Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 09, 2009

Hobbes feels that the women should be included…

True happiness has got to include women. Money is nice. Cars…I don’t think so. True happiness is having a partner to share each day with who you look forward to waking up to each morning…in the absolute splendor of wealth. if not monetarily than in happiness.

Sadly, there are alot of shallow people who think that’s all there is to life.

It depends on no material things it’s peace in your heart and with god, a good get along with people, to love someone truely, feel to be loved, a wonderful sunset, to enjoy nature, to walk in the sand along the shore in the evening, or to sit in the gras under a tree in summer, what wonderful happiness!

A good woman will get you through times of no money and no cars better than money and cars will get you through times of no women.

True happiness for me is somewhere totally deserted, tho’ some of the time I can see both Calvin’s and Hobbes’ point of view ;)

He has two flags then! No place for hate talk around the youngsters that read these comics.

Calvin could do with visiting this site and finding out what really makes people happy: http://www.makeeverybodyhappy.org/

:o) (BTW, it’s women!)

Actually, TC now has at least four flags. There’s no excuse for such vile postings on such a sweet site.

Hell yea, women/men/partners are the meaning! @hogarstrashni. From where do you come from? I’m from Struga, MKD. If you like you can write me on sutinoski at gmail.com Pozdrav.

I think Hobbes might be upset that his list doesn’t include tigers. How can one be happy without that unconditional furry love.

I pick the second two, women somehow don’t work into the happiness equation, although they’re fun to have around sometimes.

“Gweedo Murray says:

That saying sounds vaguely familiar…”

Hi Gweedo, my brother used to buy a comic called “the fabulous furry freak brothers” about a group of 3 stoners that were stuck living in the 70’s. Their catchphrase was “dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope”…

True, very true, Akenta!

Truecrispian, flagged

And another flag for tc such a load of bull I hope the powers that be kick him off this site!!!!!!!!!!!!

and another flag for TC. Interesting he doesn’t practice what he preaches!

Elwoodman, we gotta talk bro,

Gweedo, your observation about Ted Kennedy switching parties is very interesting, I think some feel the answer is yes

Hobbes actually wishes Calvin would understand Omer Khayam:

“A loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a book of verse – and thou”

(the “thou” refers to a good woman)

Another flag for TC. Ever read his avatar? What a joke TC is.

TC is probably a “Phelpsian” (congregant of Westboro Baptist Church)–you know, the ones who obnoxiously protest at soldiers’ funerals, and have about as much love for the US as does Jeremy Wright.

Yikes, this is a comic strip folks What is it about Calvin & Hobbes that gets weird commentary. Chill.

STOP FEEDING THE TROLL people! just silently flag him and move on, it’s not as much attention today as he got yesterday but it is still far too much. Starve the troll and he will move on to happier hunting grounds.

Besides I doubt the flags do anything. He/she got flagged who knows how many times yesterday and they are STILL here.

COMPLETELY….100%!!! ignoring the problem WILL make it go away.

Please! This person probably bats for the other team no matter what issue is at hand. No sane person really believes what is being espoused by TC.

Editing your post to make everyone who flagged you look hateful won’t work if you don’t change all your past posts also. It also proves the point of my first statement.

I also flagged TC

lol I think Hobbes would have preferred a more altruistic and meaningful alternative to option a)

I also flagged TC. This kind of judgmental person gives all true christians a bad reputation.

As one of the Calvin & Hobbes strips read, as Calvin & Hobbes were outside,”It’s hot, it’s humid,it’s buggy, there’s no breeze, and the air is full of pollen, but it’s summer!” That my friends, is true happiness, SUMMER!!!!

(sarcasm) well, Calvin, money buys cars, (and some women like cars) so …

Hobbes has true happiness away from Calvin when he starts in on this stuff! hahah—another Flag down!

Calvin, wait until you’re a teener-women will make you forget about the other things.

Calvin, with money and cars, there is no way you will be able to keep women away. Happiness, on the other hand, is a completely different animal…Even a combination of all three cannot guarantee happiness. That is something that comes from within YOU and not from the outside.

Watch the movie ‘Aman’. It is about a poor righteous rickshaw driver from India who is the happiest man in the world.

Women are definitely NOT the meaning of happiness. The older you get, Calvin, the more you will understand.

“meaning” of true happiness is the question folks !

I think most pot smokers would way smoking pot, if its what you be happy with.

btw, on TC why not other TC’s just pray instead of flagging !

Because you are a complete chop, TC!

TC You can’t spell, either.

Yukoner says:

I have flagged TC and will do so every time he appears on this forum. I will make no further mention of him every. I urge everyone to do the same.

BTW I am a born-again Christian and condemn utterly what this person spews.

Same here Yukoner and the rest of you. He makes the rest of us look bad. Today’s comment was not as bad as yesterday’s but it was inappropriate to the C&H comic posted. What more can we do besides flagging him? is there anyone we can write to? You PRO people have priveleges the rest of us don’t, see what you can do eh?

TC: The reason you are flagged today is that while Luke 6: 27-28 is a nice passage, it has nothing to do with today’s comic or the way you have been treated on this forum. Born-again Christians like me don’t like being misrepresented and non-christians don’t like having hate spewed at them. Your posts of the past few days have been inappropriate at best and just plain mean, not to mention completely off-topic. While I did not flag today’s posting because all you did was quote Luke, I have done so in the past and will continue to do so when you rant and rave at us for no discernible reason.

Hobbes has the right idea…when posed with irrational philosophical questions (or in the case of this forum, irrational comments), sometimes the right answer is to just walk away…

I would not touch that comment with a 100 foot pole. Happiness is different for different people, and different at different times in our lives. We mostly reach contentment.

Akenta you’re so very right in your observation… Tigers should’ve been included…

Ok…it’s money…no…it’s cars…wait…it’s women…wait a minute…it’s money and cars…no…it’s all three…no…aughhhh!

I spent most of my money on cars and women. Wasted the rest.

While I flagged TRUECRISTIAN (sic) yesterday, today his posting was fine, and even somewhat appropriate. Flag inappropriate posts. Don’t flag someone just because you don’t like them.

Looking at this from Calvin’s point of view, he has approximately 3 women in is life: one is a monster, one is a pest, and the other he unconditionally loves she however, makes him go to school, eat his greens and have BATHS (this state of affairs maybe true for all little boys)

As for Hobbes/tigers not being in the equation… tigers are like the ‘=’ sign, there’s no meaning to an equation with out a tiger in it.

As for the ‘money can’t buy you happiness argument’; Most people who have no money, are usually quite miserable (not the people who choose to have no money here. This maybe a very important disticntion tho’) Living in the world community that we do with the social expectations that we have and having a desire to fit in, then money sure adds significantly to the state of happiness with in that system. Vive La Anarchy LOL

Tc enjoys all of the s-it he stirs up .doubt if he is a christan

@ Stuart Gathman – TC edited his comment. The original was, well, a little different than the passage quoted.

To flag or not to flag? I am distinctly in the “no flag” camp for a variety of reasons. I think the person behind TrueCristian, regardless of motivation, is gutless and is using the anonymity of the Internet to be a keyboard bully. And I don’t mind telling that person to stick his or her comments where they ought to go. But I think rather than flagging, we should all agree to ignore this stupidity. There are some 58 comments in this forum as I write, and at least half mention this particular commenter.

And, so, I issue the following thought to everyone else here: don’t flag, just ignore. Don’t give credence to this fool and we’ll see how long the foolishness lasts – sometimes you just need to ignore petulant children and they will stop their incessantly obnoxious behavior.

I don’t know what TC posted earlier that resulted in *it* being furiously flagged, but I have seen posts from other days, and I’m sure that what IS there now , was not earlier. I know Christians, some of my friends are Christians, and you, TC, ARE NO CHRISTIAN. Trolls can’t make anyone look bad if nobody responds, they only make a fool of themselves. . One thing my wife likes to tell me is “Never argue with a idiot, they pull you down to their level then beat you up with (trollish) experience; and others people watching can’t tell the difference.”

Money don’t grow from the tree. Cars…mmm I was not sure if cars are worth to drive for pleasure or not. Women, mmmm… Love will win your heart that is most important. Stay with your partner forever “till death us apart” (I try to figure out that one) If you are happy for what you have something that will be worth (or valued) in your life, you will have a lot of true happiness.

I already flagged on TC! I won’t accept no matter what the person tries to post negative comment on this posting comment or not. So be it!

“WHY I FLAGGED?” This guy/girl is a put on! Has to be! Too bad his/her put ons are so vicious!

..or is it just money and women? Let’s talk about pseudo happiness.

1331 EST, Truecristion’s post is gone

Gweedo, since I don’t quite understand where your comment to me is coming from, I am not sure if you understood that I was NOT aiming anything at you. Just furthering your thought and contemplating if the person aiming the ill will would feel differently if he/she/it were politically aligned with Mr. Kennedy. It’s a moot point now as the comment has been removed.

A bad woman in a man’s personal life can bring down his professional life. So to be truly happy (and prosper)….you need a good woman.

Gweedo, my new avatar is the Yukon Coat of Arms and yes it is Territory.

i so have to find a way to check this at school on my off period. i missed a lot. was TC’s post that bad today or what?

cute comic today. i think that hobbes shoule be included in the things that makes calvin happy. the answer to this question (for men) would be in an old country song. “here would we be without the love of a woman standing besides her man even when he is worng.” so there you have it. Men we make you happy and you know it.

So Tabbylynn (and others of the female persuasion), what would make a woman happy? Would it include any of Calvin’s suggestions?

Money is the key. Happiness is an illusion, so with money you may create whatever illusion you desire.

no money, no honey

Ah Hobbes, love his face in pasnel 3! Calvin there are a lot of mysteries in this world…some are so mysterious that we dont even know what they are!

As my avatar suggests I too am a big fan of Crumb and others printed in the underground newspapers. At the time in my life I was living in Vancouver, BC and the Georgia Straight newspaper had a strip that i just loved. It was called “Harold Head” and was about a longhaired lean hippie stoner. Most of you probably didn’t see it, as it might have been local. One day I was sitting in my favorite dive pub called The Anchor with my roommate buddy and there we saw a guy who looked just like Harold Head. My friend and I speculated that it was the cartoonist, but couldn’t summon up nerve to approach and ask. Anybody out there familiar with the strip.

Personally, I always thought Ian Dury had it pegged.

( If you need to ask, you wouldn’t understand. )

i am tasty

I steh’ zu dir bei Licht und Schatten, jederzeit!

hello? i logged in to flag truecristian and i couldn’t find his comments here. where’d he go? can i help with the flagging?

PaulAtreides, he either vanished on his own or gocomics. got rid of him/her for us! AT any rate, all the comments he/she posted have been deleted, but he/she will probably show up again under a different name,unless they have a way of tracking him/her.

Happiness is a warm dog on your lap.

FYI, (concerning below me), the first Christians were Jews, who were keen on jesus, a Jew. And we had god first. An your Last Supper? Our Sedar.

TC apparently people dont really like you around here and earlier I could’nt find your comments. I do understand now why you are disliked. Firstly it is to my knowledge that anyone who searched this, and found it, and took the time to create an account and write a comment is here to enjoy the cartoons and, like me, share their love of Calvin and Hobbes with others. It is to my understanding that you do not wish to write about the comic that everyone else came here to enjoy, and would rather poison our chatter with reglious comments and debates. I can tell you that if I wanted to talk about religion I would watch the news, or talk to my parents. Now, Since I am unaware of your age or if you have a television I am going to reccomend this, you should go to a place where your comments are welcome, say a news website focusing on religious topics, or even just a quick google search of whatever it is your looking for to talk about. I do not want to shut you out or make you feel subordinate, I just wish to enjoy my favorite comic with others without the constant interuption of a person wanting to discuss and/or debate religion, thats not why I’m her sir/mam. I hope you understand what I have said and decide to go to a place more welcoming to your topic. I am also, for the record, a Christian, Catholic, so I have no desire to hurt you. Thank you.

Alright, about the comic, I cant recall the first time I read this but I remember it made me laugh. I have found all of the Calvin and Hobbes comics to be enjoyable and I think they all are great. I think this is more of Calvin just being himself, that is to say, the innocence of childhood, I cannot tell you true happiness, other than that it varies per person, each of us knows what makes us happy and that is what true happiness is to us. I think calvin asks this now with those three choices but when he’s grown will his possible children be his true happiness?

Very well stated S.Spiff.

Give me a well stocked small island in the Caribbean with an intelligent, moderately attractive woman, and I’d be happy!

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with comments about faith and religion on this forum. Calvin and Hobbes is, after all, so wonderfully brilliant because of its juxtaposition of wit and humor with incisive philosophical insights. We just need to remember to be respectful.

TC the bible says that all of creation is in bondage to sin, and that it too will be included in the redemption (Romans 8.20-25). The bible also says that we are to forgive others (Mathew 6.14), and even St. Paul recognized that he was a sinner (1 Timothy 1.15). Therefore, I am happy not to flag you again, but please do continue to post respectful comments. God bless :)

TC is not a TC. That’s pretty clear. Flagged.

my Dad caught me looking at a very beautiful girl once and gave me this advice. “just remember son, that she’s probably making some man’s life a misery” I still laugh at his advise and still look at girls hoping they could make my life miserable if just for a few days.

I flagged on TC second time again.

Maybe Hobbes considers posessions slavery. Something like matter is nothingness.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Happiness is a comic book.

sorry guys by asking what he said today, i brought him back. so so truly sorry and i have not even read the post yet. gosh.

jefzzz says:

Tabbylynn, yes the comments were that bad. I hope they are never repeated here.

thanks.

oh i cant belive he got Garfield also. oh no!!! is there any safe comic strip any more???

yes i am being over dramatic but this can not end well. This beautiful strip calvin and hobbes has been vandalised by the comments from TC. i cant take it anymore.

Yukoner says:

So Tabbylynn (and others of the female persuasion), what would make a woman happy? Would it include any of Calvin’s suggestions?

i know that what i want is a happy family and love. man to go home to or for him to come home to me every night and kiss me hi and tell me he has missed me. someone that i wont ever get tired of being around. I want true love like in books and movies. but i dont think “us women” really know what we want till we have had it or missed the chance.

Gweedo, it sounds like it’s a good thing I didn’t ask the dude in the Anchor if he was Harold Head. The thing I love about gocomics is dredging up old memories and being able to dialogue about them and becoming informed on topics I have no clue about.

Happiness is… in your head. It’s the song you listen to, up there.(to me, anyhow.) and, yes, it includes my husband, and by golly,I do like my car!

Anyone who is dependent on things to make them happy is shallow. As my brother would say to them, “What’s your favorite color, clear?”

“Anybody who says money can’t buy happiness doesn’t know where to shop.” (Jackie Gleason)

occasional presence of women is ok..besides..they break down too often as compared to a good ride! money can buy a good ride..and limitless supply of women too[soo wat if they’re gold-diggers!] tigers are the best bet though!

Meaning of true happiness

Meaning of True Happiness