Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 13, 2012

“3”………..wtf???………ask the weegee board for a computer Calvin :)

But the ouija board is much more fun!

I would have expected “42”….

@fear-ciuil, you beat me to it.

Many years ago I heard of a woman who lived alone and liked to ask her ouija board questions late at night. She asked the board where her deceased husband was and it came back with “Right behind you!”

She threw the board in the fire and never asked again.

Tried the board once as a kid.Got wonderful answers like “fdowkggh”Never bothered again.

27

Computers were a little too expensive back then.

Then the FBI broke down the front door, arrested Calvin, and hauled him off to federal prison ( they arrested Hobbes, too, but he turned state’s evidence in return for immunity ).

I’ve never understood if the tigers real or not.

seven

Oui = French word for yesJa = German word for yesA bit biased wouldn’t you say?Amen, Nabuquduriuzhur.

It’s amazing to me that a child’s board game, could be considered dabbling in the occult by some adults. Stay young Calvin.

“3” is the answer. But neither Calvin nor Hobbes knows the question.

I asked my laptop this same question, and got the same answer …. !?! No surprise – a little more research shows that I’m running Ouija 7.0 for my os.

…lol!!…

I’m not ‘ouija’ on this one!

I thought the answer would be “42.”

Silmarillion, all C&H comic strips are reruns nowadays, and this strip was originally run before Adams’ death. Of course, not everyone knows the whole 42 joke, either.

…Possible Star Trek reference… Or just a random number…

Well Well Well! Looks like I’m being mentioned a lot today.

LOL Joking. Would Calvin be old enough to use a computer?

xxx

For those not in the know, there was a science fiction TV show apx 15 yrs ago where someone asked the computer the meaning of life, and it crunched away for a few seconds and printed out 42 (or was it 47?) Anyway, a meaningless answer. Can someone supply more details?

42? Book? Movie? would someone be kind enough to explain the comments to me?

If we want to know the answers to all of life’s mysteries, maybe we should ask Watson instead!

 

(b.t.w.: In case anyone’s wondering, Watson is a super-computer built by IBM that won a million dollars when it kicked the butts of the two greatest players who have ever appeared on the game show “Jeopardy!” back in February, 2011.)

 

Watson

“How do you know the answers to all life’s mysteries?”

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It could have answered, “Yes”, which would have been interesting enough.

Even more interesting if it said, “No.”

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Of course, in Catholic understanding, a true “mystery” is something where it’s not so much that we don’t know the answer, or at least where the answer lies, as that our minds are unable to encompass and grasp the full depth of the answer’s truth.

I’m missing something here, could someone be so kind to explain why the 3 or the 42?

“Once and a while you get shone the light,in the strangest of places if you look at it right”

Isn’t the correct answer “7” from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

My wife says her mom wouldn’t allow one of these in their house. It was an agent of the devil. We messed around with one as a kid but it never did squat.

Three – two board operators and one board. Probably an operational check by the board…….

Im am so going to try one of these

3 is a magic number.

But 42 is still the meaning of life and everything…

My mother told me she played with a Ouija board when she was young. She said it always gave the answer you wanted. I would say that most of it is your own subconscious, but if you get to looking to it too seriously it can invite the wrong kind of spirits. I say except for praying to God, stay away from the spirit world, It can be dangerous!

Ouiji boards go where the users push them, y"all.

I Luv Calvin And Hobbes!!!!!

37 is good. Or green…

‘Playing’ with the Ouiji can invite low level energies. Just because they are spirits, does not mean they will tell the truth. Another way to invite LLE: using drugs or alcohol, which is why LLEs hang out in bars.

Hobbes and Calvin, put that board away!

rolling blown

alot of people caught on to the 42 reference, wonder how many would pick up on the classic sci-fi reference “and baby makes three”

@Popeyesforearm,Did you want the ouija board to do “squat”?Apparently, you did, messing around with one!

Google is the new ouija board

Hobbes is as real as you or me. He just sometimes pretends to be stuffed.

“How come we don’t have a computer, Dad?”“Because it’s bad enough that we have a telephone.”“How come we don’t have Cable TV or a VCR?”“Because it’s bad enough just having a no-frills TV.”“HELP, STAR TREK, GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!”