Today's Calvin and Hobbes really appeals. I don't think I've seen this one before.

[conuly]

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The job that's a riot

The World’s Greatest Gallery of Seductive Radishes

The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics

The Birdsong That Took Over North America

The Jailhouse That Got Accidentally Sold

Meet the College Student With 6,000 Takeout Menus

Americans Want More, Not Less, Immigration for First Time

The Enduring Mystery of the Ghent Altarpiece, the World's Most-Stolen Painting

‘It Will Consume Your Life’: 4 Families Take On Rare Diseases

Civil rights groups denounce Facebook over hate speech

Post Office Delivery Trucks Keep Catching on Fire

The Girls Who Turned Green

The hysteria accusation

The retired inventor of N95 masks is back at work, mostly for free, to fight covid-19

Virus Revives Italy’s Age-Old Shadow Safety Net: The Pawnshop

WHO acknowledges 'evidence emerging' of airborne spread of COVID-19

U.S. has seen more than 3 million coronavirus cases

Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again

Scientists warn of potential wave of COVID-linked brain damage

Surviving the virus may come down to which hospital admits you

This Is Not a Normal Mental-Health Disaster

Exhausted cities face another challenge: a surge in violence

In Japan, the Message of Anti-Racism Protests Fails to Hit Home

What the police really believe

Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.

Comments

[calimac]

The college student with 8,000 menus is described as a "rising sophomore." What does "rising" mean in this context? I never heard the term until recent years, and now it's attached to class ranks all the time. An online dictionary was no help.

[rebeccmeister]

"Rising" means that they will be a sophomore in the fall. Since it's the summer, we are in-between college school years, so they aren't exactly freshmen anymore, and aren't quite sophomores yet.

[rebeccmeister]

That C&H is so good. I love Calvin and Hobbes.

[thewayne]

Cute.

[greghousesgf]

I thought I'd seen all the Calvin and Hobbes strips but that one's new to me!
I wish they'd had more images of that guy's takeout menu collection. Also, they spelled minuscule wrong.

[maju]

Miniscule is not wrong, it's just a variant (used more in Australia).

[greghousesgf]

really? damn, my bad.

[maju]

I'm Australian, so I've seen it both ways.

[nodrog]

I am so glad to see that “©1990.”  Granted, if that were new I would be amazed at how well his skill has held up over thirty years, but it would be sad. 

In 1981 David Boswell created comic anti-hero “Reid Fleming, the World's Toughest Milkman” - and while it was funny then, it was also his only commercial success and he is STILL riding that worn-out nag almost forty years later.  Charles Schulz was still drawing palsied echoes of his one and only success to the day he died.  “Zippy the Pinhead” flourished in the early 1980s but Bill Griffin is STILL cranking the comic out like a post-mortem reflex - it's all he has.

Bill Watterson quit while he was ahead.  I'm glad to see that he has kept to that.

[nodrog]

He’s still unsure what he’ll do with all his menus. He keeps collecting, he says, as “a record of my travels and a record of my growth.” He thinks that they might one day have value as antiques, seeing as “right now, nobody is really collecting takeout menus.”

He ought to donate them to the Smithsonian.  People do that all the time; it's called "The Nation's Attic" for good reason.  They literally do not know what all they have.  (The ending scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where just one more anonymous crate joins the hangar-sized collection of same, really wasn't wrong…)