While on a jaunt through Wikipedia the other day I decided to check out their article on Calvin and Hobbes. It turned out to be quite thorough, a tribute to the material. One interesting factoid struck me: The comic debuted exactly 9 years after I did.
I remember my 9th birthday quite vividly: I got a Lego space set--a ship with a detachable back end and a cool little robot--and a red LED alarm clock that would serve me faithfully for about 19 more years. (I stopped using the alarm part itself after a few years, though, because it made an annoying sound and I also had a tendency to turn it off without really waking up.) [You know, on second thought I'm wrong. That was my 8th. Meh. My 9th birthday was even better. I had a bunch of guys over from school and we had a movie night.] For many of my future birthdays, I received individual Calvin and Hobbes books, and last year I got the complete collection. Heck, when I got a kitten 3 years ago, I even named him Hobbes.
Anyway, I think it's pretty cool that I happen to share a birthday with the greatest comic strip of all time. (Sorry, Gary, Darby, Chuck, Jim.) Would that I had even half of Calvin's imagination. Today the strip turns 21, a milestone age, while I hit another milestone myself--albeit a somewhat depressing one. And Calvin? He's still six.
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 Nov 17 2006, 7:59 pm (Edited on Nov 17 2006, 8:05 pm)
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Nov 17 2006, 8:22 pm
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Calvin and Hobbes is a good comic strip, but my personal favorite is Dilbert.
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Happy Birthday :]
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Happy Birthday. :]
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I can't place any exact reason, but I really like the way you wrote this post. Maybe it's the ending, more than anything else:
Today the strip turns 21, a milestone age, while I hit another milestone myself--albeit a somewhat depressing one. And Calvin? He's still six. Anyway, happy birthday! =) | |
Pfft. That's nothing. My birthday is shared with groundhogs that control the weather!
Happy birthgiving! For your gift, I will refuse to move your birthday closer to Xmas and avoid pointing out that such a gift does not matter when you hit our age anyway. ;) | |
I always loved reading Calvin and Hobbes in the sunday paper. I was so sad when Watterson retired.
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My birthday is associated with Independence Day in America, and fireworks!
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God. Calvin is one lucky little kid to stay six his whole life...
Anywho. I love Calvin and Hobbes, and still read them frequently. I too have the complete set, and have gone through each many times. It's the only reading I allow myself to do, aside from schoolwork reading. Happy Birthday to both. | |
My cat is named Hobbes because he's so much like the comic-strip character.
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