My ADD kicked in, and I wasn't able to make it a series of posts about famous Calvin's, but here is a summary of some of the important ones (wikipedia has information on everything!)
Meaning and Origin of Calvin
Calvin \c(a)-lvin, cal-vin\ as a boy's name is pronounced KAL-vin. It is of French origin, and the meaning of Calvin is "little bald one".
Impact – this made me laugh out loud with irony – even though he’ll probably not get my luxurious hair locks, I found it pretty funny
Calvin Score – 4 / 5
Calvin and Hobbes - Calvin demonstrates a level of wisdom, vocabulary and humor unusual for a six year-old boy. He shows little interest or success in interacting with any "real" characters, choosing instead to spend the majority of his time with Hobbes, with whom he frequently embarks on imaginary adventures, debates philosophical issues, plots various pranks against girls, and fights. Calvin is impulsive, insubordinate, imaginative, intelligent, hypocritical, energetic, curious, bratty, rambunctious, obnoxious, selfish, and short-tempered.
Impact –Gives me the opportunity to purchase countless decals for my truck.
Calvin Score – 5 / 5
Calvin Broadus –Better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, actor and entertainer. Kool Moe Dee ranks Snoop at #33 rapper of all time, and says he has "an ultra-smooth, laidback delivery", and calls him "one of the smoothest, funkiest flow-ers in the game
Impact – One of my deepest unspoken desires is that one day I can look back on Calvin and say that he is "one of the smoothest, funkiest flow-ers in the game".
Calvin Score – 10 / 5
Calvin Coolidge - The 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, and also as a man who said very little. He has been called the most “libertarian” president, and focused on laissez-faire government.
Impact - Seems like my kind of president – I’ll make sure to use his presidential biographies as bedtime reading in a few years when I need to lull Calvin to sleep.
Calvin Score – 4 / 5
Calvin Johnson - Football wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Lions second overall in the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Georgia Tech. In his career at Georgia Tech wearing number 21, Johnson made a case for being the greatest Georgia Tech receiver of all time.
Impact – Local Atlanta kid whose nickname is “megatron” and whose team might actually not lose 10 games this year
Calvin Score – 4 / 5
Calvin Klein - American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. In 1968. In the mid-1970s, he had created a designer-jeans craze by putting his name on the back pocket.
Impact – I’m wicked fashionable
Calvin Score – 2 / 5
Cal Ripken - nicknamed "Iron Man" is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and third baseman. He played his entire 21-year baseball career for the Baltimore Orioles (1981–2001) and is perhaps best known for breaking New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig's record for 2,131 consecutive games played, a record many deemed unbreakable.
Impact – eh, didn’t play for the Red Sox. Not overly impressed.
Calvin Score – 2 / 5
Calvin H. Borel - is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby. His 2009 Derby win with Mine That Bird was the second biggest upset in Derby
Impact – Weird looking dude, but gives me someone to bet on for the Triple Crown races
Calvin Score – 3 / 5
Calvin \c(a)-lvin, cal-vin\ as a boy's name is pronounced KAL-vin. It is of French origin, and the meaning of Calvin is "little bald one".
Impact – this made me laugh out loud with irony – even though he’ll probably not get my luxurious hair locks, I found it pretty funny
Calvin Score – 4 / 5
Calvin and Hobbes - Calvin demonstrates a level of wisdom, vocabulary and humor unusual for a six year-old boy. He shows little interest or success in interacting with any "real" characters, choosing instead to spend the majority of his time with Hobbes, with whom he frequently embarks on imaginary adventures, debates philosophical issues, plots various pranks against girls, and fights. Calvin is impulsive, insubordinate, imaginative, intelligent, hypocritical, energetic, curious, bratty, rambunctious, obnoxious, selfish, and short-tempered.
Impact –Gives me the opportunity to purchase countless decals for my truck.
Calvin Score – 5 / 5
Calvin Broadus –Better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, actor and entertainer. Kool Moe Dee ranks Snoop at #33 rapper of all time, and says he has "an ultra-smooth, laidback delivery", and calls him "one of the smoothest, funkiest flow-ers in the game
Impact – One of my deepest unspoken desires is that one day I can look back on Calvin and say that he is "one of the smoothest, funkiest flow-ers in the game".
Calvin Score – 10 / 5
Calvin Coolidge - The 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, and also as a man who said very little. He has been called the most “libertarian” president, and focused on laissez-faire government.
Impact - Seems like my kind of president – I’ll make sure to use his presidential biographies as bedtime reading in a few years when I need to lull Calvin to sleep.
Calvin Score – 4 / 5
Calvin Johnson - Football wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Lions second overall in the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Georgia Tech. In his career at Georgia Tech wearing number 21, Johnson made a case for being the greatest Georgia Tech receiver of all time.
Impact – Local Atlanta kid whose nickname is “megatron” and whose team might actually not lose 10 games this year
Calvin Score – 4 / 5
Calvin Klein - American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. In 1968. In the mid-1970s, he had created a designer-jeans craze by putting his name on the back pocket.
Impact – I’m wicked fashionable
Calvin Score – 2 / 5
Cal Ripken - nicknamed "Iron Man" is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and third baseman. He played his entire 21-year baseball career for the Baltimore Orioles (1981–2001) and is perhaps best known for breaking New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig's record for 2,131 consecutive games played, a record many deemed unbreakable.
Impact – eh, didn’t play for the Red Sox. Not overly impressed.
Calvin Score – 2 / 5
Calvin H. Borel - is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby. His 2009 Derby win with Mine That Bird was the second biggest upset in Derby
Impact – Weird looking dude, but gives me someone to bet on for the Triple Crown races
Calvin Score – 3 / 5
John Calvin - Influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism
Impact - Calling our parents “Calvinist’s” is kind of enjoyable
Calvin Score - 2/5
Impact - Calling our parents “Calvinist’s” is kind of enjoyable
Calvin Score - 2/5
Thats about all I could find, outside of some Taiwanese boy band members, an NBA HOF'er who has had some "personal issues" and biochemical system process
Let me know if I missed any!
Yeah yeah...that's great....but where are the pictures of YOUR Calvin? :)
ReplyDeleteI must protest the Calvin Score of 2/5 for Cal Ripken. Fact: Anyone in the State of Maryland will do anything that Cal Ripken says. For instance, if Cal Ripken asks me to shave my head: DONE. I love him and so does Maryland.
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