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I keep my old Calvin & Hobbes books on the back of my toilet
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:22 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Makes a great experience even greater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887492) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:25 AM Author: sticky tanning salon my old calvin and hobbes books are at home (by "home," i mean my parents' house). i think i first got them when i was 7. wasn't smart enough to love them until i was 10 or 11. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887498) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:28 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter I loved them from the start, but I love them even more now. You get the nostalgia factor mixed in with the messages that Watterson was putting forth, and that's not even including the illustration which is just great. I don't have the complete collection, but I think I'll toss that on my Christmas list along with the Complete Far Side. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887513) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:01 AM Author: Ebony embarrassed to the bone kitty cat azn Feel the same way, man. I used to read them when I was very young and didn't understand a lot of it at the time. Now whenever I take a peek and read a few strips, i always catch something i couldn't back when i was 10 years old (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887638) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:32 AM Author: very tactful voyeur I hate it when I see a Calvin praying or pissing decal. When you mess with Watterson's IP, you mess with me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887539) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:37 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter I respect the hell out of him for the fight he put up and for walking away when he wanted. Last I heard I think he spends most of his days fishing with his old man or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887556) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 12:07 PM Author: hairraiser roommate far and away the greatest of all comic strips. here is a pretty good retrospective. http://progressiveboink.com/archive/calvinhobbes.htm |
Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:30 AM Author: ocher nudist range C&H is the motherfucking shit. I need to find my old books. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887531) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:34 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter I just switched out "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" for "There's Treasure Everywhere". I need to break out the older treasuries. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887542) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:35 AM Author: ocher nudist range I have not read a thing in probably 10 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887550) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:36 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Get back on that shit man. Here, have one on me: http://fatfinch.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/summer.gif (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887554) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:43 AM Author: ocher nudist range Tyvm, this is a great one. I think when I go back and read them, I will pretty much remember each and every frame, and love every minute of it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887566) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:45 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Same thing happens to me. I can vividly remember the first time I read certain strips, either in a book or in the comics section of the paper. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887575) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:47 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven same, I can remember damn near every single strip somebody should give Watterson a noble and shoot Shultz |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:02 AM Author: Ebony embarrassed to the bone kitty cat azn I thought i was the only one, remembering nearly everything Watterson wrote (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887644) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:05 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven I go back through them and always remember the strips, it's weird when I think of how many there are, but god I love Calvin and Hobbes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887653) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:43 AM Author: pink elite point ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887568) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:46 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter yvmw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887577) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:44 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven I do the same thing, that is some wonderful shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887571) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:47 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Never forget: Scientific progress goes "boink". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887579) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:47 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven and there's treasure everywhere (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887581) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:48 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Let's go exploring! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887587) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:49 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven Yukon Ho! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887588) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:50 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter BATS AREN'T BUGS! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887592) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:51 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven the noodle incident wasn't my fault (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887598) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:52 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter A good meeting always ends with us getting medals. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887601) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:52 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven I elect myself Dictator for Life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887604) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:55 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter If you do a job bad enough, you don't get asked to do it again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887613) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:56 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven lulz, a terribly obscure reference, but I remember the exact strip (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887619) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:57 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Nice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887625) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:58 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven attack of the killer snow goons (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887628) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:01 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter The snowman strips are some of the best examples of his art. Also, I really wish he did more Tracer Bullet stories. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887639) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:02 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven your ouevre is monocrhomatic? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887646) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:08 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter No, I realize I was pigeonholing myself a bit as I wrote that, just that he did a helluva lot with monochromes than any other daily. Obviously his Sunday strips are incredible: http://media.photobucket.com/image/calvin%20and%20hobbes%20dinosaur/SolipsismX/TrexF14.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887668) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:10 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven did you miss my reference? but yeah, the dinorsaur strips were great too gotta love spaceman spiff as well |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:12 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Shit I did, and I'm pretty sure I know exactly what you're talking about now.
Yeah, I wanted to post a good Spaceman Spiff strip but GIS wasn't giving me what I was looking for. |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:14 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven a commentary on abstract art, calvin does a big circle and calls it a work on the meaningless of form to convey meaning or some shit, then Hobbes says "your ouevre is monochromatic?" and Calvin says "well, it's just snow" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887703) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:50 AM Author: pink elite point my collection only follows me by super duper hardcover at this point, place on toilet anyway? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887594) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:51 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Good question, I don't have the complete collection so I can't say. I'm using the books I've had since I was 9 or so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887599) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:56 AM Author: pink elite point they live at home
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:52 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven I've got them all in paperback at this point, but I'm thinking of going hardcover, how much is it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887602) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:56 AM Author: pink elite point not sure, it was gifted from the gf. its cool but cumbersome as all get out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887620) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:57 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven cumbersomeness is immaterial, I shall possess it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887623) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:56 AM Author: glittery travel guidebook I remember being so sad when it stopped running. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887618) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 2:56 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven Watterson is a genius, other cartoonists should be ashamed of themselves (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887622) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:00 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter The only two cartoonists currently in wide syndication that belong in the same room with him are the guys behind Get Fuzzy and Pearls Before Swine, and that's strictly on a humor basis...they don't have the emotional resonance that Watterson had and still has. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887635) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:02 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven I'd give the Far Side a nod as a close second, but yeah, nothing has the emotional resonance of Calvin and Hobbes, truly a work of art (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887642) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:09 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter I meant currently in papers today, I'm a huge Far Side fan too. Actually, I keep a few Far Side books on the back of my can also. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887676) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:12 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven 'tis also great, but not as great, nothing is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887692) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:13 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Different styles, different humor, more cows, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887701) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:03 AM Author: Ebony embarrassed to the bone kitty cat azn the very last strip Watterson wrote was kind of sad to read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887647) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:05 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven was the treasure everywhere strip the last one? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887658) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:07 AM Author: pink elite point http://feelgoodcalvinaots.ytmnd.com/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887665) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:08 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven oh yeah I remember it makes me all moist, truly a wonderful strip |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:10 AM Author: pink elite point yeah, things are a little dusty right now, never fails (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887680) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:11 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven what's that music that plays on the sight, I know that from some movie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887684) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:12 AM Author: pink elite point end of lord of the rings (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887695) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:14 AM Author: Ebony embarrassed to the bone kitty cat azn lord of the rings nigger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887704) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:13 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter This is obviously some non-canon shit, but regardless: http://onceuponageek.com/images/calvin_hobbes_grown.jpg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887696) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:14 AM Author: pink elite point still though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887702) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:17 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven the thought of Calvin grown makes me very, very sad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887712) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:18 AM Author: Hyperventilating trump supporter Exactly. It's a nice sentiment and all, but the way Hobbes is looking over his shoulder is killing me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887717) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:20 AM Author: cheese-eating windowlicker heaven damn man, just looked at it again, I think you're going to make me cry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887722) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:20 AM Author: pink elite point okay, im legit misty. i'm gonna go toss in a dip and go to town on the collection. though fuck i have moves tomorrow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887720) |
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Date: October 2nd, 2009 3:20 AM Author: Arousing cuck boistinker edit: beaten to the punch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#12887723) |
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Date: January 11th, 2011 2:47 AM Author: Racy slippery black woman My brother got me The Days Are Just Packed and It's a Magical World for Christmas. He came through bigtime. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1100810&forum_id=2#17025771) |