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   Dogsniff said, about 1 year ago

   I’m on a diet, and that’s such a bad word to me.
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   Arye Uygur said, about 1 year ago

   I don’t think this is funny.
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   Pteranodon said, about 1 year ago

   I guess the advice columnist went to a different school than Calvin and I did. I recommend the “runner” strategy over the “doormat” one.
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   AHHH, BEER wuz good said, about 1 year ago

   @Dogsniff

   Which word would that be ?
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   AHHH, BEER wuz good said, about 1 year ago

   @Dogsniff

   A Brave man can die but once ,but a coward can die a 1000
   times .(I messed that quote up)
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   AHHH, BEER wuz good said, about 1 year ago

   My second post was not directed at you DOGSNIFF——.for some reason your name was added to it ! You know that If meant it for you ,I would make sure ! hahahaha
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   orinoco womble said, about 1 year ago

   @Pteranodon

   True. Whoever said “Stand up to a bully and they will run away” never went to my school. Stand up to a bully there, and he and his friends would beat the crap out of you.
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   Dha Dha said, about 1 year ago

   Hate moe ’s alway bully boy.. getaway him…!!!!
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   Hobbes said, about 1 year ago

   
   The “playground” of adult life isn’t all that different from Calvin’s experience, except that the bullying is often verbal rather than physical, with some adults trying to knock others down and walk all over them using words.
   
   Calvin’s advice columnist may have been addressing adult verbal abuse, in which case there is some validity to the advice. But when there is physical bullying involving kids, it is very bad advice for a six-year-old who weighs half as much as the bully.
   
   When there is physical abuse involving adults, it can also be bad advice for the victim in some cases, or at least overly-simplistic advice.
   
   Today’s Calvin and Hobbes strip does contain some humor, because the figurative expression becomes literal as Calvin literally becomes a doormat. But the humor is outweighed by the poignancy of the situation — especially for readers in whom it evokes highly painful memories.
   
   This is an excellent example of how Bill Watterson never intended his comic strip to be simply a shallow entertainment device that readers would glance at each day to get a little chuckle. It is much deeper than that, which is a major reason that it has stood the test of time so well.
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    Hobbes said, about 1 year ago

    
    Click here: Peanuts (1960)
    
    
    
    Click here: Peanuts (1956)
    
    
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    gmartin997 said, about 1 year ago

    @orinoco womble

    Oh, yes, bullies always have their friends.
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    taratus said, about 1 year ago

    Stand your Ground Calvin. Get a people killing tool.
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    LX013 said, about 1 year ago

    capitulation of violence!
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    gardenwitch347 said, about 1 year ago

    No matter what age you are….use your common sense.
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    Hobbes said, about 1 year ago

    @Comics Lover: The best comic strips are drawn from life, and they draw the reader into thinking about life. Humor is a very important aspect of life, but life consists of more important things than simply humor. At times, humor can play an important role by providing escapism, but I don’t recommend Calvin and Hobbes for that — especially today’s strip.
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