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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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