Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 21, 2011

SNERK!!!

How strange!

Cute little bug

How old is this strip? No one uses a typewriter these days.

Don’t be buggin’ on grams, Calvin.

Is transformation from a bug back to a human considered ‘proper medical treatment’?

Mom is kind of ‘jumpy’ in a different way!Just tell Grandma it was Calvin …enough said!

Calvin got the jump on Mom, though! That’s the ‘key’!

Mom do you really need to ask who???

Perhaps Ant Blabby.

Probably better to just send her an email or a txt.

Why is Mom asking?

Anybody remember Archie and Mehitabel by Don Marquis?

Ah yes! The song of mehitabel—“there’s a dance in the old dame yet, tujour gai tujour gai”

Wow! Archie and Mehitabel goes back a long ways! 1920 something as I recall. But I think I read it in the late 1950s

Good is message ….. ha haaa

3 guesses.

Woody Allen still uses a typewriter

Rita Mae Brown’s bio in her latest (Hiss of Death) states she has never owned a computer and won’t. So she either dictates her manuscripts, types them, or writes them out longhand.

this strip is very RETRO :) … and cute!

Apologies to Don Marquis?

If Mom had handwriting like mine, Grandma would appreciate the typing. She would also get a kick out of Calvin’s contribution.

I learned to type with a carriage shift. What is a segment shift?

“I remember seeing a typewriter. I thought it was just a computer without a monitor.”

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No—that was a teletype machine. Some even had a paper tape reader on the side, for loading programs. A typewriter was even more primitive.

Ah but typewriters are still used. So many people do not know how to do envelopes on MS Word and type them on typewriters.

Plus, the older typewriters still work when the power goes out.

Hmmm, I wonder?

LOL xxx

Wow! Go away for a few days and I missed a big broo-haw! I’m not much of a Peanuts fan, but had to go back and read all the comments. (And if someone wants to tell me how to spell broo-haw, I’d really like to know.) Keep up the comments, HOBBES, you know I am one of your “followers.”

@mythreesons: Welcome back! Not much of a Peanuts fan? How could you say such a thing? (Just kidding.) While I enjoy all of the Peanuts strips, I feel that Charles Schulz was at his peak from the late 1950s through the early 1970s.

Most beneficial class I had in high school was typing. Only boy up to that time to ever take the class as a sophomore and make an A. The only reason for me taking it at that time was to be in the class with all those girls, but alas, being able to beat them in correct words per minute rate did not endear me to them! LOLBecause of today’s technology, learning touch typing should be a basic requirement for HS graduation.I’m now practicing 10 number key pad touch typing.I still have an old Selectric.

I can’t believe mom would even have to ask such a silly question! There’s only three people living in that house and one of them is probably at work right now . . . which leaves just her and Calvin. If she didn’t write it then who in the world does she think did?!? Calvin’s stuffed tiger?!?!

That’s funney! Grandma is in for a surprise!

LoL!!

You are right. Having raised two boys and a igirl (don’t underestimate girls) I can assure you cockroaches are far less troublesome.

LOL! Does mom even need to ask?? Seems pretty obvious to me….. ;D

Yes… hoiw strange… lol.

When i got a computer, my Dad tried to type on it ONCE, and proclaimed he would never touch it again! And so far he hasn’t. He still likes his old manual Smith Corona.

@GretchensMom: Maybe it was the frowny-face at the end. Perhaps GoComics thought it would frighten children?:>)

@GretchensMom: OK, here’s another theory. In addition to the freedom of speech topic, I think your comment also included an explanation that you don’t normally read Peanuts on GoComics because you can get it in your paper, and that you only read four comics on GoComics because they aren’t in your paper. Perhaps GoComics took offense at that? Perhaps not? Perhaps you clicked on “delete” by accident when scrolling? Perhaps, like with Mom’s typewriter today, there was a bug in the system? Perhaps we will never know what happened? Perhaps, in the long-term grand scheme of things, it won’t really matter? Perhaps I’ve exhausted this subject. But then, I was just excercising my freedom of speech…… (oops – didn’t mean to say that!)

comment sections ruin my childhood memories…

The Pigman!

What’s a typewriter?