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Calvin and Hobbes
Slate ^ | 07 November 2005 | Chris Suellentrop

Posted on 11/08/2005 10:56:27 PM PST by Lorianne

Edited on 11/09/2005 5:29:39 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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To: fishbabe

i've been reading that strip just about every day at http://ucomics.aol.com/overboard/


101 posted on 11/09/2005 9:08:38 AM PST by EireCane (Don't panic!)
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To: weegee

"I believe that Bill Griffith's Zippy The Pinhead has been at the top of its run thes past 4 years as well."

Good lord, I haven't read Zippy since the late 80's when I would sneak a peak at my big brothers Nat'l Lampoon.


102 posted on 11/09/2005 9:11:37 AM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: Lorianne

Calvin and Hobbes is clearly yuppie comics.

They have been reprinting them in my local paper lately.

Sorry but I still say the origina Bloom County was the best strip ever.

Bill and Opus '08


103 posted on 11/09/2005 9:13:40 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: DCPatriot

"And Larson's Far Side tickled my funny bone more than once.
LOL!...the boneless chicken ranch comes to mind!"

My favorite has to be the one with the cat looking in the dryer, "Cat Fud" [sic] drawn on the dryer door, with the dog by the wall saying "OH, please, Oh please...."


104 posted on 11/09/2005 9:15:07 AM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: wordsofearnest
What was the game they played? You could change the rules in midstream.

Calvinball!



The Unofficially Official Rules of Calvinball**



1.1. All players must wear a Calvinball mask (See Calvinball Equipment - 2.1). No one questions the masks (Figure 2.1).


*IMPORTANT -- The following rules are subject to be changed, amended, or deleted by any player(s) involved.


1.2 Any player may declare a new rule at any point in the game (Figure 1.2). The player may do this audibly or silently depending on what zone (Refer to Rule 1.5) the player is in.

1.3. A player may use the Calvinball (See Calvinball Equipment - 2.2)in any way the player see fits, whether it be to incur injury upon other players or to gain benefits for himself.


1.4. Any penalty legislation may be in the form of pain, embarassment, or any degradation the rulee wishes to execute upon the other player.


1.5 The Calvinball Field (See Calvinball Equipment - 2.3) should consist of areas, or zones, which are governed by a set of rules declared by players. Zones may be appear and disappear as often and wherever the player decides. For example, a corollary zone would enable a player to make a corollary (sub-rule) to any rule already made. Or a pernicious poem place would require the intruder to do what the name implies. Or an opposite zone would enable a player to declare reverse playibility on the others. (Remember, the player would declare this zone oppositely by not declaring it.) (Figure 1.5a and 1.5b)


1.6 Flags (Calvinball Equipment 2.3) shall be named by players whom shall also assign the power and rules which shall govern that flag (Figure 1.6).


1.7 Songs are an integral part of Calvinball and verses must be sung spontaneously through the game when randomly assigned events occur.



1.8 Score may be kept or disregarded. In the event that score is kept, it shall have no bearing on the game nor shall it have any logical consistency to it. (Legal scores include 'Q to 12', 'BW-109 to YU-34, and 'Nosebleed to Pelvic Fracture'.) (Figure 1.9)

1.9 Any rule above that is carried out during the course of the game may never be used again in the event that it causes the same result as a previous game. Calvinball games may never be played the same way twice (Figure 1.9)



Calvinball Equipment


2.1. Mask - All participants are required to wear a mask - Figure 1.1


2.2. Calvinball - A Calvinball may be a soccerball, volleyball, or any other reasonable ball - Figure 2.1a and Figure 2.1b




2.3 Calvinball Field - The Calvinball Field should be any well-sized field, preferably with trees, rocks, grass, creeks, and other natural obstacles.


2.4 Miscellaneous - Other optional equipment include flags, wickets (especially of the time-fracture variety), and anything else the players wish to include (Figure 2.4).


** This rulebook is not required, nor necessary to play Calvinball.

Special Thanks to the Calvinball Founders Bill Watterson, Calvin, and Hobbes.







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105 posted on 11/09/2005 9:20:02 AM PST by AFreeBird (your mileage may vary)
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To: weegee

Aaron McGruder's Boondocks ----racist. and it's being turned into an animated show.


106 posted on 11/09/2005 9:21:13 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Lokibob

That's great! I'll have to use that. Good ol' Calvin and Hobbs!


107 posted on 11/09/2005 9:30:55 AM PST by truemiester (If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
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To: truemiester

BUMP!


108 posted on 11/09/2005 9:31:43 AM PST by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: longfellow

The black community is verrry offended by it. Apparently, it's gratuitously peppered with n bombs. But rap music is okay by them. And the hypocrisy continues...


109 posted on 11/09/2005 9:39:06 AM PST by Woman on Caroline Street (Go sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.)
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To: Oberon

No, specifically focused on the comic strip characters as a proxy for others.

I'm thinking it was Fight Club or something like that.
Time for a Google.


110 posted on 11/09/2005 4:29:50 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: SJSAMPLE

Found it:
http://www.kindofcrap.com/fightcalvin.html

Reversed - Fight Club is a proxy for Calvin and Hobbes.
Interesting theory.


111 posted on 11/09/2005 4:35:36 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: EireCane

Thanks for the info..I hadn't seen it seen it went off my newspaper in 1993...GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!I can enjoy the madness of the pirate gang....


112 posted on 11/09/2005 4:37:56 PM PST by fishbabe
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To: fat city

"When asked why he never licensed C & H commercially, Watterson said, 'I greatly underestimated the market for Calvin pissing on a Ford logo.'"

Classic.


113 posted on 11/09/2005 4:41:31 PM PST by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: SJSAMPLE
I'm thinking it was Fight Club or something like that. Time for a Google.

"Calvin and Hobbes" predates Fight Club by two decades.

114 posted on 11/09/2005 4:43:48 PM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

"Boondocks"

Ironically this runs in the Chicago Tribune. As a black supervisor once informed me "The Trib's for white folks, the Sun-Times for us."


115 posted on 11/09/2005 4:46:02 PM PST by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: wordsofearnest
CALVINBALL!

NO sport i less organized than Calvinball!

116 posted on 11/09/2005 4:46:23 PM PST by Malacoda (Islam = deranged, evil suicide cult)
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To: Lorianne

117 posted on 11/09/2005 4:52:58 PM PST by woofie
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To: Oberon

Yep.
I had my thinking reversed, but I posted a link a few posts above.


118 posted on 11/09/2005 4:57:46 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: Woman on Caroline Street

As a professional cartoonist I find this offending.


119 posted on 11/09/2005 8:32:18 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: toddlintown
Ironically this runs in the Chicago Tribune. As a black supervisor once informed me "The Trib's for white folks, the Sun-Times for us."

I used to loathe Boondocks, but I've got to admit it's grown on me. I started to "get it" recently, when the grandfather moved out of his house to avoid spending more time with his relative who fled New Orleans.

120 posted on 11/10/2005 6:26:28 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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