Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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Margueritem said, 10 months ago

Quite sad indeed, Calvin.
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

…and then there are all the rational people who aren’t Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and all the other climaye-change deniers…
Dutchboy1 said, 10 months ago

Maybe ‘spaceman spiff’ can do something about it.
Edcole1961 said, 10 months ago

Actually, the Earth was not farther away from the Sun. The Earth is tilted so that the southern hemisphere is getting more direct rays than the northern this time of year. That’s why it’s summer in Australia when it’s winter in the U.S.
SaintRCat said, 10 months ago

@fairportfan

I don’t quite get your joke. Are you referring to how people don’t understand the significance of our climaye, or are you being sarcastic about their being rational people who worry about climate change?
stpatme said, 10 months ago

Edcole1961 is right. In fact the Earth is closest to the sun in January, and farthest from the sun in July.
Gweedo Murray said, 10 months ago

fairport and his climaye-change. At least the Climate is still doing okay. Poor lad needs a secretarial pool to get out all the stuff he has to say cause I know it aint spelling errors.
wndrwrthg said, 10 months ago

Pop quiz kiddies:
While remaining motionless, how many directions (ways) are you moving? I count five, I’ve heard there are six.
tenaciousr said, 10 months ago

Seems like Calvin came upon the reason people are reluctant to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
space-cadet said, 10 months ago

Not clever enough to know what he’s talking about :(
jefzzz said, 10 months ago

I count five too. But maybe it depends where your sitting.
geo111 said, 10 months ago

Preposterous Delusion = Religion
Bleak Truth = Secular Humanism
Calvinator said, 10 months ago

aside from the eco babble and the religous comments today … I thought it was pretty funny.
JTRaine said, 10 months ago

omg people get a friggin life! Everyday I come to read this strip and every day I have to see your idiotic babble on the page. Don’t you people have anything better to do???? Are you really this lonely desperate and attention starved?? IT’S a COMIC STRIP…..get a GRIP!
Mel(ody) said, 10 months ago

wndrwrthg says:

Pop quiz kiddies:
While remaining motionless, how many directions (ways) are you moving? I count five, I’ve heard there are six.

jefzzz says:
I count five too. But maybe it depends where your sitting.

Mel(ody) Don’t forget we are moving through “time” also. We’re all time-travelers, albeit in one direction only.
DifferentPatrick said, 10 months ago

JTRaine:
You don’t have to see anybody’s idiotic babble. You can read the comic without reading the comments.

Where you aware of that?
Silverpearl said, 10 months ago

I’m not going to worry about global warming until Greenland is green again.
hintzy said, 10 months ago

Alright…somebody explain to the engineer how we’re moving in 5 (maybe 6) directions. I’ve been trained to see life in Cartesian space, so there are three directions to me, X Y and Z. However, my motion (instantaneous velocity vector) is just in one direction, which is some combination of those three, depending on how you define the coordinate frame. Many things contribute to my personal velocity: the rotation of the earth, the orbit of the earth around the sun, the orbit of the sun around the center of the galaxy, the motion of the galaxy itself, etc; but all of that resolves into one resultant velocity vector, which (currently) is approximately that way –>

So help me out here. :-p
#1 redskins fan said, 10 months ago

God Bless you Tenaciousr! I couldn’t have said it better myself! As for geo111, there is a “Geo-thermal” warm place waiting for you if you don’t wake up and realize the Truth of the Gospel!
jason.pollock2 said, 10 months ago

wndrwrthg says:
While remaining motionless, how many directions (ways) are you moving? I count five, I’ve heard there are six.

There are six and they are as follows:
Universal Expansion
Rotation of the Galaxy (Milky Way)
Rotation of the Solar System
Rotation of the Earth
Earth orbit
Contental plate Tectonics
although HINTZY is correct all of this motion places us on a terminal vector of ONE not-so-constant direction
benoire said, 10 months ago

I agree with Calvin.
misterwhite said, 10 months ago

In addition to:

Universal Expansion (inflation)
Rotation of the Galaxy (abt supercluster)
Rotation of the Solar System (abt galaxy)
Rotation of the Earth (abt its axis)
Earth orbit (abt sun)
Contental plate Tectonics
there are also:

Axis progression of the earth (wobble)

drift towards Andromeda (gravity)

motion of supercluster towards great attractor

To Silver pearl: When Greenland becomes green, mankind will have become extinct.

To Gweedo: Climate is doing fine. Mankind just won’t be doing well with the climate.

To tenacious: people are reluctant to receive the gospel of Jesus Christ (sic) because they now live in the 21st century.
txmystic said, 10 months ago

Edcole1961 and stpatme:

Both of you are correct, which reminds us that Calvin’s dad is yet again filling his impressionable mind with erroneous information, something that is a recurring theme in C&H (Calvin came from Kmart, the world was black and white until the technicolor revolution, etc.). I like this one because it’s more subtle.
Char32 said, 10 months ago

tenaciousr-or it could be the reason why some people would? No Offense ,just wondering.
Macushlalondra said, 10 months ago

JTRaine says:
Don’t you people have anything better to do????

Sure we have “better” things to do but we do this for fun. I enjoy reading others’ comments and making my own. I suggest you take Different Patrick’s advice.

tenaciousr, you are so right! God bless you, and you too, #1 redskins fan! See you both in heaven!
Hugh B. Hayve said, 10 months ago

You forgot to to mention misterwhite some of us are moving closer to God (spiritual).
Dutchboy1 said, 10 months ago

You people are much too serious. Have you forgotten that it’s about a COMIC STRIP?!
jackofstories said, 10 months ago

There’s a little bit of serious to be found in the silly and a little bit of silly to be found in the serious.
Groversfather said, 10 months ago

Actually, Calvin’s Dad is correct. The sun is cooling, hence, going out. I heard somewhere that the sun has cooled like 2 or 3 degrees over the last 50 years. WHO CARES!?!?!

In all truthfulness…there are a few of you to whom the 4th panel applies! There are a few others who would be better served to upgrade your spelling abilities rather than reading and commenting on comic strips.
Burgundy2 said, 10 months ago

plate tectonics! Thanks, I didn’t think of that one.

As for do I have nothing better to do - A) I just learned something and B) I’m on vacation, so there!
#1 redskins fan said, 10 months ago

Hugh-how can you be “moving closer to God” with your user name? See Leviticus 18! Or do you REALLY think that rational women would be attracted to that?! Just asking…
Burgundy2 said, 10 months ago

Redskin fan - I have to admit that your question crossed my mind too. LOL
Burgundy2 said, 10 months ago

Groversfather - I could correct your grammar, but I won’t.

It is true that there are many spelling mistakes here. But rather than displaying an inability to spell, they are, I think, typos. As Gweedo suggests, perhaps a secretarial pool is required.

As far as reading comments and adding to them, each of the comic strips tend to attract people of like minds and a conversation evolves. For many of us, it’s a pleasant diversion.
#1 redskins fan said, 10 months ago

Burgundy2-Like your comment; like your color! (Any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, etc. errors in this message, blame them on someone else! That’s our current society!) LOL <;-p
Burgundy2 said, 10 months ago

redskins fan - I didn’t mean to imply others should be blamed, simply that I think most of us can spell, but we sometimes hit the wrong ket, um, jey, arrrrg key!
#1 redskins fan said, 10 months ago

Burgundy2 LOL times sideways 8! Haven’t figured out which kee cay
ARRGGH KEY to hit to create that! <:-p
Margueritem said, 10 months ago

Burgundy2 says:

plate tectonics! Thanks, I didn’t think of that one.

As for do I have nothing better to do - A) I just learned something and B) I’m on vacation, so there!

I learned a lot today, and I’m retired! I love learning from the comments.

Remember keedz, don’t feed the trolls.
gg015879 said, 10 months ago

the author traveled by dogsled with the Greenland hunters.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/01/arctic-hunters/ehrlich-text/7

On the next to last day of our trip we emerge from our hut on the north side of Kiatak Island. Jens and Mamarut are boyishly cheerful, despite the disappointment of having no meat to bring home. They race each other up a steep snowfield. Because Kiatak lies farther west than any other land in Greenland, they’re sure that, looking out over Baffin Bay toward Ellesmere Island, they’ll see an ice edge sturdy enough to hold their dog-sleds. This is where the walruses will be.

What they see astonishes them: There’s no ice edge, only the glitter of open water all the way to Canada. Jens blinks, looks away to one side, then back out at the sea.

“In my whole life, and that of my father and grandfather, there has never been anything like this at this time of year. Without ice, we can’t live. Without ice, we’re nothing at all.”

gg
hookedoncomics said, 10 months ago

I think peoples post, whether likable or not, seem to explain the comic strip sometimes, and there rather humorous!

Burgandy2, you make a grave point.
attyush said, 10 months ago

Guys, my personal opinion is that the world is very drab when there is no complaining going on. So I want all of you to complain to your hearts content without paying any heed to the facts.

You can start by saying that my post sucks.
jackofstories said, 10 months ago

Dude, your post sucks! Thanks, I do feel better ;-).
Char32 said, 10 months ago

Let’s see, now, where were we?? (:>}
calspace said, 10 months ago

I can’t believe I didn’t get this when it was first published. Winter doesn’t happen because the Earth is further from the Sun. In fact, January 3rd is perihelion. It’s the Earth’s axial tilt that makes winter.
space-cadet said, 10 months ago

ahhh this is a forum for the comic but none of you seem to be talking about it. Get back to the comic because I enjoy reading peoples opions about the comic just not all the other dribble you’ve been talking about today. Your ruining this forum. I read it for your funny, interesting comic views, not for how many directions we move when standing still. Go find somewhere else to talk about that stuff.
#1 redskins fan said, 10 months ago

space-cadet- how about the “final frontier”? LOL
Wildmustang1262 said, 10 months ago

That is how the Earth does in solar system. Itself moves/tilts a little bit and stay vertically for four seasons. Mother Nature does the works on our planet, Earth!
God created everything than we know.
Rufe Patootie! said, 10 months ago

I think I’ll have whatever wildmustang is smoking ;<D
Lollygag said, 10 months ago

So much for Spaceman Spiff. I thought for sure we would see him in today’s strip.
I am positive he would be able answer all your questions about the number of directions were traveling.
Lollygag said, 10 months ago

Actually there is one other direction that we are moving. It is very slight but nevertheless it is real. The earth not only rotates on its axis but it also has a wobble.
Gweedo Murray said, 10 months ago

Thanks Burgundy. You got me exactly on the Climaye-change. Anyone who reads Pibgorn knows that fairport is a Niagara Falls of information and link dropping and might benefit with some help in getting it all out. He seems to make more spelling errors of late, as do I from pushing the wrong keys. Spell check working in here helps me keep it together.