
Rakkav almost 15 years ago
What you need, Calvin, is a BIG nice person on your side. Hobbes would do very nicely.
sjoujke almost 15 years ago
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
Ya, where’s Hobbes when you need him?
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Happy Christmas to you, sjoujke!
margueritem almost 15 years ago
LX013, congratulations on the new little one, and a very merry Christmas to you!
Fröhliche WeihnachtenYukoner almost 15 years ago
May all of you find a blessing this Christmas.
pouncingtiger almost 15 years ago
Which is worse; getting beat up by Moe or pummelled by Hobbes?
ronaldmundy almost 15 years ago
better plan….don’t be a swinger……..and where’s the snow?
Downeasta almost 15 years ago
At least Calvin stands up to his fears.
ronaldmundy almost 15 years ago
no, he’s standing up to his peers.
COWBOY7 almost 15 years ago
Dang it Calvin, you need to learn!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
jrbj almost 15 years ago
One day, when I was about six, the neighborhood bully tried to beat me up and I pushed him into a mud puddle. About 20 minutes later his father came over to talk to my father. Fortunately, all the did was talk. More fortunately, the bully never tried to beat me up anymore. Calvin is on the right track; he just needs a little more beef on his bones. He also needs to throw the first punch.
GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Moe’s such a shmoe.
Dino-1 almost 15 years ago
I had a bigger kid pull a chair out from under me one day in the lunchroom while saying, ” I need that.” I remember hitting the floor and the lunch table on the way down pretty hard. I’m not sure if I passed out for a minute or not but I remember seeing stars and just sitting there in shock from the whole incident. It took a minute or two before I started to cry and feel the pain as I saw the principal litterly drag the kid out of the lunchroom. Happy holidays to everyone!
imalegioner almost 15 years ago
those moe actually mean “mow” over calvin???
mjlew01 almost 15 years ago
Bully’s aren’t the tough ones. It’s the quiet ones that have the real steel in them. Calvin gives him a poke in the snout and things would change.
GregandHeather almost 15 years ago
Having trouble finding the answer online - Can anyone tell me if Calvin’s middle name or last name was ever revealed or known??? Thanks-
Miss.Fit almost 15 years ago
Merry Christmas…!!! :)
jpozenel almost 15 years ago
That’s the Christmas spirit Moe!
GRINCH
alondra almost 15 years ago
I’m sorry you had to remember something like that on Christmas Dino. I remember having bullies pick on me in the third grade and they’d chase me home from school to beat me up. It started because I had a big mouth but eventually I just left them alone and didn’t say anything to them anymore but they kept beating me up. Finally my parents had to get involved. And I learned to run home real fast. That came in handy later on when I was running home from school to watch my favourite show of all time.
Merry Christmas everyone!
legaleagle48 almost 15 years ago
GregandHeather said, about 2 hours ago
Having trouble finding the answer online - Can anyone tell me if Calvin’s middle name or last name was ever revealed or known??? Thanks-
Neither was ever revealed, nor were the first names of Calvin’s parents. Bill Watterson simply never bothered with such details, since he considered them irrelevant.
kab2rb almost 15 years ago
I guess back then there where no rules about bullies. When I was in Jr. High, this is ages ago but I never forgot, a black girl jabbed my right arm with a pencil that hurt the teacher sent us both to the principle and the girl lied saying I called her names. The principle didn’t know who was tellin the truth I told him she poked me with a pencil and I had proff he threathen to suspend us. years later last day of school 12th grade the same black girl came to me at my locker and tried to get me to fight her I would not she inturn made mince meat out of my right arm I reported this to the a teacher, then principle, then police and the girl got kicked out of school I was in tears and it took over two weeks for my arm to heal. All the kids turned against me for turning her in. I told them she hurt me didn’t make any difference. I’m white.
kab2rb almost 15 years ago
Merry Christ mas to all. It is very bitter cold here.
bluegreenthing almost 15 years ago
Merry Christmas! Have a bluegreen Christmas!
kobidobi almost 15 years ago
“I saw the principal litterly drag the kid out of the lunchroom.” Great! I love it!
Spyderred almost 15 years ago
Denial of justice generally is much worse than the original injury. When justice is done, the aggrieved person can bear the injury more easily.
May 2010 be a year filled with joy, and may each of us receive mercy and kindness, as well as give them.
rentier almost 15 years ago
merrymarg: Thank you for your extrawishes to me, I haven’t written today! I visited the little one today, it is very, very hungry!
Rakkav almost 15 years ago
We don’t even know Calvin’s last name, let alone his middle name.
Calvin “Tiger Bait” Jones. Maybe. ;)
Puddleglum2 almost 15 years ago
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. I Timothy 1:15 The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. John 1:29
Have a ‘swinging’ Christmas! That’s all there is; there isn’t any ‘Moe’!
ratlum almost 15 years ago
The school bully must grow up get married raise some more little bully,s because every generation seems to have the little worms
Rakkav almost 15 years ago
Maybe not, ratlum. Bill W. wrote (in one of his book collections) that he thought bullies like Moe spawned on locker room floors. :)
Susan001: Calvin “Spaceman” Spiff? OK, I’ll go with that. (LOL)
BONUS QUESTION: What was the name of the “stupid” cat who lived next door to Snoopy (in Peanuts)? Yes, he did have a name, but you had to be reading the strip at exactly the right time to spot it…Charlie Brown gave it.
GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I remember the cat. It had sharp claws that constantly took large chunks out of Snoopy’s house, but I don’t remember its name. Maybe it was Moe.
Rakkav almost 15 years ago
Moe! (LOL) Good guess, but not quite…
OK. His name was “World War II”. See, Snoopy and Peppermint Patty had gotten into a fight with the cat the day before (in the strip). Charlie Brown saw it and exclaimed (for the reader) that “Snoopy and Peppermint Patty are fighting World War II, the cat who lives next door!”
Next frame: Charlie Brown - “It’s over! It’s over!”
Next frame (our heros are badly mauled): Peppermint Patty: “Did we win or lose?” Snoopy: “Yes!”
Wildmustang1262 almost 15 years ago
kab2rb, I can feel your pain. The races doesn’t mean anything to me but I do care that we all are human being. She was wrong and you were right.
Dino-1, your whole incident could be terribly pain. “I saw the principal litterly drag the kid out of the lunchroom.” That is perfect words! LOLs!
kobidobi said, about 2 hours ago “I saw the principal litterly drag the kid out of the lunchroom.” Great! I love it!
Yeaahh, I do, too! LOLs!
Merry Christmas, ya’ll!
ChukLitl Premium Member almost 15 years ago
A bully tried to take my lunch money. I didn’t have any, but I figured he was broke & hungry, so I gave him my sandwich. He’s been friendly for more than 40 years, but is now a local derelict.
eqo almost 15 years ago
to add to the comment 15 hours ago… “speak softly and carry a big stick”
Ivy0730Lcsq almost 15 years ago
Merry Christmas!圣诞快乐！Frohe Weihnachten!
unemandarine almost 15 years ago
Merry Christmas!
GregandHeather almost 15 years ago
Thank you Legaleagle48 and Johanan, that’s what I thought (and later read in various articles).
The gift my wife and I gave each other this year was opening up a box with the results of what sex our baby is (expecting in May, it’s our first child). We’re having a boy and we love the name Calvin - not after Calvin & Hobbes directly, but I admit I have a genuine adoration for the comic strip and saw a lot of myself as a boy in Calvin’s character and always thought if I had a son, he’d be like Calvin!
So being careful not to make such a direct link, we wanted to make sure we didn’t give him a middle name that was by coincidence the same as the cartoon strip because then it would just be creepy!
Good to know, we’re free to pick a middle name!
Thanks for the responses, Happy New Year- G
bobpeters61 almost 15 years ago
I remember that one from Calvin’s point of view.
I realized that the bully was putting himself in front of me coming at him feet first with a little momentum behind me, so it wasn’t until I got off the swing on my own later that I ended up like Calvin.
But at least I got in a good one of my own first.
GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Johanan Rakkav Thanks for that tidbit. It would have taken me forever to research that @ comics.com
alondra almost 15 years ago
Congratulations Greg and Heather on your new son. Calvin is a good name whether based on this strip or not.
dinosaur123 almost 15 years ago
Greg and Heather,
Creepy or not….
Calvin BILL (Watterson) has a nice ring to it.
And a great story to tell when your son asked how you chose his name!
Captain_Commando almost 15 years ago
Calvin should learn Martial Arts or something
jbmetalmonster almost 15 years ago
calvin, i think your screwed u may as well just do what he says and you’ll liv a while longer
wowzo almost 13 years ago
Yeah Calvin is little but I’m not so sure about nice