Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 28, 2010

Love you, Hobbes!

He’s probably going to answer yes.

What an indignity!

You are already a great comic strip.

I don’t think reasoning with him will work, Hobbes. LOL

Just don’t call him “Stinky!”

maybe you’ll be a good cartoonist as bill and continue writing comic strips about your self

How you gonna clean up the world if you can’t clean up yerself? Huh, how?

Guess it is OK for great men to be smelly and dirty.

It’s sometimes difficult to remember that Hobbes is really Calvin talking to himself.

Well, look at it this way, Calvin. Your history will show that you overcame great obstacles in your youth.

This is so ENFP that this ENFP could die laughing. When did Bill Watterson talk to my late mother?

Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy!

then again…suppose you DON”T grow up to be one of the greatest men of all time…

Frozen in time as one of the most imaginative, manipulative, irrepressible characters of his time. Thanks, Bill.

CALVIN.. you are a great person already..!!!

Good morning to all! Hobbes says so little but ends up saying so much.

what is ENFP?

I’m going to write the great American novel, end hunger, and bring world peace. However for the next 45 minutes I’ll be in the tub with the newspaper.

Have the history books try out this one: “Even at an early age, this great man didn’t have time for baths, though many of his peers dared to call him ‘dirty and smelly.’”

It has been said of nearly every president by someone – “that guy stinks!” So maybe Calvin has something there.

Once his sense of smell goes nuts when he hits puberty, he’ll start to care about being dirty and smelly. :D

@kathryn74 - I think ENFP is “Extremely Naughty Fictional Person” XD

yyyguy, your assessment of my dinnerware situation is pretty much correct, lol, although my lovely female accomplice does actually do the dishes a couple times per week. It is generally my job though since she cooks 5 or 6 times per week.

Yes, Calvin is the greatest comic strip of all time! Where are you BW?…and why did you stop? You are brilliant!

I agree with you, Carmy. Exactly what I thought.

Grog, great minds…

Hello Mike Firesmith and Loki.

kathryn74 ENFP is one of 16 personality types devised by two women, Myers and Biggs, and was a popular pop psychology method 20 - 30 years ago. It is a little quizz used mostly by people who don’t know what career field they want to go into. You can find it on line by typing Myers Biggs into google or what ever search engine you use.

calvin, you are well known, after all it was you who invented the transmogrifier and spent time as spaceman spiff

Those who spend time chasing greatness itself never will achieve it.

Exactly hobbes,, good point there.

Myers Briggs can be extremely useful way of understanding yourself and others.

People interact with the world and each other in drastically different ways. These differences can cause huge misunderstandings.

The Myers Briggs method of defining and explaining these differences can help us deal more effectively with diversity.

There is no “right” type of person. Just different types.

Myers Briggs is often misunderstood and misused. Proper use requires more than a one day seminar or goodness forbid a two-hour test with no followup. The best use of MB requires professional guidance.

MB is not the only useful guide to personality and expecting it to reveal any absolute truths is foolish indeed. Unfortunately some proponents pretend that it provides all the answers.

Calvin and I share NFP. He is an E (extrovert) I am an I (introvert).

As an introvert, I gain energy by being alone and expend it by being with others. Calvin, as an extrovert, gains energy by being with others and expends it when alone.

Far from being a “pop personality quiz” which was “popular 20-30 years ago”, the MBTI is still by far the most used personality test around the world. It has its limitations, but it is a professional psychological tool and should be treated as such (i.e., it was NEVER meant to be taken alone apart from feedback from a qualified administrator, precisely because of its strengths and weaknesses).

Myers and Briggs didn’t develop the theory behind the test. The test is not the theory. Carl Jung laid the groundwork for the theory. Myers and Briggs simply sought a way to make the theory accessible in a practical way to the general public. And since then, the theory has been developed to subtle strength by many people such as David Kiersey, John Beebe, and IMO above all Linda Berens et al. of Interstrength Associates. It involves temperament, social or interactive styles, cognitive dynamics, archetypes and dichotomies of preferences such as lie behing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

If you go to my personal blog and scroll down until you see “Personality Type” in the right-hand margin, you’ll see all the major Web sites I know of on this subject. Pointing you there is much easier than trying to relist everything here.

That said, “Extremely Naughty Fictional Person” is one of the best mock definitions of ENFP I’ve seen. If you know where to look, you’ll find ENFPs inventing their own mock definitions of the acronym and putting them into lists.

ENFP actually means Extraverted - Intuiting - Feeling - Perceiving. It’s a summary code for a specific preferred order of cognitive processes (four of which take in information, four off which decide on that information, in the objective and subjective worlds).

Calvin I use to feel that way about baths too. Then grew up and need to stay clean. What happened to that boy sat in the unside down umbrella play in water while it rained? Spammer alert not on this strip but it’s on others.

Calvin’s world has been turned ‘upside down’ in his being “unwillingly in the bathtub” …enter the umbrella. Voila! Bath becomes fun! Of course, Calvin might get ‘ribbed’ by the umbrella, not to mention Mom and Dad.

lindz.coop (from yesterday), If Calvin and Danae got together, would they become - “insto, presto, twins!”, or Hermaphrodite as Hermaphroditus and Salmacis became when their “bodies blended into one form” (a creature of both sexes)?

Im kind of glad I did not have Hobbes with his good scents around all the time. It would take away some of the fun.

BTW, according to today’s NON SEQUITUR, Adam and Eve co-existed with dinosaurs. Far be it from me to dispute scientific cartoon fact, especially if it agrees with the biblical account in the first chapter of Genesis. I won’t vouch for the machine, though; that’s speculative!

thank god calvin has hobbes.

Calvin is a genius in his own mind, errrrr, I mean in his own time.

At least he’s got soap bubbles.

Calvin, how can you get clean with all those bubbles in the tub? You’ll never find the soap! BTW, put your slate into the tub with you. You might as well start off with a clean one when you get out!

Hobbes has an interesting point. However, it should be noted that there were men in history who were both clean and absolutely deadly such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

CarmyGenius_badge said, about 7 adages ago

Grog, great minds…

That’s what’s so frightening about you two: that you agree!

Isn’t this the same little boy who, 3 strips ago, was standing out in the rain — in a makeshift wading pool via an umbrella — getting soaked to the skin and appearing to have the time of his life???!!!

Some of History’s greatest minds have had their ‘eureka Moments’ in the bath. Archimedes had the most famous one, and Winston Churchill dictated many of his speeches from the tub,

LOL bmonk!

You ARE the world’s greatest six year old of all time, and your name HAS been an inspiration to humanity for a short eon so far. That’s why we are all here cheering you on every day. Most of us anyway.

Calvin is NOT an extrovert. What about his activities would suggest that he is? If anyone couldn’t be bothered with anybody else if he didn’t have to, it’s Calvin. He thrives when he’s alone in his own imagination, not when he is at school or with anyone else, other than Hobbes, who is, again, himself.

JohananRakkov is extremely full of himself. Blech! Promoting your personal blog is against the rules. You are technically an egomaniacal spammer. Nobody cares. We’re here for Calvin. Join one of those phone lines where they are paid to listen you go on about yourself.

Puddleglum2 – I would rather they stayed as separate personalities – double the trouble!! I can’t remember – was Hermaphrodite a trouble-maker or just dual-sexed?

I haven’t gotten to Non Seq yet – but I don’t remember dinosaurs in the Bible. I know that’s what the Creationist crowd believes because their world doesn’t go back more than 6,000 years ago – making it difficult to incorporate those 65 million year old bones we’ve found.

That is NOT what “the Creationist crowd believes”.

Hey, this great boy brings joy.

Perhaps it is only what the Creationist crowd that I know (family members, students & friends) contends – 4004 BC the world began.

Whatever Calvin grows up to be, I bet he’ll still go to Hobbes for advice. They are quite a team!

Cleanliness is next to Godliness!

you know calvin, taking a bath will make you famous someday. no one wants a smelly celebrity or whatever you want to be.

how does calvin know what a eon even is?