Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 22, 2011

They suit you just fine, Calvin.

Hi margueritem - you nailed that one .

Snow goons never again!

Hy, Marg!

Snow gnomes would work, Gweedo. Goodmorning as363 and LX013.

Howdy, All!

I got a letter with a Calvin & Hobbes stamp on it today. To make things even better, there was a BIT FAT CHECK in the envelope! BIG GRIN

I feel the same way!

Great stamp, Mr. Ed.

I agree with behaviour modification as long as it does not involve change.

Ed, love the stamp.

Morning all. (Well actually it is still late evening here.)

Well All smiles, I see. So Calvin is lucky to have gotten off easy. Probably just a lecture about water conserving and curfew hours.

Best Stamp Ever :-)

Mom & Dad will be thrilled I’m sure Calvin.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠.

Mr Ed A fat check too?!

Let’s all meet at the local watering hole tonight!

Ed is buying!!!

All right!!! Good ole Ed.

Great! What time?

i’m in!

If snow goons had children, they would be gnus. Then snow gnus is good gnus???My mind hurts….

My taste buds are salivating already. Somebody buying my drinks is the kind of behavior modification I can fully appreciate.

Oh, yes, a fine evening!

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

There’s no goons like snow goons, I always say.

No behaviour modification? Obviously Calvin.

Teresa said, about 1 hour ago

Did anyone catch Hobbes’ comment ‘inapplicable’ here? Calvin missed it.

No, Calvin got it, Teresa. That was the point of his own comment about preferring maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification. In other words, Calvin doesn’t think that he ever needs to change his behavior in order to meet the needs of other people – it’s other people who need to change THEIR behavior in order to meet HIS needs!

dimeadance with a joke like that your mind should hurt! :-D

legaleagle48 I think you’ve got it!!

<< Yesterday LX013 wrote: I would prefer to let Hobbes [be] in the Comic!! I get confused with so many Hobbeses! >>

Hi LX013

I get confused sometimes myself. Maybe this will help:

“Hobbes” in plain font and lower case usually refers to Hobbes in today’s comic strip.

”Hobbes” in bold font refers to my comments.

“@Hobbes” refers to my comments.

“HOBBES” in all capitals refers to my comments.

“Hobbes is such a cutie” refers to Hobbes in the comic strip.

“Hobbes is such a big hassle to skip over” refers to my comments.

“Hobbes is a genius” refers to Bill Watterson, or Thomas Hobbes the philosopher (1588-1679), whom Hobbes was named after:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes

– Hobbes (that’s me)

P.S. The lessons learned from this interpretation guide are inapplicable elsewhere in life.

Now see Calvin your snow goons are so bad after all. You stopped them. I don’t know about the rest of you but all that snow makes me cold. I feel sorry for ones living in states that had way too much snow. Did you all see the city truck plowing snow and tipped over due to a hole?

I saw that. Strangely, it happened in Georgia. Not a place noted for excessive snowfall.

Snow goons are bad news.

The jury is still out for ice goons, mud goons, water sprinkler goons…

Calvin could try building happy snow men maybe build a band,you know singers and musicians ,dancers.

Marvin could have learned “don’t let you imagination run away with you” or “be careful what you wish for” or several other possibilities that would be applicable to other situations. But no, he sees the problem all in the snow goons. I’m surprised no one got sick from all that icy water and Dad took a nasty fall.

“Do what thou wilt. So mete it be.” - maxim by Aleister Crowley

I’m sticking to my guns that HOBBES is Bill Watterson. As much fun as the rest of us have reading and commenting on C & H, why wouldn’t BW want to get in on it. Call me stubborn.

@KAB==Great sentence structure. You really are improving and a bunch of us are really pulling for you with your studies.

Calvin’s thoughts and vocabulary at the tender age of 6 never ceases to amaze me! It’s no wonder he gets into so much trouble at school; he’s so far beyond the rest of his 1st grade classmates that he gets easily bored … and bored children find a way of entertaining themselves that isn’t always so entertaining to the people around them!

Gretchen’s mom - I think you got it there, darlin’. Behaviour modification is for/from others. Calvin is a pistol of the first order. When his parent are my age (67) they will have a magnificent basket of memories of this little boy to cull over. Now that I am thinking about it, why doesn’t Calvin have a sister? More than his parents wanted to deal with?

Hmmm, it seems the Hobbes who lacks the imagination to come up with his/her own identifier thinks the comic strip here is all about them, well, for the most part anyway.

4 parts, “my comments” and 1 part Hobbes the comic strip character. It seems like someones ego needs boosting…

Maybe it would not be so confusing for LX013, or others, if whoever this impostor is would simply use a different moniker. Just a suggestion.

@mythreesons- I don’t see any reason why Bill Watterson wouldn’t want to comment on his comic strip online. I just imagine that if he does, he does so more anonymously. I can’t envision him pretending to be Hobbes because he was so adamant that Calvin and Hobbes stay in the comics and not be put into other media. He never wanted the spotlight either, so I imagine the attention our Hobbes gets would have turned him off from commenting.

That said, I do enjoy our Hobbes’ comments.

Hmmm……. Now I’m wondering whether Mythreesons could be Bill Watterson in disguise, trying to throw us off the track. Especially since there is no photo…

Thank you MyThreeSons for your supportive comments. I had made a similar remark yesterday in another comic, and she thought I was being too kind. Now, there are at least 2 of us who have noted how hard she is working. She really can believe in herself.

“I am working under ze covers you know”

I’ve been noticing it too, Hopeandjoy & MyThreeSons. I know ♥Kab♥ is working very hard at it.

Doing great, ♥Kab♥. Keep it up.

”Calvin and ♥Kab♥” – two of my favorite people.

It seems someone here lacks the imagination to develop their own identifier, and seems to think the comic strip is more about them than Calvin and Hobbes.

I noticed there was some confusion by some when discussing the thoughts of Hobbes, so this person gave us all a lesson in ego: It’s 4 times “my comments” and 1 time the comic strip character. It looks like someone is needing their ego boosted.

Maybe it would not be so confusing for LX013, or others, if whomever this impostor is would simply use a different moniker, rather than steal from the original creator of the character. But that’s just a suggestion, because it seems some here like his/her comments.

Finally, the imitation Hobbes and I can agree on something. I agree with his last sentence in his Interpretation Guide regarding most of his thoughts.

Today is appears it’s four times as much about him/her as it is about the comic strip character. Why am I not surprised?

Seems like old times!

Give it a rest, rogue53

“Snow goons are bad news” will now be my main maxim for life. It helps that it never snows where I live. ;)