Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 19, 2021

And all the club members get important positions.

You need a gavel, to bring the meeting to order…..

For a club that’s against girls, the members sure brag a lot about themselves.

I see Calvin is still around. Looks like he managed to shed the “mud” name pretty well.

Good meetings forever and ever!!

Calvin and Hobbes are best!!

If Calvin were modest he would be perfect.

Their vocabulary is, indeed, prodigious!

I’ve worked in places where they thought job titles were worth as much as a raise. And that meetings were actually productive.

I didn’t work in such places for long though.

calvin sucks at maths (well he is creative if not theoretically correct) but he is cognoscenti about literature and art it seems, a boy misunderstood…

Is there no other misogynistic club greater than GROSS?

Reminds me of my parents’ stint in the masonic organisations, with their Worshipful Masters, Worthy Advisers etc.

I see that he still uses “Calvin the Bold” in spite of having been dubbed “Mud” by Lord Dad I.

I wonder why they can’t get more members?

Self-congratulation does not befit a politician.

Those rare moments when Calvin talks directly to the audience. It’s funny looking back at how often that happens (often when Cavin narrates someone like Mo: “He’s not smart, but he’s streetwise. That means he knows what street he lives on”).

I skipped half the speeches.

Yeesh, even the introductions to these meetings need intermissions.

Even though I own all the Calvin and Hobbes books it is fun dropping by here every morning.

I. Am. Laughing. So. Hard.

Meeting adjourned.

Calvin’s real name is Donald.

Watterson could have surpassed all the great poets if he’d wanted to.

Makes more sense than praying to some invisible person in the sky.

I made some comments in two of last week’s sessions which seem to have been misunderstood by some commentators so I would like to clarify them:

I commentated that Bill Watterson has said three times to my knowledge that he didn’t consider Hobbes to be part of Calvin’s imagination. Someone replied that Watterson may not have considered Hobbes to be part of Calvin’s imagination but – by showing that other characters see Hobbes as a stuffed doll – he portrayed him as such. I disagree. I certainly started off assuming that Hobbes was part of Calvin’s imagination but I started to doubt that about four years before I read that Watterson didn’t see Hobbes as imaginary. This is because Hobbes is sometimes shown doing things when Calvin isn’t around, talking to us about Calvin or making comments which Calvin doesn’t understand.

On Friday, someone said that most of the characters in the strip hate Calvin and I replied that Mom and Dad love Calvin and Mom often shows her love while Dad also shows it but much less often. I added that Moe and Rosalyn are the only characters who are really mean to Calvin. Someone spoke up for Rosalyn and implied that Calvin bullies her! I’m aware that Calvin unwittingly brought Rosalyn on himself by being such a brat that no one else will baby sit him but he never bullies anyone and certainly couldn’t bully a teenager. Most of the Rosalyn story arcs have her, a teenager, threatening a six-year-old child but she never threatens him in front of his parents as that might jeopardise her role as baby sitter. Rosalyn is often angry will Calvin whereas Calvin is often terrified of Rosalyn.

It is true that Calvin sometimes takes revenge on Rosalyn and that he may have learned his tactics from Moe. When he stole her study notes and tried to get more favourable treatment, someone said, “How cute! Calvin’s learned extortion at such a young age!” I then replied that he probably learned it from Moe but may have learned it from Rosalyn herself

I think this is how religions are started.

Wouldn’t that make a great introduction for The State of the Union Address? (Just needs a little fine tuning.)

" It’s hard to be humble, when your perfect in every way".

Delightfully G.R.O.S.S.!

PTSD from the Big Nate comments.

Took me a second reading to recognize the rhymes. And very creative rhymes they are.

I love the ornate first letter in each speech. Bill Watterson never “phoned it in.”

Them boys has got purdy fancy talk, yessum!

I adore Calvin’s (and Hobbes’) poetry. Bill Watterson is a genius.

Sheer poetry! Literally!

These two have very bad cases of “I” strain!

All hail his humbleness, snerk

I’m impressed by the vocabularies of a 6-year-old boy and a stuffed tiger.

The one thing that I wonder about is, dose Calvin even know what he’s saying?

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If they are that wonderful why do they have to sing their own praises.

I’m starting a new cryptocurrency – LawDogDollars. Who’s in?

How do I join, lol?

No doubt with that kind of vocab the club deserves the fame.

Sheesh. Another Trump Cabinet meeting.

Wow and that is how long my meeting would be and that is just the start?!

“YES, STAND UP AND HAIL HIS HUMBLENESS NOW!” Really, Calvin? From what dictionary did you get your definition of “humbleness”?

Flash News Bulletin … a group of protesters is surrounding a tree facility where a meeting of a club named G.R.O.S.S is taking place right now, local authorities have arrived, more details latter this evening.

Great clubs got G.R.O.S.S.y names!

This was one of the best of all time.

That first panel kinda sounded like Trump.

I can’t believe I just realized this rhymes. How many times have I read this???

One of my all-time favorites. But what is it — dactylic tetrameter? (As if it mattered.)

“Humility, and How I Obtained It,” a treatise by Calvin & Hobbes