Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 29, 2024

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

It has to do with the hereafter,,,,like what am I here after?

Maybe Dad got up for a smoke?

Go sit back down than. That’s what happens when you smoke too much

Calvin’s Dad is a Plugger!

Those advertisements were good and they worked. Got me! Took forever to kick it!

She: You got up and walked into the kitchen to wash the rest of the dishes.

That’s because you don’t have that band, as Richard Jeni said, to punctuate your life. If you did, you’d never be at a loss.

For me it’s a Stroh’s beer jingle 35-40 years ago, and I have the same basic experience as Calvin’s father on a regular basis.

Recently someone mentioned that my most common self-questioning is not “What is the meaning of life” but “What am I looking for? Do I know?” I was unaware how often I murmur this in my perambulations around the house.

I can remember events from toddlerood, but I’d forget were I put the remote a minute after I put it down!!

TV is such a powerful medium. The phrase “moderate to severe plaque psoriasis” has been rattling around in my head since I was about four.

It’s called a senior moment.

Winston Tastes Good Like A Cigarette ShouldLSMFT Lucky Strike Means Fine TobaccoI’d Walk A Mile For A Camel

I was going to comment. But, I forgot what I was going to say………

Now one may go on You Tube to see cigarette ads. I tell the younger generation that they were banned in 1971, but worth some amusement to see, especially Benson and Hedges 100’s.

LSMFT

It’s called “Herefer Disease”. As in “What am I herefer?”

Even worse, you remember that it is Fred Flintstone singing “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should”. Personally, having never eaten one, The Count would not know. Never smoked one, either, for that matter. Too much “Ew, David” for The Count.

I mean, if you believe “Inside Out”, it’s because the guys who work down in Long Term Memory are trolling little jerks!

Well, Dad, looks like your train of thought derailed!

QI the english show actually covered this and said that it’s something in the mind about crossing a threshold into a new room can sometimes reset your thoughts, meaning the most immediate thing-why you came into the room, goes out.

I’ve had this numverous times going into my basement.

Been there – a lot. Completely understand whatever it was I was going to say.

30 years later the answer would be to p

(Relieved) Thank goodness, I thought it was just me…

Neuroscientists around the world are working on this exact question. I need them to find the answer SOON.

Is it really a “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoon when neither Calvin nor Hobbes appear?

I resemble Calvin’s dad in this. I recall the Lucky Strike ads, “I’d rather fight than switch.”

Schaefer is the, one beer to have, when you’re having more than one.

If this happens more often, I would bet for dementia

Love the couple for bearing this bright kiddo.

yep – Calvin would cause early mental aging in any parent, yet they soldier on.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz – make up your own comment here folks or in other words – The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.

You mean AS a cigarette should.

What do you want? Good grammar or good taste?

I do the same thing, Dad.

Probably should have gone with breakfast food jingle rather than cigarette commercial.

I was going to comment, but I forgot what I wanted to say!

Comes to us all eventually mate.

That happens when the mind is jumping from thing to thing. Your first thought gets buried.

He must have walked through a doorway. Doorways cause amnesia. Whenever I walk through a doorway I forgot why I entered that room.

Calvin’s dad has just become a ‘Plugger’ ! ! ! ! !

Come On Over to the L&M Side…I’d rather fight than switch…A silly millimeter longer…Winston tastes good like a cigarette should…

Not tell me you was smoker too.

It’s the job of jingle writers to do that. Some of them ar VERY good at it.

Oh, that it so true! Madison Avenue has brainwashed TV viewers.

This is me every day.

Don’t be this guy.

LSMFT…Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco!

Showing your age here, Bill. There haven’t been cigarette ad jingles in more than twice that long. Good riddance to them.

Fun fact: when humans were nomadic, they needed one set of skills to survive in forests, another to survive in grasslands, etc. So our brain shunts aside the set of skills and memories foe environment A (bedroom) when we enter environment B (kitchen). It’s not poor memory, it’s survival skills!

Us kids sang “Winston Tastes Good Like A Cigarette Should, No Filter, No Taste, Just a Hunk of $h………” Don’t remember the rest. Never smoked!

Why’s our brain like that sometimes?

To go outside and have a smoke?

Hate when that happens.

Where is Hobbes? Did someone kidnap him? Pay the ransom and get him back!

“Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.”~ Rick Sanchez (Rick & Morty)

Now comes the part where he holds his jacket over his shoulder and walks away from the crowd. He’s a Marlboro man

Sadly, I know exactly how this feels. I can recall poems I learned decades ago, but my mind goes blank on the way to the kitchen.

Same here. Only in my case, it was the Ridley Scott Apple TV commercial from 1984…

I know what that’s like. “800-588-2300 Empiiiiiire…” “Today!”

Is it “like a cigarette should,” or “as a cigarette should?”

Join the club!

My goofy orange cat is named Hobbes. He acts so similar it’s scary.

Was it…. “Drown Calvin in the bath tub”…?

Age related malfunctions in the hippocampus where short term memories are held can lead to lapses in new memories while long term memories laid down years ago and located in different parts of the brain can remain unaffected.

We seniors live with that sort of questions most of the day. I can still remember many of my friends’ phone numbers from 50 years ago – but I often have to double-check my current number.

“Winston tastes good like a cig-cig-cigarette should”“Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet”“I’d walk a mile for a Camel”“Smoke longer and finer and milder Pall Mall”

Age.

Taste Me-Taste Me! Come On Taste Me! Take A Puff and Let Me Do My Stuff!

Probably got up to scold Calvin.

It’s the music and the rhyme that cement it in your mind.

People are always complaining that they can remember things of old but not yesterday. This leading me to believe that it’s not a recall problem we have, it’s a storage problem. Maybe its full and the new stuff keeps falling out.

i can relate