Please, can you help a German Calvin-and-Hobbes-Fan? I know, what a cantaloupe is, I know Lassie, I know melon and collie, but is there any special about melon-collie?
Cantaloupe is a type of melon.
Lassie is a Collie (dog breed)
Crossed they are melon - collie (melancholy)
Melancholy Baby is a famous song originally published in 1912.
Well, Calvin’s lame joke did have one redeeming quality: It was about animals and food – the two most important things in life, in the opinion of us tigers.
Speaking of lame jokes about animals and food, what do you get if you cross a cornfield with a chipmunk?
Hobbes, my guess is “corn chips.” Don’t tell me you’re going down that same path as Calvin. I thought you had better tastes than that. I guess as long as that taste doesn’t include humans you’re all right.
Tineli and LX013 -
I understand your dilemma. I know enough German to get myself into trouble. But when I hear jokes in German, I rarely get them. Humor doesn’t translate well from one language to another, especially when it involves puns. One has to be be well versed not only in the language, but the culture and history of the country to really understand these things.
Yukoner,
Yes, it’s right up my alley; it ‘bowls me over’.
Apparently, Hobbes and rogue53 are of the same stripe where puns are concerned. They go ‘hither and yon’, but I won’t get melancholy about it.
Mike Firesmith,
Your pun ‘kills’ me, and also reminds me of something Mae West said, “When I am good, I am very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.”
I don’t know. Would another kid in Calvin’s age group know the word melancholy or that “Melancholy Baby is a famous song originally published in 1912”? :-)
Hobbes doesn’t get Calvin’s jokes because Hobbes is a manifestation of Calvin’s unconscious. And that works both ways…
ENFPs (Calvin) and INFJs (Hobbes) have fundamentally different senses of humor. They have common ground, but they’re of different polarities (as it were). “Hobbes gets it, he just doesn’t want it” is the perfect description of the dynamic. And Calvin reacts the same way to “tiger aphorisms” (see a strip during these past few weeks).
Thanks for explaining the pun! Read it loud and you get it!
I like Terry Pratchett, and there is a very giftet translator, who translates these books into German. And he really gets the puns in the book, I admire people, who can do that.
margueritem over 13 years ago
I’m with you, Hobbes.
pouncingtiger over 13 years ago
I love Hobbes’ reaction in the third panel. LOL!! XD The aside has returned in comics.
doc7sea over 13 years ago
Good one Calvin!
SWEETBILL over 13 years ago
Gm Marg and all, Calvins got a future, me thinks he found his place. Love Hobbes look in panel 3
hopeandjoy2 over 13 years ago
Clever stuff…I *do* like the expressions.
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
I’d say don’t quit your day job, but you don’t have one yet, Calvin. You better stay in school and get your education. You’ll need it.
I love Hobbes look in panel 3 too!
Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠
LittleSister18 over 13 years ago
Well I thought it was funny.
Tineli over 13 years ago
Please, can you help a German Calvin-and-Hobbes-Fan? I know, what a cantaloupe is, I know Lassie, I know melon and collie, but is there any special about melon-collie?
DerkinsVanPelt218 over 13 years ago
Calvin probably couldn’t be the life of the party at a funeral home with material like that.
Wiseguy411 over 13 years ago
Tineli
Cantaloupe is a type of melon. Lassie is a Collie (dog breed) Crossed they are melon - collie (melancholy) Melancholy Baby is a famous song originally published in 1912.
Melancholy is a deep long-lived sadness.
Sort of like the joke (pun) in today’s strip …
Edcole1961 over 13 years ago
W.C. Fields once used a version of that joke.
moronbis over 13 years ago
Well, Calvin is the life of this strip.
zero over 13 years ago
…and I always liked that joke ;-)
Kirokithikis over 13 years ago
i’m getting melancholy thinking about what other bad jokes Calvin may subject us to
rshive over 13 years ago
Not with that joke, he won’t.
Didn’t the Smashing Pumpkins have an album whose title included Melon and Collie?
rentier over 13 years ago
Wiseguy411 thank you for declaring the melon-collie, I couldn’t it understand so well!
Calvin and Hobbes are both the life of the strip!
Yukoner over 13 years ago
Where is Puddleglum? This is right up is alley.
mike.firesmith over 13 years ago
**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**
I’m convinced that I can take fermented apples and mashed chickpeas and come up with something really great!
Does this make me a hummus cider maniac?
Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago
Well, Calvin’s lame joke did have one redeeming quality: It was about animals and food – the two most important things in life, in the opinion of us tigers.
Speaking of lame jokes about animals and food, what do you get if you cross a cornfield with a chipmunk?
alan.gurka over 13 years ago
Hobbes, my guess is “corn chips.” Don’t tell me you’re going down that same path as Calvin. I thought you had better tastes than that. I guess as long as that taste doesn’t include humans you’re all right.
COWBOY7 over 13 years ago
I thought it was a pretty good one for Calvin at least.
G’Morning, Grog, Marg & Mike!
Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago
<< algurka said: Hobbes, my guess is “corn chips.” >>>
Hmmm…… Not too bad as a first guess; but a bit obvious as a punchline, and somewhat lacking in deeper philosophical meaning……
davidf42 over 13 years ago
Tineli and LX013 - I understand your dilemma. I know enough German to get myself into trouble. But when I hear jokes in German, I rarely get them. Humor doesn’t translate well from one language to another, especially when it involves puns. One has to be be well versed not only in the language, but the culture and history of the country to really understand these things.
rogue53 over 13 years ago
If he comes to the party with that scowl on his face, I don’t think he’ll put much life in the party.
Exactly Yukoner………………………(yawn).
alan.gurka over 13 years ago
Speaking of lame jokes about animals and food, what do you get if you cross a cornfield with a chipmunk?
Hobbes, I’m scraping bottom now: An a-maized rodent? An a-maizing animal, second only to tigers?
gofinsc over 13 years ago
Bah-DOOM-bomp!!
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
Yukoner, Yes, it’s right up my alley; it ‘bowls me over’. Apparently, Hobbes and rogue53 are of the same stripe where puns are concerned. They go ‘hither and yon’, but I won’t get melancholy about it.
TN-REDD over 13 years ago
Calvin is funny ( see panel 3) Hobbes is funny too (see panel 3)
legaleagle48 over 13 years ago
Hobbes GOT the joke, Calvin – he just didn’t WANT it.
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
Mike Firesmith, Your pun ‘kills’ me, and also reminds me of something Mae West said, “When I am good, I am very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.”
MatureCanadian over 13 years ago
Come on Hobbes, don’t leave us hangin’! No fair for us slower folk.
Gretchen's Mom over 13 years ago
Lame though it is to us adults, Calvin’s joke will probably kill in first grade with his classmates!
:-)
coffeeturtle over 13 years ago
I don’t know. Would another kid in Calvin’s age group know the word melancholy or that “Melancholy Baby is a famous song originally published in 1912”? :-)
I did chuckle though. ;-)
bmonk over 13 years ago
See? This is my problem–I have loads of jokes that other people refuse to laugh at.
Jax100 over 13 years ago
I like Hobbes optimism in panel 1.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago
Don’t worry, Calvin! I laughed my a@@ off at your joke! Hobbes expression in the 3rd panel though, is priceless!
ratlum over 13 years ago
Hey thats not bad young fella.
rentier over 13 years ago
I cannot keep the jokes, sometimes I know many, but I forget them very quickly!!
zipdryve over 13 years ago
I plan on using that joke!
rvonluchen over 13 years ago
If Hobbes is Calvin’s imaginary playmate, why doesn’t he laugh at Calvin’s jokes?
bmonk over 13 years ago
@Dry laughed your aaa off? (Or do you mean your @$$??)
A Calvin joke:
What’s the last thing to go through a bug’s brain when it hits your windshield?
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His butt!
timnovak over 13 years ago
A melon collie baby LOLOLOLOL
Rakkav over 13 years ago
Hobbes doesn’t get Calvin’s jokes because Hobbes is a manifestation of Calvin’s unconscious. And that works both ways…
ENFPs (Calvin) and INFJs (Hobbes) have fundamentally different senses of humor. They have common ground, but they’re of different polarities (as it were). “Hobbes gets it, he just doesn’t want it” is the perfect description of the dynamic. And Calvin reacts the same way to “tiger aphorisms” (see a strip during these past few weeks).
Fogger_man over 13 years ago
So, Hobbes… you’ll appreciate this one… What do you get when you cross a TIGER with a Mina bird?
FerBurger over 13 years ago
Lemme guess - the chipmunk is named “alvin” . . ?
FerBurger over 13 years ago
The bird is a “Mynah” … or a gesture, of course …
JTGAM over 13 years ago
Ha Ha! I liked it. We can never have enough humor in our lives.
Dino-1 over 13 years ago
Sounds like one of those jokes they used to have on the Dixie Cups for kids.
Tineli over 13 years ago
Thanks for explaining the pun! Read it loud and you get it!
I like Terry Pratchett, and there is a very giftet translator, who translates these books into German. And he really gets the puns in the book, I admire people, who can do that.
MisngNOLA over 13 years ago
rshive, Smashing Pumpkins had an album titled Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.