Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 27, 2011

THAT’s for sure!

Excellent point, Calvin.

So, ………….we tell them that we want to go to the library to ’STUDY"……………..

No they don’t

I got a decoder ring as a kid….I was so proud of it. Problem is no one ever tried to read what I wrote——or cared.

I sent for a secret decoder ring, but some guy named POE publish the secret in The Gold Bug.

You know mom and dad well Calvin.

Oh, I think Dad’s been there and done it all, Calvin. Mom, on the other hand….

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠.

B-2 be sure to drink your ovaltine

They give you a decoder ring, but you have to buy the encoder ring to use it.

I wonder if it’s the super secret Roger Moore decoder ring with an ultra secret compartment?

How does one understand someone high on Sugar Bombs?

@Dogsniff,Maybe it’s aqueous humor. ‘Seeing is believing!’

D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-TO-D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” (Chapter I, The Little Prince)

In panel 3, it looks exceedingly devious, as well as secretive.

If Calvin leaves the decoder ring in the bowl of cereal, he can milk it for all it’s worth, or all its worth!

@Dogsniff,If the humor doesn’t ring a bell, ring up Lucy! Maybe she can expound on it and clarify it, if she doesn’t have too much other ‘splainin’ to do!

I still have my Tom Mix whistling ring, the decoder ring I lost or someone swiped it.

Panel 3 is priceless!

I’m younger then you and I don’t have one either. For teens today they have a decoder on texting.

Aaaaaaah…..childhood…..

We lived in the country, raised some cows, chickens, and pigs plus a garden for food. Dad worked in town so we had a PO Box there for our mail. No TV, just a big old battery operated radio console. Listened to The Lone Ranger, Sargent Preston, Sky King, Green Hornet, The Shadow, Buster Brown, and others I can’t remember (although I still remember the PO Box number and combination). I dearly loved to walk the 5 miles to town on Saturdays to check the PO box for some trinket I had ordered. I wish I still had all those pieces of junk which now would be quite valuable collector’s items.

“Can’t have too many layers of ‘secret’, in case they start catching on to something.”+++++Is that like Churchill’s description of the Soviet Union?“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”

@Susan Newman,I’m seventy-one years old, and I DID get a secret decoder ring. I lost it in about 45 minutes or less.

I wonder if WW2 German kids got an Enigma decoder ring in their cereal…

Puddleglum2: That was cornea joke.

Iris I had gotten it in first.

I refer to lookup tables and translastion tables in the database as “secret decoder rings” as in “According to my secret decoder ring, this SKU translates into this model.”

Few people understand me.

I was struck by the marked differences in their faces between the third and fourth panels. Sorta like politicians in the third, doing back room deals, and then presenting themselves to the public in the last panel. Not that we pay all that much attention to them either….

Hobbes’ face in the third panel is pure evil. An enlightening moment at the end at such a young age.

Has there ever been any kid in the course of history that felt like their parents really, truly understood them?!

DaHawk – I remember those radio programs too. I was glued to our kitchen radio all the time. I remember hearing a Billy Graham broadcast on the radio in the kitchen of my grandparents house and being deeply impressed, but I can’t recall anything more than the emotion of the moment. These days I absolutely adore cable television…..

Fochizzle

The decoder will be handy maybe with Moe or Susie ,or maybe not.