Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 10, 2012

Amen.

Definition of an expert:- x is an unknown quantity and a spurt is a drip under pressure…

Yet another example of Calvin’s “inner child” gone berserk: an overemphasis on “hard data”.

Experts tend to be full of crap. Look at the Wright Brothers and the people who gave them advice. And, many experts have personal or financial agendas, people who pay them to give a certain set of information.

How can you have fun without first doing your research and checking with the experts?

Careful Calvin, you may give those idiots in Washington another Pork Barrel idea!!

I am on your side! Fun IS supposed to be fun!

And speaking of fun being fun, here is Charles Schulz’s fourth Sunday Peanuts strip. (He only drew daily strips for the first 15 months.)Click here: Peanuts (1952)

My favorite gum was BAZOOKA. It came along with a comic BAZOOK A JOE. Does anyone out there know if it is still around?

Don’t trust the experts, Calvin! They will lead you astray to make a profit! Just look at the mortgage experts in banks…

I don’t know. I think the “experts” just change.

“Quantify your enjoyment” – ugh. Besides: a contradiction in terms.

I wouldn’t put so much trust into that “hard” data, Calvin.

i got some message they say What ‘s new doc? to me but don’t know a bout is this mean ? Please

I’m with Hobbes on this one!

@Bob VallininoBazooka Joe is out there! Just google it.

This strikes me as a case of Calvin wanting to feel like he’s better off than all the other plebian ‘chewers’ out there, because he’s got this secret info on our side.

It’s a little like becoming a Connoisseur of photos of Joe Biden eating a sandwich. ;)

…i’d LOVE a win tunnel – i could really use a win…

Trusting someone else to let you know when you’re having fun; doesn’t our government claim that responsibility?

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he finally he knows everything about nothing.

I used to collect the little comic strips that came with double bubble. (Fleers?)

Like Calvin I thought experts were OK ,but now I like Hobbes attitude.

I got busted chewing gum on the P.T. field in basic training. Drill Sgt. made everyone else run an extra mile while I watched. Man, I slept with one eye open that night. No blanket party, thankfully.IDMFF: It lost it’s flavor on the bedpost that night!

Calvin trusts the experts unless he’s pretty sure he disagrees with them. Calvin is a fair weather fiend.

I take back my previous post of yesterday – maybe Calvin is an engineer in embryo. Hobbes should have smacked Calvin over the head with the magazine and provoked Calvin to chase him around the yard….

I saw an offer where politicians could bungee “jump for free, no strings attached!”

Bad idea. Mid-term elections are so expensive, and the replacements are the same as the originals.

I like the “Peanuts” strips Hobbes shares with us. Thank you, Hobbes! :-)

“I saw an offer where politicians could bungee jump for free, no strings attached!”

Nice one, Dog!

Actually, we DO know now how a bumblebee flies. You could probably find the explanation on Wikipedia of all places, it’s been out for so long.Contrary to the conventional wisdom, simply because an expert doesn’t have a model that explains every known fact that concerns him doesn’t make him less of an expert. It means that as with the rest of us, he’s on a learning curve. The difference is that he’s on the edge of it (or should be) while his Monday-morning quarterbacks generally aren’t.Expertise is ruined far more by false assumptions (quite often merely philosophical ones) than by lack of knowledge of the subject at hand.

@JohnnyDiego: I saw an offer where politicians could bungee jump for free, no strings attached!

 

Hey, now! That WOULD be fun, wouldn’t it?!?!?!?!!!!!

 

;-)

Calvin today reminds me of the young C.S.Lewis, who found joy in various things, and then associated the joy with the particular experience that led to it—so he pursued each such experience in turn until the joy had been drained out of the dry husk—and he never realized why until later.

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I’m with Hobbes: you know fun by having fun. You know true and lasting joy by the enjoyment it brings you.

gmartin997: If you’ll look right above the “Peanuts” comic strip, you’ll see that Hobbes also provided a link to go with it that, when clicked on, makes it larger and easier to read. It’s dark blue (the same color our “names” appear in when we leave a comment) and says: “Click here: Peanuts (1952)”.

Is it true if one collected 100 Bazooka comics he or she could send in for a free B.B. Gun?

Wait, Whaaaaaaaaatttttttttt??

I still can’t believe he is six.

@iced tea: Yes, that’s Patty and Violet. Originally there were five characters: Patty, Violet, Shermy, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy.

This is so me.

Bwwaa haaaa!!