Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 18, 2013

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    ratlum  about 11 years ago

    Yes of course.

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    Downundergirl  about 11 years ago

    Just relate to them the distinctions between matter and form, and substance and accident, or the primacy of individuals over universals…. as Aristotle, did while teaching philosophy while walking in the Lyceum

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    rentier  about 11 years ago

    An appropriate retort would be good!!

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    margueritem  about 11 years ago

    Nah, just roll with it.

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    MiepR  about 11 years ago

    I might be charmed. It would depend.

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    watmiwori  about 11 years ago

    Something snappy, along the lines of, “Ah, your mother wesrsarmy boots” should fit the bill nicely.

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    wrahool  about 11 years ago

    Rhyme? Shouldn’t be alliteration?

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    orinoco womble  about 11 years ago

    I once heard an eight-year-old boy call his younger sister “You paralytic mollusc!”because he knew she didn’t know what the words meant. She ran off crying to mama that he’d sworn at her.

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    unclebewey  about 11 years ago

    Calvin, may I suggest the following snappy retorts. (Credit The Manly Handbook) Oh yea. Who wants to know? Says you. You and what Army?

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    ziphobia  about 11 years ago

    I think no matter how good an insult is I would consider it wasted if the person at the other end did not understand it. After all our satisfaction of their reaction is the ultimate goal

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    Phapada  about 11 years ago

    if some day my english is better soon….

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    cdward  about 11 years ago

    The best iIcould come up with on the spot is: “As opposed to you who are solo, so low, & so slow.”

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    Aaron Saltzer  about 11 years ago

    That was random. Calvin seems like a grump today. Sheesh.

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    jreckard  about 11 years ago

    A pair of nudist parachutists.A pair of little paradiddles.

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    alan.gurka  about 11 years ago

    My old standby: “Up your nose with a rubber hose!”

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    sbchamp  about 11 years ago

    Whaddaya pay Hobbes for?

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    Puddleglum2  about 11 years ago

    Calvin sounds more like a restless, roaming radical rascal!

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    QuiteDragon  about 11 years ago

    You guys (non-gender specific version ;^) are missing the more appropriate, second, definition of an “Aristotelian philosopher”.

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    Poollady  about 11 years ago

    Just report the retort

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 11 years ago

    If someone were to use that insult, then Calvin could respond, “No, we’re a couple of slobs named Calvin and Hobbes.”Wait……….No, I guess that doesn’t work very well……

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    moronbis  about 11 years ago

    Why did Calvin even think of the insult in the first place?

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    moronbis  about 11 years ago

    “Thou, vicious vagabond, we are on the same road”

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    QuiteDragon  about 11 years ago

    I might add, the insult seems to break the fourth wall, as well.

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    mistercatworks  about 11 years ago

    A good response would be: “And you’re a solo, solipsistic cynic.”

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    paulscon  about 11 years ago

    peripatetic – definition of peripatetic by the Free Online Dictionary …www.thefreedictionary.com/peripatetic‎per·i·pa·tet·ic (p r -p -t t k). adj. 1. Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot. 2. Peripatetic Of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of …how do you retort that. anyway, it’s alliteration, not rhyme

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    bcathey1960  about 11 years ago

    It’s defined in Meriam Webster (online) as a person who follows the teachings of Aristotle. I do enjoy learning new words through the comics.

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    OldTimer62  about 11 years ago

    I learned in Anthropology long ago that boys in Turkey typically used rhyming insults —although it was more common to make a rhyme with an insult directed at you (along the lines of “You’re a loser!” “Oh yeah? Your father’s a boozer!”).

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    stamps  about 11 years ago

    Just ignore the nattering nabobs of negativism.

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    Piksea Premium Member about 11 years ago

    I, too, am a contingency planner. You can never be too prepared for what may come.

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    ChessPirate  about 11 years ago

    “I’m bettin’ I’m talkin’ to a cretin!”

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    phoenixnyc  about 11 years ago

    “Alliteration is the last refuge of the feebleminded.”

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    Number Three  about 11 years ago

    Love Calvin’s angry expression in the 3rd panel.

    xxx

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    SemperFiMarine  about 11 years ago

    Ready retort? Really? Readily renounce radical ripostes and rejoinders. Reflexively and rapidly.

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    JP Steve Premium Member about 11 years ago

    Actually pathETIC peripatETICS works better as a rhyme than an alliteration. PATHetic PATHfinders would be alliteration.

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    stuart  about 11 years ago

    I once told a bully in high school that his “synapses seem insufficiently setose”. Fortunately, he had no more idea what that meant than Moe. (And I could run faster than Calvin.)

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    derp0potato  about 11 years ago

    Like you.

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    codeplay  about 11 years ago

    Whoa Calvin! I actually had to look up peripatetics

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    lizilu  about 11 years ago

    Pari-pa-tet-ic (capitalized) n. a follower of Aristotle. Quite a vocabulary Calvin has. Surely he’ll try to work it into his crossword puzzle tomorrow.

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