Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 16, 2014

“Do the same thing previous generations did — enjoy Bugs Bunny.”

You don’t have to go back very many generations before you find that you have more ancestors than the number of people who’ve ever lived. And they all come down to you.

Things will look different on Monday, Calvin.

Calvin doesn’t sound like a five or six year old kid to me.

I miss those days

Late??Watterson is alive and well… and only 56.

He “retired” from doing “Calvin and Hobbes” at the ripe old age of 37.

Yep, for thousands of generations, your ancestors have been fruitful and multiplied solely to produce YOU. Either that or they just liked to be fruitful and multiply.

Calvin is mistaken. The purpose of human history was to create Warner Brothers cartoons. Once that was accomplished, all that is left is spreading them as widely as possible.

Today’s Calvin and Hobbes strip is from 1989. It may have been inspired by this Peanuts strip from 1985:Click here: Peanuts (March 15, 1985)And here are a couple of Peanuts strips from further back in history:Click here: Peanuts (September 18, 1956)Click here: Peanuts (November 28, 1959)

“Unalterable Tide” But can’t add 11 and 7…lol

Calvin’s a fatalist.

I imagine Hitler was thinking just like Calvin when he was growing….

Hmm. You know, I don’t think we’ve ever seen any younger kids than Calvin in this strip.

Yeah, with flawed logic. He assumes that history ENDS with him, blithely oblivious to the fact that millions have been born after him.

That child is so conceded.

“Thanks, the Late lamented Mr. Watterson”.Unless something happened in the last 24 hours, he is still alive (mid 50’s I believe) and unfortunately NOT doing C&H anymore…“Sigh…”

Actually, I can think of many worse uses of his — or anyone’s — time than watching Bugs Bunny cartoons.

Four and a half billion years ago, we spent a billion years being single celled organisms. Then we progressed to metazoans. To reproduce, we still go back to being single celled creatures. Calvin’s claim to fame is quite justified, as is his love of Bugs Bunny, but he’s just another metazoan.

Athiestic

luv Hobbes

On a whim, i checked the Sat. morn. listings for ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX/CW between 6am-9am, and NONE of them has any cartoons on..Back in the ’60’s Dad and i made it a point to get up at 6:30, Dad would whip up an artery-clogging breakfast of pancakes, scrambled eggs and sausage, and we’d settle down in front of the ‘54 Sylvaniia 21in tv with our breakfast on tv trays and watch the Roadrunner Show @7.I remember one time Dad commenting. “Wile E. has a SERIOUS credit line with the Acme Supply Co..”Guess the mainstream networks figure the Cartoon Network is covering that aspect of programming, so that they don’t have to.. Kids of today are missing out on some precious bonding moments.

That’s what truly matters.. (-:

Beautiful example of typical solipsistic thinking.

Strict fathers are not always a recipe for a bad behavior in the future, as having good parents is never a guarantee of growing up being a good person, you should know that Mr. Research.