Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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  1. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    I think Hobbes may have figured it out…

  2. Tabby Lynn

    Tabby LynnGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    hey marg

    it never looks as good as the pic.

  3. Leonardeuler

    Leonardeuler said, 5 months ago

    C’mon Calvin, dismantle this plane and then try again.

  4. bald 716

    bald 716 said, 5 months ago

    where did they find a pilot that short anyhow?

  5. Ladywolf17

    Ladywolf17 said, 5 months ago

    Calvin at lease you tried your best. That counts for something.

    to geo 111 hijacking the site that was not my intention, all I was trying to do was restore my family honor, and get to know everyone the fun way by conducting that comic exercise that was for everyone even you to participate and have fun with picking a comic character. I screwed up by making a
    lot of you angry so I was trying to make up for it.

  6. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    ladywolf17: It was fun to name a comic character that we’d like to be. I still wanna be Lio.

  7. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 5 months ago

    ladywolf, sorry about your recent troubles and the loutish replies that followed. Had you been a reader/poster over at Pibgorn you would’ve gotten a better reception. Last winter one of our posters, who lives in Latvia, was mugged on his way home. There was ice, he went down and damaged his knee which required medical attention. Sympathy and suggestions for the problem issued forth. I hope you’re doing okay. I think Skulker’s suggestions were outstanding. He’s an old boy with a lotta good sense and know how.

  8. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, 5 months ago

    Calvin, get used to it. They never do look like the pictures. At least not until you’re 40 and made 1000 of them.

  9. TheSkulker

    TheSkulkerGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Hey Gweedo. Thanks for the kudo but I’m not THAT old!!!;-)

  10. Ivy0730

    Ivy0730 said, 5 months ago

    Calvin, as a 6 yrs old kid you alreday did a very good job!

    AD pics alwayz tempting, yet deciving! =]

  11. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 5 months ago

    @Skulker
    Well, you’ve got a few years on me old friend.

  12. Ladywolf17

    Ladywolf17 said, 5 months ago

    Thank you Gweedo Murray I only wish that I would’ve Known about that site. to be honest this is the only site I know because I don’t surf the web do to possible threat of getting a computer virus. Hi Skulker.

  13. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 5 months ago

    ladywolf, Pibgorn is at this site. Just do the A-Z comic search. It’s a good place to hang out. Lots of erudite, educated folk with plenty to say.

  14. Ladywolf17

    Ladywolf17 said, 5 months ago

    Even though school is done and my summer vacation begins I need to say good night now because I’m tired. So good night for now.

  15. LX013

    LX013 said, 5 months ago

    Good night! Here it is morning!

  16. tamsin

    tamsin said, 5 months ago

    well now- I always wondered how they got them to look so good, too…

  17. prasrinivara

    prasrinivara said, 5 months ago

    Well bald, they just make a tiny image of one–though one would need to be about the size of an ant to actually paint the features.

    Yeah, Hobbes figured it correctly–for the picture on the box of a BIY model (car, lorry, plane) they always use a real one (for plane to be displayed on stand, they then do double-exposure to make it fit; oft I’ve seen the picture on front for model plane does not display the stand).

  18. Macushlalondra

    MacushlalondraGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    tabbylynn said:

    hey marg

    it never looks as good as the pic.

    ~~~

    Just like fast food restaurant commercials. They show you a huge juicy burger but when you order it it’s very small.

  19. Coffee-Turtle

    Coffee-TurtleGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    I think Hobbes has a point there. It’s like McDonald’s and BK. The burger you paid for never looks as good as the one in their pictures! Grr!

  20. Calvinator

    Calvinator said, 5 months ago

    Calvin looks a little stressed in the last panel.

  21. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Gweedo Murray said, about 6 hours ago

    ’ladywolf, Pibgorn is at this site. Just do the A-Z comic search. It’s a good place to hang out. Lots of erudite, educated folk with plenty to say.”

    The downside, of course, is that there are also people like me.

  22. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 5 months ago

    .Damn! fatuncle, I thought I stuffed you under the couch but good.

    WAIT

    until after company gets settled in before you show yourself. You scare more delurkers that way.

  23. onebob

    onebob said, 5 months ago

    Hobbes is the coolest character ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And you gotta love hobbes! ANd he is real! how else does calvin end up swing in a tree by his underwaer?

  24. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    I was never any good with airplane models either. But give me a fashion model and watch me go to work.

  25. JonD17

    JonD17 said, 5 months ago

    Calvin, it looks more like a plane than I thought it would,lol, so be happy!
    Macushlalandra; walk into a sandwich shop and ask for a sandwich just like the one on the poster in the window and they will just laugh at you.

  26. Wildmustang1262

    Wildmustang1262 said, 5 months ago

    Yo Calvin! See what I mean. You ruin those model airplane for nothing. You should ask your daddy for his help to assemble the model airplane with the instruction and etc. Sighhhh! How fool you are to do with those damaged model airplane? :-\

    prasrinivara said, about 3 hours ago

    Yeah, Hobbes figured it correctly–for the picture on the box of a BIY model (car, lorry, plane) they always use a real one (for plane to be displayed on stand, they then do double-exposure to make it fit; oft I’ve seen the picture on front for model plane does not display the stand).

    If “you” don’t want the model airplane to be displayed, you can hang the model airplane with the wax fishing thread up the ceiling that looks more likely “airplane flies in the sky.”

    charlie37133 said, about 3 hours ago

    LADYWOLF i am stillgood with Plastic Man.

    yeah, there is GARFIELD, then i thought DADDY WARBUCKS, than i plopped back to AMOS of 9CWL. but there one character who was a little bit all of these.

    PLASTIC MAN

    Charlie37133, you said you are good with plastic man so I would like to ask you about the metal model thing. do you familiar with those metal model car or whatever? I bought two of model 1970’s Ford Mustang Mach II but these are metal and primer in color that need to spray with different kind of color to look nice on it. I was not sure about it. I never did with the metal model car before. I used to know what to do with plastic model cars. I would like to know what your feedback about metal model car or not. Thx! :-)

  27. bmonk

    bmonkGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    @JonD, it looks like a plane you could walk away from after a crash landing…and they used to say any landing you can walk away from is a good landing…LOL

  28. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, 5 months ago

    JonD17, maybe we should all try it and report our results here tomorrow.

  29. N7326 Foxtrot

    N7326 Foxtrot said, 5 months ago

    bmonk:
    If you can reuse the plane, its a great landing!

  30. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    dear BeeMonk,

    Please return to yesterday’s non-sequiter. BUT NO ONE ELSE GO THERE because it is a serious religious discussion. Seriously.

    Is that a double negative?

    Oh, well.

  31. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    Is Daddy Warbucks really Dave Ramsey? Dave knows how to fight credit with money. Thats a war we’ve already won at our household. And of course, plastic only works in the form of a debit card.

    A very stressful moment for me was cutting my minnesota viking credit card in half. Well, both of them - cris carter and randy moss. sorry. nothing personal against the team, just about the interest rate. Any interest rate. A gift is the only way to give money.

    financial peace university…..(minus the tithe only going to the local church . We part opinions in that arena of Lions. Other than that, Dave Ramsey is a straight shooter! He even has a better stimulus plan…… Dave Ramsey for president. The write-in candidate in 2011.
    He is a citizen. i think.

  32. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    @Gweedo Murray

    [glumly, rubbing the knot on my head] Yeah, you did, but the squirrels got real indignant when I started eating their peanuts, and shoved me back out again.

  33. nighthawks

    nighthawksGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    since its a disaster already, it was at this point that I would
    have decided to have a plane crash…….did you know that plastic cement glue is flammable?…….great effects, but you only get to do it once!

  34. grazer

    grazer said, 5 months ago

    I think Calvin should give up on making plastic models and get himself a REAL Phantom Jet.
    (I recall this actually happens in a C&H Sunday comic along the way. Fasten your seat belts.)

    ……………

    EMET….Wish we could do lunch sometime. I’d spring for it just to sit and listen to the way your mind works. Funny stuff.

  35. donkeymom

    donkeymom said, 5 months ago

    Hey, Ladywolf I enjoyed seeing what character everyone would be. I am Marcie from Peanuts, good at school, bad at sports, bad eyesite. I guess my fantasy would be Brenda Starr.

    I notice that nobody has picked Mary Worth.

  36. SQUIDBREAKER

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 5 months ago

    Grazer -
    Sure. I’ll bring a boxer who lives with me for protection in case you are some wierdo. And my husband. And we will meet at a golf course, of course.

    By the way, if you want to get out of this world without a serious bone in your body, never lose track of yur humerus.

    We’ll meet you at your location if you are closer to us than we are to you. Tell us where you are first. At least what state or country, for a start.

  37. grazer

    grazer said, 5 months ago

    EMET, we might have a problem doing lunch since I live on the most geographically remote island (in conjection with any major land mass) in the world: Kauai, Hawaii.

    How ‘bout you? –you probably live closer to me than I do. Your accent suggests you’re from Tasmania.

    Perhaps we could meet somewhere in the middle….like Nebraska maybe. I’m easy to spot. I’ll be the tattood dude wearing a plaid jacket with a bone through his nose.

  38. Carina

    Carina said, 5 months ago

    Haha i just this! they are so funny! I cant belive they cant make a plane!

  39. GrumpyOldbear

    GrumpyOldbear said, 5 months ago

    One of my best memories is putting together a model of Indian Point Nuclear Generating plant with my Dad when I was about 12. It was a present from Santa. After Christmas dinner we started, with my brother, and worked all day and through the night and finished about 7AM the next day. Priceless memories. Wonder to where that got off.

    2140 CDT

  40. JonD17

    JonD17 said, 5 months ago

    bmonk, amen to that!

    Yukoner, prolly take more than a day to get it organized, but would be a fun study.