Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 14, 2013

Does not sound very defiant to me at all.

For a six year old kid he always comes with great analyses of everyday life, even if he has to copy his tests from Suzie.

I want to be an individual just like everyone else.(I think that would be a great tattoo!)

Hobbes nails it.

Best commercials on tv right now are the ones with Will Farrell, hilarious!

Bet we’ve been doing it since there were more than two teenagers on the planet.

The T.V. jumping around has attitude to spare.

From Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”:Brian: Please, please, please listen! I’ve got one or two things to say.

The Crowd: Tell us! Tell us both of them!

Brian: Look, you’ve got it all wrong! You don’t NEED to follow ME, You don’t NEED to follow ANYBODY! You’ve got to think for your selves! You’re ALL individuals!

The Crowd: Yes! We’re all individuals!

Brian: You’re all different!

The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different!

Man in crowd: I’m not…

So true. The ads of the 90s on cable TV basically said, “you can have it all, and you can have it now—and you should.” Even if “it” is something you’ve never heard of and have no taste for, and have to hock your house to get.

“You’re an original, babyLike we’ve never seen before.You’re an original, babyTurn around and you’re looking at 100 more…”(Sheryl Crowe)

I agree, there should be a comma.

Many are absolutely conforming in their non-conformity.

So by TRYING to be like everyone else I’m actually a non-conformist because everyone else is trying to be different?

Again, brilliant Mr. Watterson

Love the way Watterson draws the TV jumping around and making noise. One of his best running visual gags.

Reminds me of all the car commercials that used to say “only drivers wanted” or that everyone should be in the driver’s seat . . . made me wonder what the passenger and back seats were put into their cars for then . . .

These days you can be special, just like everyone.

“All her friends were non-conformists, so she became a non-conformist too.” — Austin Lounge Lizards

“Stay thirsty my friends”

look enjoy watching…….

No one thinks of this stuff anymore. Lol

Sounds like a Honda commercial.

My favorite current incarnation of this thought is the bi-polar world of advertising to the over-60 crowd: “I’m over 60; I’m going to hike the Appalachian Trail before I re-enlist as a Navy Seal” to “Mom and Dad are over 60. You need to get them life insurance / into a home / take away their keys” etc., etc. I love the one where the healthy, spry father hurts his shoulder falling off a ladder but is up and about, and the pair of daughters are baby-talking their parents into LIFE INSURANCE. Pair of ghouls! ;-)

I can just imagine Calvin in an advert.

But I’m trying not to.

LOL xxx

My buddy can’t be a man ‘cause he doesn’t smoke the same cigarettes as me.

Why can’t Mick Jagger get no satisfaction?

Ten or more years ago, I was always looking for the hugest earrings possible. Now that everyone is wearing them, I think they look ridiculous.

Oh dear! Nailed by the Punctuation Police! Officer! Forgive me, I will go quietly. I promise to never, ever, forget the curly-tailed thingy again! rofl.

Hobbes your comments are as always great.

Some of the comments here remind me of something I saw online again today …

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“I like cooking my family and my pets.

Use commas—don’t be a psycho.”

But it’s so cool to be cool.

must’ve been a Harley-Davidson ad….