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- That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't
-good enough for me! I demand euphoria! -- Calvin
+That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness
+isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
+ -- Calvin
%
- The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and
-inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and
-impenetrable fog! -- Calvin
+The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure
+reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be
+an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
+ -- Calvin
%
- Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's
-misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. -- Calvin
+Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius.
+Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you?
+Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
%
- Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test. -- Calvin
+Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Calvin: Can you make a living playing silly games? His Dad: Actually, you
-can be among the most overpaid people on the planet.
+Calvin: Can you make a living playing silly games?
+His Dad: Actually, you can be among the most overpaid people on the
+ planet.
%
- If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it
-again. -- Calvin
+If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it
+again.
+ -- Calvin
%
- The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real
-application in life. -- Calvin
+The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no
+real application in life.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best
-of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and
-refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their
-heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles! -- Calvin
+Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the
+best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for
+principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any
+whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into
+principles!
+ -- Calvin
%
- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
-the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -- Calvin
+Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
+elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
+ -- Calvin
%
- It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
- -- Calvin
+It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
+ -- Calvin
%
- The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
- -- Calvin
+The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change
-what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell
-the difference. -- Calvin
+Calvin: Know what I pray for?
+Hobbes: What?
+Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what
+ I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
%
- I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to
-seriously re-examine your life. -- Calvin
+I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to
+seriously re-examine your life.
+ -- Calvin
%
- But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands
-sacrifice! -- Calvin
+But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He
+demands sacrifice!
+ -- Calvin
%
- It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
- -- Calvin
+It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
- -- Calvin
+Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
+ -- Calvin
%
- Hobbes: What would you call the creation of the universe?
- Calvin: The Horrendous Space Kablooie!
+Hobbes: What would you call the creation of the universe?
+Calvin: The Horrendous Space Kablooie!
%
- If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then
-it's probably not worth knowing anyway. -- Calvin
+If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds,
+then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Who wouldn't be interested in everything we do?!
- -- Calvin
+Who wouldn't be interested in everything we do?!
+ -- Calvin
%
- I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each
-other's dreams, we can play together all night. -- Calvin
+I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each
+other's dreams, we can play together all night.
+ -- Calvin
%
- This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen ...
- -- Hobbes
+This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen
+...
+ -- Hobbes
%
- You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
- -- Calvin
+You can present the material, but you can't make me care.
+ -- Calvin
%
- YAAH! DEATH TO OATMEAL!
- -- Calvin
+YAAH! DEATH TO OATMEAL!
+ -- Calvin
%
- From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
- -- Calvin
+From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
+ -- Calvin
%
- I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ...
-Procrastinating and rationalizing. -- Calvin
+I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my
+life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Reality continues to ruin my life.
- -- Calvin
+Reality continues to ruin my life.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts.
-I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think
-twice.
+Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my
+thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak.
+Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
%
- I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
- -- Calvin
+I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Is it a right to remain ignorant?
- -- Calvin
+Is it a right to remain ignorant?
+ -- Calvin
%
- I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less
-distraction. -- Calvin
+I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less
+distraction.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Miss Wormwood: What state do you live in?
- Calvin: Denial.
- Miss Wormwood: I don't suppose I can argue with that...
+Miss Wormwood: What state do you live in?
+Calvin: Denial.
+Miss Wormwood: I don't suppose I can argue with that...
%
- What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody
-ever asks to see 'em? -- Calvin
+What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if
+nobody ever asks to see 'em?
+ -- Calvin
%
- My life needs a rewind/erase button.
- -- Calvin
+My life needs a rewind/erase button.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely
-pointless. -- Calvin
+Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely
+pointless.
+ -- Calvin
%
- You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
- -- Calvin
+You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't
+help.
+ -- Calvin
%
- I imagine bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a cruel
-trick on them, but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the
-magnitude of it. -- Calvin
+I imagine bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a
+cruel trick on them, but they lack the intelligence to really
+comprehend the magnitude of it.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Susie: You'd get a good grade without doing any work.
- Calvin: So?
- Susie: It's wrong to get rewards you haven't earned.
- Calvin: I've never heard of anyone who couldn't live with that.
+Susie: You'd get a good grade without doing any work.
+Calvin: So?
+Susie: It's wrong to get rewards you haven't earned.
+Calvin: I've never heard of anyone who couldn't live with that.
%
- If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!
- -- Calvin
+If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!
+ -- Calvin
%
- "MOM, CAN I SET FIRE TO MY BED MATTRESS?" "No, Calvin." "CAN I RIDE MY
-TRICYCLE ON THE ROOF?" "No, Calvin." "Then can I have a cookie?" "No, Calvin."
-("She's on to me.")
+"MOM, CAN I SET FIRE TO MY BED MATTRESS?" "No, Calvin." "CAN I RIDE MY
+TRICYCLE ON THE ROOF?" "No, Calvin." "Then can I have a cookie?" "No,
+Calvin." ("She's on to me.")
%
- I like to say "quark"! Quark, quark, quark, quark!
- -- Calvin
+I like to say "quark"! Quark, quark, quark, quark!
+ -- Calvin
%
- I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
-slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. -- Calvin
+I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
+slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
+ -- Calvin
%
- For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get
-used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free
-country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is how I
-am - Take it or leave it! -- Calvin
+For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just
+get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS!
+It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I
+want! This is how I am - Take it or leave it!
+ -- Calvin
%
- Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to
-accept what I can't and the incapacity to tell the difference. -- Calvin
+Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability
+to accept what I can't and the incapacity to tell the difference.
+ -- Calvin
%
- As usual, goodness hardly puts up a fight.
- -- Calvin
+As usual, goodness hardly puts up a fight.
+ -- Calvin
%
- If we don't all watch the same TV, what will keep our culture homogeneous?
- -- Calvin
+If we don't all watch the same TV, what will keep our culture
+homogeneous?
+ -- Calvin
%
- My behaviour is addictive functioning in a disease process of toxic
-co-dependency. I need holistic healing and wellness before I'll accept any
-responsibility for my actions. -- Calvin
+My behaviour is addictive functioning in a disease process of toxic
+co-dependency. I need holistic healing and wellness before I'll accept
+any responsibility for my actions.
+ -- Calvin
%
- My family is dysfunctional and my parents won't empower me. Consequently
-I'm not self actualized. -- Calvin
+My family is dysfunctional and my parents won't empower me.
+Consequently I'm not self actualized.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Nothing I do is my fault.
- -- Calvin
+Nothing I do is my fault.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Why should I have to work for everything? It's like saying that I don't
-deserve it. -- Calvin
+Why should I have to work for everything? It's like saying that I don't
+deserve it.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Why do we drink cow's milk? Who was the first guy who first looked at a cow
-and said "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze
-'em!"? -- Calvin
+Why do we drink cow's milk? Who was the first guy who first looked at a
+cow and said "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things
+when I squeeze 'em!"?
+ -- Calvin
+%
+Hobbes: What if the public doesn't like your work?
+Calvin: They are not supposed to like it. This is avant-garde stuff!
+ I'm criticizing the low brows who can't appreciate great art
+ like this!
%
- Hobbes : What if the public doesn't like your work?
- Calvin : They are not supposed to like it. This is avant-garde stuff!
- I'm criticizing the low brows who can't appreciate great art
- like this!
+I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
+slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
+ -- Calvin
%
- I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
-slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. -- Calvin
+The dame was hysterical. Dames usually are.
+ -- Calvin as Tracer Bullet
+%
+Thank you. before I begin, I'd like everyone to notice that my report
+is in a professional, clear plastic binder... When a report looks this
+good, you know it'll get an A. That's a tip kids. Write it down.
+ -- Calvin
+%
+Calvin: I think we have got enough information now, don't you?
+Hobbes: All we have is one "fact" that you made up.
+Calvin: That's plenty. By the time we add an introduction, a few
+ illustrations and a conclusion, it'll look like a graduate
+ thesis.
%
- The dame was hysterical. Dames Usually are. -- Calvin as Tracer Bullet
+Wormwood: Calvin, how about you?
+Calvin: Hard to say ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused.
%
- Thank you. before I begin, I'd like everyone to notice that my report is in
-a professional, clear plastic binder...When a report looks this good, you know
-it'll get an A. That's a tip kids. Write it down. -- Calvin
+If you want to stay dad you've got to polish your image. I think the
+image we need to create for you is "repentant but learning".
+ -- Calvin
%
- Calvin : I think we have got enough information now, don't you?
- Hobbes : All we have is one "fact" that you made up.
- Calvin : That's plenty. By the time we add an introduction, a few
- illustrations and a conclusion, it'll look like a graduate thesis.
+"Dad buried in landslide! Jubilant throngs fill streets! Stunned father
+inconsolable - demands recount!"
+ -- Calvin
%
- Wormwood : Calvin, how about you?
- Calvin : Hard to say ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused.
+Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then
+suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. But it is
+too late to change anything.
+ -- Calvin
+%
+Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching
+out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy
+where we are.
+ -- Calvin
+%
+Hobbes: Well, you still have afternoons and weekends.
+Calvin: That's when I watch TV.
%
- If you want to stay dad you've got to polish your image. I think the image
-we need to create for you is "repentant but learning". -- Calvin
+Hobbes: Shouldn't we read the instructions?
+Calvin: Do I look like a sissy?
%
- "Dad buried in landslide! Jubilant throngs fill streets! Stunned father
-inconsolable - demands recount!" -- Calvin
+You know what we need, Hobbes? We need an attitude. Yeah, you can't be
+cool if you don't have an attitude.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly
-we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. But it is too late to change
-anything. -- Calvin
+Why can't I ever build character at a Miami condo or a casino somewhere?
+ -- Calvin
%
- Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for
-what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
- -- Calvin
+Sometimes one should just look at things and think about things without
+doing things.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Hobbes : Well, you still have afternoons and weekends
- Calvin : That's when I watch TV.
+What do you get when you cross a cantaloupe with lassie? A melon-collie
+baby! Get it?? HA HA HA OH OH HA HA!
+ -- Calvin
%
- Hobbes : Shouldn't we read the instructions?
- Calvin : Do I look like a sissy?
+Hobbes: How is the diorama coming along?
+Calvin: I'm almost finished.
+Hobbes: I don't see the roadrunner. Weren't you going to put one in?
+Calvin: See the cotton balls I glued down?
+Hobbes: Yeah?
+Calvin: The roadrunner just ran out of the scene leaving behind clouds
+ of dust!
%
- You know what we need, Hobbes? We need an attitude. Yeah, you can't be cool
-if you don't have an attitude. -- Calvin
+It must be awful to be a girl. I'm sure it's frustrating knowing that
+men are bigger, stronger and better at abstract thought than women.
+Really, if you are a girl, what would make you go on living?
+ -- Calvin, Dictator-For-Life, of GROSS (Get Rid Of
+ Slimy girlS)
%
- Why can't I ever build character at a Miami condo or a casino somewhere?
- -- Calvin
+There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Sometimes one should just look at things and think about things without
-doing things. -- Calvin
+Golly, I'd hate to have a kid like me!
+ -- Calvin
%
- What do you get when you cross a cantaloupe with lassie? A melon-collie
-baby! Get it?? HA HA HA OH OH HA HA! -- Calvin
+This is so cool I've to go to the bathroom.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Hobbes : How is the diorama coming along?
- Calvin : I'm almost finished.
- Hobbes : I don't see the roadrunner. Weren't you going to put one in?
- Calvin : See the cotton balls I glued down?
- Hobbes : Yeah?
- Calvin : The roadrunner just ran out of the scene leaving behind clouds
- of dust!
+I imagine girls and bugs have a dim perception that nature played a
+cruel trick on them but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend
+the magnitude of it.
+ -- Calvin
%
- It must be awful to be a girl. I'm sure it's frustrating knowing that men
-are bigger, stronger and better at abstract thought than women. Really, if you
-are a girl, what would make you go on living? --Calvin, Dictator-For-Life, of
-GROSS (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS)
+Dad are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my
+accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way
+compensate for all the opportunities you botched?
+ -- Calvin
%
- There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
- -- Calvin
+If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don't care
+nothing matters so you are never upset.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Golly, I'd hate to have a kid like me!
- -- Calvin
+Life is full of surprises but never when you need one.
+ -- Calvin
%
- This is so cool I've to go to the bathroom.
- -- Calvin
+I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and
+happiness.
+ -- Calvin
%
- I imagine girls and bugs have a dim perception that nature played a cruel
-trick on them but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the magnitude
-of it. -- Calvin
+"The dynamics of inter-being and mono logical imperatives in Dick and
+Jane: A study in psychic transrelational gender modes". Academia, here
+I come.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Dad are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my
-accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for
-all the opportunities you botched ? -- Calvin
+Miss Wormwood: Calvin where was the Byzantine empire?
+Calvin: I'll take "outer planets" for $100.
%
- If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don't care
-nothing matters so you are never upset. -- Calvin
+How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?
+ -- Calvin
%
- Life is full of surprises but never when you need one.
- -- Calvin
+I thrive on change... I thrive on making other people change.
+ -- Calvin
%
- I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and
-happiness. -- Calvin
+Be careful or be road-kill.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "The dynamics of inter-being and mono logical imperatives in Dick and Jane :
-A study in psychic transrelational gender modes". Academia, here I come.
- -- Calvin
+A good compromise leaves everyone mad.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Miss Wormwood : Calvin where was the Byzantine empire?
- Calvin : I'll take "outer planets" for $100.
+Given that sooner or later we're all just going to die, what's the
+point of learning about integers?
+ -- Calvin
%
- How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?
- -- Calvin
+Miss Wormwood, could we arrange our seats in a little circle and have a
+little discussion? Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism
+ought to be grounds for leniency in murders since it is less wasteful.
+ -- Calvin
%
- I thrive on change... I thrive on making other people change.
- -- Calvin
+The only skills I have patience to learn are those that have no real
+application in life.
+ -- Calvin
%
- Be careful or be road-kill.
- -- Calvin
+You don't get to be mom if you can't fix everything just right.
+ -- Calvin
%
- A good compromise leaves everyone mad.
- -- Calvin
+Calvin: Who can fathom the feminine mind?
+Hobbes: I like 'em anyway.
%
- Given that sooner or later we're all just going to die, what's the point of
-learning about integers? -- Calvin
+If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it.
+ -- Hobbes
%
- Miss Wormwood, could we arrange our seats in a little circle and have a
-little discussion? Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought
-to be grounds for leniency in murders since it is less wasteful.
- -- Calvin
+Summer is butter on your chin and corn mush between every tooth.
+ -- Calvin
%
- The only skills I have patience to learn are those that have no real
-application in life. -- Calvin
+If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less
+efficiently.
+ -- Calvin's dad
%
- "You don't get to be mom if you can't fix everything just right." -Calvin
+To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "Who can fathom the feminine mind?" -Calvin "I like `em anyway" -Hobbes
+Susie: When life gives you a lemon, make lemonade.
+Calvin: I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add
+ some lemons of your own!
%
- "If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it." -Hobbes
+If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they
+are?
+ -- Hobbes
%
- "Summer is butter on your chin and corn mush between every tooth." -Calvin
+But the important thing is persistence.
+ -- Calvin trying to juggle eggs
%
- "If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less
-efficiently." -Calvin's dad
+I suppose the secret to happiness is learning to appreciate the moment.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible." -Calvin
+Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely
+pointless.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "When life gives you a lemon, make lemonade." -Susie "I say, when life gives
-you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!" -Calvin
+It's hard to be mad at someone who misses you while you're asleep.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?"
--Hobbes
+Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people
+into winners and losers.
+ -- Hobbes being sarcastic
%
- "But the important thing is persistence." -Calvin trying to juggle eggs
+Someday I'll write my own philosophy book.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "I suppose the secret to happiness is learning to appreciate the moment."
--Calvin
+Some things don't need the thought people give them.
+ -- Hobbes
%
- "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely
-pointless." -Calvin
+Mom knows EVERYTHING!
+ -- Calvin
%
- "It's hard to be mad at someone who misses you while you're asleep." -Calvin
+I'm a simple man with complex tastes.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into
-winners and losers." -Hobbes being sarcastic
+Endorsing products is the American way of expressing individuality.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "Someday I'll write my own philosophy book." -Calvin
+One of the joys of being a kid is that experiences are new and
+therefore more intense.
+ -- Calvin sniffing mustard
%
- "Some things don't need the thought people give them." -Hobbes
+It's great to have a friend who appreciates an earnest discussion of
+ideas.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "Mom knows EVERYTHING" -Calvin
+That's the problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists
+trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "I'm a simple man with complex tastes." -Calvin
+All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at
+once.
+ -- Hobbes
%
- "Endorsing products is the American way of expressing individuality."
--Calvin
+I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we
+couldn't react to a lot of life.
+ -- Hobbes
%
- "One of the joys of being a kid is that experiences are new and therefore
-more intense." -Calvin sniffing mustard
+I don't understand this! Not a single part of my horoscope came true!
+... The paper should print Mom's daily predictions. Those sure come
+true.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "It's great to have a friend who appreciates an earnest discussion of
-ideas." -Calvin
+I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that
+the price is always so low.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "That's the problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying
-to describe things of unimaginable wonder." -Calvin
+I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once."
--Hobbes
+It takes an uncommon mind to think of these things.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't
-react to a lot of life." -Hobbes
+That's the problem with nature, something's always stinging you or
+oozing mucous all over you. Let's go and watch TV.
+ -- Calvin
%
- "I don't understand this! Not a single part of my horoscope came true! ...
-The paper should print Mom's daily predictions. Those sure come true."
--Calvin
+As a math atheist, I think I should be excused from this.
+ -- Calvin, to Hobbes
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- "I don't know which is worse, ...that everyone has his price, or that the
-price is always so low." -Calvin
+This game lends itself to certain abuses.
+ -- Calvin
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- "I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside."
- --- Calvin
+I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept.
+ -- Calvin
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- It takes an uncommon mind to think of these things.
- --- Calvin
+I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it.
+ -- Calvin
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- "That's the problem with nature, something's always stinging you
- or oozing mucous all over you. Let's go and watch TV."
- --- Calvin
+A voice crackles in Calvin's radio:
+ "Enemy fighters at two o'clock!"
+ "Roger. What should I do until then?"
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- As a math atheist, I think I should be excused from this.
- --- Calvin, to Hobbes
+I'm looking for something that can deliver a 50-pound payload of snow
+on a small feminine target. Can you suggest something? Hello...?
+ -- Calvin
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- This game lends itself to certain abuses.
- --- Calvin
+My ethicator machine must've had a built-in moral compromise spectral
+release phantasmatron! I'm a genius!
+ -- Calvin
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- I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept.
- --- Calvin
+That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of
+empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
+ -- Calvin
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- I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it.
- --- Calvin
+Until you stalk and overrun, you can't devour anyone.
+ -- Hobbes
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- A voice crackles in Calvin's radio:
- "Enemy fighters at two o'clock!"
- "Roger. What should I do until then?"
+The inside of my head was exploding with fireworks. Fortunately, my
+last thought turned out the lights when it left.
+ -- Calvin
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- I'm looking for something that can deliver a 50-pound payload of snow
- on a small feminine target. Can you suggest something? Hello...?
- --- Calvin
+Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I
+believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.
+ -- Calvin
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- "My ethicator machine must've had a built-in moral compromise
- spectral release phantasmatron! I'm a genius!" --- Calvin
+Verbing weirds language.
+ -- Calvin
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- "That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of
- empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
- --- Calvin
-%
- "Until you stalk and overrun, you can't devour anyone."
- --- Hobbes
-%
- "The inside of my head was exploding with fireworks. Fortunately,
- my last thought turned out the lights when it left."
- --- Calvin
-%
- "Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I
- believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it."
- --- Calvin
-%
- Verbing weirds language.
- --- Calvin.
-%
- "The intrepid Spaceman Spiff is stranded on a distant planet!
- ..our hero ruefully acknowledges that this happens fairly
- frequently.." --- Calvin and Hobbes
+The intrepid Spaceman Spiff is stranded on a distant planet! ...our
+hero ruefully acknowledges that this happens fairly frequently...
+ -- Calvin as Spaceman Spiff