quote:A D.C. Air National Guard fighter jet based at Andrews Air Force Base accidentally fired about two dozen rounds of ammunition during a nighttime training mission, piercing the roof of a school in southern New Jersey, authorities said yesterday. No one was injured in the incident, which is under military investigation.
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Edit: To Twinky: I never understood that. He's depicting a kid fantasy, one probably fantasized in some fashion or another by most kids who ever went to school, and it's one no kid has a hope of carrying out.
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hi ho hi ho, it's off to school we go with razor blades, and hand gernades, hi ho hi ho hi ho.
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we are marching to the glory of the burning of the school we have tortured all the teachers and we've hung the principal upon the monkeybars glory glory hallelujah teacher hit me with a ruler stood behind the door with a loaded 44 and she aint my teacher anymore
Those were before kids actually did that sort of thing. But that is what this all reminded me of.
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quote:Edit: To Twinky: I never understood that. He's depicting a kid fantasy, one probably fantasized in some fashion or another by most kids who ever went to school, and it's one no kid has a hope of carrying out.
You're preaching to the choir on that score, Dagonee. As I believe he said, obviously some of his readers were never kids themselves. Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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quote:Reports also confirm that after `sploding the school, the fighter pilot engaged in a dogfight with t-rexes...in F-14s!!!!!!
That one was one of my all time favorites, even moreso than blasting the school. Watterson gets kids, and how combinations that are clearly ridiculous by adult standards hold much joy for them.
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Does Watterson do any sort of work since he ended the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip? Maybe writing books or something? or is he kickin back and livin it easy?
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I loved the one with the red sports car driving along the edge of the grand canyon (couch) at 100 mph. The steering locks and the brakes fail, the car goes over the edge, and just as the hapless driver is trying to bail out the car explodes.
Edit: I'm not sure what he's doing now that he's retired. *Googles*
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With all the complaining he did about the constraints of newspaper comics, including time, space, and color, I'd think he'd love doing book-only comics.
Dagonee P.S., The sportscar/plane/train/gas explosion/faultline one is also a good disaster one.
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I've actually been to Chagrin Falls. It's a beautiful little town. A while ago, a bunch of us were talking in the lab at school and I mentioned that I had been there. My professor tells me that that's where he grew up and that he went to school with Bill Watterson. He told me that the idea for Hobbes being a tiger was because their mascot was the tiger and that Watterson did strips for the school newspaper which of course grew into Calvin and Hobbes.
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A Calvin and Hobbes thread! `Bout frelling time, I say.
Among my favorites (which are so numerous that the word 'favorite' is nearly meaningless) are the 'Tracer Bullit' strips. They didn't last long, I heard because they included violence, guns, and booze.
hehe, Tracer always gets his man, though. Mr. Billion never stood a chance.
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