Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 04, 2009

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    A wheelless plane, rough landings, indeed…

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    Leonardeuler  over 15 years ago

    Finally, there will no problem for Spaceman Spiff.

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    ladywolf17  over 15 years ago

    Oh Calvin why didn’t you ask your dad to help you with the model. With that said I want to apologize to everyone for bringing the mood down yesterday. I have a comic exercise I would like to try with you all. Even you wolf bashers can participate if you wish. So here goes… O.k. let’s say that we live in a comic strip universe. Now what I want to know is given any comic strip that you like what comic strip character would you be.

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    Lio.

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    ladywolf17  over 15 years ago

    I like Dennis The Menace

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    zipdryve  over 15 years ago

    They keep this up, they’ll make a panoramic view of an airplane crash.

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    Walter_Mitty Premium Member over 15 years ago

    The Phantom

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    Gweedo: Yes, I can see you as Nat.

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    ramchandani_h  over 15 years ago

    i wana be one of those slimy, skedgy, full-of-spikes-all-over-the-body caterpillar from Clavin and Hobbes!

    But hey.. dont squat me!!!

    :P :P :P

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    Yikes, only one wheel out of three left. One-point landings are very difficult to make….even for an ace like Spaceman Spiff.

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    Ivy0730Lcsq  over 15 years ago

    Oops! accidents!

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    tamsin  over 15 years ago

    all the pieces are optional on this model

    I’d be Agnes… in fact, I think I might already be her. Or Charlie Brown

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    hawkeye761  over 15 years ago

    Charlie Brown

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    Superfrog  over 15 years ago

    Calvin is right. If it doesn’t fit then force it. If it breaks … well it wasn’t working anyway.

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    cdward  over 15 years ago

    My brothers and I built hundreds of these things when we were kids (before plastic got expensive). I’ll bet our first half-dozen (all without adult supervision) were just like Calvin’s. Ah, the memories!

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    Akenta  over 15 years ago

    Normally, I would find today’s comic funny, but not after recent events. My heart goes out to those who lost family and friends on the Air France flight.

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    xemox  over 15 years ago

    thats really sweet Akenta

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    moonrise293  over 15 years ago

    Pogo Ladywolf maybe your Dad will know.

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    greeneyedtxn  over 15 years ago

    Ladywolf: I would like to either be Alice from Cul de Sac or if that is taken–I would like to be Sophie from Dog eat Doug. They both lead interesting lives in their own innocent ways.

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    PTui2  over 15 years ago

    Wheel won’t fit? My dad always used to say, “Don’t force it, just get a bigger hammer!”

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    Leonardeuler  over 15 years ago

    Grazer, indeed: we all know Calvin don’t have any problems to turn his spaceship into wreckage.

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    KingRat  over 15 years ago

    @LadyWolf I would be Max by Giovannetti

    http://www.pbase.com/csw62/image/49759266

    that hamster has style.

    “We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us” - Pogo

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    Opus Croakus  over 15 years ago

    I’d be Snoopy.

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    prasrinivara  over 15 years ago

    grazer, he can always do a Stryker (on no wheels ) landing (very noisy, scary and produces lotsa sparks–see Airplane)

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    pdeason2  over 15 years ago

    The Phantom

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    alondra  over 15 years ago

    Looks like you better give it up guys, it’s not going to work.

    I don’t know who I’d be. I find myself feeling sorry for most comic strip characters. Maybe that’s why I enjoy reading them, I can sympathize with them.

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    grebulon  over 15 years ago

    @ladywolf17: I’d enjoy being Captain Haddock from Tintin–Just for his impressive diction and creative use of strange words.

    @Akenta: After Flight 447, this does seem like a grim reminder of the tragedy.

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    TapiocaHead  over 15 years ago

    Ladywolf17: I like the question, even us adults have fantasies of being someone else … Hobbes get the vote for me!

    I guess if you have the right back wheel off and the left front wheel off, the plane night still be balanced ….. hhmm…. lol.

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    carmy  over 15 years ago

    Sincere condolences to the loved ones of those who perished on the Air France jet.

    Hm, maybe Gracie from Baldo would be a good comics character choice for me. She is still young and very smart.

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    COWBOY7  over 15 years ago

    I’m with Carmy and Akenta: If these were current strips I don’t think Bill W. would have done this type strip so soon. Prayers to all involved in the air disaster.

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    Wildmustang1262  over 15 years ago

    Hey Calvin! I surely hope you will not ruin everything what you try your best to assemble the model airplane. If you broke the smallest parts, you will destroy everything for your favorite model airplane.

    Ladywolf17: I think I love the comic strip of For Better or For Worse because it looks like a real life and I love to laugh after I read the comic strips of FBFW many years. And Pickles, too! :-)

    Akenta: Yeah, I saw the news on the TV about Air France plane plunged into the Altantic Ocean. Pray and condole for the loss of loved ones. It is horrible tragedy!

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    bald  over 15 years ago

    even if calvin asked dad for help.. how much would he have gottten?

    @ladywolf17… i am dennis the menace.. he was created about the time i was born. and i can relate to his predicaments

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    John Palmer Premium Member over 15 years ago

    Easy choice of comics character for me: Captain Dennis ‘Tip’ Wilkin

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    comicgirl1000  over 15 years ago

    ladywolf17

    lio its so funny

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    Stede_Bonnet  over 15 years ago

    Think of all the engineering and problem solving skills that children used to learn from building models. Now think about how little they learn from pressing YELLOW-RED-BLUE-RED-RED-YELLOW-GREEN on Guitar Hero or some other mind-numbing video game.

    No need to wonder why GM is bankrupt and Chrysler has been sold to the Italians. We’ve trained our children how to avoid learning in favor of just mezmerizing them with flashing lights and sounds.

    What we need now is a video game that teaches them Hindi or Chinese so that they can understand basic instructions from their future bosses.

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    gocomicsmember  over 15 years ago

    Except that I don’t know why he continues to hang around with that obnoxious Calvin kid, I’d be Hobbes.

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    midiranger  over 15 years ago

    good times! hm how many of these did I make – models with missing parts and more glue on the outside than in the joints! lol

    @ladywolf17 Snoopy

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    wicky  over 15 years ago

    Surly Calvin knows that without failures we would have no successes.

    and I’m with Charley , to be Amos in 9CWL that lucky rat.

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    johnbrl  over 15 years ago

    can not find thefar side by gary larson

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    aerwalt  over 15 years ago

    My problem at that age was with balsa flying models. (They didn’t. They do now.)

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    donhef  over 15 years ago

    Dean from “Heart of the City”…I still love Star Wars and SciFi

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    pibfan868  over 15 years ago

    I’d be Edda or Juliette from 9 Chickweed Lane

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    cleokaya  over 15 years ago

    ladywolf - I would be Harold Head. You wouldn’t have heard of him but he was an underground comic hippie back in the early 1970s.

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    Dr_E  over 15 years ago

    Prince Valiant

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    bmonk  over 15 years ago

    @PTui2, another translation of the bigger hammer principle: anything will fit if enough force is applied.

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    mjw22307  over 15 years ago

    Dilbert? lol

    this model airplane was a disaster from the beginning.

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    Leonardeuler  over 15 years ago

    I’d like to be Linus van Pelt.

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    madampresident  over 15 years ago

    My brother used to make lots of models. I think he still does (he was a pilot). My job was to break them for him, then tryy to glue them back together.

    Ladywolf17: Fred Bassett

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    JonD17  over 15 years ago

    ladywolf17 said, Now what I want to know is given any comic strip that you like what comic strip character would you be. ….

    I have been told numerous times that I am Calvin, I have no problem with that. Let it be Calvin for me then.

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    musicnut1986  over 15 years ago

    Calvin won’t have to resort to what I used to do when I got tired of one of my old models. I used to load the model with firecrackers connected to a main fuse. If the firecrackers did not do the job, a few squirts of lighter fluid always did the trick. Calvin’s plane will be a wreck before it is completed.

    You know, come to think about it, I don’t have any of the model cars I put together as a kid. ?????

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    JanLC  over 15 years ago

    I’d be Gertie from Gasoline Alley. She’s a caregiver and a loving person.

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    rentier  over 15 years ago

    I love Calvin & Hobbes best!

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    scottsilby  over 15 years ago

    Regis Philbin

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    RinaFarina  over 15 years ago

    some possibilities:

    Luann - she’s a nice person, enjoys life, level-headed, responsible.

    Snoopy - he really enjoys life, and he doesn’t have the limitations that humans have. His life is very creative!

    Miss Ma’mzelle Hepzibah, the French lady skunk (from Pogo) - she may be a skunk, but she’s the most beautiful skunk you ever saw! and she has this absolutely charming French accent!

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    Saucy1121 Premium Member over 15 years ago

    Superhuman - Wonder Woman Human - June Morgan Animal - Snoopy

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    musicnut1986  over 15 years ago

    EMET said I’d be the squash guy in veggie tales.

    EMET, that would be Larry. (Who can forget “Larry Boy - With Suction Cup Power Ears”)? My favorite song of his is “Where in My Hairbrush” followed closely by “The Water Buffalo Song”.

    Bob was the tomato.

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    dudeabideshou  over 15 years ago

    Other than agreeing with doctortoon about Brad in Luann having a hot girlfriend, got to wonder about so much of you being familiar with what seem to be obscure characters to me (not including Charlie Brown and other widely familiar examples, of course). Guess I could redirect leisure time to becoming more familiar with comics again, but I see other uses for it.

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    dudeabideshou  over 15 years ago

    Cleokaya:

    So glad to see your mention of Harold Head. I have a tabloid-sized magazine of his adventures in Vancouver, BC and surrounding areas from back in the ’70s. Very funny.

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    rdiamant  over 15 years ago

    Gotta go with Basil, that way I’d get a shot at Brena Starr.

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    pomy2191  over 15 years ago

    i think that plane is never gonna see take off!

    i feel i resemble more to schroeder(peanuts) and garfield or beetle bailey(im lazy sleepy and hungry..feed me!) but i would love to be someone like sophie ffrom dog eat doug.lio is another one(i have just started reading that)

    it is really ironic that the same week the air france flight disappeared we have this comic on c&h…my grief and condolences to all those who are involved

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    jackofstories  over 15 years ago

    Frank from Liberty Meadows. Just to be in the same strip as Brandy! Ahh!

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    cactusjack63044  over 15 years ago

    Don’t really care just as long as I can wear my kilt

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    wolfbyte36  over 15 years ago

    Yes indeed I do remember Pogo , didn’t he have an alligator friend named Albert.

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    I wouldn’t want to be Calvin per se—but I’d love to be one of his many alter-egos….like Spaceman Spiff….or Stupendous Man.

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    wolfbyte36  over 15 years ago

    I got to go with Marmaduke just because he’s a lovable goof of a big dog.

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    wolfbyte36  over 15 years ago

    I would like to take this time to apologize to the GoComics staff of Uclick and to each and everyone of you for what transpired a few days ago. Rest assured that for now on any family personal problems will no longer be posted. ladywolf17 and I look to redeem ourselves and hope to regain your trust back so that we can make friends, read, and discuss comics like it was meant to. We humbly beg for forgiveness and hope to be accepted back into your fold. sincerely yours–The wolf family wolfbyte36 and ladywolf17.

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    musicnut1986  over 15 years ago

    EMET, By the way, in Veggie Tales Larry is a cucumber.

    PROCEDURE QUESTION - how do we edit our comments now. When I click on edit my response disappears only to return if I move off of the page.

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    cleokaya  over 15 years ago

    dudeabideshou - I don’t know if you are from Vancouver, BC or not, but back during the early 70’s I was sitting in the Anchor pub in Gastown with my roommate. There was a guy sitting alone at a table, that looked exactly like Harold Head. We couldn’t bring ourselves to go up and ask if he was the cartoonist and I have regretted it ever since. LONG LIVE HAROLD HEAD.

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    Kennyjoe  over 15 years ago

    Just glue some popsickle sticks on and land it in the tub…sheesh.

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    fatuncle  over 15 years ago

    Garfield. Fat, greedy, shameless - suits me to a T. All I need is the fur coat and the whiskers.

    On second thought - I’ve already got the whiskers.

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    Blusc  over 15 years ago

    wow

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    Shikamoo Premium Member over 15 years ago

    @ Akenta My thought exactly. Of course, no one could have predicted that a plane would disintegrate over the ocean the same day as this storyline. May they rest in peace.

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    Shikamoo Premium Member over 15 years ago

    Way out on a limb here: Betty from the Archie comics!

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    geo111  over 15 years ago

    Wolfbyte36 and Ladywolf17:

    I will gladly forgive both of you if you stay on topic. I would especially like to see Ladywolf17 stop trying to hijack this forum.

    This little forum is a place to discuss the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. It is not here for detailing your personal adventures nor is it appropriate to attempt to start discussions that do not pertain to Calvin and Hobbes.

    Thank you,

    geo111

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    andycap56  over 15 years ago

    Who else but Andy Capp, Drink beer, play darts and snooker all night and sleep all day. What could be better?

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    Mark_O_Polo  over 15 years ago

    Yeah this has My dad and I written all over it. I’d be either Garfield or Jughead.

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    TheSkulker  over 15 years ago

    geo111 On the contrary, this is a public forum and anything and everything is grist for discussion - even politics and religion if it were possible to not degenerate into flame warfare (but unfortunately, it isn’t possible).

    It is sad that too many people want to take the humanity out of everything. It is a major cause of the animosity and separation that is so prevalent in this world. It is too easy to denigrate or wish harm to a faceless entity but reason prevails much more often among acquaintances. Geo111, do you also take issue with the posters expressing sympathy and condolences for the families of flight 447? By your reasoning that has nothing to do with this strip.

    wolfbyte36 and ladywolf17: Do not be intimidated by one or two narrow-minded voices. You will find that the vast majority of us welcome your sharing personal events and fully support you in their resolution.

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    geo111  over 15 years ago

    TheSkulker

    Actually, I do take issue with any off-topic posts.

    The internet is full of forums where almost any discussion topic is welcome. When I want to discuss non-Calvin and Hobbes related topics, I go to where it is appropriate.

    And yes, I fully realize that this reply is in itself off-topic.

    If you would care to provide an alternate method of contact, I would be glad to continue this discussion there.

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    mizzcrazy11  over 15 years ago

    i would like to be in here or charlie brown! haha

    it okay ladywolf we all have those day right?

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    yyyguy  over 15 years ago

    probably way too late to get in on the comic character thing, but i couldn’t see the comments for a couple of days. i’d pick the lead character of an old strip i haven’t seen in years, but have at least one paperback collection of (somewhere in my large collection of books). to wit, Captain Vincible. (and yes, there’s no ‘in’ prefix. the good captain was anything BUT “in” vincible). sort of like the Charlie Brown of super heroes. anyway…

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