Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 08, 2010

I’m with you, Hobbes.

I love Hobbes’ reaction in the third panel. LOL!! XD The aside has returned in comics.

Good one Calvin!

Gm Marg and all, Calvins got a future, me thinks he found his place. Love Hobbes look in panel 3

Clever stuff…I *do* like the expressions.

I’d say don’t quit your day job, but you don’t have one yet, Calvin. You better stay in school and get your education. You’ll need it.

I love Hobbes look in panel 3 too!

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

Well I thought it was funny.

Please, can you help a German Calvin-and-Hobbes-Fan? I know, what a cantaloupe is, I know Lassie, I know melon and collie, but is there any special about melon-collie?

Calvin probably couldn’t be the life of the party at a funeral home with material like that.

Tineli

Cantaloupe is a type of melon. Lassie is a Collie (dog breed) Crossed they are melon - collie (melancholy) Melancholy Baby is a famous song originally published in 1912.

Melancholy is a deep long-lived sadness.

Sort of like the joke (pun) in today’s strip …

W.C. Fields once used a version of that joke.

Well, Calvin is the life of this strip.

…and I always liked that joke ;-)

i’m getting melancholy thinking about what other bad jokes Calvin may subject us to

Not with that joke, he won’t.

Didn’t the Smashing Pumpkins have an album whose title included Melon and Collie?

Wiseguy411 thank you for declaring the melon-collie, I couldn’t it understand so well!

Calvin and Hobbes are both the life of the strip!

Where is Puddleglum? This is right up is alley.

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

I’m convinced that I can take fermented apples and mashed chickpeas and come up with something really great!

Does this make me a hummus cider maniac?

Well, Calvin’s lame joke did have one redeeming quality: It was about animals and food – the two most important things in life, in the opinion of us tigers.

Speaking of lame jokes about animals and food, what do you get if you cross a cornfield with a chipmunk?

Hobbes, my guess is “corn chips.” Don’t tell me you’re going down that same path as Calvin. I thought you had better tastes than that. I guess as long as that taste doesn’t include humans you’re all right.

I thought it was a pretty good one for Calvin at least.

G’Morning, Grog, Marg & Mike!

<< algurka said: Hobbes, my guess is “corn chips.” >>>

Hmmm…… Not too bad as a first guess; but a bit obvious as a punchline, and somewhat lacking in deeper philosophical meaning……

Tineli and LX013 - I understand your dilemma. I know enough German to get myself into trouble. But when I hear jokes in German, I rarely get them. Humor doesn’t translate well from one language to another, especially when it involves puns. One has to be be well versed not only in the language, but the culture and history of the country to really understand these things.

If he comes to the party with that scowl on his face, I don’t think he’ll put much life in the party.

Exactly Yukoner………………………(yawn).

Speaking of lame jokes about animals and food, what do you get if you cross a cornfield with a chipmunk?

Hobbes, I’m scraping bottom now: An a-maized rodent? An a-maizing animal, second only to tigers?

Bah-DOOM-bomp!!

Yukoner, Yes, it’s right up my alley; it ‘bowls me over’. Apparently, Hobbes and rogue53 are of the same stripe where puns are concerned. They go ‘hither and yon’, but I won’t get melancholy about it.

Calvin is funny ( see panel 3) Hobbes is funny too (see panel 3)

Hobbes GOT the joke, Calvin – he just didn’t WANT it.

Mike Firesmith, Your pun ‘kills’ me, and also reminds me of something Mae West said, “When I am good, I am very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.”

Come on Hobbes, don’t leave us hangin’! No fair for us slower folk.

Lame though it is to us adults, Calvin’s joke will probably kill in first grade with his classmates!

:-)

I don’t know. Would another kid in Calvin’s age group know the word melancholy or that “Melancholy Baby is a famous song originally published in 1912”? :-)

I did chuckle though. ;-)

See? This is my problem–I have loads of jokes that other people refuse to laugh at.

I like Hobbes optimism in panel 1.

Don’t worry, Calvin! I laughed my a@@ off at your joke! Hobbes expression in the 3rd panel though, is priceless!

Hey thats not bad young fella.

I cannot keep the jokes, sometimes I know many, but I forget them very quickly!!

I plan on using that joke!

If Hobbes is Calvin’s imaginary playmate, why doesn’t he laugh at Calvin’s jokes?

@Dry laughed your aaa off? (Or do you mean your @$$??)

A Calvin joke:

What’s the last thing to go through a bug’s brain when it hits your windshield?

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His butt!

A melon collie baby LOLOLOLOL

Hobbes doesn’t get Calvin’s jokes because Hobbes is a manifestation of Calvin’s unconscious. And that works both ways…

ENFPs (Calvin) and INFJs (Hobbes) have fundamentally different senses of humor. They have common ground, but they’re of different polarities (as it were). “Hobbes gets it, he just doesn’t want it” is the perfect description of the dynamic. And Calvin reacts the same way to “tiger aphorisms” (see a strip during these past few weeks).

So, Hobbes… you’ll appreciate this one… What do you get when you cross a TIGER with a Mina bird?

Lemme guess - the chipmunk is named “alvin” . . ?

The bird is a “Mynah” … or a gesture, of course …

Ha Ha! I liked it. We can never have enough humor in our lives.

Sounds like one of those jokes they used to have on the Dixie Cups for kids.

Thanks for explaining the pun! Read it loud and you get it!

I like Terry Pratchett, and there is a very giftet translator, who translates these books into German. And he really gets the puns in the book, I admire people, who can do that.

rshive, Smashing Pumpkins had an album titled Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.