Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 03, 2014

This strip is called “Calvin & Hobbes,” not “Boring Married Couple.”

I know the feeling.

hate it when that happens

8)

Ja, ja, when you get older, remembering will be harder. I write a shoppinglist for not forgetting what I want to buy!!

Happens all the time

Children cause Alzheimer’s in adults.

You have commercials pounded into you day after day.

Actually, TV spent billions on psychologists to study exactly how to make us remember a commercial. One was to make it completely stupid, another to repeat it ad nauseam.

Hoorah Hawks.

Ive been asking myself the same thing LOL!

LSMFT

“Does your cigarette taste different lately?” [naughty postcardof dog doing #1 on a tobacco plant]

Re: forgetting.http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/

Either Calvin has the day off, or he is in his room getting into absolutely NO trouble!

C’mon, Calvin’s Dad – you’re way to young to be worrying about forgetting stuff.

because the jingle is catchier and more memorable ;)

One of the few dated C&H strips. Today you’d have to be over 60 to remember a cigarette jingle.

repetition, repetition, repetition,

I remember an ad for a stupid toy called “Six Finger” from the early 60s – top that!

“More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.”

“Taste me, taste me, come on and taste me.”

“Should a gentleman offer a lady a Tiparillo?”

I understand, dad.

D’oh THOSE SEA HAWKS!!!!

What is tragic is remembering what you did 5 minutes ago, but not remembering what was going on 20 years ago. My children tell me they did activities with me that I don’t remember. Now I wish I had kept a journal and taken more pictures.

CRS (Can’t remember stuff).

My wife tells me to make a list. That at least lets me forget the stuff all at once.

I was going to write something, but I forgot what it was.

Thanks to youTube, we can still get those jingles stuck in our head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apD9_hLxqE0

Dad dude it happens. You have a lot on your mind.

Seven minute cigarette taste longer.. That was catchy.

Welcome to my world, Calvin’s dad.

True, true! lol

This is technically referred to as a “Problem with the Hereafter”. Walk in to a room and can’t remember what you’re here after.

A card send to me by my oldest friend…‘growing old is like being continually punished for a crime you did not commit.’ Yeah. and now I’m gonna have cigarette jingles running around my head all day! Hey! I thought torture was illegal!

Here is my list in the morning: First the pants, THEN the shoes.

Dang marketing!

MAD magazine had an article in the late sixties (“Inventions We’d Like to See”, I think it was) of mostly Rube Goldberg-like devices for things like an unwieldy device for picking up dog poo from sidewalks before you stepped in it and the like; but one was actually useful, and consisted of instructions on how to cut into the speak wires on your TV set and install a wire with a toggle switch on the end to turn the sound off and on and was labeled as a “Commercial Killer”.I don’t remember too many of the commercial jingles after that.

My short term memory is so bad that if I ever get Alzheimer’s, nobody would notice.

Now what are we talking about?

I don’t know, but I think the mom is kinda hot.

I can remember on the Flintstones, the waitress’ song when Fred and Barney opened a drive in diner, the commercial that Ann Marie had to have dubbed for her on That Girl, and most of Gilligan’s Island musical adaptation of Hamlet (to the tunes from the opera Carmen). It’s been decades, but I remember. Also, a parody we sang as kids:

Winston tastes bad,Like the one I just had.No Filter, no flavor,Just used toilet paper.

isn’t Calvin’s father a bit too young for this to happen. It started with me after 70 …..

Absolute classic Calvin and Hobbes today- this is one of Watterson’s very best!

Maybe the strip should be called Calvin, Hobbes and Calvin’s Dad though…

This comic was originally published in 1994. Were cigarette ads with jingles still running in 1969?

For those who are older, this is a good strip, knowing how we feel, and, let’s face it, more realistic than most of them, although we all love them all!

That happens to me… All the time.

Well, Some of the time.

xxx

Perhaps I forget my English!

… I had this brilliant comment to make, but after reading some of the other posts, I forget what it was. Nutz!

“Hey get your cold beer. Hey get your Ballantine!” “Hey Mabel, Black Label.” Yeah, those tunes are stuck in my mind even 50 years later.And I don’t drink.

And this cartoon is already 20 years old!

It gets worse over time, hang on.

Philosophy doesn’t answer questions. It justraises more…. And most of them are unanswer-able anyway.

Because “Winston tastes good, like (cha-cha) YOUR cigarette should!”