Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 21, 2012

Preliminary GoComics StandingsAs a follow-up to yesterday, and based on very sketchy data, here is a list of the current GoComics Calvin and Hobbes numerical record holders. If you have broken one of these records, be sure to post a correction.1. Oldest comment by a current Calvin and Hobbes poster Margueritem wrote the following on July 9, 2008: “Classic stuff. I’ll never tire of reading this strip.” (Apparently, she never has.)2. Newest comment by a current Calvin and Hobbes posterHobbes wrote the following on July 21, 2012: “As a follow-up to yesterday, and based on very sketchy data, here is a list……..”3. Highest GoComics user numberThe Snoopster: #1,004,6454. User number closest to 1,000,000MagicFan: #1,000,2515. User number closest to 500,000Dha Dha: #529,4966. Lowest user numberHobbes: #16,107 (Disclaimer: I didn’t comment for the first two-and-a-half years.)7. Lowest user number by someone who got around to commenting on Calvin and Hobbes in a reasonable amount of time after joining GoComicsSaucy1121: #31,8358. Most Calvin and Hobbes posters joining GoComics in a single dayThree on July 1, 2008: Saucy1121, Margueritem, Astute Social Observer (in that order)9. Most total comments on all GoComics stripsCitizen GROG!: About 44,000 comments in 3 years10. Most total comments per year on all GoComics stripsNight-Gaunt49: About 36,000 comments in 2 years (18,000 per year)11. Youngest Calvin and Hobbes posterThe Snoopster: age 1112. Oldest Calvin and Hobbes poster(Never mind…….)13. Calvin and Hobbes poster most likely to win the lottery todayHobbes (This is my comment #1111).Click here: Peanuts (October 1, 1963)

Thyself hath been inspired.

I have been reading for a while and with all the comments about numbers I decided to join the conversation.

I didn’t make the list?

what is the single comic strip with the most comments

@leftwingpatriot: Let us know if you win the lottery today, and you’ll make the list.

Doest thou really neededth a cop show, Calvin, when thou can — oh forget it, she’s not turning the channel!

Uh, getting back to the topic (which is, you know, TODAY’S strip, NOT the members of the forum or their statistics, which are not only irrelevant, but boring as hell to read), I have to congratulate Bill Watterson on getting 16th-Century English right, including the correct use of “thou” and its associated forms. And shut up, Calvin — some of us LIKE the classics!

Click here: Pearls Before Swine (December 7, 2008)

Shows like CSI: Miami are extremely cheesy

Gratulation, Snoopster, we should celebrate this! A bunch of flowers for You!

That was a lot of research, Hobbes!

@margueritem: It was easier than trying to come up with a good one-liner about Shakespeare.

@Dogsniff: Heh Heh.But I repeat myself……….

Speaking of non-sensical old english ….

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Pretty sure I have 44 thousand posts too. No wait, looks like I misplaced the decimal point. I have 4.4 posts here.

@Rogue53: My purpose in posting on this site is for the enjoyment of others. Not everyone enjoys the same things, and I do not try to please everyone. But when others say that they enjoy what I post, that does not make them mindless lemmings, and it does not make my motives selfish. It is possible to do things for other people for reasons that are not self-centered.

nice play for son & mom.

@Rogue53: There is a major difference between stating an opinion and making a personal attack. legaleagle48 and demtrug stated their opinions but they did not make personal attacks.You stated that some posters on this site are lemmings. That is a personal attack on them.You also unfairly accused me of selfish motives, seeking praise and flattery. That is a personal attack on me.You have made similar statements about the “mindless lemmings” and about my motives perhaps 30 times previously, over the past two years.

I enjoy all the positive comments on the forum, sensicle or non…as long as they aren’t degrading others and it’s somewhat on topic. If Hobbes wants to post stats about this forum…that’s cool. It’s about the posters therefore it’s on topic, indirectly. I enjoy the banter until names get tossed out…

<< rogue53 said: “My goodness, don’t get your panties in a bunch. Please, get over yourself. I stated it wasn’t a personal attack, but of course you think the entire site is for you, so you take it as such.” >>What sayest thou, young rogue53? Can there yet remain some false accusation that thou hast not endlessly repeated?

Johnny Diego… but we like you.. …(sniffle)

Hey! This’ll be my first comment ever so here is some stuff about me!(But before I start, Rogue53, leave Hobbes alone. What did he ever do to you?)- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – Username:If only I had a brain

Fav. Color: Wait, why is this second? If I say black, will I be banned from Gocomics forever?

Height: Under 7 feet

Weight: Over 140 pounds

Favorite food: M & Ms (Yo, preschool teachers, they’d make a great snack for your classmates, they learn colors and has a mystery letter on it every time.)

Biggest fear: Mom catching me drink milk straight from the carton

Favorite subject: Dodge ball

What I want to be when I grow up: Taller

Where I want to be when I grow up: Far away from my brother

Motto: “NOT IT!”

Earliest Memory: When I bought…uh…aw nuts I forgot

Where my Name comes from: The scarecrow song in “The lizard of oz” ( it was either that or “I love Garfield 2012”)

Favorite day: Saturday

Unfavorite day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Favorite animal: A Hippopotas

My most embarrassing moment: My life’s an Embarrassment!

Favorite time of the day: TV time

IQ: 69 (No one said I had to be smart.)

Talent: That I can remember My friend’s phone numbers

Something totally useless I know:1,456,784 × 345,923 = 503,935,091,632 (You asked)

Favorite Movie: Any Romance movie (Except skinless in Seattle.)

Favorite book: Harry Potter and the goblet of fire sticker book

Biggest crush: This isn’t the teen people website. My lips are zipped.

Happiest moment of my life: When I got up to world 1-2 in MARIO IN 3-D LAND

Saddest moment of my life: When The day My mice died (They were named “Artur” and “Superfang”)

Favorite Holiday: Let’s see, On Easter, i eat eggs until I barf up, On Valentines day, I never get a card (What’s a girl to do?), on Christmas, we have to act nice to each other and don’t get me started on earth day. It’s a toss up of all 4.

If I had million dollars: I’d pay Hobbes and Rogue 53 to stop fighting!!!!!

Toodles.

The clock hath long since stricken, and t’is time for Calvin toshog off and knit up his ravelled sleave**** of care.

It was spelt that way on the van….

Just out of curiosity, how did you get into C&H?

I discovered the comic in the library when I was 17 (year 2000) and loved it. I put a copy of one strip in the break room which was really popular with the librarians. Since then I actually bought some copies, though all but one has been stolen. :-(

<<<It would be hard to top Bugs Bunny’s shakespeare, such as“Hark, what light through yonder window breaks”— and he throws a rock through the window.>>>

Love it.

:D

Stick some Looney Tunes on for Calvin.

How do you people get paragraphs and spaces and why does my comment box squash everything unless I add a smiley face?

yet, people swear by the KJ Bible, which is, basically, notunderstandable by modern readers…go figure

<My God, just I wanted regret, for I can’t understand everything, but, perhaps it’s better so!!!

To some of today’s commenters: Me thinks thou doust protest too much……or something like that.

Really good strip…never get tired of C&H.

LOL LOL!

I love Calvin’s face in the last panel!

xxx

OK Calvin, time to go find some trouble for thou to get into. You too Hobbs……oh wait, I see thou has already gotten hisself into a pickle. See what happens when thou tries to do something nice for people.

@furnituremaker,The KJV has been revised six times since 1611. There are about 500 archaic words, but people can find the meanings in a good dictionary. I look up words from various reading materials just to clarify definitions and further develop a decent vocabulary. The Bible is meant to be studied, not just read.In general, I think people have a negative mindset about the KJV. Most of it really is not particularly difficult to understand, besides which, I believe the KJV is more accurate than other versions, as well as majestic in style.However, since there are many opinions and points of view on the subject “To Each His Own”, I suppose. Here is my favorite benediction:“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. AmenJude 23,24 :o)

The oldest is long in the tooth, forsooth!But don’t take it hard,I speak like the bard.Verily, verily, I say unto youth!Hereto is the following,as long as I’m wallowing:“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?I’m down in the bushes; the rose trellis broke!”

Hobbes, you aren’t detailed enough. 95472 in the Peanuts strip is the zip code for Sebastopol, California where Schulz moved when he first arrived with his family in Sonoma County. The family compound was called Coffee Grounds, as it was on Coffee Lane.

(For Thomas Scott Roberts, in defiance): Methink-eth Calvin doth a fabuleth job in hith Thakethpearean-eth mockery! Tho thmart-eth! (Just can’t help taking the pith out of Grammar Nazi’s! :—)

Now to wax contemporary:

@Hobbes – ignore the angry, passive-aggressive person who seems unaware that his speech patterns are abusive (tho betwixt you and I, it does cause wonder at the home life, wink, wink).

@rogue53 – please go get some help; if nothing else, in polite manners in a room full of people you don’t know.

I’m an adult now, but I started reading Calvin and Hobbes when I was about 9. I’m glad you have discovered this comic so young- it’s sometimes startling to realize there are kids who don’t know about this comic.

Well, I’m barely a teenager Snoopster. I’m 13

Fear not! I have bought books for the younger ones of my family. The legend lives on.

<< SandyShore said: "How do you people get paragraphs and spaces and why does my comment box squash everything unless I add a smiley face? >>Hi SandyShore. Not sure about the box squashing your comments. Maybe it’s unhappy about something? You might try another one of the free browsers, like Firefox or Opera. Where there’s a will, there’s a way (or has someone already said that?)To insert a blank line:Type in the four characters < b r > with no spaces between them, on a separate line.

Hobbes I’m glad you did not include me for number of posts, be hard to live up to the high number. Since I’m taking on-line classes and I’m midway through, I could not keep up.

Your 11? So, am I!

@The Snoopster

Are we the only two 11 year olds? Wow I thought there’d be more kids!

All’s well that ends well, y’all.

@Katiekicks and @Snoopster: It’s great to have both of you on this site. There are a lot of people here who have been enjoying the comics ever since they were kids.

Clique:Group, circle, faction, elite; “Birds of a Feather”.If this is what you’re striving for, . . . you’re there. If it’s not, . . . you’re still there.

@imrobert: Thanks for the Sebastapol zip code connection. I was in Sebastopol last fall and drove by the old Schulz estate. The family has sold it, but it still says, “The Coffee Grounds” out front. That’s where Charles Schulz lived and worked from 1958 to 1972, when the popularity of Peanuts was exploding.

I am 11 and a half 6 months I am not allowed to give my birthday though

It says in the "Calvin And Hobbes Sunday Pages 1985 – 1995 on page 19 (Quote) "Since “Calvin and Hobbes, I’ve been teaching myself how to paint, and trying to learn something about music. I have no background in either subject, and their are certainly days when I wonder what made me trade proficency and understanding in one field for clumsiness and ingnorance in these others” So, he doesn’t say exactly what he’s doing, but you get a general idea. Hope this helps! I’ll try and find out more! : )

For the young ones looking for more of the same, you might check out Big Nate. A lot of tweens/young teens comment there.

@cookies333: I’ll bet there are some more kids, but some of them may not be allowed to give their ages. I know that we have had other kids here in the past.I assume that you, The Snoopster, and Katiekicks know that young people shouldn’t give their real names or other information that could be used to identify you.There are probably fewer kids discussing Calvin and Hobbes than some other strips, because some Calvin and Hobbes strips bring up some pretty complex topics in this discussion forum, which would put a lot of kids to sleep. My guess is that the three of you get pretty good grades in school.

If we were to vote someone off of our “Island” it wouldn’t be Hobbes, it would be you!

I am sorry if that sounded harsh, but my point is, that I appreciate Hobbes comments. Your comments, not so much.

@♥Kab♥ Buch: I should have put you on the list for having the most amazing improvement in your writing abilities in only one year. I remember that you have been working very hard taking classes.

Thou doth whatever! I prefer the cop whow where they talk like real people!

@Rogue53: You are running out of standard attack techniques and word-manipulation methods. You referred to me as “one poster” today, repeating the exact same things that you have said directly to me, by name, countless times in the past. The meaning was totally transparent to me and others on this site, plus it was in the context of agreeing with someone who didn’t like my posting. Similarly, attacking someone, while at the same time saying that it is not an attack, doesn’t make it so.

Obviously, some people need to get a life.

“Commenting on other people’s comments”?Isn’t that just another way to say …conversation?

@Number 6: Thanks for the Andy Capp picture. I remember when Reg Smythe asked me to pose for that one, but I never saw how the finished drawing came out.

:>)

Welcome to the dark side, Linda Dean.

@Number Six: Great job at Andy Capp, all week long. Really clever. Thanks.

@Dogsniff: Heh, Heh, Heh.

Mom wants to watch in peace.

Willy Shakespeare liked his beer…he liked it cold or hot…he liked it in the evening, in the morning he did not…he looked around and saw the crown had ale and all what not…he said, by gum, I’ll try some rum and then became a sot…

I never did get this strip, even after learning Shakespeare, and in fact I still don’t…

@Linda Dean: Welcome! If you haven’t read some of the Calvin and Hobbes strips, you are one of the fortunate few who can enjoy them for the first time. I predict that, over time, you will come to really enjoy the strip – if we don’t all drive you nuts in the meantime.

:>)P.S. Is that avatar your real photo?

Language is in constant evolution, and that is something great. It is quite natural not to understand your own language written centuries before. I sure hope this is because of language’s natural evolution and not because of a culture abandoning the art of writing. English is such a rich and poetic language, and although I do not follow closely modern English literature, it would be sad to simplify written language to the point of being a dull, although practical, combination of words.

how close to Center or Lufkin were you?

PixieJane — I think I taught there. from 1997 to 2001, You describe the place I taught well. But then again East Texas has more places like that than expected.

@rogue53: You seem baffled by some aspects of normal human relationships, and in particular, friendships. I offered to be your friend long ago, but you weren’t interested. Now, because of your ongoing hostile and judgmental behavior, you seem to have no friends on this site. It is a self-imposed isolation. It seems like you have difficulty believing that people can be kind and genuine, without hidden motives. The fact that there are a few bad people on the Web, as there are in other areas of life, doesn’t mean that the rest of us are that way.

@PixieJane: No, I think that memoir was written by some other rogue author.

Welcome, CrazyIrishOperaGirl. If you look at tomorrow’s comments (Sunday), I wrote an explanation for Dogsniff on how I came up with the numbers. You would be the fourth youngest so far, since we have two 11-year-olds and a 13-year-old. But I assume there are other kids who aren’t allowed to give their ages. We’ve had others in the past.

@CrazyIrishOperaGirl: I just saw your question at the end of Friday’s comments, which you posted on Sunday. (Usually people here don’t read back that far.) Click on your name in blue in your comment above this one, and it will open your profile page. The URL at the top of that page says www.gocomics.com/profile/1001825. You are user number 1,001,825.

Forsooth but that was funny. (To mix/miss the metaphor).

The couch looks like it has a really bad case of acne…

@Hobbes – I am 68, born on October 27, 1943. @Puddleglum – the New King James Version is eminently readable – I often noodle around in several different translations to get the “flavor” of a particular passage. Since you seem to be a bit of a scholar, here’s a NT quote I have been trying to locate: “…suffering is required of your brotherhood…” Can you help me?

I must post a correction: I am the newest poster

@mrcomicsfan: Yeah, I’m having a hard time keeping that “newest comment” statistic up-to-date.

me im not even 13