I came down with academia once but fortunately a prescription was able to get it under control and then eradicate it. Sometimes an academic breaks out and mass inoculations are necessary.
elected officials aren’t that loquacious. They have to dumb down the speech to the level of the uneducated and brainless layman. Especially in the US where the majority value religion more than Science.
He’s speaking like a Keynesian economist who doesn’t know how to solve a problem but makes it sound like he does.
John Maynard Keynes did this in an entire book (The General Theory) which is the foundation of mainstream economics today – and thus is used to make confusing and conflicting policy recommendations to DC.
Calvin may be correct, but the corollary to writing is reading, and while exchange of factual data is part of the reason for reading, avoiding obfuscation and interpreting reasoning is the most important part. So, everybody, write. Then, everybody, read!
Even the most mundane and superfluous topic can be made to seem interesting, even fascinating, by liberal application of obfuscating loquaciousness!(Translation: Dumb things look smart with lots of big words.)
Go ahead and give him his PhD in English now. Of course it will be just as useless to him as child as it will be to him as an adult – very poor job market for English Lit majors.
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Linux0s about 6 years ago
Spoken like a true elected official.
Phapada about 6 years ago
Happy Valentine’s Day
Phapada about 6 years ago
were in Taiwan now on Chinese New Year…..
38lowell about 6 years ago
OMG!The secret’s out!!
rentier Premium Member about 6 years ago
Happy Valentine’s day!!
38lowell about 6 years ago
Dick and Jane will NEVER be the same!!
Phapada about 6 years ago
nice’s
ratlum about 6 years ago
Calvin do not forget a valentine for Mom and Susie .
rshive about 6 years ago
See Calvin write! Write, Calvin, write!
38lowell about 6 years ago
Does this philosophy also apply to tele-prompters?Winter is almost over.Can spring be far behind?
in.amongst about 6 years ago
oh YEAH, baby – way to go!!!!
pauline_gangof4 about 6 years ago
He’s in good company.
http://xkcd.com/451/
StCleve72 about 6 years ago
I came down with academia once but fortunately a prescription was able to get it under control and then eradicate it. Sometimes an academic breaks out and mass inoculations are necessary.
flagmichael about 6 years ago
Watterson once said he liked Calvin’s ability to “precisely articulate stupid ideas.”
John Davis about 6 years ago
Hobbes reminds me a lot of Oliver Hardy
Burnside217 about 6 years ago
Brilliant insight Calvin.
ewalnut about 6 years ago
He makes that book sound dirty.
jack fairbanks about 6 years ago
Doug Taylor Premium Member about 6 years ago
Actually Calvin is the head writer for FOX News
scrabblefiend about 6 years ago
That’s a lot of big words, Calvin. I wonder what your I.Q. is.
camapa233 Premium Member about 6 years ago
I am so thrilled to be on the Planet of Valentines with Penny. We read 7 of the same comic strips. Yipeee.
Ensoh about 6 years ago
Even if he doesn’t know what the words mean, the fact he spelled them all correctly puts him heads and shoulders above most of his readers!
camapa233 Premium Member about 6 years ago
I am so thrilled to be on the Planet of Valentines with Penny. We read 7 of the same comic strips. Yipeee.
el_flesh about 6 years ago
elected officials aren’t that loquacious. They have to dumb down the speech to the level of the uneducated and brainless layman. Especially in the US where the majority value religion more than Science.
Phosphoros about 6 years ago
He’s speaking like a Keynesian economist who doesn’t know how to solve a problem but makes it sound like he does.
John Maynard Keynes did this in an entire book (The General Theory) which is the foundation of mainstream economics today – and thus is used to make confusing and conflicting policy recommendations to DC.
rh about 6 years ago
Calvin may be correct, but the corollary to writing is reading, and while exchange of factual data is part of the reason for reading, avoiding obfuscation and interpreting reasoning is the most important part. So, everybody, write. Then, everybody, read!
badcyclist Premium Member about 6 years ago
When this strip originally ran, I sued Watterson for plagiarizing my dissertation title.
Darrell Patton about 6 years ago
That has PHD written all over it.
jadoo823 about 6 years ago
…chaos, panic, disorder…my work here is done…
Aaron Saltzer about 6 years ago
Ok…someone tell me why this child’s still in school? His vocabulary is that of a college professor. Lol
Aaron Saltzer about 6 years ago
Happy Valentines Day!!
stamps about 6 years ago
The sad truth is that much of academian writing is exactly like that.
Number Three about 6 years ago
You won’t be saying that when you get your assignments returned to you because of spelling errors.
LOL xxx
Number Three about 6 years ago
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY, EVERYONE!
May you all have a wonderful day.
bizaker about 6 years ago
That is way too familiar
yimhere about 6 years ago
…what we have here is a failure to confusicate….
Rickapolis about 6 years ago
This is called the CBSM. ’C’alvin. ’B’ull. ’M’ethod. The ‘S’ I’ll leave to your imagination.
Popeyesforearm about 6 years ago
see Hobbes runRun Hobbes, run
The Life I Draw Upon about 6 years ago
Sheer genius! That will make Wormwood ajust her glasses several times.
The Wolf In Your Midst about 6 years ago
Even the most mundane and superfluous topic can be made to seem interesting, even fascinating, by liberal application of obfuscating loquaciousness!(Translation: Dumb things look smart with lots of big words.)
coffeeturtle about 6 years ago
kid’s got a point! :-D
angusdad about 6 years ago
I think that he’s nailed it on the head
Michelle Morris about 6 years ago
“Obscure poor reasoning”. But… that’s a good thing,isn’t it?
StrangerCoug about 6 years ago
Oh, dear, Calvin’s into purple prose now, isn’t he?
calvinsfriend110 about 6 years ago
So The Three Bears is about theft?
Puddleglum2 about 6 years ago
Nuts! Macadamia, here I come!
Puddleglum2 about 6 years ago
Calvin’s pathological imperatives relating to Susie, engender irreducible, …irresolvable, even, gender modes, after a fashion.
kaecispopX about 6 years ago
Go ahead and give him his PhD in English now. Of course it will be just as useless to him as child as it will be to him as an adult – very poor job market for English Lit majors.
JP Steve Premium Member about 6 years ago
A buddy of mine did a book report on Dick and Jane for Grade 12 English. Got a good mark for it too!
westny77 about 6 years ago
Say What. I guess it works in literature.
Vonne Anton about 6 years ago
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khpage about 6 years ago
A translation: Dick and Jane get into it with each other: video and commentary on channel 5 at 6 p.m.
99catsinabox about 6 years ago
OMG why would calvin do a report on a book like Dick and Jane? The whole book is like one sentence repeated over and over.