# Calvin and Hobbes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228 "2003-08-05T23:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sstaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@sstaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sstaurus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/1 "2003-08-05T23:58:30Z")
I miss Calvin and Hobbes. Does anyone else? I think it was the best comic ever! The imagination was always the best. And apparently Bill Watson never even liked kids! or have them even? I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/2 "2003-08-06T00:06:18Z")
Yep, I miss 'em. Thank gawd I have all the books. ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/3 "2003-08-06T00:06:50Z")
Ahh, yes… I loved Calvin and Hobbes… It was right up there with Bloom County. These were the only reasons I read the comic page and they are both gone. I feel cheated. ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/4 "2003-08-06T00:42:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Thank gawd I have all the books. I AGREE!! I even got my son hooked on them for a while. Calvin’s dad was the first I ever “heard” call a baby a “bologna loaf” LOL ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/5 "2003-08-06T00:52:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eilsel \* > \*\*Calvin’s dad was the first I ever “heard” call a baby a “bologna loaf” LOL \*\* _giggle_ That’s cute. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/6 "2003-08-06T01:00:58Z")
Calvin was my first tattoo. My son thinks it’s him… ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/7 "2003-08-06T01:03:57Z")
Oh, Calvin and Hobbes was _excellent_. If you go [here](http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/), you can see it again. “Honey, the neighbors say there’s a naked kid tied to a kite running through their yard” “No, you were a blue light special at KMart. Way cheaper, and almost as good.” “No, I CAN’T go to school! I don’t WANT big dividends!” (I’m sure I’m misremembering the wording of some of those) ---
**Author:** ![LauraLittlePony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LauraLittlePony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LauraLittlePony)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/8 "2003-08-06T01:04:47Z")
Me, too. It’s so funny. And! One time Calvin transmogified (or something) himself into a tiger and there were TWO tigers! And Calvin was smaller and he was so cute! And stuffed Hobbes is extra-cute, too!! Also, no one can yell at a kid like Calvin’s parents. That’s it, I’m adding the Calvin and Hobbes feed to my LJ friends list right now. . . ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/9 "2003-08-06T01:10:44Z")
I prefer when Calvin dressed up as a tiger and Hobbes tried to teach him how to be a tiger. Although my favorite strip is the one where Dad explains how the world used to be black & white and only turned to color recently. That and the one where Calvin thought there was a monster under the bed so he was hitting him with a baseball bat, only it turned out to be Hobbes. Do you guys have the only strip not to appear in the books? I printed it out last time it was linked too so I didn’t keep the link. I wonder why it was dropped. It was a Nov 25th strip from either the first or second year. ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/10 "2003-08-06T01:21:36Z")
“What fun is being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero.” — Hobbes ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/11 "2003-08-06T01:22:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fern Forest \* > \*\*Do you guys have the only strip not to appear in the books? I printed it out last time it was linked too so I didn’t keep the link. I wonder why it was dropped. It was a Nov 25th strip from either the first or second year. \*\* I hadn’t heard of this… :eek: What’s in it? Can you send it to me? ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/12 "2003-08-06T01:23:26Z")
that should have ended in a question mark, of course… ---
**Author:** ![viking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@viking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/viking)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/13 "2003-08-06T01:37:26Z")
``Hellooo? Pooblik Lahbraree? Zis is zee eempoortant rezearcher looking for voolgar zynonyms vor dees-gusting body vunktions, ya?’’ ``Those librarians sure are a sharp bunch…’’ ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/14 "2003-08-06T01:52:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wolfstu \* > \*\*I hadn’t heard of this… :eek: > What’s in it? > Can you send it to me? \*\* Done and done. ---
**Author:** ![Wyatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Wyatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wyatt)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/15 "2003-08-06T02:38:20Z")
LOVED Calvin and Hobbes! Miss 'em Miss 'em Miss 'em!!! Thanks for the link! NOBODY got “kid faces” like Watterson on Calvin! NoBody!!! _sigh_ ahhhhh Hobbes… ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/16 "2003-08-06T03:14:48Z")
Hey Fern - could you send it to me too? PLEEEEEEEZE? ---
**Author:** ![Vastard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Vastard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vastard)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/17 "2003-08-06T03:25:43Z")
I loved Calvin and Hobbes! I used to play Calvinball with various neighbor kids, and I named one of my cats after Spaceman Spiff. I loved the armies of tiny snowmen. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/18 "2003-08-06T03:26:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fern Forest \* > \*\*Although my favorite strip is the one where Dad explains how the world used to be black & white and only turned to color recently. \*\* HA! I was watching the 1965 Ali/Patterson fight on ESPN Classic tonight, and I thought of that exact strip. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/19 "2003-08-06T03:35:19Z")
I’m not hardly old enough to remember when Calvin and Hobbes were still printing new cartoons, but it’s still my all-time favorite. Absolutely nothing compares to it. FoxTrot replaced it in the comics page around these parts. FoxTrot, while good, is still nowhere near the standard Calvin and Hobbes set. It’s a shame that those younger than me will have to live in a world without it. And on a secondary note, did anybody try the argument that Calvin tried with Ms. Wormwood about how 75% should be an A because if government and industry were 75% competent, we’d all be ecstatic? I did. Let’s just say that my English teacher didn’t read much Calvin and Hobbes. . . ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228/20 "2003-08-06T03:36:00Z")
I loved the one where Susie pretended Calvin knocked out her eyeball with a snowball. Hilarious. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-and-hobbes/193228.md?page=2)