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Re:40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst... by adw on Thursday November 20, 2025 @01:31PM (#45995955)
The joke is that Calvin is aligned with Hobbes’s philosophy and vice versa.
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Re:40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes' raucous adventures burst... by danaris on Thursday November 20, 2025 @10:00PM (#46000740)
No? Like d-us-vb said, the characters' names have nothing to do with their personalities.

Yes, they occasionally discuss philosophy.

No, that does not mean that the philosophy being discussed has any relation to John Calvin or Thomas Hobbes.

The joke is that they're a kid and a stuffed tiger named after philosophers.

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