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04 June 1988
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It's amazing how much culture has changed. Imagine this call today.
That just makes it funnier.
1988 was peak old school wiretapping. Like, physical connection to a phone line and a guy in a van. Still doable, but doesn't scale well. Remember the crazy people that would unplug their phone when they weren't calling anyone because the microphone could be on...
It wasn't until the 90s with digital communications that people started being concerned with the possibility of mass wiretapping. See the Echelon NSA conspiracy theories and such.
But we are all wiretapped now all the time and do so willingly. Hey Siri...
I digress. Calvin definitely has a van parked outside. Or at least he can imagine he does, which is close enough.
The FBI would be on his doorstep before he could hang up.
My grandpa used to call the president to complain while drunk, fbi would show up at the house each time.
Calvin's problem was solved when they got internet...
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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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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