An old Calvin and Hobbes - Is this still funny in the waning days of 2008 ?

[Mira]

[el_bryanto]

1. Still accurate at any rate

Bryant

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

2. You bet it is!

The spirit of it anyhow. I loved this strip, Too bad he stopped.
:party:

[Alter Ego]

3. When I was ten years old and really into Calvin, I didn't get jokes like that.

Now that I do, the strip is that much funnier.

It's like understanding "Dilbert" now that I work in the corporate world.

[Tiggeroshii]

5. Ditto on that one!

It's really interesting how these things happen, huh?

[tavalon]

8. Yep, it wasn't really written for children

Very subversive that way, eh?

[yodermon]

14. Kinda OT, but my 4-year-old DEMANDS that i read Foxtrot to him.

Yesterday he sat for an hour and flipped through an entire Foxtrot collection.
He especially likes the panels where someone's shoes get knocked off.

.. of course, here he is at age 2, so go figure ;)

[redqueen]

15. I understood them

due to hearing lots of history from my dad.

Didn't make the cartoons any funnier for me... but it made being a cynic much easier.

[HughBeaumont]

31. Same with Bloom County.

All of these comics were like premonitions.

[racaulk]

4. That's just as timely as ever!

Calvin & Hobbes was a brilliant comic strip, in more ways than one. Nice commentary in this one!

:rofl:

[The2ndWheel]

6. Very

And sad that if you do something for free(like make your own drink), you are ruining the economy. I'm still somewhat shocked that there isn't someone to wake you up in the morning, another person to remove the blanket, another person to move your left leg, another person to move your right leg, another person to stand you up, another person move your left leg forward, another person to move your right leg forward, another person to turn the shower on, another person to squeeze the shampoo bottle, another person to put the shampoo in your hair, another person to rinse your hair, another person to turn the water off, etc, etc, etc, all through the day, every action specialized. That's full employment.

[Jim__]

7. It's still funny! - n/t

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. Calvin and Hobbes with ALWAYS be funny.

Armageddon could come tomorrow, and the transmogrifier would still make me laugh.

[Mira]

10. Makes you laugh in a sort of wistful way, appreciating the Genius of Waterson

[Laelth]

11. Still funny and still accurate. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[gratuitous]

12. I thought Calvin was really onto something

When he was selling "A swift kick in the butt" for a dollar. Hobbes wasn't so sure that there was a market for such a service, but Calvin protested that everyone he knew needed one.

I should set up a booth. $$$

[barbtries]

13. well it still got a chuckle out of me

i love calvin and hobbes

[rrneck]

16. If you want to know

where your culture is going to be in ten years, ask an artist.

[truedelphi]

21. Few words areas truly spoken

Yet a war is waged on them everyday.

The artists are the new Amerian Injuns. Nothing more important inside a Plutocracy than keeping creative minds un-noticed and ignored.

[Hydra]

17. I love Calvin and Hobbes

Especially now that I understand the subversive stuff. When I was a kid, I used to laugh at Calvin's antics as Spaceman Spiff and his adventures with Hobbes. Now I laugh at the stuff like Hobbes getting subverted by Suzy :D

[Fireweed247]

18. Best. Comic. Ever.

No one has ever come close to Bill Watterson.

I have LOVED Calvin and Hobbes from the beginning and now so do my kids who read it to me every day over breakfast.

[Orsino]

19. Even funnier--but more grimly so. n/t

[progressoid]

20. tragically accurate.

[Fire1]

22. nail on the head.

[mimitabby]

23. i miss this cartoon.

[pnorman]

24. Every time I see a reference to Calvin & Hobbes here on DU,

I have to check to see if these sites are still on-line (it's an irresistable compulsion). Yep! They still are, and here they are:

Main collection: http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/index.html

and Snow Art: http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html

pnorman

[Mira]

25. Thank you for the links. The snow art used to live on my desktop and got lost.

LOVE to have it back !

[alfredo]

28. Here's one that might work

[Fumesucker]

32. OK, I now have tears coming from my eyes..

I hadn't seen that one before.. :rofl: :rofl:

[alfredo]

35. Glad I could help

[wroberts189]

26. Prescient n/t

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prescient

[Mira]

30. Funny - that's what I originally wanted to name the post, and thought

maybe no one would click to see it !

edited - typo

[JackRiddler]

27. Funny?! It should be required teaching in elementary schools. Brilliant!

[judasdisney]

29. Calvinist & Hobbesian

[Fumesucker]

33. DUzy....

:rofl:

Brilliant.

[Fumesucker]

34. DUzy....

:rofl:

Brilliant.

Edited to add: I hate it when my browser hiccups..