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Dan A. wrote: ...due to lack of decent gloves!

You, a Michigander, and no decent gloves? You have succeeded in blowing my mind.

benhall.1 wrote:...I've always assumed that a big influence for Calvin and Hobbes must have been archy and mehitabel.

Your edge is keen, Ben.

Nanohedron wrote:

benhall.1 wrote:...I've always assumed that a big influence for Calvin and Hobbes must have been archy and mehitabel.

Your edge is keen, Ben.

Hmmm ... maybe not. I've just seen - had forgotten for the moment, though I knew once - that George Merriman, of course, also created Krazy Kat. So at least I wasn't so far out in my assumption; I just can't believe I had forgotten that he was responsible for the drawings for both archy and mehitabel and Krazy Kat.

... oh, and someone is going to tell me that archy and mehitabel was not a strip. They always do ...

benhall.1 wrote:... oh, and someone is going to tell me that archy and mehitabel was not a strip. They always do ...

Pedants.

Nanohedron wrote:

benhall.1 wrote:... oh, and someone is going to tell me that archy and mehitabel was not a strip. They always do ...

Pedants.

Ah! Pedants! That great comic strip by Schmutz!

benhall.1 wrote:

Nanohedron wrote:

benhall.1 wrote:... oh, and someone is going to tell me that archy and mehitabel was not a strip. They always do ...

Pedants.

Ah! Pedants! That great comic strip by Schmutz!

A classic for the ages. One of my favorite characters was that piano-playing Schrödinger.

benhall.1 wrote:

Nanohedron wrote:Pedants.

Ah! Pedants! That great comic strip by Schmutz!

Nanohedron wrote:A classic for the ages. One of my favorite characters was that piano-playing Schrödinger.

Ah yes! Didn't he have a dead cat in his piano? I suppose we'll never know ...

Nanohedron wrote:

Dan A. wrote: ...due to lack of decent gloves!

You, a Michigander, and no decent gloves? You have succeeded in blowing my mind.

I didn't really feel like scooping and reshaping snow while wearing my U.S. Navy-issued leather gloves...they weren't exactly meant for that activity, methinks. And I am not by any stretch of the imagination a native Michigander.

Dan A. wrote:And I am not by any stretch of the imagination a native Michigander.

No excuses. As a Minnesotan, may I remind you of a corollary to the famous Norwegian maxim: There is no bad snowman-building weather, only bad snowman-building clothing.

We just had over a foot of snowfall yesterday, the first substantial amount we've had in what seems like a very, very long time. But I won't be building any snowmen, so I'm set.

A strip? It's a movie, a musical. Probably neither for Calvin and Hobbes