Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 13, 2013

Baseball card gum that was brittle, and cracked into small pieces.

Must be getting old. Now I just like Wrigley’s.

I used to buy baseball card packs wholesale, a whole display box at a time. I ended up with around 150 pieces of that dusty, increasingly hard gum. Chewed myself sick and tossed the rest. Bought my first pack in Spring 1961. It had a Roger Maris in it. How fortuitous!

Do they still have magazine quizzes ?I do remember how good gum tasted,made with real sugar.

I seldom chew gum. But when I do, it goes from bad to worse, quickly.

I bet, they knew nothing!! Magazines saved us from dark ignorance!

Does your chewing gun lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?…(actually, that idea is kind of sickening, really…)

In my school you couldn’t have gum in class until 6th grade. We all looked forward to the day, and chewed gum like mad at home. I’d offer Mom a piece and she’d shudder, “No, thanks.” I couldn’t understand it. I do now. For some reason, the idea of chewing gum just grosses me out these days.

I had braces from about 16 to 18 yo, and, likewise, was forbidden to chew gum. By the time the two years was over, I had lost the taste for gum and have seldom chewed it since. (BTW, I’m now over 60.)

If only he put half that effort into his class quizzes.

Hobbes deserves start his own magazine.

The Irish Rovers also had a question regarding “Does your gum deliver?”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBmW37ZJlso

Math, history, language arts, science….

I had a filling get pulled out, while chewing gum as a kid. Last stick of gum I ever chewed. Our dentist was so awful, that anything that would cause an extra trip to him was to be avoided.

Magazine quizzes, Hobbes? This is the internet era now:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/quiz/newsid_2387000/2387449.stm

http://www.sesamecommunications.com/PPNarticles/2006-Q4/quiz.html

http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz21597518bab50.html

Even in French: http://www.quizz.biz/quizz-275745.html

And to find what matches your personality: http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_flavor_of_gum_are_you_1

(The links themselves appear ok. I can’t recommend actually ‘submitting’ any of these quizzes.)

But Watterson’s quiz still is unique!

how did we ever survive not knowing how stupid we were? “cosmo” springs to mind

“Here comes the pitch…”

>>CRACK<<

“And the point goes sailing high over the heads of fans in left field! What a hit!”

I WANT MY CHEWING-GUM… BACK!!!!

Internet? What are these “magazines”?

I used to love taking magazine quizzes and still do.

I took a South Park quiz online the other day ‘Which South Park Character Are You?’ and I got Butters.

xxx

I remember a song called ‘does your chewing loose its flavour on the bedpost overnight’

I think “Chewing” magazine was an invention of Bill Watterson’s, same as Calvin’s favorite cereal.

The A #1 all time gum memory was “Chum Gum” given out by the barber shops back in the 50’s and 60’s. It smelled SO good when you opened it but that little pink stick of gum was more like hard-tack gum jerky.

However, once it softened up, man oh man what a flavor…for about 20 seconds.

To this day each time I walk into a barber shop I remember the smell of talc and that gum.

Is ‘Chewing’ magazine available online? Sounds interesting.

I need to take that test…

They had Ovaltine come-ons on the radio…

baseball cards were good but Fleers, with a comic strip inside the cover, was the best AND it blew the best bubbles

My favorite gum has always been Bubblicious, though unfortunately my jaw has gotten so weak with TMD nowadays that it can no longer tolerate any amount of gum-chewing, no matter how soft the gum is…

My favorite gum are Extra Desert Delights.

I can’t chew gum any more, it sucks my fillings out.