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26 Nov 2005, 7:16 am

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I just had to share this! :D



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26 Nov 2005, 7:23 am

I love Calvin and Hobbes... I have a couple of the books. They're great :D

I'm somewhat surprised by his language in the last panel though. Not the sort of thing that would usually get published in a newspaper.



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26 Nov 2005, 9:06 am

:lol:


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26 Nov 2005, 9:30 am

I think the word "sh-t" was edited in, I remember that being "doo."



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26 Nov 2005, 10:11 am

I don't know if this one's real, but it's so accurate.

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26 Nov 2005, 10:43 am

Strip #1: Hehehehehe

Strip #2: Awwwwww


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26 Nov 2005, 11:34 am

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26 Nov 2005, 11:54 am

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26 Nov 2005, 11:56 am

And this old one is a dead ringer for the one Sean posted:

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26 Nov 2005, 2:53 pm

You know, in every single Calvin and Hobbes thread on any forum anywhere, that fake comic about medication inevitably shows up.....it's getting really depressing to have to keep seeing it. Not to single you out, cdrhom, but can we all agree that we've seen the fake comic and don't need the demise of childhood rubbed in our faces in future Calvin and Hobbes posts? :(


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26 Nov 2005, 3:51 pm

1 and 5 - :)
3 - :lol:
2 - now I'm ... I don't know. The feeling you get when you've finished a book you were really into. Is that depressed?



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26 Nov 2005, 5:05 pm

Yep, plenty of fond memories there. My dad's 'Calvin and Hobbes' collections were actually the first things that I ever read.
It's so spacy...I can't believe it's been a full decade now since Watterson called it quits.
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27 Nov 2005, 12:35 pm

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27 Nov 2005, 1:57 pm

Nitz wrote:
You know, in every single Calvin and Hobbes thread on any forum anywhere, that fake comic about medication inevitably shows up.....it's getting really depressing to have to keep seeing it. Not to single you out, cdrhom, but can we all agree that we've seen the fake comic and don't need the demise of childhood rubbed in our faces in future Calvin and Hobbes posts? :(
My apologies, shall I remove it?

Personally, I only encountered it for the first time a few weeks ago. I see it less as a commentary on the demise of childhood, than as a scathing criticism of a socety that would rather force defenseless children to take powerful medications so that they do not have to deal with children being themselves.


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27 Nov 2005, 2:13 pm

ridgerider wrote:
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Well, that seems to fit great with the theme here. ;) I've always enjoyed reading about Calvin and Hobbes and Calvin's parents and everyone else. It is also quite hilarious that Calvin's teacher has the same name as the apprentice demon in CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters.


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27 Nov 2005, 3:11 pm

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My apologies, shall I remove it?

Personally, I only encountered it for the first time a few weeks ago. I see it less as a commentary on the demise of childhood, than as a scathing criticism of a socety that would rather force defenseless children to take powerful medications so that they do not have to deal with children being themselves.


No, keep it up. I might have overreacted here, and I apologize. It just hits home a bit: I've always identified a lot with Calvin, since my childhood was a lot like his-- granted, I didn't go looking for trouble like him, but I basically spent all my time in my imagination, which baffled parents and educators. To see the effective demise of my childhood hero, even as a joke, is disturbing for me; I laughed at the strip the first time I saw it, but not any time since.

This is nothing about you or the cartoon, just more about me and my own triggers.


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