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The speaker imagines a future where they are doing well while someone else has ended up in prison, and they want to feel open satisfaction about it. The joke depends on the contrast between being "successful and happy" and still wanting to "gloat." It presents that feeling as something childish, but honestly appealing.
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About Bill Watterson
American cartoonist
William Boyd Watterson II is an American cartoonist best known for creating Calvin and Hobbes. The strip ran from 1985 to 1995, and he later stepped back from public life. Watterson ended Calvin and Hobbes with a brief note to newspaper readers, saying he felt he had done all he could with the form. He is also known for his objections to comic syndication and licensing, and for his efforts to broaden the newspaper comic as an art form.
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Books by Bill Watterson
Days Are Just Packed Calvin and Hobbes
1993
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
1992
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2000
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1996
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