The Saddest Calvin and Hobbes Sketch Ever

POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Saturday, March 3, 2007 14:12
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PENGUIN

Friday, February 23, 2007 12:15 AM

Bloom County is da bomb!

King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

DARKJESTER

Friday, February 23, 2007 12:21 AM

I don't care if I am in my 40's, I want a transmogrifier gorramit!

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

http://www.fireflytalk.com - Big Damn Podcast

SIGNYM

Friday, February 23, 2007 12:43 AM

http://app1.unmc.edu/PublicAffairs/TodaySite/sitefiles/today_full.cfm?
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You have GOT to see this!

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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, February 23, 2007 1:22 AM

Wow! I can't believe the overwhelming positive response to altering our children's behavior and crippling our children's creative development and personality to ensure that they stay in the lines.

This infuriates me to no end and I'm starting to feel there is no point debating it anymore because there is simply no talking sense into anybody who is pro-mind altering drugs. You all want to be slaves to the pharmacuitical companies, who am I to stop you? You want to put your kids on pills before they're old enough to make decisions about smoking or drinking or voting or serving in the millitary be my guest. You want to be hypocrites and tell them to say no to drugs with one face after you've been popping pills in their mouths with your other face for years to make them managable so you can get back to your own depression and pop your own pills, more power to you.

This isn't the only way out. This is the easy way out. I hope people deep down realize this and when their kids grow up and there left wondering if they've done a disservice to their children and always wonder just how far they could have gone had they not been put on the pill.

If your children are on the pill, they are doomed to be EXACTLY like everyone else in the herd...... merely docile puppets and yes-men.

G23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate indeed.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

PENGUIN

Friday, February 23, 2007 1:31 AM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
http://app1.unmc.edu/PublicAffairs/TodaySite/sitefiles/today_full.cfm?
match=3248

You have GOT to see this!

Calvin & Hobbes Snow art....

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~xiet/calvin_and_hobbes_snow_art_gallery/index.h
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King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa

STORYMARK

Friday, February 23, 2007 1:34 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by fredgiblet:
Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

Where/who is this from?

Mark Twain.

Thought it was kinda Firefly-ish.
(Though I didn't realized it was a shortened version, got it from a list of quotes.)

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

STORYMARK

Friday, February 23, 2007 1:38 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

If your children are on the pill, they are doomed to be EXACTLY like everyone else in the herd...... merely docile puppets and yes-men.

Dude, if you knew my brother (who, as I said, did take Ritalin for years) you'd know how hard I just laughed at that statement.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

SIGNYM

Friday, February 23, 2007 1:39 AM

6String- huh???

Hmmm... let's see. Which would I rather do? Watch my kid have seizure after seizure until she becomes a mute, trembling shell who gets lost in her own house, seeing every spark of intelligence and personality disappear into a morass of confusion and disorientation... or give her DRUGS?

I dunno.... tough choice.

BTW- Altho CALVIN is an imaginative and some would say hyperactive character, let's not confuse the character- who I love - with the creator or with real children. Bill Watterson is a methodical person who can sit for hours thinking about the same thing... here he is on the creative process:

http://cabcalvinandhobbes.tripod.com/ch_process.htm

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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.

FREDGIBLET

Friday, February 23, 2007 1:47 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
here is simply no talking sense into anybody who is pro-mind altering drugs

There is also no talking sense into someone so wrapped up in your own opinion that you can't understand that these drugs help people. The amazing thing is that there are people on this board AND IN THE POSTS YOU HAVE MADE that have stated unequivocally that the drugs have helped make them functional in society, yet you insist that giving these kids a chance to succeed in life is a bad thing.

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you want to be hypocrites and tell them to say no to drugs with one face after you've been popping pills in their mouths with your other face for years to make them managable

Ritalin is no where near as bad as coke, heroin or meth. And as for weed, shrooms, LSD and the like, as long as my kids don't go overboard I see no reason to not let them use them, though I would never OFFICIALLY support the use of illegal drugs.

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This isn't the only way out. This is the easy way out

Very true, but the other ways can take months if not years and will likely be no where near as effective. In the meantime the kid is still falling behind and causing problems and setting themselves up for a life of failure and hardship. I would be interested to know if you have actually had a close friend or family member who has\had ADD, my guess is that you haven't.

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If your children are on the pill, they are doomed to be EXACTLY like everyone else in the herd...... merely docile puppets and yes-men.

Bullshit.

THATWEIRDGIRL

Friday, February 23, 2007 1:59 AM

Listen Jack, you have your opinion, we have ours. You keep saying your done debating this and that we're insane for putting children on medication, but you just keep on talking.

Stop it.

I'm sick of it. You don't want kids over medicated, fine. I'm with you, but you do not deny someone the care they need to function. You would have preferred me be a high school flunky? Cause I could have done that. I went to night school so I could get the credits I needed to graduate with my class. How's that sit for you? How about cycling in and out of college for eight years...As when I had meds and Fs when I didn't. Or shall we check my work history? Just let it go. Some of us need our brains chemically balanced. Okay?

btw, I'm so far outside the box you could never drug me enough to put me even near it. You're never gonna find anyone like me.

I'm done. Bye.

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown

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