well, you who know what’s dady saying, could enlighten us, non native English speakers :)
I thought it’s meaningless, so if you could explain me the pattern… I would be grateful! :)
Calvin’s gonna think Santa’s a pottymouth and wonder why he’s been trying so hard to be good since Santa ain’t so good. He’ll think Santa’s a hypocrite.
Imagine the dissapointment of thousands (millions?) of kids when they opened the newspaper the day this strip first ran; when they turned to the comics section to read their favorite ‘toon; and when they discovered that Santa was really Calvin’s dad …
Kids who read on their own already know about Santa. Kids who still believe in Santa think that mommy and daddy are just his helpers. I would draw the obvious parallel with religious faith and science, but that would probably start something. (evil grin)
Drystyha, since about 1972 my presents have generally arrived by USPS or one of the parcel services. Maybe that’s just ‘cause I haven’t had a chimney anywhere I’ve lived, but I always suspected it had more to do with my parents not living in the same state.
A Christmas Story, what a great movie!
**Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, LittleBlackWidow. That IS a great movie! Christmas just would’t be Christmas without it (along with “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, too)! Even though it’s February and ten months away yet from Christmas 2009, you make me want to go pop this movie into the dvd player and watch it again right now!!!!!
@cleokaya: Do you have any idea how many Finnish people you just swore at?
@truechristian: jesus didn’t come to wipe sinners off the face of the earth, he came to die & come back. thinking like you’re at war with islamic people makes you one of them.
Had to help a mate play Santa and put together a trampoline. His next door neighbour thanked him the next day for 4 hours of entertainment listening to us curse and carry on.
The instructions were in Chinese and we may have had a couple of beers.
To true Cristian- where do you get that stuff your smoking?
mark, I bought a 4x5 camera, which is the kind of camera where you put a hood over your head to block out light. All the directions were written in English by a Chinese individual who thought he could speak English. It was hilarious! Absolutely nothing made sense. The directions were in English alright, but words were put together that had no rhyme or reason.
TRUECRISTIAN, you are forgetting to follow the words of your avatar. Also, I’m wondering if you are posting as a hoax.
Cleokaya LOL. In Australia we buy a lot of goods from China and we get a lot of translations like those. We have a name for these translations- Chinglish.
Ah yes JonD17. For me it was North Dakota. I miss…Yah, you betcha!!! And you are indeed well versed in languages, and I am well versed in mutilating them.
I read what @cleokaya wrote afterwards, so I thought it’s kind of a slang :))
We have a slang where syllables are rotated, so “Calvin” would be “Vincal”. I even searched for the pattern, but everything was stubbornly meaningless :)) I feel so stupid now! :)
See also Yosemite Sam in the toon where he inherits a bazillion dollars if he can keep his temper. Of course, he falls off a balcony down a 500 foot + cliff, and all the way down, it’s “Brackin’ Frackin’…. mutter mutter.”
Further consider that “Snow” is a four-letter word which begins with “S”. It’s not a swear word, but it certainly is a curse.
Hogar all you need is a 30 pound skid of the dimensions 48"X48" and a sneakered foot with someone rushing you around a pallet plant and you will certainly know what Calvin’s Dad was saying. Voice of experiance here.
margueritem almost 16 years ago
OH Santa! What you said! Tsk tsk.
cleokaya almost 16 years ago
This reminds me of a Christmas Story. Constarn the flang flingin digastan prang floggin fliparitan mangastatatn flimigigans.
txmystic almost 16 years ago
Now THAT is how you can swear in the forum without getting bleeeped…
wndrwrthg almost 16 years ago
Pops is channeling “Yosemite Sam”.
Dutchboy1 almost 16 years ago
Hey, I know that language, and what he said…for shame!
lazygrazer almost 16 years ago
Uh oh….pottymouthed Dad just made Santa’s naughty list!
Yukoner almost 16 years ago
Calvin’s about to get a lesson in classic Anglo Saxon linguistics. Otherwise known as, “Pardon my French!”
krisch almost 16 years ago
wonder what Calvin’s gettin this christmas.. Love Hobbes face in Panel 1
hogar.strashni almost 16 years ago
well, you who know what’s dady saying, could enlighten us, non native English speakers :) I thought it’s meaningless, so if you could explain me the pattern… I would be grateful! :)
rentier almost 16 years ago
Fine swear, Daddy, get well again soon!
alondra almost 16 years ago
Calvin’s gonna think Santa’s a pottymouth and wonder why he’s been trying so hard to be good since Santa ain’t so good. He’ll think Santa’s a hypocrite.
JonD17 almost 16 years ago
cleokaya says:
This reminds me of a Christmas Story. Constarn the flang flingin digastan prang floggin fliparitan mangastatatn flimigigans.
Cleokaya, is that Finnish or Norwegian? :=/
JonD17 almost 16 years ago
hogar, we could explain it to you, but first you have to drop an 80 pound box on your toe to be in the right mood to understand, lol
Wenthral almost 16 years ago
Hogar: You can’t print swear words. Author is just using other goofy words to symbolize swearing. Much like using “@#&**!!”
carmy almost 16 years ago
If that would have been my husband, everybody on our block would have heard him.
benoire almost 16 years ago
Of course I’m awake. Silly Calvin.
BirishB almost 16 years ago
Imagine the dissapointment of thousands (millions?) of kids when they opened the newspaper the day this strip first ran; when they turned to the comics section to read their favorite ‘toon; and when they discovered that Santa was really Calvin’s dad …
ChiehHsia almost 16 years ago
Kids who read on their own already know about Santa. Kids who still believe in Santa think that mommy and daddy are just his helpers. I would draw the obvious parallel with religious faith and science, but that would probably start something. (evil grin)
Ivy0730Lcsq almost 16 years ago
Let the kids enjoy being kids…grow up and got the silly but beautiful memories to think of.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member almost 16 years ago
What, you mean there is no Santa? Of course there is! Where do all my presents come from?
@Roger (with the evil grin on face), yeah let’s not go there again!
cruncher3 almost 16 years ago
calvin might think aleins are coming
pjbear94 almost 16 years ago
slippin rippin dang fang rotten zarg barg-a-ding dong!!!!!!!!!!!!1
cleokaya almost 16 years ago
JonD17. You are indeed a linguist, as I am both Finnish and Norwegian.
EMandEM almost 16 years ago
Clumsy ol’ dad…ding-a-ding-dong
Silverpearl almost 16 years ago
ROFL LOL !!!
ChiehHsia almost 16 years ago
Drystyha, since about 1972 my presents have generally arrived by USPS or one of the parcel services. Maybe that’s just ‘cause I haven’t had a chimney anywhere I’ve lived, but I always suspected it had more to do with my parents not living in the same state.
green_engineer almost 16 years ago
As if Calvin’s extensive vocabulary wasn’t enough…here’s a few more!
Samka almost 16 years ago
hehe I told my kids Santa is a myth…when they figure out what a myth is, we’ll go from there.
Digital Frog almost 16 years ago
Actually, I think Dad is cursing in mock-Swedish (ala muppet chef)
LittleBlackWidow almost 16 years ago
A Christmas Story, what a great movie! **Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.
alife almost 16 years ago
I was SOOO busy watching my favorite cartoon “Beanie & Cecil” That I didn’t even hear my Dad Thumping & Banging up the stairs with my Swhinn
Gretchen's Mom almost 16 years ago
I agree with you wholeheartedly, LittleBlackWidow. That IS a great movie! Christmas just would’t be Christmas without it (along with “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, too)! Even though it’s February and ten months away yet from Christmas 2009, you make me want to go pop this movie into the dvd player and watch it again right now!!!!!
Wildmustang1262 almost 16 years ago
Hey Daddy, bite your tongue instead of swearing out of your mouth.
LandriSheppard almost 16 years ago
I love Hobbes face in panel 1! Nice goin “dad” nice clothes “mom” Calvin, who isnt awake at 11:00 at night anymore, especially on Christmas Eve? =]
tabbylynn almost 16 years ago
so funny. love it. calvin looks terrified as i dont know what. lol
longtimecomicsfan almost 16 years ago
*FUDGE. Only I didn’t say “Fudge.” I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the “F-dash-dash-dash” word!
windrunner almost 16 years ago
This is so sweet and reminds me somuch of childhhod christmas eves!!! Love you both so much!!! xx
SarahT00 almost 16 years ago
I only wish this was run a couple months ago….
Marderofski almost 16 years ago
@Truechristian
Go away, we don’t want propaganda on a comic strip. I bet even some conservatives would agree with me.
PaulAtreides almost 16 years ago
@cleokaya: Do you have any idea how many Finnish people you just swore at?
@truechristian: jesus didn’t come to wipe sinners off the face of the earth, he came to die & come back. thinking like you’re at war with islamic people makes you one of them.
…please let the debates be over…
mrprongs almost 16 years ago
Zarg?
SlyGuy54 almost 16 years ago
I hope this isn’t encouraging Santa not being real… GASP!
And @ TrueCristian.. STOP.
magpiesrule almost 16 years ago
Had to help a mate play Santa and put together a trampoline. His next door neighbour thanked him the next day for 4 hours of entertainment listening to us curse and carry on. The instructions were in Chinese and we may have had a couple of beers. To true Cristian- where do you get that stuff your smoking?
Dry and Dusty Premium Member almost 16 years ago
Can we ban people from here altogether, like TRUECHRISTIAN?
cleokaya almost 16 years ago
mark, I bought a 4x5 camera, which is the kind of camera where you put a hood over your head to block out light. All the directions were written in English by a Chinese individual who thought he could speak English. It was hilarious! Absolutely nothing made sense. The directions were in English alright, but words were put together that had no rhyme or reason.
TRUECRISTIAN, you are forgetting to follow the words of your avatar. Also, I’m wondering if you are posting as a hoax.
si_rat almost 16 years ago
DrystyhaPro says: Can we ban people from here altogether, like TRUECHRISTIAN?
…. a true Christian.
magpiesrule almost 16 years ago
Cleokaya LOL. In Australia we buy a lot of goods from China and we get a lot of translations like those. We have a name for these translations- Chinglish.
JonD17 almost 16 years ago
alife says:
I was SOOO busy watching my favorite cartoon “Beanie & Cecil” That I didn’t even hear my Dad Thumping & Banging up the stairs with my Swhinn
alife, WOW, I was starting to think I would NEVER find another fan of Beanie and Cecil. You made my day!
JonD17 almost 16 years ago
cleokaya says:
JonD17. You are indeed a linguist, as I am both Finnish and Norwegian.
Cleokaya, Thank you for the compliment. It is somewhat deserved, but I grew up in northern Wisconsin and both languages are second nature.
cleokaya almost 16 years ago
Ah yes JonD17. For me it was North Dakota. I miss…Yah, you betcha!!! And you are indeed well versed in languages, and I am well versed in mutilating them.
cleokaya almost 16 years ago
JonD17. I checked out your website. Very nice idea, very much needed. Beanie and Cecil rule. Remember Hector Heathcoate?
hogar.strashni almost 16 years ago
hahahhah :)) Thanks @Wenthral
I read what @cleokaya wrote afterwards, so I thought it’s kind of a slang :))
We have a slang where syllables are rotated, so “Calvin” would be “Vincal”. I even searched for the pattern, but everything was stubbornly meaningless :)) I feel so stupid now! :)
comicgirl1000 over 15 years ago
beep beep beeeeeeeep
comicgirl1000 over 15 years ago
whats in that box
dsbairdks over 15 years ago
Waiting for Santa
dsbairdks over 15 years ago
Waiting for Santa
Me_Again almost 15 years ago
…Sounds like my dad.
DGWillie almost 14 years ago
See also Yosemite Sam in the toon where he inherits a bazillion dollars if he can keep his temper. Of course, he falls off a balcony down a 500 foot + cliff, and all the way down, it’s “Brackin’ Frackin’…. mutter mutter.”
Further consider that “Snow” is a four-letter word which begins with “S”. It’s not a swear word, but it certainly is a curse.
CharlesNeal1 about 7 years ago
Hogar all you need is a 30 pound skid of the dimensions 48"X48" and a sneakered foot with someone rushing you around a pallet plant and you will certainly know what Calvin’s Dad was saying. Voice of experiance here.
CalvinAndHobbes658 over 3 years ago
shh! He’s saying something