Also, the last minute panic as inspiration. The time is worse, but there's less of it (paraphrased).

I know this is hogging the thread now, but something about C&H just encapsulates a wonderous philosophy that really makes it worth revisiting - and often.

The Archers is garbage. Garbage wrapped in poo and doused in vomit. Warm, lumpy vomit.

I wish more of the R4 comedy stuff was available as podcasts. I get the Friday Night Comedy podcast which gives me the News Quiz (which is great) and Dead Ringers (which is immediately deleted), but it never seems to provide anything else.

I don't think I've ever knowingly listened to Radio 4. Or Radio 3. They don't even seem to crop up when scanning through the tuning on a radio.

Huge Calvin & Hobbes fan. I used to make my own t-shirts years ago as there weren't any official ones.

He must still be making plenty from it anyway. It continues to be madly popular.

Wouldn't even appear in that documentary they made about him. Fair play.

With you on chopping wood Jaco. Adding logs to a fire is always pleasant too. I used to do it a lot more, bit cheeky for a smoke free zone, but I only have a log fire a couple of times a year now. Actually, I'll add other people having a log fire - when you can smell there's one on the go walking down the street.

I catch the comedy shows on R4 quite often when I get home from work. Always enjoyable no matter what it is. Nicholas Parsons must be ancient yet still has the razor wit. I was lucky enough to see him as the narrator in a production of The Rocky Horror Show.

Used to saw and chop wood when I was a kid. My dad eased our energy costs by going into a nearby wood and cutting up fallen trees. I liked chopping the logs he produced up into sticks for lighting the fire.  No open fire now but we do have a log burner out the back which is used occasionally on a Summer night.  Nothing like a log fire - inside or out. I imagine our forefathers sitting in front of a wood fire, a full belly and some potable in hand with a dog at his feet and the harsh world probably felt good for a while.

The Calvin & Hobbes talk has got me thinking about the mega collection I spied in my local Forbidden Planet for £80.

I’m one of the few who doesn’t revere Calvin & Hobbes. I’ll never say that anyone is wrong for adoring it – I can see why it’s so beloved – but it doesn’t do it for me.

The newspaper style comic strip was never something I admired. Peanuts had its moments but went on for too long. The British stuff was trash - George & Lynn, Perishers, Axa, Hagar, Andy Capp etc - as funny as piles. C&H stood out because it had heart.

I liked the Far Side too but it suffers from over exposure and copycats. I work in IT so Dilbert raises a smile but I'm not sure if its appeal would be universal.

poprock wrote:

I’m one of the few who doesn’t revere Calvin & Hobbes. I’ll never say that anyone is wrong for adoring it – I can see why it’s so beloved – but it doesn’t do it for me.

I dont get it either.

I’ve never even read a C&H.

Blocks100 wrote:

+1 Dilbert.  Superb commentary on the absurd awfulness of office-based politics and management double-speak.

Yes. Absolutely. I get Dilbert goodness delivered to my inbox every day.

Raiziel wrote:

I’ve never even read a C&H.

You can read and download them all here. But I heartily recommend the books. The experience of reading them from the printed page and really being able to examine the artwork really adds to it.