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1. about 16 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I did indeed state that it was Calvin’s confidence that caused Moe to back down. I also pointed out that neither Calvin nor Hobbes were aware that Moe – and the other characters in the strip – can only see Hobbes as a doll and that only Calvin and Hobbes hear the things that Hobbes says.

   This fits in with Bill Watterson’s view of subjective reality:-

   “Calvin sees Hobbes one way. Everyone else sees him another way. I think this is how life works. No two people see the world in exactly the same way. Hobbes is more to do with the subjective nature of reality than with dolls coming to life.”

2. about 16 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   NO. I quoted Watterson as I incorrectly remembered him and you had to keep reminding me of the correct quote until I learned to use the correct quote. I was no more “lying” than Calvin is when he gives incorrect answers at school. The problem is that Calvin does not care whether his answers are correct or not and only gets right answers by chance.

3. about 16 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   It is interesting that Calvin wants Hobbes to help him make up his life story. As I have often commented before, Bill Watterson stated of Hobbes in a 1989 interview, “I suspect he is more real than any kid would make up.” As Robert says, I often misquoted him as saying “could”. I have since accepted that Watterson did say “would make up”.

   Anyhow, Hobbes is certainly more real than a kid would make up and is less flattering and respectful of Calvin than Calvin would like. Hobbes is likely to be very unflattering of Calvin in “helping” him with the fictional autobiography as he was very unflattering in writing about Calvin in the story which Calvin read out to the class in 1992 – unaware of what Hobbes had written until he read it out loud.

4. about 16 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I have read many autobiographies and do not know how much fiction there is inside them.

   One example I remember is Iron Eyes: The Life Of A Hollywood Indian by Iron Eyes Cody – an actor who started playing Native Americans in silent movies and continued into the 1970s and ’80s. He claimed throughout the book that he really was a Native American but I would later learn that he was really an Italian-American who became typecast as Native Americans. One photo in his book actually shows that he had Native American make-up put on him but he claimed in a caption underneath that Hollywood insisted on real Indians wearing make up as well as European-descended actors.

5. about 17 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   “Bold attempts” are very unusual from Rodney.

6. about 17 hours ago on Wizard of Id

   A bold attempt with little hope of success.

7. about 17 hours ago on Wizard of Id Classics

   Dungeon it!

8. about 17 hours ago on Nancy Classics

   Christmas seems to have come early for Sluggo.

9. about 17 hours ago on Nancy

   It is Aunt Fritzi who needs to learn more.

10. about 17 hours ago on Ginger Meggs

    As I have said before, the name Mr Canehard reminds me of Mr Thrashbottom in the Faceache comic strip in Buster Comic here in the UK in the 1970s and ’80s.