You do?

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

You guys are fighting about a poorly drawn comic about a retarded child who talks to a stuffed tiger. Jeez.

Who's fighting? I'm not.

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Think classy, you'll be classy.

I thought we were having a reasonable, adult discussion.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

People, who think people who like Calvin and Hobbes are stupid, are usually pudding-headed walking turds who use mechanical whisks on their testicles.

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I happen to have enjoyed C&H very much, back in the day. And the mechanical whisks has nothing on manual for sheer pleasure.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

After reading this thread I crawled under my bed and died. The End :(

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Get Your War On

I like waffles with bacon and eggs. Sometimes when I eat waffles I warm up the syrup for a little while in the microwave. Sometimes I don't. It just depends if I'm in a hurry or not. If I'm in a real hurry I'll just have a bowl of cerial and some coffee. The one thing I don't like about coffee is the feeling I get when it wears off. I get all sluggish and jumpy. I always end up buying another cup to get rid of the sluggishness (is sluggishness even a real word?). The problem with this is the cost of coffee. Before Starbucks came along you could buy a cup of coffee for .99 cents at 711. Now everyone wants to charge 5 bucks. Might as well just buy a Redbull instead (or my own fucking coffee company). Man I hate Redbull commercials. Their so lame. Looks like a retarded orangutang came up with that crap. Did I spell orangutang right? Man my spelling is so bad now. I use to be able to spell pretty good till I discovered marijuana at the age of 16. I continued to discover marijuana till about 23. Than I discovered masturbation. I mean I always masturbated, but at 23 I realy started to masturbate. Lotion, shampoo, toothpaste, if you could find it in the bathroom I've used it to masturbate. I mean sometimes you just reach for the closest thing around. The only thing about toothpaste is it kinda burns. But it leaves your cack feeling brisk. Brisk is good. Brisk makes you feel fresh and clean. Anyways waffles are good.

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Get Your War On

I thought so too. You still suck though, biped.

:)

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Think classy, you'll be classy.

Yes, I know you do.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

As a child I would read calvin and hobbes. It was a great escape from the crap I dealt with in school and at home. Anyone who denounces Calvin and Hobbes pisses on my childhood.

Why, biped? Why did you take a big piss on my childhood?

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I will rate you hard, and unendingly.

I love Calvin and Hobbes as a kid.

Then I saw some Calvin and Hobbes books on sale in the bargin bin at Barnes and Noble last year. I bought a few, and went back reading strips I hadn't read in over ten years.

Not only did I still enjoy them, but I found new meanings in many of the strips.

The newspaper has crap for comics, and usually does. So, it may not impress some when I say that Calvin and Hobbes is arguably the most brilliant comic to ever grace the funnypages (or not so funnypages as it seems).

I was shocked to see Biped dump a steaming load on both C&H and Rent.

Calvin and Hobbes is the clear inspiration for Sinfest, and the overlooked Commander Keen games.

Calvin and Hobbes brought philosophy into everyday situations. It had multiple layers to its strips. The artwork, especially the colored strips, was great.

I think you guys are just disdainful of newspaper comics in general and obviously didn't read enough C&H (or were dense enough not to understand the content) and missed out on a GREAT, GREAT series.

Now, if you want to talk overrated, poorly drawn crap, I'll hand you Garfield and Peanuts.

"You're a running joke that never was funny to begin with, Charlie Brown."

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"Nihilism makes me smile."

Biped is a rebel and he'll never, ever be any good.
He's all mixed up, and doesn't know right from wrong.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

Rent sucks a fuckload of ass. In college, the bisexual kid in the dorm next door would blast the "soundtrack" to that horrendous play and sing along with it at the top of his lungs.

It's the most fatuous, unrealistic slice of "dramatic" urban life I've ever seen. And, it's a shitty musical. It's everything that theater needs to avoid, which are pretentiousness, 'edgy' material, making the 'edgy' material a wussy musical (there are good ones, this is a shitty one), and just attempting to appeal to a 'hipper' audience. I like my theater dramatic but not sappy and saccharine and plagued with overbearing, preachy "life lessons".

Fuck Rent. Calvin and Hobbes I will always love, seeing as how it was the only comic strip in the newspaper ever worth reading. But Rent can kiss biped's swollen testicles.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

Sorry, I was aiming at someone else's childhood and missed.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

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Rent sucks a fuckload of ass. In college, the bisexual kid in the dorm next door would blast the "soundtrack" to that horrendous play and sing along with it at the top of his lungs.

It's the most fatuous, unrealistic slice of "dramatic" urban life I've ever seen. And, it's a shitty musical. It's everything that theater needs to avoid, which are pretentiousness, 'edgy' material, making the 'edgy' material a wussy musical (there are good ones, this is a shitty one), and just attempting to appeal to a 'hipper' audience. I like my theater dramatic but not sappy and saccharine and plagued with overbearing, preachy "life lessons".

Fuck Rent. Calvin and Hobbes I will always love, seeing as how it was the only comic strip in the newspaper ever worth reading. But Rent can kiss biped's swollen testicles.

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Anyone who goes to see a musical looking for urban realism is going to be disappointed. That doesn't change the fact that the music is pretty good, and Rent is one of the few things in this world keeping AIDS awareness alive in America.

I've seen Rent twice this year, as well as La Boheme. Rent is much better than the Opera that inspired it. And while I can empathize with how annoying it is to listen to people belt out the soundtrack to a musical all the time, that doesn't make the musical bad. I heard the soundtrack a million times before I saw Rent, and wasn't impressed.

Then I saw the show and loved it. A soundtrack lacks the same experience as being a live theatre environment.

And you accuse the musical of trying to be "edgy" and "popular". I think you forget the Larson wrote a no-budget musical for off-broadway about real life issues that he was intimately familiar with. Rent is not my favorite musical in the world. But I'll see it every time it comes to the Midwest.

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"Nihilism makes me smile."

RENT is keeping AIDS awareness alive? What kind of shit are you talking? A fucking play that costs upwards of 50 bucks a ticket is keeping AIDS awareness alive in who? The theatrically inclined?

Shuuuuut the fuck up. Rent has shitty music. I've heard it. All of it. MINUS the annoying dorm neighbor singing it. It's still pretty crappy.

Real-life issues? I still fail to see how turning real-life issues into a musical theater show can really do anything. I refuse to see Rent. Almost all of my family and a few of my friends have seen it. Not one of them walked out of there saying, "Man, AIDS is still such a big issue."

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

I sat beside Ernie Hudson when I saw Rent, and I was like, "Ernie, I've seen musical shit that will turn you white!"

Ok, that didn't neccesarily happen. We did stand together. My friend was the house manager on Broadway and said that I could stand in the back and not pay and Ernie was standing in the back too but then they found him a seat. Being a star has it privileges, I guess.

I wasn't crazy about it (Rent), although I know several people who always sing the music (my wife included). I think the music and lyrics were cheeky, but then again, I think the majority of musicals are cheesey.

I think the AIDs bit is an important point as one of the main characters has AIDs and it is rather striking as there really aren't that many plays, especially fluffy musicals that deal with it.

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Peeing sitting down is the gift you give yourself.

I'm pretty sure most of the people who go to fluffy musicals are well-aware of AIDS in the first place.

lewl

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

I went to see Les Miserable, and when I left I had syphilis.

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Poop.

I've never been to a Broadway play, so I'm not very aware of issues and stuff.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

I masturbated under a freeway once and woke up the next morning with gingivitis.

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Get Your War On

that guy?

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

Asking if you "like" C&H is about as relevant as asking if you "like" the Beatles. That's because Bill Watterson had the good sense to cease its production when enough was enough. That was over 8 years ago, folks. The interesting questions C&H leaves us with now have to do with its well-earned place in comics history: its prior influences, its innovations, and its impact on creators who followed. It's also a body of literature that might be plumbed for meanings and motifs, as some of you have noted.

Like/dislike is such a dumb question.

I've seen and heard bits of Rent through various channels of its publicity apparatus and was not thereby encouraged to go see an actual performance of it. From what I could tell, I didn't like it.

I did see La Boheme live and in person. It blasted me to pieces, emotionally. Granted, I was going through a rough time, but I think there's a reason for its monumental stature among tear-jerkers.

Cats was a hideous, unending nightmare and Andrew Lloyd Weber must be made to suffer for it.

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What others say about boorite!

I thought it blasted you to pieces because you're a mincing little twink.

No, but I have not seen or heard anywhere near enough of La Boheme to be able to judge it, but I know quite a bit about Rent.

The only real theatrical musical I ever enjoyed was Sweeney Todd.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

The demon barber of Fleet...street?

If the opportunity ever presents itself, go see Assassins. It's written by the same guy who did Sweeney Todd (Stephen Sondheim) and is a dark musical tale about the people who have tried to kill presidents. I played Sam Byck in college. He highjacked an airplane to run it into Richard Nixon.

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Peeing sitting down is the gift you give yourself.