Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 18, 2013

Yes of course.

Just relate to them the distinctions between matter and form, and substance and accident, or the primacy of individuals over universals…. as Aristotle, did while teaching philosophy while walking in the Lyceum

An appropriate retort would be good!!

Nah, just roll with it.

I might be charmed. It would depend.

Something snappy, along the lines of, “Ah, your mother wesrsarmy boots” should fit the bill nicely.

Rhyme? Shouldn’t be alliteration?

I once heard an eight-year-old boy call his younger sister “You paralytic mollusc!”because he knew she didn’t know what the words meant. She ran off crying to mama that he’d sworn at her.

Calvin, may I suggest the following snappy retorts. (Credit The Manly Handbook) Oh yea. Who wants to know? Says you. You and what Army?

I think no matter how good an insult is I would consider it wasted if the person at the other end did not understand it. After all our satisfaction of their reaction is the ultimate goal

if some day my english is better soon….

The best iIcould come up with on the spot is: “As opposed to you who are solo, so low, & so slow.”

That was random. Calvin seems like a grump today. Sheesh.

A pair of nudist parachutists.A pair of little paradiddles.

My old standby: “Up your nose with a rubber hose!”

Whaddaya pay Hobbes for?

Calvin sounds more like a restless, roaming radical rascal!

You guys (non-gender specific version ;^) are missing the more appropriate, second, definition of an “Aristotelian philosopher”.

Just report the retort

If someone were to use that insult, then Calvin could respond, “No, we’re a couple of slobs named Calvin and Hobbes.”Wait……….No, I guess that doesn’t work very well……

Why did Calvin even think of the insult in the first place?

“Thou, vicious vagabond, we are on the same road”

I might add, the insult seems to break the fourth wall, as well.

A good response would be: “And you’re a solo, solipsistic cynic.”

peripatetic – definition of peripatetic by the Free Online Dictionary …www.thefreedictionary.com/peripatetic‎per·i·pa·tet·ic (p r -p -t t k). adj. 1. Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot. 2. Peripatetic Of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of …how do you retort that. anyway, it’s alliteration, not rhyme

It’s defined in Meriam Webster (online) as a person who follows the teachings of Aristotle. I do enjoy learning new words through the comics.

I learned in Anthropology long ago that boys in Turkey typically used rhyming insults —although it was more common to make a rhyme with an insult directed at you (along the lines of “You’re a loser!” “Oh yeah? Your father’s a boozer!”).

Just ignore the nattering nabobs of negativism.

I, too, am a contingency planner. You can never be too prepared for what may come.

“I’m bettin’ I’m talkin’ to a cretin!”

“Alliteration is the last refuge of the feebleminded.”

Love Calvin’s angry expression in the 3rd panel.

xxx

Ready retort? Really? Readily renounce radical ripostes and rejoinders. Reflexively and rapidly.

Actually pathETIC peripatETICS works better as a rhyme than an alliteration. PATHetic PATHfinders would be alliteration.

I once told a bully in high school that his “synapses seem insufficiently setose”. Fortunately, he had no more idea what that meant than Moe. (And I could run faster than Calvin.)

Like you.

Whoa Calvin! I actually had to look up peripatetics

Pari-pa-tet-ic (capitalized) n. a follower of Aristotle. Quite a vocabulary Calvin has. Surely he’ll try to work it into his crossword puzzle tomorrow.