Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 25, 2019

I can tell you whom the skills won’t impress: girls.

Tch, newbies.

The “yo” part is easy, but it’s difficult doing the “yo” part.

Walking the dog is not going to impress Hobbes.

I got to compete in a contest where I finished last. I’m a nice guy.

It’s just trying to wind you up….

I never could get a yoyo to work.

Don’t worry about impressing somebody, master it for yourself.

So right, Calvin

I don’t know. I thought Dickie Smothers’ act as Dr. Yo was really great. I never got much past sleep, walk the dog, and on a really really good day around the world once.

I’ll be impressed if I don’t get wacked in the head by that yo-yo.

If you can’t pick up chicks or make money from it, forget it.

If you whack yourself in the face with it I’ll bet Susie would be impressed.

This kind of reminds me of those Grommet commercials that pop up on my office computer.

An interesting turn: a weapon that got toy-ized.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnuFrtTNUTc&t=304s

..BUNCHA DIFFERENT RAPPERS….YO!

I could solve a Rubics Cube in a out 3 minutes. I basically became a sideshow at school. Not sure how that translates here. There must be something though.

I do recall someone of limited reasoning ability being called a “yo-yo”. There may be some correlation between that and public view of the practice.

It has its ups and downs.

One day, long ago, I was a yo-yo Zen master. True story.

I’ve had jobs that I felt that way about.

He may someday be a Tom Smothers Yo Yo Man.

Welcome to the job market, Calvin.

Never could get one of those things to work.

Do kids even play with yo-yos (the toy kind) nowadays?

Is it a rumor that California leaders heard the story that Filipinos use them as weapons and are considering expelling all kindergartners who bring one to school? ’Just thinking, maybe the paint causes cancer in California.

And, of course, in the above illustration, it’s called a yo.

Nobody

Would you believe that yo-yo’s have their own fandom website? You can learn the history, including that the claim it was a weapon is false. https://yoyo.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_the_Yo-yo

The smothers brothers is about it

What goes down, won’t go up

That’s a good point point. What’s so cool about yoyos anyway?

I was think about difficult skills in general not yo-yo skills.