# Calvin and Hobbes - wisdom you live by.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-wisdom-you-live-by/204668>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 30, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-wisdom-you-live-by/204668 "2003-09-30T10:48:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-wisdom-you-live-by/204668/61 "2003-10-07T20:16:31Z")

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Calvin talking to his dad: “Dad, how does soldiers killing each other solve the wrold’s problems?” Dad sits and looks at him blankly in the next two panels. Last panel is Calvin stomping off- “Sometimes I think grownups only think they know what they’re doing”.

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 And every single one with one of Calvin's snowmen!
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**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-wisdom-you-live-by/204668/62 "2003-10-07T21:17:51Z")

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Darn you all, I had to go and read every C&H cartoon on that site! In any case that comic is probably one of the most realistic examples of what goes through a childs mind there is. Every panel is like a flashback for me. Especially the bits about the monsters under the bed.

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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes-wisdom-you-live-by/204668/63 "2003-10-08T05:29:27Z")

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9-17-1992:

C: This is what I like about photography. People think cameras always tell the truth.

C: They think the camera is a dispassionate machine that records only facts, but really, cameras lie all the time! Select the facts and you manipulate the truth!

C: [sitting on bed with pile of toys off to one side] For example, I’ve cleared off this corner of my bed. Take a picture of me here, but crop out all the mess around me, so it looks like I keep my room tidy.

H: Is this even legal?  
C: Wait, let me comb my hair and put on a tie.  
It’s funny because it’s true!

Note: it’s **not** about digital image editing/faking pictures, as most people in the C&H livejournal community seem to think. It’s about editing _with the camera_ so you only show what you want to show. The latter is perfectly acceptable in the photography business, if not always morally right; we\* do it all the time, especially in magazine pieces that are intended to show a particular viewpoint (not so much in the newspapers, of course).  
\*— I’m a professional photographer (for a daily newspaper).

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