Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 27, 2012

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    An Essay for Goldenroya, as inspired by PuddleglumAuthor’s note: If you didn’t read yesterday’s comments and have never read any of Puddleglum’s postings, the following will make no sense. If you did read yesterday’s comments and have also read every posting that Puddleglum ever wrote, the following will still make no sense.

    In today’s Calvin and Hobbes strip, Bill Watterson’s secret message to his elite readers is about life itself. In life, we cannot sit motionless forever, paralyzed by fear. But we also cannot simply coast through our lives without continually steering around obstacles, or life will become nothing but a slippery slope.As we speed through life, many obstacles will spring up in front of us, like…….. like trees! Yes, towering obstacles that hang over our lives and often branch out in many directions. Obstacles whose bite may be worse than their bark if we should collide with them along life’s path. Each one, a deeply-rooted, unyielding obstacle that always stands firm – an obstacle that never packs its trunk and leaves.We must navigate between things like the tip of a wedge.With risks, we must know which bets to hedge.We must know when it is safe to live life on the edge.But we must carefully stay away from the ledge.- Burma ShaveAnd as we approach the end of life, we may find ourselves going downhill faster and faster. At the very end, we may even feel like we are skating on thin ice, facing a cold reality. But when we reach the climax, there is always the possibility of one final breakthrough. It is important then that we not allow ourselves to drown in our success. As Calvin’s parents have repeatedly warned him, “stay out of the Watter son.”Questions?
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    doc white  almost 13 years ago

    I always lost that fight. I ended up with rips,wricked sled and wet feet. Pure love.

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    margueritem  almost 13 years ago

    It does appear that way, Calvin.

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    pouncingtiger  almost 13 years ago

    I’m surprised Calvin is hesitant upon doing a death defying stunt.

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Click here: Peanuts (1958)

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    bluskies  almost 13 years ago

    So without his alter-ego beside or behind him, Calvin goes introspective and not downhill? See what you/ve done now, Hobbes?

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    JoanHelen  almost 13 years ago

    @ Popeyesforearm, I left a message for you on yesterday’s strip.

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    rogue53  almost 13 years ago

    Nothing freezes fun more than examining the risk prior to the adventure.

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    tegm  almost 13 years ago

    hehe! Where’s Hobbes?

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    bluram  almost 13 years ago

    Sometimes “No comment.” is the best comment of all.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    It wasn’t the first time, Calvin, nor will it be the last.

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    cdward  almost 13 years ago

    No Hobbes, no rush. Know Hobbes, Know the rush!

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    Plods with ...™  almost 13 years ago

    Those voices get louder as you get older.

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    thirdguy  almost 13 years ago

    Better his brain, than his girlfriend!

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    hazardboy  almost 13 years ago

    This just in———Goldenroya still typing—-will submit rebuttal comment 28th of Jan. 2012——when finished——-end.

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    BanjinTsuki  almost 13 years ago

    Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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    tripwire45  almost 13 years ago

    I know the feeling. Mine does that all the time, too.

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    brick10  almost 13 years ago

    When has Calvin ever listened to his brain?

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    mkd_1218  almost 13 years ago

    Oh, Calvin! My first chuckle of the day…….and it was SO unexpected.

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Hi JoanHelen. Actually, I wrote this for Goldenroya’s enjoyment (not to mention Puddleglum’s). I enjoyed the clever wording in Goldenroya’s posting yesterday.I hope you are having a good summer in South Africa.

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    Destiny23  almost 13 years ago

    If your brain kills you, is that murder or suicide??? (Apparently his brain doesn’t believe in self-preservation.)

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    << witewater said: @Hobbes…. It makes me wonder if you have any more puns in the oven. >>Hi witewaterNo, I’m afraid that’s the end of this batch. These were all that I could cook up, and some of them were only half-baked.

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    rolleg  almost 13 years ago

    The name used to be “formerly known as…”

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    Sirzanne  almost 13 years ago

    @bluram & Dogsniff

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    Vinobbes  almost 13 years ago

    They say people who commit suicide never regret it.

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    Puddleglum2  almost 13 years ago

    “Go ahead down. You’ll miss all those trees.”…or all but one!

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    Makso  almost 13 years ago

    Calvin should make Hobbes to have the first try.

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    Puddleglum2  almost 13 years ago

    “He who hesitates is lost”, but “haste makes waste”.If Calvin makes the wrong decision, he’s going DOWN!

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    Puddleglum2  almost 13 years ago

    “My brain is trying to kill me.”That would be mindless. It’s sort of like “cutting off your nose to spite your face”.

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    Puddleglum2  almost 13 years ago

    If you make a ‘rash’ decision, it’s like handling “Poison Ivy”.

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    rogue53  almost 13 years ago

    Agreed, and thanks for saying it, regardless of whom it is.

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    rogue53  almost 13 years ago

    So you agree. I’m glad you (and others) can see it. :)

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    Puddleglum2  almost 13 years ago

    What follows is inspired by Hobbes:Life presents many obstacles. Some are challenges to be accepted and overcome to a successful conclusion. Others are desperately dangerous and utterly risky, and should be avoided at all costs lest there be a ’dead’ly conclusion.

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    massha  almost 13 years ago

    @Goldenroya I went back and read your comment and… wow how mean can you get?

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    Puddleglum2  almost 13 years ago

    @Hobbes,You’ve combined all the ingredients and really stirred things up. I’ve read yesterday’s comments and everything that Puddleglum ever wrote “and still it makes no sense”. :o)No, I’m kidding; I thought it was the right blend. I’ve tried to ‘rise’ to the occasion; it’s the ‘yeast’ I can do. I hope it all ‘pans’ out and doesn’t fall flat. It would be the ‘icing’ on the cake.P.S. Some people don’t like frosting, though, and I’m one of them, but that’s in a literal sense.

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    Puddleglum2  almost 13 years ago

    @JoanHelen,You get the credit (accolades) for saying “stirring things up”, first! I’m not trying to steal your thunder. ‘Rolling’ On the Floor Laughing! “Rolling like thunder…”

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    Number Three  almost 13 years ago

    Awwww, Don’t worry Calvin.

    Where’s Hobbes today doesn’t he normally ride on the back?

    xxx

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    Plods with ...™  almost 13 years ago

    Oh he’s still doc white. He just wears a tuxedo now.

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Hi mythreesons. I don’t know, probably 45 minutes. I wrote it in maybe 20 minutes and then made some changes and additions. So I don’t have a lot of time invested in this one. Some of the ideas occurred to me yesterday, so you can’t really put a clock on it.

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    Popeyesforearm  almost 13 years ago

    Where’s Hobbes? He’d talk Calvin out of it.

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    Thomas Linquist  almost 13 years ago

    I think Calvin’s genius level brain is tired of being cooped up in a body that simply has to do stupid things. It is aiming for his death in a firm hope for reincarnation, possibly as a certain stuffed tiger.

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    dsom8  almost 13 years ago

    doc white is as formal as he gets now. He may have been known formerly as Doctor White. Gotta love retirement!

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    rentier  almost 13 years ago

    So much aims with dubious ending!

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    Azmerman  almost 13 years ago

    LOL, usually my “brain’s been trying to kill me” via self-critical, fear-based talk. Definitely need to take more leaps of faith albeit not reckless ones. Thanks, Calvin, for reminding me. :)

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    khpage  almost 13 years ago

    A big thumb’s up on that one Calvin. Mine all too frequently won’t let me go to sleep easily, either. Just wait until you discover coffee, whose primary stimulant ingredient is caffeine, a primitve form of speed. Then you’re gonna go faster than you might want….

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    Phapada  almost 13 years ago

    where’s Hobbes?

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    @massha: I’m withholding judgment on Goldenroya, because I thought that her comment yesterday was tongue-in-cheek, in response to the tongue-in-cheek first half of my posting, to which she was replying. But some people clearly thought she had been attacking me. Perhaps Goldenroya can clear this up, if she sees this posting. Regardless, her posting was very clever and I was amused by her creativity, which is why I responded with my own creative version today, for her amusement. Communication on this site becomes confusing at times, especially when posters are using subtlety.

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    shooflypie  almost 13 years ago

    I hear ya Calvin!

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    rogue53  almost 13 years ago

    I didn’t see it as an attack, merely a statement of the obvious. We don’t need a daily dose of explanation of C&H regarding the ‘deeper meaning’ of what Watterson was presenting us with. As goldenroya stated, we don’t need “someone trying to tell the artist”, or the rest of us,“what they meant by their own creation.” You prefer to see such statements as attacks. They aren’t. They are opinions to which each of us are entitled. Please stop playing the martyr. It’s only a comic strip.

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    @rogue53: Your negative comments about me are highly repetitive, some repeated perhaps 30 or 40 times so far, beating a dead horse. I have not written a “daily dose” of deeper meaning in months. I will probably not do it daily in the future either, but I will continue to do it when I think that I have something to say that other people would like to hear. Your negative comments will have no effect on that.

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    adubman  almost 13 years ago

    @ Hobbes: Keep those witty, insightful, inspired vignettes/comments coming!! It’s not everyday I read interesting prose!

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    rogue53  almost 13 years ago

    “I responded with my own creative version”….my, aren’t we impressed with ourself. I think I’ll start the eye rolling and gagging now.

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