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Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Calvin and Hobbes!
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How did one look up bad words before the internet? Is "fuck" in the dictionary or like what?? Would librarians share such knowledge??
Genuine question who grew up with Google
Unabridged dictionary
I would ask my mum what a word meant and she'd ask me the context I'd read/heard it in, and then ask me what I thought it meant. She taught me to break the word up into syllables to see if there were other words I did know the definition of that shared those syllables and whether I could work it out from there.
If I couldn't then I had to look it up in the dictionary - we had a big, heavy Collins one from memory. Big blue hardback.
I remember being annoyed and just whining that she should just tell me the definition. But it was clearly better for me to learn that way.
Edit: I just re read and you said bad words. Mum would usually give me a clipped, child friendly definition and advice not to repeat it in polite company.
My last trip to Brazil was like that. 4 weeks in the summer. It just rained, day and night. On the last day, it stopped raining, the sun shined bright and it was just wonderful.
Fuck.
What year would have been camping without a good weather forecast? Or then without cell data for weather forecasts? Wild.
Cell data for weather forecasts... Calvin and Hobbes was published in the mid 80s to mid 90s.
‘87! Cellphones with internet weren’t common until the early 00s, and boomers adopted them LATE! Your best bet until ~2004 was a Sidekick…
Earlier in the story arc they got to their campsite by canoe. In the 80s it's totally reasonable that they didn't know when the rain was going to break.
It’s not like you could go online. TV and newspapers had your local, but unless there was someone you could call, usually you had to chance it. Best you usually could do was pickup a newspaper from the store when you got there.
We did have the Old Farmer's Almanac, but it doesn't really narrow it down much.
Calvin is gonna learn some very useful vocabulary.