Hm. Random question.

[conuly]

Do you think Calvin and Susie ever realized that they have no friends aside from each other? And, of course, the stuffed animals.

Comments

[rachelkachel]

Susie realized it, I think. There's at least one strip I remember where she's sitting by herself and being depressed.

Calvin could care less, because he's got Hobbes.

[conuly]

How much less could he care, exactly?

[rachelkachel]

Sigh.

Whenever you point it out, I realize how much I do hate that phrase, yet I still use it.

[leora.livejournal.com]

"Could care less" is just as valid as "couldn't care less". The difference is the former is sarcastic and the latter is simply literal.

[baileyflower.livejournal.com]

Less than Susie. Is using the previous example as the implicit in a comparative statement immediately following that example wrong? What makes it wrong and why didn't anyone ever tell me.

[conuly]

"I could care less" or "he could care less" doesn't mean "less than another person", it's an illogical variant of the phrase "he couldn't care less (than he does)".

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I don't think Calvin needed anyone but Hobbes and his imagination. I feel his fantasy world had the real world beat by a mile. I always felt a little sorry for Susie though.

[idonotlikepeas]

I seem to recall that Susie did actually realize that and spent a few strips thinking about it. It's been a while, though, so I could be mistaken. (Calvin? Realize things?)

[pne.livejournal.com]

I never really thought about it.

I guess I always figured that Suzie did have other friends; we merely never saw her with any because they would have been minor characters.

[rachelkachel]

Susie realized it, I think. There's at least one strip I remember where she's sitting by herself and being depressed.

Calvin could care less, because he's got Hobbes.

[conuly]

How much less could he care, exactly?

[rachelkachel]

Sigh.

Whenever you point it out, I realize how much I do hate that phrase, yet I still use it.

[leora.livejournal.com]

"Could care less" is just as valid as "couldn't care less". The difference is the former is sarcastic and the latter is simply literal.

[baileyflower.livejournal.com]

Less than Susie. Is using the previous example as the implicit in a comparative statement immediately following that example wrong? What makes it wrong and why didn't anyone ever tell me.

[conuly]

"I could care less" or "he could care less" doesn't mean "less than another person", it's an illogical variant of the phrase "he couldn't care less (than he does)".

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I don't think Calvin needed anyone but Hobbes and his imagination. I feel his fantasy world had the real world beat by a mile. I always felt a little sorry for Susie though.

[idonotlikepeas]

I seem to recall that Susie did actually realize that and spent a few strips thinking about it. It's been a while, though, so I could be mistaken. (Calvin? Realize things?)

[pne.livejournal.com]

I never really thought about it.

I guess I always figured that Suzie did have other friends; we merely never saw her with any because they would have been minor characters.