Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 27, 2011

Go with the first one, Calvin!

I can see that Calvin won’t be winning an Oscar anytime soon. :)

Practice makes perfect…

But the avenger is waiting!

And the winning answer to yesterday’s quiz question was written by……….Fogger_man!

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<< Yesterday, Hobbes said: “What are the particular letters that Calvin is making in the first three frames?” >>

<< Last night, after some of you were already in bed listening to the planes flying overhead, while LX013 was eating breakfast in Austria, and while Mythreesons was still searching for Bill Watterson, in comment #68 out of 77 and still counting, Fogger_man said: “It’s the top of the EL on BARREL. The pattern clearly shows he started and spelled BARREL backwards…” >>

Congratulations, Fogger_man!

My solution was that the first line contained the word JETLINER, and that Calvin was creating the top of the TL, in reverse order. That’s because Calvin clearly wrote the first line backwards, since there are no footprints visible leading up to it. I concluded that Calvin’s initial footprints and the LINER part of JETLINER were outside the upper right corner of the last frame.

But Fogger_man’s answer is better, because this is a case where, unlike me, he found the solution by thinking inside the box.

Thanks to everyone else who entered the competition. Many excellent ideas were submitted and this was a very difficult decision for the judges. Please keep in mind that if for any reason the winner is unable to fulfill his duties as champion, the first runner-up will take his place…..

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– Hobbes

You definitely need to practice more, Calvin!

G’Morning, Marg, Grog & Mike!

G’morning all!! :)

And Hobbes, don’t shoot at suzie.. Calvin will be very upset!!!

He doth protest too much methinks.

It wouldn’t have made a difference, Calvin. Susie knew it was you anyway.

Plausible deniability isn’t plausible when you’re the only one within shooting range.

Susie must have parsed Calvin’s response as a defiant “Who? Me!”

Some day Calvin and Suzie are going to hook up and have kids. That would be awesome!

Man that Suzie can sure look after herself I believe

Good morning, all.

I can’t believe it - Marg only is the third today!

WHO ME….??!!!

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

The snow around Calvin is so soaked in evil snow goons arise from it!

you talking to me??

Actually, “Throw what?” probably would have been a better answer.

Keep practicing, Calvin. One day, you you might start to believe yourself. Well someone has to if no one else will.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

Heck hath no fury, like when Suzie gets Whapped in the back of the head!!

It is just WRONG how quickly some people are to blame INNOCENT parties!!

Calvin, any husband will tell you that you can’t beat the “Who, me?” meter.

I read your comments from yesterday who could be the last post. Very funny. Calvin you can’t practice enough to get yourself out of trouble especailly when you throw a snowball and only one standing in that spot.

Suzie always gives better than she gets.

Hobbes

Your music is not correct, it is so: do.. do.. do do..do. dodo..do, do..do..dodo..do. dodo..do, do..do.dodo.babado..baw!!

I don’t get the last part……………………………………………………..

Calvin needs a bigger mirror…for his BIG head…

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive”

– Sir Walter Scott

“But when we’ve practiced quite a while, How vastly we improve our style.”

Actions always speak LOUDER than words, Calvin.

In a misguided attempt to show how silly it was to try and be the first poster and to argue about it back and forth, yesterday I made the first post about being the last post. l knew it would get a response, but little did I realize the can of worms it would open. It got to be downright funny. Silly rabbits, worse than Pavlov’s dogs!! LOL This is a fun group.

Just goes to prove we all have a little bit of Calvin in us, trying to get in the last word and starving for attention.

Didn’t you see Moe?

Reminds me of the one where Suzy says, “My eyeballs! My eyeballs!”

Just don’t let him near a taxi in NYC, right JohnnyDiego and sutirtho?

Good aim and good form, but bad timing on the escape.

Poor Calvin. He has a bad case of puppy love for Suzy, and, at this age, this is the only way he knows to express it or get her attention.

Calvin - 20/20 hindsight is a killer, isn’t it? Are you getting ready for another go-around with Suzie? Better talk to your lawyer, Tiger Hobbes, before initiating deployment of weapons…

Not what he says, how he says it.

Yes, Calvin … you!!!!!!!!!!

Calvin should be saying, “You talking to me?”

Maybe Calvin’s “Who Me?” could join “Not Me” and “Ida Know” over at Family Circus.

If only our interp students were that devoted!!! You are very good, Calvin!

Emote! Such feeling, Calvin

OK, tonight’s competition is to try to not be the final poster. We can all delete our comments from the bottom up, forcing others to be the final poster, until all of the comments are gone.

On the other hand, if I start by deleting this comment, nobody else will know what is going on. Hmmm……..

Some things sound like such great ideas until you try to implement them. Bringing a snowman to life, for example. Or throwing a snowball at Susie.

Hey Hobbes! What did I win? I’m always a late poster due to my work… teachers do not get off as early as some think, and papers do need to be graded. By the time I get to my recreation (reading all the wonderful posts here) it’s late. I always feel as though nobody even sees my posts b/c they are so late.

BTW: I still need to go back to yesterday’s posts to see if I was the last post! LOL

As for Calvin, he should have used the cover of a tree like with the snow goons!

… and I liked your music too! ☺

Boy did you guys get silly last night after my post! Thanks for the laugh! I don’t care if I’m first, last, winner, loser, whatever. This group is awesome!

Fogger_man, you won the admiration and respect of people from all over the U.S. plus other countries. Of course, it is a fairly small group of people with somewhat zany senses of humor, many of whom are suffering from sleep deprivation, but hey – you have to start somewhere. Sorry you didn’t win a crown. That’s because we decided to skip the swimsuit competition.

Well, at least Susy put her gloves back on before she thoroughly trounced Calvin. Imagine if she had taken the gloves off! (or should that be not put them back on?)

Hobbes, my heart is broken that you gave Fogger_Man the credit for the last post fiasco.

I demand that a jury be sworn in and review the following evidence:

My post from yesterday: “I keep trying to be the last one to post so my comment is less apt to be read. That is hard to do with so popular a strip. It does help that I sleep in till around 10 AM. Getting hard to do with the missus making so much noise puttering around the house for three or four hours.”

My follow up post today: “In a misguided attempt to show how silly it was to try and be the first poster and to argue about it back and forth, yesterday I made the first post about being the last post. l knew it would get a response, but little did I realize the can of worms it would open. It got to be downright funny. Silly rabbits, worse than Pavlov’s dogs!! LOL This is a fun group. Just goes to prove we all have a little bit of Calvin in us, trying to get in the last word and starving for attention.”

I am submitting this as per the need of last word in the preceding sentence. LOL

And a review of the proceedings show Fogger wasn’t last either! SO THERE!!!

Another lesson in civility for our boy Calvin.

Its the time zones,how do I have a chance?

Hi dahawk

Go back to posting #5, above. In posting #47 I was referring to Fogger_man’s victory in yesterday’s quiz question contest, which was what I thought he was referring to in posting #45. But in the context of late evening, it seemed to you like he was referring to the late-poster contest.

So many contests…..so little time.

Practice makes perfect?!

Yeah, because THAT’S the problem.