I was going to originally write this blog post about Calvin and Hobbes because I read them all the time as child. They are funny cartoons and the dichotomy of Calvins rambunctious nature and Hobbes' pragmatic viewpoint are always entertaining. However, the more I thought about it the more I thought that, although I love Calvin and Hobbes, they are not my favorite cartoon characters. No, that honor belongs to Linus. Linus is Charlie Brown's best friend from the peanut cartoons. I think he is absolutely fabulous. He is quite wise for his age and has some of the best quotes in the comics and cartoon films. My favorite is when he waits all night for the great pumpkin to come visit him on Halloween night. It is the perfect mix of humor, hope, wisdom, and wonder. Linus also always carries around a blue security blanket with him. This is fitting because he sort of acts like the security blanket for the rest of the characters. He is the greatest cartoon character of all time.
The time has come for my final story involving uncontrollable laughter. My brother, my friend Caleb, my other friend Madeline, and I were playing a board game called Fortune Seeker one night my senior year of high school. It was late at night (I want to say about two in the morning) and everything was already funnier than it would normally be during the day. I’m not sure why, but if something is funny, then it is ten times funnier when you’re extremely tired. Anyways, there is one mechanic of the board game called hostile takeover. This means that the player who gets this can take whatever they want from another player for a small price. This happened a lot to Madeline that night. Walter, Caleb, and I just kept taking all of her stuff. Needless to say, she was not that happy by the end of the game. When the game had finished (I believe Walter ended up winning that night), Madeline went on quite a long rant about how we stole all of her stuff and destroyed all hope she had of winning....
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