Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 09, 2012

Dad has gone through this before…

Dad is sick of this routine.

hee hee Calvin is SO cute!!!…..hmmmm someone could also squish him like an insect too…..

Calvin used the typewriter once.

This was back in the days before caller ID, but Calvin still couldn’t disguise his voice.

Reminds me when you could call a local number on the rotary phone and get the time in ten second intervals.

The copyright date is 1986 and Honey I Shrunk the Kids came out in ’89. Maybe the idea for the movie came form this cartoon?

Aw I used to have a pink dial princess phone! Loved it!

Dad’s seen this movie before.

What’s a dial phone?

This reminds me of the time we told the kids in the church youth group that it’s time to call their parents for a ride home. One of the teenaged girls came back and said she didn’t know how to use that kind of phone. I went in the kitchen to see what whe was talking about, and sure enough, the church still had an old dial phone hanging on the wall!

Calvin has got a false side of his father!

So that’s were the term “Dialed” comes from. all I’ve ever seen is push bottons

Lol maybe we know each other…lol

Not many people have rotary phones anymore or a push-button phone. I would like to see Calvin do that with a cell phone

Apparently Dad doesn’t know the catch phrase, so you’d better buzz off, Calvin!

The buzz around the office is that it’s Calvin who buzzed his father on the phone!

Somehow Calvin retained all his strength when he shrunk — there’s no way any insect could move the dial on a phone!

@noicantspell Hallford,I think Calvin had Chex cereal for breakfast, yesterday, although he also might have had something equivalent to your suggestion, such as Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs!

Waiting for the dial to return before dialing the next number gave you time to think about what you were planning to say.

If you still have a rotary, try this: rapidly tap on the hangup toggle, with a half-second space, each digit of the number your calling.. back in the day, that was called, “dialing with the hangup”

haha I guess the dog didn’t want to play with him so he head to be imaginative

Poor Dad.. He’s under enough pressure and here is Calvin making very cute buzz noises.

Will he be getting dessert tonight?

LOL xxx

Push button phones are just another evolutionary step in the telephone industry – our grandkids will probably ask what is a pushbutton phone? The first phone I remember was a one-wire ground return crank type, with about 10 people on the party line. Our number was 4 on 40 – meaning four short rings on line #40. I remember one time dad had a long distance call coming in and with everyone else on the line, it was hard to hear. The caller asked, “Can you hold the line?” Dad responded “There’s about ten old hens hanging onto it – it’s not going anywhere!!” click-click-click-click as others hung up and the call was completed.Might mention, a series of short rings meant that an announcement was to be made, everyone please listen in. One long ring meant you wanted to contact central. To contact anyone else on the line, you just needed to know their ring code. The good old days – Just stay away if there was lightning outside and watch the fire fly out of it if a strike was close.

A neighbor didn’t follow this rule – answered a call as a storm was approaching. Wore cotton in his ears for years.

As far as dialing with the hook – I tried it and could easily dial the 1s but not the other numbers.

<< Yesterday, bluskies wrote: @Hobbes, do you know of any Walt Kelly collections that might be available? >>Hi bluskiesIf you’re talking about a complete collection, I see that the first volume of “The Complete Pogo” was published by Fantagraphics on December 5th, and it’s available on Amazon. I think it’s planned to be a 12-volume set.

@bluskies: Here’s an image of the book

Dad needs to use his secret decoder ring to deceipher the message….

We’ve got this weird 2 line phone system in our house. A couple of the phones are digital and a couple are rotary. It always confounds the phone technicians. The last time one was here (to install Fios) he said, he had never seen a rotary phone in use before.

In the 1st house my parents bought in 1961 we only had to dial 6 numbers, the 1st 2 were by the letters, EMpire 3133. And we had party lines. We would sit and listen to the neighbors phone calls and then snicker too loud and get yelled at, “whoever that is better get off the line!” If we ever would have called dad at the office our butts would be sore for a week.

oh man, I remember when we had a phone line this <3

I miss the time of day recordings.

If you don’t like recordings, give QVC/HSN or any charity marathon a try – when it’s your money involved you get a live operator!!

Quick! To the ‘End Call’ Button!

I love his imagionation :)

Calvin the human fly got swatted once, let’s not forget.

he is very funny and cute but if his is that small and someone stepped on he wouldn’t be that cutie