Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 07, 2012

Uh oh I just broke one

It’s funny but I’ve never had a snail mail chain letter. I’ve never seen my parents get one either. But through e-mail I get chainmail from my grandma. XD I hate those.

One flaw in the letter, if Calvin finds a friend who tells him to send it, he’s gonna get run over.

How’d you get above me

uh…the letter knew he was a kid…perhaps there is something to that…

I ain’t afraid of no cement mixer!!

I haven’t been hit by aa cememt mixer yet – or anything else that could be construed as bad luck.

i hate it when i don’t continue chain letters and died the next day

Did it say anything in there about tigers?

@Susan: Calvin is wearing a jacket today, because this was originally a December strip. It’s his dark jacket, which he usually wears in the winter, but on Wednesday he was wearing his light jacket when he came home from school and was pounced on by Hobbes. Maybe that was so that his jacket would show the dirt better after Hobbes pounced on him.In panel 3 of today’s strip it looks like he has on his usual striped shirt, but maybe that’s just the neck of a plain shirt, because in panel 1 there are no stripes visible. Maybe he has on a long-sleeved plain shirt, because it looks like he has a white sleeve in panel 2.

As a follow-up to yesterday’s comments on the original dates of the Calvin and Hobbes strips, the printed copyright date between the panels is the original year of the strip. However, the month and day in the corner of a panel (1-7 in today’s strip) are only for the current date, not the original month and day of the strip. Today’s strip was originally published December 13th, 1986.We should be approaching the end of the reruns from Bill Watterson’s first sabbatical. Hopefully we will return to 1991 strips in February, which is where we left off last May.

Nope, Hobbes.

following up a chain letter is exposing everyone to a potential virus or scam

@sandflea,Actually, it was “The Chain”, but if you add “The Letter” by the Box Tops, you’ll have it!

Hobbes is his usual analytical self with a wealth of information.Will the real Hobbes please stand? :o)

@Nightbird,If your grandma got run over by a reindeer, you wouldn’t get any more chain letters from her. Oh, deer!

Thirdguy said,“I ain’t afraid of no cement mixer!!”Your ‘grammar’ will get you for that! :o)

“People are (especially) Funny” today, …more than usual, even (Snagglepuss)

what, will calvin fall from his window if he listens to hobbes?

I have set up several “fox-stick” accounts that I foreward chain e-mail to. So far, not one account has received any spam. However, there are chains out there that if you foreward, will send that persons address back to original sender. This is how spammers get the addresses of those who try to protect themselves by giving out their address to only their closest friends. (A guaranteed way to get spam is to sign into a guest book!!)

@Dogsniff,I don’t know whether you read my response to you near the end of Jan. 3, and again at the end of yesterday’s comments. I know you look ‘forward’ to them so I wouldn’t want you to miss them. I hope you can look back on them with your usual smiling face. :o)Btw, isn’t almost everybody fascinated with you?

I get them text messages all the time. I used to forward them to my family & friends. But now they are just annoying.

Next time I get one.. My phone will be going through the window.

LOL xxx

If I really like one an decide to pass it on, I delete the cr@p about pass it on for good luck. I think I’ve passed 2 or 3 in the last year.

“Now you’ve opened it! If you don’t send this to at least 100 others you’ll develop a bad case of halitosis."

I used to get them in the snail mail long before e-mail was even thought of…tossed all of them in the garbage. It worried me so much, I tossed and turned 4-5 seconds before going to sleep that night!!

What people failed to realize in those chain letters is how quickly the chain can become saturated. The only ones who benefited were the ones who got in early. Send out two letters asking the recipients to forward to two more people. Forwarding each day and with no duplications, it will have gone to the entire world’s population in one month.

@Pelican47: You asked whether the strips will return to the proper season in February, after the sabbatical reruns end.I’m assuming they will be in sync again. We started the sabbatical reruns on May 8th, so we should resume the later strips early in February, since Bill Watterson’s sabbatical was 9 months long.Watterson’s first strip after returning from sabbatical was on February 2nd, so I’m hoping the syndicate continues on with that strip, beginning in February.

“dumb kid”? Calvin is hardly that.

I know I’ve seen this particular comic on this site before, but between the “superstitious nincompoops” and the “cement mixer” lines, I laughed out loud again.

♪♫ “And if you don’t love me now,You will never love me again.I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain.” ♪♫

“The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac

lol the dog s gonna kill him

Don’t laugh, this could save the Post Office. Naw, you can laugh if you want. ;-D

How was your birthday? It was January 1st wasn’t it?

Calvin has one of those “cover all the bases” letters….he should send it back to the return address listed on the envelope with some fine white flour inside….

The chain letter has now evolved into the chain text message.

susie or hobbs sent that

Does Calvin have 20 Friends ???

haha, I remember back when these were done by paper…

There used to be several snail mail chain letters that would circulate from time to time. I have received 2 or 3 of them. Never forwarded, never had bad luck. Knock wood.

A prince in Africa is gonna mail me a check for $2,000,000! All I have to do is send him $2,000 for processing fees. Sounds good to me. There were actually 4 doctors in Southern Oregon a few years back that fell for one of these scams. Just shows theres a sucker born every minute. "Never give a sucker an even break, Never smarten up a chump and You can’t cheat an honest man. Mr. Dunkenfield was a genius.

I hate chain texts and emails most! Unfortunately, I’m always the one who runs the risk of going bald to end the chain.