Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 09, 2014
October 08, 2014
October 10, 2014
Transcript:
Moe: "Get off the swing or I'll punch for lights out"
Moe: "What a sissy! Haw!"
Calvin: "Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison...I hope I'm not too mature to gloat"
Most of my Moes are dead now, and the world is a better place without them, I gloat and have absolutely no guilt about it. I’m so happy that they are dead. That Calvin can look twenty years into the future and wonder how he will feel about Moe, is an amazing quality he has, far more useful than whether he can add and subtract.
There was the odd bully like Moe, but more kids whose main hobby seemed to be vandalism who were the ones in elementary school I thought would end up in prison a few years down the road.
I’m 76 and have never forgotten how a boy, whose dad owned a new car dealership, laughed at the old, old car I was driving. It wasn’t even my car , it was my parents! The dealership went broke and I now drive a Cadillac . I always made sure my sons had nice cars to drive. Very immature, I know.
Class reunions – where you go and see fat old women and bald headed men who thought they were hot stuff back then! .I was one of those that always looked younger back in school. Didn’t start shaving as early, baby face, skinny etc. .Now i love it! Still have my hair and at 59 only some grey flicked in. Weight is not up and I’m still in pretty good shape! .Sometimes you really do get the last laugh!
Had my childhood filled with Moe’s. Ironically, half of them became the best Chicago cops money could buy. And the other half became crooked lawyers. Are there any other kind? Better them than me.
Several years ago, I Googled the name of a childhood friend who was a “Juvenile Delinquent”. Of the possible candidate hits, there was one of the right age who had been in prison. He was currently working as a sort of “Speaker”, going to prisons and giving talks on how to avoid going back to prison upon being released. If that is my friend, I’m glad he found a way to do something positive with his life.
@Jaddis: In early Christianity, the Apostle Paul was the ultimate bully-transformed-to -zealous-convert. He went from murdering Christians to spreading Christianity.
@spaced man spliff: I was talking about the ultimate convert for Christianity, because of Moe’s conversion in the Pearls Before Swine strip that I posted. The Apostle Paul brought Christianity to non-Jewish people, his writings are included in the Bible, and those writing have helped to continue converting people to Christianity for 2000 years, as well as influencing the lives of Christians over that time.
The above comment was in response to an entry that appears to have been removed, ie christians killed more christians in the 4th century than the romans had up to that time.
BE THIS GUY about 10 years ago
Calvin, I don’t think you have to worry about becoming too mature.
rentier about 10 years ago
No wonder, it’s a human feeling!!
ORMouseworks about 10 years ago
Oh, you’ll gloat, Calvin, because you’ll be the superintendent of prisoners where that guy will be incarcerated… ;)
Zero-Gabriel about 10 years ago
Moe deserves to be Drop-Kick into next Month…
chovil about 10 years ago
Most of my Moes are dead now, and the world is a better place without them, I gloat and have absolutely no guilt about it. I’m so happy that they are dead. That Calvin can look twenty years into the future and wonder how he will feel about Moe, is an amazing quality he has, far more useful than whether he can add and subtract.
Olddog1 about 10 years ago
Study Calvin. You might be the prosecutor who puts him in jail.
Cameron1988 Premium Member about 10 years ago
They already sealed Calvin’s future, in the Pearls Before Swine strip, last year
Sham_Poser about 10 years ago
There was the odd bully like Moe, but more kids whose main hobby seemed to be vandalism who were the ones in elementary school I thought would end up in prison a few years down the road.
Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago
……………………………..Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (January 30, 1986)Click here: Peanuts (January 29, 1985)Click here: Dilbert (November 7, 1989)Click here: Pearls Before Swine (December 19, 2013)
Sieffert about 10 years ago
Yes, Calvin WILL be wildly successful. With his creativity, imagination and insight into the human condition – he can’t lose!
weatherford.joe Premium Member about 10 years ago
If you want to be successful and happy, you’d better start studying, Calvin.
Five boys about 10 years ago
I’m 76 and have never forgotten how a boy, whose dad owned a new car dealership, laughed at the old, old car I was driving. It wasn’t even my car , it was my parents! The dealership went broke and I now drive a Cadillac . I always made sure my sons had nice cars to drive. Very immature, I know.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 10 years ago
Calvin my boy, I think you need never worry about becoming too mature for anything.
shadyguy about 10 years ago
Sic Hobbs on him!
tcar-1 about 10 years ago
Class reunions – where you go and see fat old women and bald headed men who thought they were hot stuff back then! .I was one of those that always looked younger back in school. Didn’t start shaving as early, baby face, skinny etc. .Now i love it! Still have my hair and at 59 only some grey flicked in. Weight is not up and I’m still in pretty good shape! .Sometimes you really do get the last laugh!
Nortley about 10 years ago
The Moes often seem to become cops.
sonnygreen about 10 years ago
Had my childhood filled with Moe’s. Ironically, half of them became the best Chicago cops money could buy. And the other half became crooked lawyers. Are there any other kind? Better them than me.
ChessPirate about 10 years ago
Several years ago, I Googled the name of a childhood friend who was a “Juvenile Delinquent”. Of the possible candidate hits, there was one of the right age who had been in prison. He was currently working as a sort of “Speaker”, going to prisons and giving talks on how to avoid going back to prison upon being released. If that is my friend, I’m glad he found a way to do something positive with his life.
Number Three about 10 years ago
He’s jealous of you, Calvin. Believe me.
xxx
tuslog64 about 10 years ago
In my HS class, there were four overweight girls that were called the “big 4”At the 25th reunion, one of them was a real beauty.
Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago
@Jaddis: In early Christianity, the Apostle Paul was the ultimate bully-transformed-to -zealous-convert. He went from murdering Christians to spreading Christianity.
neverenoughgold about 10 years ago
Saaaay, didn’t Moe join with a couple other loonies later in life to form “The Three Stooges”? I mean, he looks like he has the correct haircut…
Susie Derkins D: about 10 years ago
Well you might be correct Calvin.
dagan about 10 years ago
whoa,i hit the way back button and found my self back in 1985,the first calvin and hobb’’s.wonder how long it wiil take to read them all!
Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago
@spaced man spliff: I was talking about the ultimate convert for Christianity, because of Moe’s conversion in the Pearls Before Swine strip that I posted. The Apostle Paul brought Christianity to non-Jewish people, his writings are included in the Bible, and those writing have helped to continue converting people to Christianity for 2000 years, as well as influencing the lives of Christians over that time.
tuslog64 about 10 years ago
Don’t have any documentation on that, but I’d bet you’re right!
tuslog64 about 10 years ago
The above comment was in response to an entry that appears to have been removed, ie christians killed more christians in the 4th century than the romans had up to that time.