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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #105 on: February 04, 2011, 10:02:32 PM »
I know what you're talking about, Paul!
Rananculus and Ranunculus rule, but Calvin and Hobbes definitely rule too!!
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #106 on: February 04, 2011, 10:08:54 PM »
Whew!  Thank goodness I wasn't imagining it.  ;D
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #107 on: February 04, 2011, 10:29:41 PM »


Don't blame me ... blame Mr. Tyerman and dear Chloe!
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #108 on: February 04, 2011, 10:32:38 PM »
The voice is all wrong.  It isn't how he sounds in my head at all.  He shouldn't sounds like an adult.

I didn't realise that people are now producing animated Calvin and Hobbes?  Not quite the same as the comic strip.
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #109 on: February 05, 2011, 09:47:56 AM »
Calvin and Hobbes

Don't they make tee shirts ???
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #110 on: February 05, 2011, 10:41:02 AM »
Calvin and Hobbes

Don't they make tee shirts ???

I thought that was Tetley's?   ::)
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #111 on: February 05, 2011, 11:12:47 AM »
David,

Er.... Abercrombie and Fitch?

Although I wouldn't mind a Calvin and Hobbes T-Shirt.  Calvin's esoteric view of the world is rather cool...... hmmmm.... perhaps that should be egocentric. :-\  He is a kid after all, and they can say all the coolest things without getting into trouble as much. ;D

I used to own a T-shirt with the slogan "How much can a Koala bear" under a picture of a couple of Koalas stoned (complete with vacant expressions and bloodshot eyes, which I guess is how a lot of people think of Koalas anyway isn't it?  :D) from smoking rolled up gum leaves.  The fascinating thing was that my mother bought it for me.  I often wondered whether she knew what she was buying, because it was so unlike my straight-laced tee-totaller mother.  ;)

Ah, but I digress.  Sorry. ::)  Well this is the I'm so happy topic, so I think we can wax lyrically on unrelated topics in here can't we?   :P
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #112 on: February 05, 2011, 01:31:11 PM »
Although I wouldn't mind a Calvin and Hobbes T-Shirt.  Calvin's esoteric view of the world is rather cool...... hmmmm.... perhaps that should be egocentric. :-\  He is a kid after all, and they can say all the coolest things without getting into trouble as much. ;D
Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, is known for refusing to merchandise the comic strip, so only homemade or pirated t-shirts, I'm afraid, Paul. This lack of merchandising is presumably one of the reasons why they are less well-known than some other comic strip figures.
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #113 on: February 05, 2011, 04:29:16 PM »
David,

Er.... Abercrombie and Fitch?


Ah! yes, those are the fellas, I was close though ;)  The other lot I was thinking of are the ones who have shops in designer outlets that I've never seen anyone buy anything from. They sell expensive perfume and things like that.
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #114 on: February 05, 2011, 04:30:26 PM »
Calvin and Hobbes

Don't they make tee shirts ???

I thought that was Tetley's?   ::)

Nah! they make bitter, or used to in the good old days. ;D
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #115 on: February 05, 2011, 11:29:47 PM »
2011 is over a month old - its time we got happy :)

Start with this link if you need something to smile at.

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2011/01/22/scripts/jokes.shtml

I tried these out on Jacinta but we had to stop 'cos her stitches hurt ....

A man thanked God for giving him a wife and he asked God, "Why did you make her so beautiful?"
The Lord said, "So you could love her, my son."
The man said, "But why did you make her so stupid?"
"So she could love you, my son."

Marriage is like a deck of cards.
You start out with two hearts and a diamond; and you end up wishing you had a club & spade!

Do you really believe your husband when he tells you he goes fishing every weekend? Maybe he is having an affair.
I know he's fishing because he never comes back with any fish...

Marriage and death are two different things. They are very different.
When you're dead, you don't wish that you were married.


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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #116 on: February 06, 2011, 08:00:46 AM »
Tony,

Or you could mosey on over to the 2011 topic that we've been using for the last month, that you obviously haven't had the benefit or viewing!!  ;D ;D

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6453.0

And my wife and I both loved those jokes.  Very, very good!!  ;D
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #117 on: February 06, 2011, 08:05:31 AM »
David,

Er.... Abercrombie and Fitch?


Ah! yes, those are the fellas, I was close though ;)  The other lot I was thinking of are the ones who have shops in designer outlets that I've never seen anyone buy anything from. They sell expensive perfume and things like that.

David,

Close, but no cigar (or in this case... no designer T-shirt!!  :P)
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #118 on: February 06, 2011, 09:33:11 PM »
I remember Kit Grey-Wilson being really proud of his daughter calling snowdrops Galanthus when she was about two....

I was very impressed that Roger could tell an erythronium from an iris. And he was only 60! 8)
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Re: YES!!! The "I'm So Happy!" thread - 2011
« Reply #119 on: February 06, 2011, 10:57:24 PM »
Got this today, I liked the sentiments and hope you like it too - seemed apt for a Sunday ;D

Let us give thanks
Original by Max Coots, changed a bit by Deni Bown

Minister:  Let us give thanks for the bounty of people.  For children who are our second planting, and though they grow like weeds and the wind soon blows them away, may they forgive us our cultivation and fondly remember their roots. Let us give thanks:
Congregation (left): For generous friends, with hearts and smiles as uplifting as flowers;
Congregation (right):  For feisty friends as tart as apples;
Minister:  For old friends who, like cucumbers and spring onions, keep reminding us that we have them, and for brief but delightful acquaintances who, like ripe peaches, are here today and gone tomorrow;
Congregation (left):  For crotchety friends, as sour as rhubarb and as deep rooted;
Congregation (right):  For handsome friends, as gorgeous as eggplants and as elegant as a row of corn, and others as plain as potatoes and as good for you.
Minister:  For funny friends who are silly as Brussels sprouts and as amusing as Jerusalem artichokes, and serious friends, as complex as cauliflowers and organised as onions.
Congregation (left):  For friends as unpretentious as cabbages, as subtle as asparagus, as persistent as mint, as reliable as chard, and who, like parsnips, can be counted on to see us through the winter;
Congregation (right):  For old friends, nodding like sunflowers in the evening time, and young friends coming on as fast as radishes;
Minister:  For loving friends, who wind around us like tendrils and hold us, despite our blights, wilts and withering.  And finally for those friends now gone, like gardens past that have been harvested, and who fed us in their time that we may enjoy our gardens thereafter.
Congregation (left & right):  For all our friends, we give thanks.
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Brian Ellis, Brooke, Norfolk UK. altitude 30m Mintemp -8C

 


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