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Lets Go Exploring! Calvin and Hobbes for life!

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  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Goomba coming home every night, hanging up his wings on the hanger, going to the fridge, getting a drink ...

    Kid crying in the night, sirens at the door, wife missing ...

    Oh god
    There were flying Goombas don't ever go there I know my shit

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Seriously, though, Speed Racer's interpretation is bullshit. It's only one way of interpreting what goes on, but it was never intended to be interpreted that way.

    It's a dumb interpretation anyway since all that happens is that Calvin gets blown right out of his shoes and socks and he gets scuffed up a little. He never gets injured in any way, just shaken up.

    You're all a bunch of namby pamby silly geese.

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I approve of this topic entirely, as does my C&H tattoo.

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  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Man, I got shivers when I read the OP.

    Re-reading that last strip almost made me tear up.

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Or perhaps (John) Calvin and (Thomas) Hobbes

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    Oh my god

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  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    ive always wanted to play calvin-ball

    but how the hell would it work?

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    My friends and I used to play Calvinball in the high school gym.

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  • ZephosZephos Climbin in yo ski lifts, snatchin your people up. MichiganRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    we had a calvinball thread here once as i recall.

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  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    We turned a game of volley-ball into Calvin Ball last year. It was a blast. We won when our server glanced a ball of a neighbors minivan and it hit one of my friends' kid in the face (not too hard).

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    ive always wanted to play calvin-ball

    but how the hell would it work?

    There is only one rule

    There are no rules.


    whoever can outwit and out think everyone else will "win"

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    ive always wanted to play calvin-ball

    but how the hell would it work?

    are you sure you understand calvinball

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  • Fort1tudeFort1tude Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    i thought the only rule was that you cant play the same way twice or make the same rule or something
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    ive always wanted to play calvin-ball

    but how the hell would it work?

    are you sure you understand calvinball


    obviously i do not understand

    i mean in the comics i get it, but how would you play and keep track of all the rules/set up the game field in advance

    like all the wickets and signs and flags

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    i thought the only rule was that you cant play the same way twice or make the same rule or something

    Nope. You do whatever you want.

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    i thought the only rule was that you cant play the same way twice or make the same rule or something
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    ive always wanted to play calvin-ball

    but how the hell would it work?

    are you sure you understand calvinball


    obviously i do not understand

    i mean in the comics i get it, but how would you play and keep track of all the rules/set up the game field in advance

    like all the wickets and signs and flags

    Just do whatever you and your friends feel like doing, but keep track of it all and make it crazy and challenging and fun.

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Zephos wrote: »
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    Edit: is this hscrolling anyone? should i spoiler it?

    Zephos is your avatar from a skiing game?!

    This thread is full of nostalgia, I have 4 collections of comics book things and I love them dearly...
    I hate reading them though as I know it will be over if I start

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    It's from SkiFree. Damn that abominable snowman.

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Dear god...computer class from grade 1-5. I don't think I ever got by that fucker

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2010
    SirToasty wrote: »
    It's from SkiFree. Damn that abominable snowman.

    but you can outrun him

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
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  • LednehLedneh shinesquawk Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I swear this actually happened to me once. That was a pretty depressing day

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  • ParadiseParadise Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    That only happened to you once?
    You don't have enough stress anticipation in your life.

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    SirToasty wrote: »
    It's from SkiFree. Damn that abominable snowman.

    but you can outrun him

    hmmm...fuck you...I was never able to do it...

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    listen up

    there is no reason to ever watch that animated planet hulk flick

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Paradise wrote: »
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    i thought the only rule was that you cant play the same way twice or make the same rule or something
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    Fort1tude wrote: »
    ive always wanted to play calvin-ball

    but how the hell would it work?

    are you sure you understand calvinball


    obviously i do not understand

    i mean in the comics i get it, but how would you play and keep track of all the rules/set up the game field in advance

    like all the wickets and signs and flags

    Just do whatever you and your friends feel like doing, but keep track of it all and make it crazy and challenging and fun.

    You don't have to keep track of it all. Just the stuff you made up.

    The best part of the calvinball strips are the arguments for what just happened.
    Stuff like this
    " You touched the Boomerang Zone you have to forfeit the ball to the thrower"
    " Yeah but the zone returned to you so it comes back to me"
    " Too bad I'm in the rubber Elysium It bounces boomerang zones but not the ball back to their original point. Oh look your in the poem chaoticum. Time to write a Haiku."

    That may or may not be an exerpt from a calvinball game I instigated

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Calvin and Hobbes is really great. I need to buy the rest of the books some day.

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  • Airking850Airking850 Ottawa, ONRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    My dad got me into Calvin and Hobbes at a really young age, and it was one of those things that defined my childhood. It's so weird to think that this was over 15 years ago.

    Why you guys gotta make me so nostalgic all the time

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    My sister was the one who got me hooked, a little while just before it finished.

    I should save up and get the complete collection. It's definitely something I'd hold onto and pass down if ever I have kids.

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  • ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... ... and hard.Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Ledneh wrote: »
    I swear this actually happened to me once. That was a pretty depressing day

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    The 2nd panel of this is one of my favorite visual metaphors ever.

    Also, this sort of happened to me once.

    7 years ago, first day of my senior year of high school. I wake up around 3 AM and start preparing cereal, milk, and juice. I'm actually opening the OJ when I realize:

    IT'S THREE IN THE MORNING WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
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    There is no doubt in my mind that if someone says they hate this strip I will punch them in the dick.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    ASimPerson wrote: »
    Ledneh wrote: »
    I swear this actually happened to me once. That was a pretty depressing day
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    The 2nd panel of this is one of my favorite visual metaphors ever.

    Also, this sort of happened to me once.

    7 years ago, first day of my senior year of high school. I wake up around 3 AM and start preparing cereal, milk, and juice. I'm actually opening the OJ when I realize:

    IT'S THREE IN THE MORNING WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING

    Oh man I used to do that all the time when I was younger. I usually didn't snap out of it until one of my parents got woken up by the sound of the shower and told me to go back to bed.

    The worst for me was last year, when I got a summer job working as a cashier at Wal-Mart. After the first week I started having dreams where I was at work, then I'd wake up in the middle of them and grope all around the bed because I couldn't find the thing I was just ringing up. Eventually I'd give up, not because I realized that it was a dream, but because I realized that it wasn't my shift anymore, so it wasn't my responsibility.

    One night I grabbed a flower arrangement off of the nightstand, and pulled out and "rung up" each flower individually. I woke up with a huge mess in my bed and on the floor with only a vague memory of what happened.

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  • FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Oh man oh man <3 Calvin and Hobbes. Did some fan-art for last year's secret Santa, drawing in Bill Watterson's style is harder than I anticipated.

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    Wallpaper Version

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  • MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Calvin getting tackled by Hobbes was not him covering for getting beaten up at school, since he told his mom about it in one storyline

    There's only one character who ever actually hurt Calvin:
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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    that is beautiful

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  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    marty_0001 wrote: »
    how had none of us figured that out

    I always just thought it was because Calvin was rolling around in the dirt playing with Hobbes.

    I choose to go along with this explanation.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    That is really great, Flay

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Thank you Flay for my new desktop background

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Yeah I would not have guessed it wasn't by Watterson

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  • Airking850Airking850 Ottawa, ONRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Gatsby wrote: »
    Thank you Flay for my new desktop background

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    CarbonRod wrote: »
    Probably the one that gives me the biggest laugh is when his dad is looking for his glasses and Calvin comes in wearing them and says "Calvin, go do somthing you hate. Being miserable builds character." and in the last panel his mom is laughing her ass off

    I love that one as well

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  • UmaroUmaro Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    The thing that made Calvin-ball work that it was only ever played by one person. Any more and I imagine the situation would quickly deteriorate.

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