Calvin and Hobbes
Doug Stephan
couple days? Me thinks he may be poking fun at the
cycling community! Great stuff! Check it out.
Mark Gardner
>By way of example, for those of you who may have missed it,
>here's a blow-by-blow description of the Sunday strip from a
>couple of weeks ago (with sincere apologies to the artist):
(snip)
He ran a somewhat similar Sunday strip a couple years back that was hilarious.
In every frame, Calvin's dad is making a comment about how great it is to get
away, get some fresh air, relax, really experience life, etc. In every frame
he's also breathing exhause fumes, fixing a flat, hitting a rock, ducking a
can, or raising his pump ready to hit a snarling dog.
At the end he returns and says (approx.), "Honey I thing I'll quit my job and
just ride my bike."
Calvin's mom: "That's nice, dear. Do you want me call the bike shop and ask
if they'll sponsor your mid-life crisis?"
Cal's dad: "Yeah. See if they can upgrade my shifters too."
Eric Siegmund
I couldn't agree more, although Bill Watterson *must* be a cyclist
himself, in order to capture so accurately the real-world travails
and angst of the urban, approaching-middle-aged bikie (Calvin's
dad.)
By way of example, for those of you who may have missed it,
here's a blow-by-blow description of the Sunday strip from a
couple of weeks ago (with sincere apologies to the artist):
Frame 1: Dad is in the garage, covered with grease, cursing his
bike's owner's guide (at least he HAS one, even if it's written in
Taiwanese!), while his mountain bike rests on the repair stand,
pretty much skeletonized.
Frame 2: Bike reassembled, Dad has dressed for a ride, with
Calvin pointing at him and laughing maniacally (in that
inimitable Calvinesque fashion) at his nerdy (albeit accurately
portrayed) profile.
Frame 3: Riding to his eventual pastoral off-road site (he's a
mountain biker, bar-ends and all), Dad is sorely accosted by all
manner of smoke-belching automotive behemoths just itching to
splatter him.
Frame 4: Finally...the peace and tranquility of the trail.
Unfortunately, Dad bops a rock with his front wheel ("gotta work
on that bunny-hopping thing") and is shown flying over the
handlebars in classic face-plant style. Some less charitable
observers would say that he got what he deserved for using toe
clips instead of SPD's.
Frame 5: Well, he WOULDA face-planted, had he not actually
been at the edge of a cliff. He's bouncing down the side of the
mountain, bike in hot pursuit, leading to...
Frame 6: Dad comes to rest, in obvious physical distress, in the
middle of another pastoral trail. We can just make out the
mangled front wheel of his bike, somewhere in the distance.
Frame 7: Dad arrives home, bloody, bandaged, clothes ripped,
carrying his ruined wheel and with his bike over his shoulder.
Calvin greets him, again accompanied by hysterical laughter.
Frame 8: Dad sits in steaming tub, knees under chin, obviously
too tired and sore to move. Here's his view on the events of the
day: "The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's
even worse."
I've got this strip posted on my bulletin board at work as a daily
reminder of this bit of wisdom. I also think that, deep down
inside, Dad really thinks this about his biking travails: "All
riiiggght! Now we're cookin!"
If you can walk away from a mountain bike ride without
limping...well, you just weren't trying! :)
Eric
Peter Thorsness
I believe you're right. I've always wondered about the need to identify
with "pro" cyclists by wearing a team jersey -- if you belong to a club
with sponsors, that's something else. My wife sure razzed me over the
heart rate monitor strip, as I've been campaigning for one for a month
now. Calvin and Hobbes put my desires in perspective -- it's kind of
embarrassing gaining insight from a comic strip.
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Steven Woo
> He ran a somewhat similar Sunday strip a couple years back that was hilarious.
>
if you want a copy.
Steve
Michael Pechnyo
wrote:
> Doug Stephan <do...@bookstore.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone been reading the comic strip the last
> > couple days? Me thinks he may be poking fun at the
> > cycling community! Great stuff! Check it out.
>
> I couldn't agree more, although Bill Watterson *must* be a cyclist
> himself, in order to capture so accurately the real-world travails
> and angst of the urban, approaching-middle-aged bikie (Calvin's
> dad.)
>
Well, guys, in addition to all the rest of the stuff, I've got a son who's
had a stuffed tiger that's been his best buddy since birth (I won't
embarass him by telling you all how old he is now).
My kids like nothing better than to laugh at my bruises (and there have
been some beauts)!
On the plus side, it warms my heart (as a middle aged road biker) that
_both_ kids wanted road bikes! (And unlike Calvin, their bikes don't
attack them!)
Steven Woo
>
> In article <3ntvlo$1o...@echo.i-link.net>, you wrote:
>
> > This strip has been scanned by somebody and is available on the WWW
> > if you want a copy.
>
>
> Is it a site dedicated to Calvin & Hobbes or cartoons in general. THanks
> in advance...
I don't know it offhand... but if you use a search engine on
mountain biking and look for Wombats, you can go from Wombats to
the Mountain biking page (which is a northern ca. page with lots
of links) and the calvin and hobbes link is on this mountain biking
page.
Sorry for not knowing the url.
Steve Woo
gus...@pobox.upenn.edu
> You wouldn't happen to have the address the the above mentioned WWW site.
> Is it a site dedicated to Calvin & Hobbes or cartoons in general. THanks
> in advance...
this is a URL to Calvin and Hobbes Jump Station
http://www.csd.uu.se/~d94her/calvin/jumpstation.html
links to pages with C&H images
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Dick Durbin
: with "pro" cyclists by wearing a team jersey -- if you belong to a club
: with sponsors, that's something else. My wife sure razzed me over the
: heart rate monitor strip, as I've been campaigning for one for a month
: now. Calvin and Hobbes put my desires in perspective -- it's kind of
: embarrassing gaining insight from a comic strip.
I wonder how many cyclists, like me, have several cycling related
Calvin and Hobbs comic strips thumbtacked to the wall of their
office. Last week, at the TOSRV South ride, the Trek Wrenchforce guy
had one in the back window of the van.
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sAndRa chEng
the bike instructions were written in Taiwanese.
I regret to inform you, that is impossible.
Taiwanese has no written language, unless you mean Chinese.
(My parents speak Taiwanese, and well, That's what they told me.)
from,
crazy taiwanese-american person,
sandra
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And the do you know what she said? She said, "Y O U sAndRa chEng."
And then I just thought, I just thought, "Hey, that was quite sublime."
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Hung Michael Nguyen
sAndRa chEng <sch...@eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>Hey, You wrote that Calvin and hobbes joke number 1,
>the bike instructions were written in Taiwanese.
> I regret to inform you, that is impossible.
> Taiwanese has no written language, unless you mean Chinese.
> (My parents speak Taiwanese, and well, That's what they told me.)
Maybe he meant "Taiwanglish", the barely comprehensible English that used
to be common on manuals, instructions, etc., from Taiwanese and Japanese
(Japanglish) products, although in recent years, I have noticed it to be
a lot better.
Mike.
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Henry Troup
Michael Nguyen) wrote:
> Maybe he meant "Taiwanglish", the barely comprehensible English that used
> to be common on manuals, instructions, etc., from Taiwanese and Japanese
> (Japanglish) products, although in recent years, I have noticed it to be
> a lot better.
Actually, given a choice, I'd rather read odd falvoured english
that says what it means than trademark scattered marketing pooh.
Examples: (recreated from memory)
To putting on of the light-holding braket
1. placing of the opening of the backet against the handle bar
2. to tighten the clamping screw
...
Installing your new Night'n'day (tm) SuperBrakit (tm)
Just put the patented SuperBrakit(tm) anywhere on your handlebars and
using the included SuperBrakit(tm) tool, tighten the SuperKlamp (tm)
securely.
WARNING: Tool may slip, causing cuts. Use appropriate hand
and eye protection.
WARNING: Failure to adequately tighten the SuperKlamp may cause the
...
One says what it means, the other subordinates meaning to selling
and avoiding lawsuits. The marketing version sometimes leaves
out essential steps, too.
One of my favorite sets of instructions was just an exploded
engineering drawing, no words at all.
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Eric Siegmund
>
> Hey, You wrote that Calvin and hobbes joke number 1,
> the bike instructions were written in Taiwanese.
> I regret to inform you, that is impossible.
> Taiwanese has no written language, unless you mean Chinese.
> (My parents speak Taiwanese, and well, That's what they told me.)
>
> crazy taiwanese-american person,
> sandra
Well, no wonder the instructions were illegible! :)
Andy Doolittle
Dick Durbin <ddu...@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu> wrote:
>Peter Thorsness (thor...@uwyo.edu) wrote:
>: with "pro" cyclists by wearing a team jersey -- if you belong to a club
>: with sponsors, that's something else. My wife sure razzed me over the
>: heart rate monitor strip, as I've been campaigning for one for a month
>: now. Calvin and Hobbes put my desires in perspective -- it's kind of
>: embarrassing gaining insight from a comic strip.
>
>I wonder how many cyclists, like me, have several cycling related
>Calvin and Hobbs comic strips thumbtacked to the wall of their
>office. Last week, at the TOSRV South ride, the Trek Wrenchforce guy
>had one in the back window of the van.
I've got the April 2 "The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby
that's even worse" one tacked up on my door. Two other people brought
it in for me the day after it ran.
andy
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>Dick Durbin * "Wheelmen arise. You have nothing
>Tallahassee, FL * to lose but your chains."
> * - Wallace Spradling
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