Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 28, 2011

I love Hobbes!

Nothing has changed over the years, I see…

hahaha!

I hate the “Scrambled Debutante”!

@NabuquduriuzhurThat reminds me: some missionaries rang the apartment doorbell of a very fat friend of mind. She answered the doorbell stark naked. They never came back.

I’m afraid my warped sense of humor trumped those efforts. One particularly obnoxious person threatened to strip next time I came to talk with his girlfriend (at her invitation, mind you), and I asked if I could sell tickets. Funny, though, that during the 20 years I spent with the above unnamed cult, while I was sent to all the most “difficult” doors and did manage to ease some of the more hostile attitudes, I was never responsible for “converting” anybody. I figured if I had the right to talk to people, they had the right to choose whether to say “yes” or “no” without any hassling. Although I still, many years later, see no reason for bad manners when a simple “no, thank you” will suffice. You can also say “Please don’t call here again”, and get put on a “do not call” list that will only get checked once a year or so to make sure somebody else isn’t living there now. If you still have a problem, call your local cult meeting place and ask them to put you on that list and enforce it. Some of my former brethren and sistren can be a bit overenthusiastic, and mistakes can be made as well.

@comicgos,Would you like “Discombobulated Debutante” better?

Since you didn’t buy it for the music, Calvin, why don’t you change the name to “Disconcerted Debutante”?

@Gweedo Murray,Is the shock value of the ‘rapper’ alone worth the price?

Number ONE OF YOU BOTH.. I LOVE THEM….@ SO TRETTY DAY’S REALLY…. ~~

Hiding the album in ‘Charlie Brown’s basket’ should work, Calvin. I don’t think it will attract Mom’s attention there. The album certainly is of a different stripe than one Mom would approve.

I remember the Sex Pistols, but I don’t remember them. I didn’t waste money on anything I didn’t like though.

As for Calvin, I didn’t realize that he was actually trying to drive Mom and everyone else around him crazy.

This is an old strip. 12 inch record in the trash. Then again, vinyl is making a comeback.

Calvin and Hobbes you make me laugh!

Hey yeah, I just noticed the big black CD.

@zerotsm,Could this be Calvin’s ‘vinyl’ attempt to have Mom go into conniptions?

This was before they started putting the warning label: “PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT LYRICS” on the covers.

Ah, vinyl.

Eh, people never stopped using vinyl. I’m amused that it’s making a comeback, though “audiophiles” tend to exaggerate the benefits of vinyl vs virtual.These are very old strips, near the beginning of the run, which is hilarious since they’re running the times Watterson took a break from the strip (trying to remember the term he used… “sabbatical”) in the same order, so this is a rerun of a rerun. For some reason this strip doesn’t feel right – I think later on Watterson would not have had Calvin talking about “depraved violence and mindless sex” even as a satire on pop culture, though he did continue to poke fun at the violence in comic books. I’m actually unfamiliar with these even though I read most of C&H when it first ran in the paper. I suspect it was about 2-3 years into it before I started and I think the first treasury collection is the only one I don’t own.

Being “visited” by cult members is a real problem for me. The signs don’t do a bit of good. Any other suggestions?

Ah yes, the advantages of LP album covers! Mom would never notice the tiny images on a CD cover.

Still buying vinyl?

My doorbell rang back in the early 70s. When I opened it they went to hand me a pamphlet until they saw a gallon jug of wine on the floor along with hundreds of nude photo scattered around the floor. I was in the process of making a nude collage poster. Needless to say, they excused themselves and left.

yeah,same ole Calvin

ACK! He’s holding the record by the grooves! Worst thing to do to vinyl! I still maintain a collection of albums and a bunch of CD’s but recently moved into this decade with the purchase of a 32GB iPod. I’m in the process of ripping the CD’s and will soon start the time consuming process of digitizing the albums. Then I’ll have to create the playlists that will fit on the iPod. This is time consuming but I love it. I’m rediscovering artists and songs on CD I haven’t listened to in years. With the vinyl it will be artists that have been silent for decades.

When the missionaries come to my door I talk with them and show respect to them. My wife and I will discuss theology with them and then challenge them to defend their beliefs with biblical support. They usually do so with single verses. We then try to show them that they have taken the verse out of context and it does not support their beliefs. We’ll talk to them about the historical basis for their church (cult) which is usually based upon the ideas of one man and his preconceived notions. In the end no one’s beliefs are changed but we had a stimulating discussion.

as a teen, i answered the door to see a pair of “cultists” (to use the current euphemism). i was wearing just a pair of cut off jeans, and they quickly excused themselves. strangely, no one from that group ever came round our house again (and my folks lived there another 30 years).

Calvin! Tch Tch. Naughty Naughty!

LOL xxx

From what I’ve heard some album covers are more sought after by collectors than the actual disc.

Calvin is my hero,but some times I wish he would get found out and spanked.

Vinyl…how quaint.

I was a missionary for one of those “cults.” We’ve seen it all. You’re not gonna surprise us. A simple “no thank you” would suffice.

Suzie, yes, I can see that. But I never got that sense with Mom. Of course he drove her crazy, but I really didn’t think that he was was going out of his way to do it, like he does with Suzie.

As for vinyl, I love it as well as 4-track tapes. Though I have CD’s, I don’t really like them. I will never own an iPod.

Reading the comments reminded me that my stereo receiver, a Carver 2000, blew a fuse some years ago and I never had the money to fix it. They wanted $150 just to crack the cover, and because of the cost of medical to me these days has been so outrageous I wasn’t able to get anything done to it….prayers appreciated….

“Offensive album art does not sell albums. The Beatles White Album was a bestseller, and it was just a big white space.”-This is Spinal Tap

@Grog..an Ipod is great because you can store all of your CDs on it and create playlists of your music from several albums. It is wonderful for parties.

cleo, I doubt very much I can connect an iPod to my existing stereo system and be able to listen to it through my 4 Bose speakers. Also I also have more music on vinyl than I do on CD.

My 4-tracks, however are mixed by myself and do not have any moments of silence, except for at the end of each side. Always hated actually listening to albums or CD’s and have to wait for the next song to begin. If I do listen to CD’s it’s while driving and I find that is a real PITA, compared to my 4-tracks.

Yep… sounds like something Calvin would do. ;-) LOL!

i thought this was a kids comic! :(

I remember the Sex Pistols, but don’t remember Scrambled Debutante. I hope that clarifies it.

I don’t think Calvin would mention “mindless sex” if he actually knew what it was! He still thinks even looking at a girl is disgusting!!

The “cult” ones don’t really bother me, it’s the guys trying to get me to switch natural gas companies that get my goat. When the 5th one in 5 nights showed up on my door step at supper time, I basically went up one side of him and down the other. They haven’t been back since. I almost had a good one about the “cult” guys, I lived on a farm and had a shooting range in the back yard. I had taken out 3 handguns to target practice, and I had just put them away when they showed up. I would have loved to see their reactions if I still was carrying the handguns. Especially since their opening line was to ask if I felt secure.

Grog, I have my Ipod connected to my Bose, but maybe it depends on the vintage of the Bose.

Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 18 hours ago

An acquaintance in high school saw some persons from a cult I shall not name making the rounds of the block. He put on the worst rock album he had, messed his hair up, put on a shirt with a really nasty rock group logo (slayer, I think) and met them at the door with a Dungeons and Dragons book. Then he did his best vincent price imitation and said hello.

Did it do the trick and scare them off?

Cults around here mark our doors with an X. I always removed it when I found it. When one team asked for a donation to their “lady’s group” I said no. When they asked if it was because they were a “cult” (not their words), I said yes, and never saw them again.

cleo, I’m sure my whole system is older. It’s got tape decks CD players turntables and my television connected through my mixer, which is connected to my receiver, which is connected to my speakers. I’d have to be able to connect via the mixer if I’m going to connect at all. I’m not willing to give up any of the set-up I have to connect an iPod to the speakers.

Calvin doesn’t HAVE to try to drive everyone else crazy — it comes naturally.

Don’t judge an album by its cover.

I understand Grog!

wow, calvin talking about sex?

There isn’t a group called Scrambled Debutante but there apparently is one called Le Scrambled Debutante… hm.

My great “cult” story involves several women preparing a lot of chickens for a feast. Because they needed so many they’d bought “whole body” birds. Were sitting around the table merrily chopping necks and feet from birds, laughing uproariously, getting splattered with much blood, most with aprons over shirts but a couple topless under their aprons. Doorbell rings and, expecting it to be a friend a large woman with wild red hair answers door with big knife in one hand holding a dead chicken in the other. The religious salesmen saw her, plus the gaggle of laughing, chopping, blood-spattered women in the background and hurriedly turned around and left without even a by-your leave.

I wonder what excuse Calvin will have when his Mom comes home and sees the cd in the trash.

“Stop the Music!

so old – vinyl

That is just weird.

Ha—for some reason, I’ve always liked the word “conniptions”.

This comic made me chuckle.