Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

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25 January 1988

Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

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threelonmusketeers
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Where does the comic mention hunting skills?
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  “Nimrod” is the name of a Biblical king who was famed as a great hunter. It’s also what Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny sarcastically called Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam to mock them for being incompetent hunters.
  
  See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod#In_popular_culture
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    Thanks! TIL “Nimrod”.

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About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.

Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as “the last great newspaper comic”,[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes

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