Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 10, 2010

Some kid from the 50s…

That is something that discourages everyone.

That’s what happens to me.

Maybee,some kid in his fifties

GM Marg and all early bird SPECIALS

It sure won’t be Susie D.

Good thought, Calvin! Where’s Hobbes?

G’Morning Mike, Marg, Fran & Grog!

Perhaps it is enough to impress himself!

He will make a good business man - thinks of the market first.

I’m impressed by anyone who can work a yo-yo.

I never could get the hang of it.

Come to think of it, I could never get a slinky to go down the stairs either…

His patience wears out very fast, doesn’t it?

It could be me playing with a yo-yo…

Perhaps it will succeed to impress this one, he wants to impress!

Yo-yo’s were losing interest with kids when I was little but the frisbee was cool! I used to enjoy watching my cousin and his friends do these long distance throws, hi-lo rises, around the shoulder and down the arm rolls, and other cool tricks. I still see the occasional frisbee but now it’s the hacky-sacks that the kids are doing the cool tricks with I see around our neighborhood.

As a kid, I used to play Minesweeper on my computer, non-stop. I was very good at it. But nobody was impressed by it .. what a waste of time :(

Hard to imagine Calvin mastering any skill. Except whining.

Frankr said yesterday, “Don’t make me a sandwich on a 70 pound Kaiser roll. Too filling.” Hobbes might disagree with you if the filling is tuna. Why don’t you (and Calvin) use the Kaiser roll as a yo-yo? It would double as a weight-lifting device. With a chiseled body, Calvin could impress Susie! Don’t forget to alternate hands, or your washboard abs will be unbalanced. Calvin is unbalanced enough, already. BTW, who remembers the washboard?

Yukoner, Thank you. I read an extended review yesterday. Although I didn’t time it precisely, I must have spent an hour or two reading it. I have a somewhat similar book called Power Steering With Words which “is considered the Bible of business communications”. Here’s an (excellent) article for anyone interested: www.dove.org/news/uplink/hu0411.htm

sandfan, Your skill fills the bill in one line.

I hope fran650 doesn’t stop reading here, already.

LOL

i agree marg…

Welcome to Life 101, kid. Do what you love, love what you do…

GreenJade, You might be useful in Iraq, especially near the Iraq-Iran border. On the other hand (using a Kaiser roll yo-yo), maybe the mines help hinder Al-Qaeda and other terrorists and insurrectionists infiltrating from Iran. I won’t send you to China or Korea. :o)

Frankr said, “I never could get the hang of it. …I could never get a slinky to go down the stairs, either.” Don’t try to get the ‘hang’ of it in Calvin’s closet. Besides being cramped for style, you might never find your way out. With puns like that one, you should feel slinky yourself going down the stairs. Is ‘the pot calling the kettle black’ here?

I had no luck with yo-yo’s either. I considered them a waste of string.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

I can get a yo yo to go up & down (yeah gotta snap it), but, I can’t do tricks.

The yo yo was a weapon at one time.

sorry, rambling.

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Cal, you need looonger legs.

I tried many times to master the yoyo and do all the fantastic tricks I’ve seen done. The problem is(for me) after about the second up-down my mind went into deep-freeze and I couldn’t remember why I was playing with that thing. It was like Calvin when he was excavating for dinosaurs,”It was a mind numbing experience!”

I just could never master the art of yo

I didn’t get my first yo yo until I was 21 years old… But I loved it!!!!!!!!!!! I was in St. Louis at a conference for college students and one of the booths was giving them away. It lit up when you were using it. I walked all around St. Louis with that Yo Yo!!!!!! My friends thought it was hilarious that I had never owned one before!

I think most of us found a skill or two that we honed for no other reason than to see how good we could get at it. Yo-yo, throwing (football, baseball), riding our bikes with no hands.. Personally, I went with juggling, but my brother went the magic route. Remember those peaceful days with a quiet smile my friends.

Using a yo-yo has it’s ups and downs.

It’s amazing how one comic strip can bring out so many yoyos

And if you work them right they keep coming back too.

Northwoodser, Have you tried using a yo-yo in an elevator?

“…let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing.” Matthew 6:3b Don’t be distracted by what your right hand is doing, Calvin, especially when it isn’t doing anything in particular. Besides, maybe you could do better with the yo-yo using your right hand. I eat, write, and play ping-pong with my left hand. I bat, throw, and bowl with my right hand. Sometimes I’m ambivalent, even… Snagglepuss “But all their works they do to be seen of men…” Matthew 23:5a Don’t just ‘master the skills’ to impress somebody, Calvin. Do it because it’s worth doing. Then maybe Susie will be impressed. That’s a bonus!

When you get older, Calvin, the chicks will love all the stupid, useless tricks you know–even Susie.

I think impressing Susie is the least of his worries…..for now. Just wait a few years then mabey he will give her a spin.

Why do we call that thing a yo-yo? ~I would think Gyrating Thimbolic Reel would be far more fitting.

algurka, What makes you think that Susie is a stupid, useless trick?

See how easy it is for someone to distort a comment and make it sound different from what the poster intended! :o) That’s what jrcarter53 did with oletimer’s comment, but he did it in a good way.

When you grow up you can put on a little show before the movie starts in a kiddie matinee. …Oops, wrong century!

My sister and I both had Yo-Yo’s didn’t do what Tommy Smother’s did on their show and he still does them now. I can’t iminage Calvin having the patients for yoing.

all i ever managed to do with a yo yo was tie the string in knots trying to make the d@rn thing work

I was able to “walk the dog” with my yo yo, but couldn’t do the more complicated tricks.

I was so short I needed to stand on a stool to get enough clearance that the yo-yo didn’t hit the floor.

love you calvin.. i just started reading you.. :)

Saucy, maybe that’s Calvin’s problem - too short. I think Susie might be impressed and that would secretly please Calvin. He just won’t admit it.

Impress some body.Oh how nice. I could not make the d——- thing work neither could my friends

I could get the yo-yo to go down and sometimes back up again but I never could do any tricks with it either.

Hi, runninanreadin !

Tigger me too. I was a NO YO YO”er

lmao im 26 years old have a yo yo collection and am a yoyo expert I am not kidding! go to yoyoexpert.com and see some of the pros makes you want to learn

You just don’t see that philosophy in today’s comic strip kids anymore.

Puddlegum,

regarding swearing; it is a poor choice of words used heatedly to express frustration 95% of the time.

I suggest looking up George Carlin’s Seven Words monologue.

Remember “a rose by another name would smell as sweet” (Yes Shakespeare) - by extension an F! from time to time still may only be expressing frustration.

While “beauty may be in the eye of the beholder” a swear word may only exist in the ear of the listener …

give him a bolo, a real gaucho one fun with a purpose

Wiseguy411, A swear by another name would smell as sour. Swears are a poor substitute for a good vocabulary. imo, there are decent ways to express frustration, or even better, don’t get frustrated. “Easier Said Than Done” - The Essex

Up & down and walk the dog. Never could rock the baby, but kept trying. Rainy day summer fun. When, horror of horrors; we had to stay inside ALL day……..awful.

Who will be impressed? Anyone who knows you and your usual lack of persistence, Calvin!

I could make it sleep.

mightaswellbe – that’s the first person I thought of too – Good ole Tommy Smothers – and he’s really good at it!!!

Calvin and his philosophy FTW!