Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 05, 2009

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    I think Hobbes may have figured it out…

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    tabbylynn  over 15 years ago

    hey marg

    it never looks as good as the pic.

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    Leonardeuler  over 15 years ago

    C’mon Calvin, dismantle this plane and then try again.

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    bald  over 15 years ago

    where did they find a pilot that short anyhow?

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    ladywolf17  over 15 years ago

    Calvin at lease you tried your best. That counts for something.

    to geo 111 hijacking the site that was not my intention, all I was trying to do was restore my family honor, and get to know everyone the fun way by conducting that comic exercise that was for everyone even you to participate and have fun with picking a comic character. I screwed up by making a lot of you angry so I was trying to make up for it.

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    ladywolf17: It was fun to name a comic character that we’d like to be. I still wanna be Lio.

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    Yukoner  over 15 years ago

    Calvin, get used to it. They never do look like the pictures. At least not until you’re 40 and made 1000 of them.

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    TheSkulker  over 15 years ago

    Hey Gweedo. Thanks for the kudo but I’m not THAT old!!!;-)

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    Ivy0730Lcsq  over 15 years ago

    Calvin, as a 6 yrs old kid you alreday did a very good job!

    AD pics alwayz tempting, yet deciving! =]

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    ladywolf17  over 15 years ago

    Thank you Gweedo Murray I only wish that I would’ve Known about that site. to be honest this is the only site I know because I don’t surf the web do to possible threat of getting a computer virus. Hi Skulker.

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    ladywolf17  over 15 years ago

    Even though school is done and my summer vacation begins I need to say good night now because I’m tired. So good night for now.

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    rentier  over 15 years ago

    Good night! Here it is morning!

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    tamsin  over 15 years ago

    well now- I always wondered how they got them to look so good, too…

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    prasrinivara  over 15 years ago

    Well bald, they just make a tiny image of one–though one would need to be about the size of an ant to actually paint the features.

    Yeah, Hobbes figured it correctly–for the picture on the box of a BIY model (car, lorry, plane) they always use a real one (for plane to be displayed on stand, they then do double-exposure to make it fit; oft I’ve seen the picture on front for model plane does not display the stand).

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    alondra  over 15 years ago

    tabbylynn said:

    hey marg

    it never looks as good as the pic.

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    Just like fast food restaurant commercials. They show you a huge juicy burger but when you order it it’s very small.

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    coffeeturtle  over 15 years ago

    I think Hobbes has a point there. It’s like McDonald’s and BK. The burger you paid for never looks as good as the one in their pictures! Grr!

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    Unclebup  over 15 years ago

    Calvin looks a little stressed in the last panel.

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    fatuncle  over 15 years ago

    Gweedo Murray said, about 6 hours ago

    ladywolf, Pibgorn is at this site. Just do the A-Z comic search. It’s a good place to hang out. Lots of erudite, educated folk with plenty to say.”

    The downside, of course, is that there are also people like me.

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    onebob  over 15 years ago

    Hobbes is the coolest character ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And you gotta love hobbes! ANd he is real! how else does calvin end up swing in a tree by his underwaer?

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    cleokaya  over 15 years ago

    I was never any good with airplane models either. But give me a fashion model and watch me go to work.

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    JonD17  over 15 years ago

    Calvin, it looks more like a plane than I thought it would,lol, so be happy! Macushlalandra; walk into a sandwich shop and ask for a sandwich just like the one on the poster in the window and they will just laugh at you.

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    Wildmustang1262  over 15 years ago

    Yo Calvin! See what I mean. You ruin those model airplane for nothing. You should ask your daddy for his help to assemble the model airplane with the instruction and etc. Sighhhh! How fool you are to do with those damaged model airplane? :-\

    prasrinivara said, about 3 hours ago

    Yeah, Hobbes figured it correctly–for the picture on the box of a BIY model (car, lorry, plane) they always use a real one (for plane to be displayed on stand, they then do double-exposure to make it fit; oft I’ve seen the picture on front for model plane does not display the stand).

    If “you” don’t want the model airplane to be displayed, you can hang the model airplane with the wax fishing thread up the ceiling that looks more likely “airplane flies in the sky.”

    charlie37133 said, about 3 hours ago

    LADYWOLF i am stillgood with Plastic Man.

    yeah, there is GARFIELD, then i thought DADDY WARBUCKS, than i plopped back to AMOS of 9CWL. but there one character who was a little bit all of these.

    PLASTIC MAN

    Charlie37133, you said you are good with plastic man so I would like to ask you about the metal model thing. do you familiar with those metal model car or whatever? I bought two of model 1970’s Ford Mustang Mach II but these are metal and primer in color that need to spray with different kind of color to look nice on it. I was not sure about it. I never did with the metal model car before. I used to know what to do with plastic model cars. I would like to know what your feedback about metal model car or not. Thx! :-)

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    bmonk  over 15 years ago

    @JonD, it looks like a plane you could walk away from after a crash landing…and they used to say any landing you can walk away from is a good landing…LOL

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    Yukoner  over 15 years ago

    JonD17, maybe we should all try it and report our results here tomorrow.

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    linsonl  over 15 years ago

    bmonk: If you can reuse the plane, its a great landing!

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    fatuncle  over 15 years ago

    @Gweedo Murray

    [glumly, rubbing the knot on my head] Yeah, you did, but the squirrels got real indignant when I started eating their peanuts, and shoved me back out again.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 15 years ago

    since its a disaster already, it was at this point that I would have decided to have a plane crash…….did you know that plastic cement glue is flammable?…….great effects, but you only get to do it once!

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    I think Calvin should give up on making plastic models and get himself a REAL Phantom Jet. (I recall this actually happens in a C&H Sunday comic along the way. Fasten your seat belts.)

    ……………

    EMET….Wish we could do lunch sometime. I’d spring for it just to sit and listen to the way your mind works. Funny stuff.

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    donkeymom  over 15 years ago

    Hey, Ladywolf I enjoyed seeing what character everyone would be. I am Marcie from Peanuts, good at school, bad at sports, bad eyesite. I guess my fantasy would be Brenda Starr.

    I notice that nobody has picked Mary Worth.

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    EMET, we might have a problem doing lunch since I live on the most geographically remote island (in conjection with any major land mass) in the world: Kauai, Hawaii.

    How ‘bout you? –you probably live closer to me than I do. Your accent suggests you’re from Tasmania.

    Perhaps we could meet somewhere in the middle….like Nebraska maybe. I’m easy to spot. I’ll be the tattood dude wearing a plaid jacket with a bone through his nose.

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    mizzcrazy11  over 15 years ago

    Haha i just this! they are so funny! I cant belive they cant make a plane!

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    GrumpyOldbear  over 15 years ago

    One of my best memories is putting together a model of Indian Point Nuclear Generating plant with my Dad when I was about 12. It was a present from Santa. After Christmas dinner we started, with my brother, and worked all day and through the night and finished about 7AM the next day. Priceless memories. Wonder to where that got off.

    2140 CDT

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    JonD17  over 15 years ago

    bmonk, amen to that!

    Yukoner, prolly take more than a day to get it organized, but would be a fun study.

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