:smack: Thank you. I’ve read that, and never got why the girl was named Bacon. I think I vaguely thought it was just part of the whole internet-Bacon meme. I’m glad I’m wrong.
Perhaps unfortunately, I think any disparaging use of the term has been swallowed up by the connotation of the Internet term. It’s impossible to hear it and not think that it’s this horrible, horrible thing.
And it isn’t. Especially since, in this case, it’s the entire joke of the comic.
Wonder if newspaper subscriptions would greatly rise if Calvin & Hobbes returned, but only in newspapers?
It would be enough to get me to subscribe to one. (Just one)
I’ve added a tag to the thread title just to make it clear that the strip isn’t back.
That kid and pig in makebelievecomic are really creepy looking.
Calvin and Company is pretty good. I’ve been going through them. Thanks for the link.
Yeah I am familiar with that fishing reference but I really don’t buy it here. “Fishing” for compliments or opinions was a phrase pre-internet but “trolling” for anything really wasn’t. Certainly not in reference to a stunt to get attention.
I checked out an ep or two, may go back for more. The “backstory” episode was quite sweet. 30 years ago, Calvin and Susie are six-year-olds forever screaming and fighting. 20 years ago, they are teenagers who are perpetually rude to each other. Age 20, they each notice when the other is with someone else. A little older, Susie gets some bad news, and it’s Calvin who’s there for her. Mid-20s, they pass each other in the street and say hi. They date and have a great time, get engaged, married, have children… and in the present their offspring are six-year-olds perpetually screaming and fighting. 
I’m sorry that your linguistic experience has been lacking.
The term is established, and has been used regularly all my life. Perhaps it is a coastal term?
Not particularly lacking. The earliest it seems to be used is in the 70’s by Vietnam combat pilots but I don’t think anyone else until the internet. So umm, thank you for your service?
Jesuschrist. I, too, was and am familiar with this usage of “trolling,” without benefit of internet, military, or flying experience.
Well, sorry to exacerbate you but like I said, looking into it the earliest use in that context was early 70’s US combat pilots and Usenet came along in the 80’s. So there is a 10 year window for all of you to have heard it used and it being a common turn of phrase. I just doubt your memories’ accuracy I guess.
You understand that “trolling” as an English word for a fishing technique is centuries old? Using it analogistically to mean seeking a certain response–the general usage that the specific internet one comes from–is freaking obvious. At least to anyone acquainted with the word. That’s how I knew what it meant, the very first time I saw it applied in the internet context.