Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 04, 2009

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    margueritem  about 15 years ago

    LOL! Most Moms do look alike from the knees down.

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    samarth14  about 15 years ago

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    pouncingtiger  about 15 years ago

    Unless they have vericose veins.

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    pouncingtiger  about 15 years ago

    I bet Mom and Dad are now a HAPPY couple, since they got rid of Calvin.

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    mroberts88  about 15 years ago

    I notice Calvins parents didnt say anything when he left.

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    Ronshua  about 15 years ago

    The walk was OK but the top is noway .

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    cleokaya  about 15 years ago

    I had the same thing happen to me. i grabbed onto a woman’s coat, that resembled my mom’s. When I discovered my mistake I burst into tears and ran through the grocery trying to find her. Several aisles later I found her and the sense of relief was amazing. I still can bring up the feeling.

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    Yukoner  about 15 years ago

    I remember as a child the same thing happening to me. And in their turn this happened to each of my kids, albeit in a different setting for each.

    I bet it’s happened to almost every one of you.

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    Allen Rymer  about 15 years ago

    Yep. And the sense of finding someone who knows you is amazing. I think that one of my greatest fears when I was younger was getting separated from my parents and never finding them again.

    Little did I know… now I have bigger ones…like losing the remaining parent I still have and knowing it is inevitable.

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    Ivy0730Lcsq  about 15 years ago

    Mom is wearing dress?

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    sjoujke  about 15 years ago

    It’s amazing how different the world looks depending on how tall you are. I’m “petite” and I was standing on a stool one day looking around and it gave me the visual perspective of somebody who was over 6 feet tall - no wonder my friend who’s 6’5” tall doesn’t see half the stuff I see.

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    margueritem  about 15 years ago

    sjoujke, and when our 6’5” friends come over, the tops of our refrigerators had better be dusted. ;-)

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    Rakkav  about 15 years ago

    Thankfully, I can’t recall having gone through this with my mom.

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    The Duke 1  about 15 years ago

    Marg, I’ve been meaning to talk to you about the top of your fridge……

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    Dino-1  about 15 years ago

    I lost my parents at an amusement park. I panicked for a bit but I was always pretty mature for my age. I went to one of the indoor restaurant’s there and told the lady at the counter. She was more of a mess about it than I was and went and got her supervisor. They made an announcement and they gave me a soda. The lady (probably a school girl) kept trying to console me while she was losing it. I just told her I knew my parents would find me and it would be ok and that they’d be there soon. Otherwise when I was real little I’d be the kid wandering off to sit on the riding lawn mowers and make car driving sounds. Mom got frightened at first but then knew if it happened where I could be found.

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    watcha  about 15 years ago

    Wonder if Calvin’s dad planned this? I mean, who would blame him after the crocodile pit episode.

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    lazygrazer  about 15 years ago

    I got separated from my mom at a carnival. I panicked and cried and some nice folks calmed me with cotton candy while the hawkers announced a lost little boy to the crowd.

    I was 27 at the time. (no, haha, I was about 5).

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    Crooky  about 15 years ago

    Noone EVER plans to lose their child in a public place - it’s a parent’s worst nightmare! My sister was shopping in a busy market with her 3 y.o. son, let go of his hand to pick up an item and when she looked down again he was gone - only a matter of less than a minute. We searched that market for hours before we finally found him. He was subdued but okay, but his mum was a wreck.

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    Herocoder  about 15 years ago

    Hobbes is never there when you really need him! is he??

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    lewisbower  about 15 years ago

    My parents tried oh so hard to lose me

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    This cartoon (including comments) is loaded! Do I hear a collective groan…not too collective, I hope? If Calvin’s mother gets arrested for abandonment of child, she won’t have a leg ‘to stand on’ (on which to stand) in her defense. “Without a Leg to Stand On” - vocal by Lindsey Buckingham JanCinVV, are you familiar with that one?

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    Aikidodog  about 15 years ago

    This happens to my dad all the time. Do you know how many dads wear faded blue jeans and ratty sneakers?!? We’ve gotten into the habit to always look down to make sure when it does happen the kid doesn’t get too far away from their parent.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Ivy0730 said, “Mom is wearing dress?” Actually, Mom is wearing a dark skirt almost down to her ankles, (unless she got sprayed by a monkey and was able to change). Apparently Calvin hadn’t noticed what she was wearing.

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    Risinya  about 15 years ago

    Whenever I got lost in a store it was usually Walmart… I kept hiding under the clothes racks. Scared one of the workers out of her wits once. I was hiding under a clothing rack and the woman decided it needed relocation.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Herocoder said, “Hobbes is never there when you really need him! Is he?” Whose fault is that? It’s a good thing Calvin can’t get arrested for abandonment of a stuffed tiger?

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    ElainefromFlorida  about 15 years ago

    When our boys were small we taught them to “hug a tree” when they got separated from us. In other words, instead of them walking around trying to find us and us walking around trying to find them, if they stayed in one place (find an object and stay there) we would eventually find them. It worked, too!

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Was Calvin slightly taken aback (‘mom’entarily) when he realized (with her help) that the lady wasn’t his mother?

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Margueritem said, “LOL! Most Moms do look alike from the knees down.” At least in this case they do, but that’s not exactly positive. Stick-shaped legs are not the most attractive. BTW, what are you doing here twice in one day? Are you looking for attention? :-) Well, I’ll share it with you… you’re usually the catalyst that helps to get things going. Your second one was good, though, but I just check my own top of the fridge…until now.

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    alondra  about 15 years ago

    Dino you did the right thing by going somewhere they could make a public announcement.

    I don’t have kids but I can well imagine how a parent would feel to find their kid is suddenly missing. With so many kidnappings these days it has to be a parent’s worst nightmare.

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    uma7c  about 15 years ago

    Love the expression of shock and embarrassment(?) on his face in panel 3… there’s no fear or panic visible there…

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    GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago

    She does look like her from the knees down. It’ll teach him next time to look up…way up…to discover she doesn’t look anything like Mom. But I’m sure we’ve all been there, done that.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Risinya said, “I was hiding under a clothing rack…” Did you get your sticky cotton candy fingers on the clothes? Oh, that wasn’t you with cotton candy, that was grazer. Hmm…using cotton candy to calm a lost child. Isn’t the sugar more likely to make him/her hyper? Is there a paradox or an oxymoron in there, somewhere?

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    madampresiden12  about 15 years ago

    Never had this happen to me my mom HELD OUR HANDS, something parents today don’t seem capable of. When we came home, as my mom was fond of saying, our hands were blue from being squeezed. It always makes me wonder, how in today’s society where children are kidnapped in broad daylight, any parent or guardian could let a child lag behind particularly in parking lots and crowded malls, while they talk on cell phones, etc. When I was a little older, my mom always knew where to find me. Just follow the books.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    pouncing tiger said, ” Unless they have vericose veins.” Are varicose veins similar to ‘very close’ veins? I’m sorry, it’s my ‘vain’ attempt at humor! Okay, it’s double entendre… triple entendre, even - Snagglepuss “Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 1:2 Give me a break. I have to quote the Bible “Once in A While” -song. “You must remember this” …, JanCinVV

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    bald  about 15 years ago

    when my youngest son was 6 months old we left home for a trip to a friends house and half way there my wife said where is the baby. … he was still back at home in his crib sleeping

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    Stede_Bonnet  about 15 years ago

    My mom got lost once when I was a kid. She says ran all around the store in a panic, waving her arms like the sky was falling. As for me, I just went about my business and she eventually found her way back to me. She was in such a tizzy that she even rudely interrupted a conversation that I was having with one of the store clerks. It was very embarrassing but eventually I calmed her down and took her home.

    In hindsight, it was probably a good learning experience for her since it is important for all parents to eventually learn to exercise some responsibility and self-discipline. It’s hard raising parents but if you don’t make the effort, they’ll just turn out to be timid, clingy souls who have to tied to their children with little leashes to keep them from wandering off. Honestly, some of them are just plain helpless.

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    coffeeturtle  about 15 years ago

    Mom’s dress was longer. It does seem unusual for her to be wearing anything but pants….

    Where’s Hobbes again?

    All we need now is to have several animals escape from their cages right at this point. :-D

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    RinaFarina  about 15 years ago

    help! i got lost!

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Ronshua said, “The walk was OK, but the top is noway.” There’s a subtle pun or play-on-words in there, somewhere. It’s poetic, though. “No way, Jose”

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    JanLC  about 15 years ago

    Not familiar with “Without a Leg to Stand On” or “Once in a While” (I suspect I’m too old), but Sam did sing “As Time Goes By” well in Casablanca, didn’t he.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    cleokayo said, I burst into tears and ran through the grocery…” Calvin’s balloon burst (pop!) in midair (or upper air). It’s conjugated, ‘burst, burst, burst’, but the ‘common’ term is ‘bust, busted, busted, as compared with ‘go, went, gone’ or ‘do, did, done’, etc.

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    PadmeSkywalker  about 15 years ago

    I got lost once coming off a ride (into a gift shop) at Disney World when I was very little, like 3 or 4. When I realized my parents weren’t with me, I walked straight to the security guard by the sales counter and said (this is the part my parents love to tell), “My parents are lost.” I gave him my name and waited patiently for my parents to be unlost.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    sjoujke said, “I’m “petite”…no wonder my friend who’s 6’5” tall doesn’t see half the stuff I see.” That’s quite true ‘when you get right down to it’. Speaking of tall, does JanCinVV (or anybody else) remember “Tall Paul”? It reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959 for Annette (“Beach Party”) Funicello. There’s an interesting story connected with it, but I won’t bore you with that one. I hear a chorus of “Thanks for small favors”. :o)

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    stuart  about 15 years ago

    At Calvin’s age, I used to dream about rescuing my Mom when alien invaders attacked the school just as she came to pick me up. (And an abandoned merry-go-round foundation was my spaceship for visiting other planets during recess.)

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    RinaFarina  about 15 years ago

    can’t find my reading glasses! can’t SEE! help!

    oh, well, i’ll just take a break and sit down here. C&H usually has more comments than any other comic I go to (except for Pibgorn), so by the time I’ve finished reading them I should have calmed down a bit.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    crooky said, “Noone EVER plans to lose their child…” Is that Peter Noone of “Herman’s Hermits”? That would account for “…but his mum was a wreck”. Mum is the British term for Mom. Are you British? I’m not mocking you. I’m just ‘trying’ to make a joke in asking the question. You can’t be “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”. “Rescue Me”, “Please”, JanCinVV! I might need ‘damage control’, here.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Paul said, “…he was just anxious to get on the plane.” “Da plane! Da plane” - “Fantasy Island”. I guess your 2 year old was just ‘plane’ (plain) anxious. Alright, maybe I’m hopeless. “The Girl Can’t Help It’ - 1956 Jayne Mansfield film

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    ElainefromFlorida said, “When our boys were small we taught them to “hug a tree”…” I hope there were no dogs around that needed to relieve themselves, and there was no other tree in sight. The boys would soon be “Up a Tree” - 1930 comedy film directed by Fatty Arbuckle.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Stuart Gathman, Are you AKA Calvin2?

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    Comic-Nut  about 15 years ago

    So it’s Calvin and not Hobbes that gets lost. Spoilerman was off base from his note yesterday.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Stede_Bonnet, We’ve had our differences, at least you have with me, but I must give you credit for a very clever and amusing presentation (reversal of roles) of the time when your “mom got lost”. Did you use ‘reverse psychology’ to get her out of her ‘tizzy’ and “calm her down”? Speaking of ‘tizzy’, Rina Farina seems to be in one. I hope it has nothing to do with me.

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    bmonk  about 15 years ago

    There were enough of us kids that we used the buddy method: someone looking out for someone else. It was better than mom or dad having to keep track of everyone.

    OTOH, when someone asked mom how many of us there were, she’d count us, and then give a start and say, “Oh no! We left Jerry at home again!” (or “We lost Sam again!” or Alice, or some other random name)

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    grammahotsho  about 15 years ago

    Lost? Call out for your mom and curse - she’ll show up pronto!

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    Yukoneric  about 15 years ago

    When our son was three he walked up behind a woman in a store and started rubbing her posterior. Mistaken identity, or an early voyeur???

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    petrovthiessen  about 15 years ago

    Hmm, I’m guessing calvin left hobbes @ the monkey cage since hobbes probably insulted calvin, now calvin will check the tiger cage to see if hobbes wandered there

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    JanCinVV, I wasn’t familiar with “Without a Leg to Stand On”, either. It was released in 1973 as part of a 10-track LP album with Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham before they hit the big time with Fleetwood Mac in 1976. “Once in a While” is a much-recorded standard. Tommy Dorsey’s recording in1937 (you can’t be that old!) went to number one in the United States. One of the best-known recordings was made by Patti Page in 1952. “Play it again, Sam” is a misquotation from the film “Casablanca”, but he did sing the song “As Time Goes By”. You did well to remember the title from the lyric I wrote. “Casablanca” has been on TV many times, but I’ve never watched the whole movie.

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    Ronshua  about 15 years ago

    Puddleglum 2– Brother did you experience the joy of the 1941 film Tobacco road on the silver screen ? Jeeter and I just wondered .

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Whether it’s Calvin or Hobbes that’s lost depends on your perspective, I guess. Calvin probably left Hobbes on the bench where they were yesterday, but who knows where he will turn up. In these cartoons time and events don’t always follow a logical sequence.

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    bandz  about 15 years ago

    A really funny strip!! One of Watterson’s best ever.

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    Drifter359  about 15 years ago

    dog gone Hobbes, i think he planned this…

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    yyyguy  about 15 years ago

    when i was 3, we lived in an old farm house. we kids were allowed to go “meet dad” when he came home from work (by walking to the end of the lane, where he’d stop, let us into the car, and drive us back to the house). one day he was running very late and i’d gone to meet him a bit early. i got tired of waiting and started walking down the road. by the time they found me, i’d walked almost 2 miles (and it would have been farther if i hadn’t stopped by some cows in a field near the side of the road). as others have said, it doesn’t take much - and i’ve been on the other side of the situation as well.

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    Stede_Bonnet  about 15 years ago

    Puddleglum2: Our “differences” are solely that I am a man of few words and you yap like a magpie. Today alone, you’ve posted about 25% of all the comments on this forum. Consider the idea that every thought is not worthy of public dissemination and the ones that are could benefit from quiet contemplation and concise editing.

    (No response required. Really.)

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Ronshua, I can’t recall ever seeing “Tobacco Road”. Erskine Caldwell was the author of the book. I did read “God’s Little Acre” by the same author and I saw the movie “Claudelle Inglish” with Diane McBain and Will Hutchins of “Sugarfoot” fame. BTW Hutchin’s wife Chris is Carol Burnett’s sister. Chad Everett, perhaps best known for “Medical Center” was in that film, also. When I was younger, I used to go to movies, but in recent years I just occasionally watch a film (or part of one) on TV. I don’t approve of most movies these days. Even when the content is good, I usually find too much that’s objectionable to me. I do read a lot, though. Is Jeeter to whom you refer, the elderly Georgia farmer in the film “Tobacco Road”? At first, I thought it might be your wife’s name. Have you been married 50 years? I knew Jeeter was not Derek Jeter from the Yankees. Go Red Sox! I hope that doesn’t offend you if you’re a Yankees’ fan!

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    krisbee  about 15 years ago

    reminds me of my childhood days. happened with me quite a few times!! :)

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    ratlum  about 15 years ago

    Lost my dad in a hardware store took a hand of a stranger by mistake he is still in shock I bet Lost my wife in a casino by the time I found her I realized wife looked like a lot of other women with her arms around a slot machine Calvin did the right thing this is not the time to rely on Hobbes

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Stede_Bonnet, From my perspective, a response is necessary, unfortunately. You took two paragraphs to be “a man of few words”, but I didn’t find fault with it. I showed my appreciation by commending you for it. You showed your appreciation by insulting me and my considerable efforts. Yap is slang for “To talk noisily or stupidly; jabber”. You fill the ‘bill’ for “yap like a magpie” as “Heckle and Jeckle”. Frankly, your comments about me are ‘for the birds’. No matter how many posts I submit, most, if not all of them are worthwhile, and I won’t go into more detail. I’ve said it, previously. If more people read my comments, some people wouldn’t be writing the same things I’ve already written. That’s redundant. Public dissemination is what we have, here. It’s a public forum. Not everything is for everybody. I understand that, but… Portia: (from Merchant of Venice) How all the other passions fleet to air, As doubtful thoughts and rash-embraced despair, And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! Iago: (from Othello) O, beware, my lord, of jealousy, It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat on which it feeds. I do plenty of “quiet contemplation”, and concise editing. I suggest you follow your own advice. Check your spelling of dissemination, concise and editing, for instance. I’m fed up with shallow and obtuse minds who criticize and mock erudition. At least most people have enough sense to ignore it if it’s over their heads or not their ‘cup of tea’, so to speak. I’m left with no choice but to appeal to the people. I don’t like to say it, but I must. If you want me here, let me and others know, preferably in no uncertain terms. Otherwise, I will exit the premises. In large measure, I have enjoyed my time here, and have made at least a few friends, If there aren’t enough of you that appreciate or like me, then “I’m out of here.” I can be useful elsewhere instead of here, if it must be so. If you care, let it be known!

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    JohnnyDarko  about 15 years ago

    i got lost at disneyland the first i went. kind of a scary moment i remember. As a kid i would always wander off but never to far that my mom couldn’t see me. but with all the people there and my excitement of being there i managed to loose mom for a while.

    also to puddleglum2:

    what do mean by ” I usually find too much that’s objectionable to me”

    movies today are mainly target at 18-30 yr old men even more so in the summer.

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    JohnnyDarko  about 15 years ago

    well i just sign on today but im with you Puddle

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    WoodEye  about 15 years ago

    Puddleglum2….. There’s a limit to how much one person should write. I have begun skipping your comments from the fourth entry on. I’m sure there are others doing the same. Sorry…..

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    Stede_Bonnet  about 15 years ago

    Puddleglum2… I believe you have proved my point. Thx.

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    Vonnegut  about 15 years ago

    Wow. Puddleglum2 – if you want to quote Shakespeare, I suggest that MacBeth is the play for you:

    “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

    Break a leg.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    JohnnyDarko, I don’t like violence, foul language, nudity, and other things excessively graphic, especially if they are gratuitous. Nudity appeals from a sensual aspect, but I disapprove on moral grounds. In 1939, when Clark Gable said, “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a —- (I don’t care), it was considered inappropriate, or at least questionable. Now he would be more likely to use an obscene word. I suppose my answer might turn you against me, but that’s the chance I have to take.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    JohnnyDarko, Thank you for responding. I greatly appreciate your being “with me”. I’ve only been here about three weeks, but if you desire to check further to confirm your first impressions, you may find my comments for the past two weeks. However, I’ve said enough today for you to get the idea.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Woodeye, Who sets the limit? I’m greatly puzzled about that objection. How is it that the number of posts is the main consideration rather than the content and worthiness. Please explain! Suppose I submitted comments with a dozen or so different names and no one knew who they were. Would that make a difference? I suppose some of the people DON’T read my posts. If they are looking for fragment sentences of one or two lines, they won’t want most of mine. My detractors probably read them the least. At least, you read about four of them. It seems to me that your appetite would be whetted for more. Also, it is evident that many people prefer trite, trivial, and banal comments that mean little or nothing, and I don’t mean any offense to anyone “To Each His Own”. From what I recall of your comments, you seem to be more intellectual and concerned with real issues than some others, but I’d have to look back to confirm that impression. You know from what you’ve read from me what I present. It’s many faceted and varied with widespread interests being expressed. Nevertheless, I thank you for your response.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Stede_Bonnet, Au contraire! Your last two responses to me prove my point! Your main concern is the length of my post. You didn’t even answer to anything, let alone refute my assertions and explanations, and I answered everything you wrote and then some. You are obdurate and obstinate. There is no way to get through to you no matter what I say or how I say it. Further communication would be useless.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Vonnegut, I’ll stay with my quotes. You may keep yours, since it apparently applies to you and your ilk, anyway. Break a leg is cute, though, except that you probably mean it. “Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit (eyes).” Proverbs 26:5 P.S. Wait a minute. I just reread your post to me. I suppose it’s too much to hope that you meant that the quote from Macbeth applied to my detractor. By a remote chance, if that is so, disregard most of my above response. :o)

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    Ushindi  about 15 years ago

    I never knew my real parents - I was a young prince who was kidnapped from my castle and sold for $38 to the man and woman who raised me. True story.

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    bandz  about 15 years ago

    Puddles, here’s a quote that your posts bring to mind; “There is no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.” –Sen. Edmund Muskie. It applies to writing as well as to speaking. Even good things can be overdone. I love humor myself, but I think you try too hard. As for your thought that reading a few of your comments would whet readers appetites for more, I find in my case that it has the opposite effect, which is probably not the reaction you are hoping for. Evaluating what is “good” and what is not reminds me of the story of the newleweds. The new wife has just served her husband her first dinner. She says, “I hope you like my cooking. My mother taught me how to cook. My best dishes are meatloaf and apple pie.” The husband, chewing his first bite says, “Which is this?”

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    bandz  about 15 years ago

    To continue my post in response to Pg2, My reaction to the MANY posts that, as you put it, are “trite, trivial, and banal comments that mean little or nothing” my feelings are in agreement with yours. The only advantage they have over yours are that they’re brief.

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    notinksanymore  about 15 years ago

    I read all these stories and suddenly those monkey shaped backpacks with the really long tails that act like a leash seem like a brilliant idea.

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    Aardvark359  about 15 years ago

    I’m new here but is it like this everyday? This puddleglum doesn’t seem to have an off-switch. Figure it out dude! If someone says you talk too much then MORE talking is not the way to prove them wrong. You must be one of those people who simply loves the sound of his own voice. Give it a rest. My scroll wheel will thank you.

    As for the comic, I love how Calvin goes from “WHOOP!” to completely calm in a fraction of a second. My instinct would be to run away in embarrassment!

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    bandz, What’s cooking? I read that story about the newlyweds recently. Maybe it was on this website. It reminds me of the Lockhorns. There is something to what you say in the first post to me. I’ve said some of those things, myself, about me.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    bandz, In your second shorter post, if you’re saying that it’s “too much of a good thing”, I don’t completely agree, but maybe you’re partly right, anyway. It’s just that some people and the comic give me too much ammo. I’ll see whether I can exercise some restraint and try to be more selective.

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    pintcape  about 15 years ago

    look out world,calvin is on the loose,how did he lose hobbes

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    Vonnegut  about 15 years ago

    Puddleglum - Sorry if I was unclear. I meant to say that MacBeth was referring to you. You say a lot but not much of it is significant. Maybe you would prefer Much Ado About Nothing?

    But you are right about one thing… I probably meant to say “Good Luck!”

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    ouiza224  about 15 years ago

    Love it! And who hasn’t had that happen to them?

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    Ronshua  about 15 years ago

    Puddleglum2 –My wife Gladys has been married ah half Century. Less for me I traveled alot .HaHa

    Jeeter was the main character . Take a peek .

    http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D02E7DF133DE33BBC4951DFB466838A659EDE

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    petee123579  about 15 years ago

    OH MY GOODNESS I DID SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT WHEN I WAS A KID EXCEPT I HUGGED THE LADIES LEG TRYING TO HIDE! Then it just got worse from there. LOL

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    JohnnyDarko  about 15 years ago

    hey puddles.

    I’m going assume that I am much younger then you. My generation HAS been force fed a ton of garbage , i will admit. so sadly for me all that you mentioned is kinda the norm. What worries me is this…

    what will people be “entertained” with when i get to 40, 80 or (God willing) 100. it is scary to think about.

    Oh end for the rest of you…

    No one has the right to tell any they cant express them selves. Let alone tell any one that they post too much.

    IF you dont want to read a post, just scroll down!

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Vonnegut, You weren’t unclear; I just wanted to be certain. Did you read the story from bandz about the newlyweds? Have you considered the possibility that you and some others don’t know the difference between “meatloaf” and “apple pie”? If you read all my posts for yesterday (Sept. 4) alone, seriously and with due consideration, how can you not realize that they are much more than “Much Ado About Nothing”? Not only that, but there is significantly more humor than “sound and fury”. I’d better close before people, (apparently including you)with incredibly short attention spans, lose focus and concentration and their minds wander into ethereal nothingness. BTW, I prefer God’s Providence to Good Luck, but I’ll take it in the spirit in which it was given.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Aardvark359 said, “You Talk Too Much” - Joe Jones (1960) Perhaps people that think I talk too much are not listening (or reading) carefully enough, let alone too much. Aardvark359 said, “You must be one of those people who simply loves the sound of his own voice.” Pardon me while I go look at my vocal reflection in the pool! Why don’t you go eat the “termites” instead of consorting and cavorting with them to destroy a worthy edifice? If (since) you’re new here, don’t “Rush to Judgment”! “Haste makes waste.”

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    DerkinsVanPelt218  over 13 years ago

    The halcyon days before cell phones were almost as common with kids as Game Boys. You had to rely on security for everything.

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