Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 29, 2017

They won’t take him back without a receipt.

While Calvin is at the orphanage, he won’t have his parents, so he can freely have his dance party with Hobbes!

What song do you think they are listening to?

This will always be one of my all-time favourite Calvin & Hobbes strips. In fact, one of my all-time favourites of ANY comic.

That’s mean, parents

It’s only rocK n’ roll but I like it

One of the all-time classic strips. And the source of SO MUCH bootlegged material! Watterson could have become a wealthy, wealthy man if he’d been the greedy sort.

Wonderful! I love this one!!

“Flat-foot floogie with the floy-floy…flo-doy, flo-doy, flo-doy!”

Dancing in the Dark

Dancing Queen

I Love Rock and Roll

Shadow Dancing

Stayin’ Alive

Let’s Twist Again

Slow Dancin’ (Swayin’ To The Music)

Footloose

Dancing In The Moonlight

Y.M.C.A

That should keep him occupied till mom and dad are ready to get up

All the younger folks reading this are asking “what does 78 rpm mean?”.

Roll over Beethoven!

And tell Tchaikovsky the news!

Calvin is so lucky, in my day my behind would be bright red.

C&H is always good, my favorites are when dad explains things to Calvin.

Our victrola needed to be fully wound up to play at 78 rpm. Otherwise the music would just slow waaaay down and finally stop.

One of my all-time favorite strips!

Why is Calvin always to blaim? Hobbes started it!

I don’t know why I never noticed this until now but Calvin and Hobbes dance like Dead Heads. Jerrrrrrrrrrry! Play Dark Star Jerrrrrrrry!

It’s a little more bittersweet for me, because my mom actually took initial steps to try to make my sister a ward of the state. All because my sister wanted to have a social life and be a normal teenager. Myself, I survived by keeping my head down and having no friends.

There’s an album named “Beethoven Wrote It, But It Swings!” It actually was originally a 78 rpm record of well-known classical music rearranged and recorded by some of the biggest names in swing music, like Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Raymond Scott. Some pretty good tracks on it.

Certainly one of Watterson’s best; it shoots me back to the 80’s instantly, with visions of “Risky Business” running through my brain . . .

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer was classical-influenced rock. Their album “Pictures at an Exhibition” is a classical piece reworked into dazzling rock. But I think my favorite classical-to-rock piece is Love Sculpture’s “Sabre Dance”. Here is the long version (Turn it up! ☺):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyvy9tORfSc

And Khachaturian’s original is pretty good too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV3oN_76EGg

Wait’ll Mom has a say in this; after all, marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband…

I see things haven’t changed much, if at all, in the two plus weeks I was away…

Yep, Hobbes is the better dancer.

Just be grateful it’s not heavy metal.

I’m just saying…

xxx

Trump was right – Hobbes is a better dancer than Bill (ack!)

If everyone was reading and commenting paid they would help Gocomicss.

OMG so FUNNY!!

Gifs exist of this sequence:

http://rs257.pbsrc.com/albums/hh225/lupita17-photos/gifs%20and%20sayings%20quotes/calvinhobbes4.gif~c200

And others:

http://i.imgur.com/mR8KEcd.jpg?w=1400

Some classical music at 78 RPM: https://clyp.it/d0mr31z1#

Don’t forget the shades.

You can do this yourself. Grab a classical song, drop it into Audacity, click Effects > Change Speed, and set it to 33 1/2 to 78.

If anyone here follows “9 Chickweed Lane”, why doesn’t it have any comments?

put at it this way. zdfvbskejhvbskthbsjkrhbfvfhajvhakhfvajekbfvhkjavkjerbvugtruaiebkawgbvaqchjaeugvcah. that’s me at 78 rpm.