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Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 12, 2015
Transcript:
Calvin: "How come grown-ups don't go out to play?" Dad: "Grown-ups can only justify playing outside by calling it exercise, doing it when they'd rather not, and keeping records to quantify their performance" Calvin: "That sounds like a job" Dad: "-Except you don't get paid" Calvin: "So play is worse than work?" Dad: "Being a grown-up is tough"
BE THIS GUY almost 10 years ago
Go out and throw the ball around with the kid.
rentier almost 10 years ago
Itâs only to bear when you keep a little edge of childhood in your inside!!
Linux0s almost 10 years ago
Good thing it âbuilds characterâ.
rajasetlur almost 10 years ago
Do I sense a tongue-in-cheek somewhere?
orinoco womble almost 10 years ago
Cue up âCatâs in the Cradleâ.
tripwire45 almost 10 years ago
Calvinâs Dad is such a buzzkill.
tripwire45 almost 10 years ago
Calvinâs Dad is such a buzzkill.
tirnaaisling almost 10 years ago
Dadâs telling the truth for once, but from Calvinâs point of view this is probably less believable than the usual rubbish he tells him.
Hobbes Premium Member almost 10 years ago
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Well, Calvinâs dad gives him somewhat different answers on different days. Hereâs one where adulthood doesnât sound so bad:Calvin and Hobbes (September 11, 1993)Peanuts (August 6, 1972)Mutts (August 12, 2011)Hobbes Premium Member almost 10 years ago
In todayâs strip, Calvinâs Dad is practicing the lost art of writing on a pad of paper using a pen or pencil.He is a lawyer, but the shape of the pad looks like letter-size paper, not legal size. Perhaps he is practicing the lost art of writing a letter.Maybe he is using the lost art of cursive handwriting.Fortunately, Bill Wattersonâs art has not been lost, and it is still available for us to enjoy each day â even if we no longer practice the lost art of reading a newspaper.
jrankin1959 almost 10 years ago
Of course, thereâs the other side of the coin, as evidenced by Gahan Wilsonâs âNutsâ comic strips.
orinoco womble almost 10 years ago
@ Hobbes, the Peanuts website used to have free ecards to send to people. The âSecurityâ strip was one of them, and had beautiful music with it. Thanks for bringing back the memory. (I wish theyâd bring back the card.)
vwdualnomand almost 10 years ago
grown-ups do go to play. see spring break, or vegas. they also like to see other grown-ups in the nude. and, they also like naked wrestling and naked hugging.
Prey almost 10 years ago
I´ve managed to preserve a small, adult part of me to keep my job, the rest ⌠wheeeeeee.
Hobbes Premium Member almost 10 years ago
@LX013: I still own a pencil sharpener.
dflak almost 10 years ago
And that is why I have grandchildren. I have the perfect excuse to act like a 7-year-old.
Or as the saying goes: We donât stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
weatherford.joe almost 10 years ago
Oh man, Calvinâs dad is rightâŚ
Ingrid almost 10 years ago
Donât know who is most depressed nowâŚ.
neverenoughgold almost 10 years ago
As for todayâs comic, Calvinâs dad is absolutely spot on!
Of course, many of us never grew up, so it doesnât applyâŚ
Puddleglum2 almost 10 years ago
All work and no play makes it a dull day!Who says I always use big words?
Banjo Gordy Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Frazz make Exercise necessary Play
kaffekup almost 10 years ago
And thatâs why Calvin never grew upâŚ
Number Three almost 10 years ago
Iâm 20 so Iâve only been a âgrown upâ for 2 years! (18 is the adult age in the UK)
Iâm aware there are much worse things to come so no lectures please.
xxx
Godfather Vito almost 10 years ago
Grownups play INDOORS Calvin
Hobbes Premium Member almost 10 years ago
@leftwingpatriot: You carry a Parker Jotter pen with you? I should have thought of that. It sounds a lot easier than hauling around this inkwell.
Hobbes Premium Member almost 10 years ago
@LeadingEdge: One evening I signed my name in cursive on a credit card receipt at the hardware store, and the salesman told me that mine was the first legible signature he had seen all day. Then he asked me how I had gotten the name âHobbes.â
Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member almost 10 years ago
This Toon will be a classic that lives thru the ages.
Hobbes Premium Member almost 10 years ago
@LX013: How did I get the name Hobbes? Bill Watterson thought it up.
Susie Derkins :D almost 10 years ago
Would it still mean the same thing if you were 18?
TMO1 Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Basically, being a kid stinks, due to lack of control over their own lives, and being an adult stinks, too, for a large number of reasons.
rgcviper almost 10 years ago
@N.E.G.Good line about reading the obituaries. Iâll have to use that one.
@WolfLove the âGrowing old/upâ quote. Thanks for sharing.
neverenoughgold almost 10 years ago
I see you went âPROâ! Good for you!
I am not sure I would want to be 20 again, especially with the knowledge and experience I have today.
I am quite certain I would never make 40 a second time aroundâŚ
WilliamBill almost 10 years ago
Happened w my son, also -football in the lip.