Amateurs can work hard, achieve a goal and then ease up. Pros have to keep torturing themselves to stay in top shape. As for Calvin, that perpetual chattermouth, I would think he is always in top shape to chew.
In today’s strip, it’s possible that Bill Watterson is making a reference to the fact that, while he was really good at cartooning, it required a whole lot of effort and endurance to maintain his high standards. Over time, as it became increasingly difficult for him to sustain the strip at its incredibly high level, his own level of enjoyment began to diminish.
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@LX013: Yes, Calvin’s gum chewing is like a pianist having to spend a lot of time doing miserable, boring finger exercises on the piano, in order to be able to continue to perform at a high level of perfection.
We can get these products in Austria, but I don’t want them, I do without them! I don’t like artificial sugar, sometimes I take a bit Stevia, when it is too ghastly without sugar!!
Ha ha, enjoyed all the comments about golf, and all of them are true! I used to golf quite a bit, but now I enjoy watching a game from a comfortable seat at our club, or at home on our big screen TV.
Interesting story about going from amateur to pro. I had a customer who was about my age and he taught some business classes at a local college. When he was in college, he played a lot of golf, and unlike me, he was very good at the game; so good, his friends convinced him he should try out for and go pro, so he did!
He discovered, much to his chagrin, he was no longer having fun playing a game he loved to play! It became a job for him, as if his livelihood depended upon his success, which it did. After a few years, he threw in the towel, quit the pro circuit, and went back to just enjoying golf for the fun of the game…
Farside99 about 9 years ago
Sounds like golf.
Kind&Kinder about 9 years ago
Amateurs can work hard, achieve a goal and then ease up. Pros have to keep torturing themselves to stay in top shape. As for Calvin, that perpetual chattermouth, I would think he is always in top shape to chew.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member about 9 years ago
If you’re really lucky, you develop TMJ.
Hobbes Premium Member about 9 years ago
In today’s strip, it’s possible that Bill Watterson is making a reference to the fact that, while he was really good at cartooning, it required a whole lot of effort and endurance to maintain his high standards. Over time, as it became increasingly difficult for him to sustain the strip at its incredibly high level, his own level of enjoyment began to diminish.
To view the following strips in the archive and help GoComics generate revenue, please click on the blue archive links below. To view the strips directly, click on the images below or stretch them.B.C. (March 3, 2003)Peanuts (July 9, 1954)Peanuts (August 19, 1957)Calvin and Hobbes (May 5, 1992)Calvin and Hobbes (May 7, 1992)Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 9 years ago
That would explain Calvin’s manly physique.
nossmf about 9 years ago
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing.
Hobbes Premium Member about 9 years ago
@LX013: Yes, Calvin’s gum chewing is like a pianist having to spend a lot of time doing miserable, boring finger exercises on the piano, in order to be able to continue to perform at a high level of perfection.
Hobbes Premium Member about 9 years ago
@LX013: It’s easier if you don’t chew gum while you are singing.
:>)comixbomix about 9 years ago
I, too, miss it being referred to as a “regimen”…evolution of language is fine, but through ingrained misuse is just sad.
rentier about 9 years ago
We can get these products in Austria, but I don’t want them, I do without them! I don’t like artificial sugar, sometimes I take a bit Stevia, when it is too ghastly without sugar!!
richard about 9 years ago
Looks like a good opportunity for a Frazz crossover :)
rentier about 9 years ago
I must say this to you, we have full moon on 25. 12.!!
Susie Derkins :D about 9 years ago
It will be all gone before you make it through a month.
Number Three about 9 years ago
I always think chewed gum looks like a brain.
Pink chewed gum looks even more realistic!
Eww.
xxx
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 9 years ago
@Leading Edge“Does Your Chewing Gum ……”Thanks for the link. Hadn’t heard Lonnie sing that song in decades.
neverenoughgold about 9 years ago
Ha ha, enjoyed all the comments about golf, and all of them are true! I used to golf quite a bit, but now I enjoy watching a game from a comfortable seat at our club, or at home on our big screen TV.
Interesting story about going from amateur to pro. I had a customer who was about my age and he taught some business classes at a local college. When he was in college, he played a lot of golf, and unlike me, he was very good at the game; so good, his friends convinced him he should try out for and go pro, so he did!
He discovered, much to his chagrin, he was no longer having fun playing a game he loved to play! It became a job for him, as if his livelihood depended upon his success, which it did. After a few years, he threw in the towel, quit the pro circuit, and went back to just enjoying golf for the fun of the game…