Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 17, 2016

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    BE THIS GUY  about 8 years ago

    “The dating scene in the first grade is brutal.”

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    maxpower44  about 8 years ago

    Don’t forget the calvins Mom; Yes I’m talking underwear here; and black it’s gotta be black.

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    legaleagle48  about 8 years ago

    As if Calvin would really care whether or not he looked cool for the “babes.” Calvin HATES girls, remember?

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    hariseldon59  about 8 years ago

    I thought Calvin thought girls were G.R.O.S.S.

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    Kind&Kinder  about 8 years ago

    It has ever been thus. Remember pegged pants, pink and charcoal gray, duck tail haircuts—who were they for if not the “babes”?

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    rentier  about 8 years ago

    Wait Hobbes, wait!!!Revange is near!!

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    jackhs  about 8 years ago

    Ms Derkins has more influence than we thought.

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    snoopy1959  about 8 years ago

    it’s a pity that the only babe around is susie.

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    bigcatbusiness  about 8 years ago

    No Calvin no! You’re still in the cooties’s stage.

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    Yngvar Følling  about 8 years ago

    I’m not sure that it has really registered with Calvin that babes=girls.

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    Superhawk  about 8 years ago
    Calvin: “Actually, mom, since I never age, I can wear them forever and get my moneys’ worth out of them.”
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    Jogger2  about 8 years ago

    But Calvin doesn’t like girls. He wants to repel girls. He wants to Get Rid Of Slimy girlS.

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    Chad Cheetah  about 8 years ago

    Get a different kind of pants to look REALLY cool.

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    david_42  about 8 years ago

    I did a survey about a “new” style of jeans: Would you buy these for $139? No. My wife hit the annual sale for a local women’s support group, got two business suits, three business dresses and definitely not for business dress, all for $93.

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    jrankin1959  about 8 years ago

    Uh, Mom? FYI, Calvin hasn’t grown in 25 years… until another artist started drawing him as an adult.

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    laughingkitty  about 8 years ago

    But I thought Calvin HATED girls (babes).

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    Battlestar  about 8 years ago

    I always had to wear garage sell clothes Maybe that’s why I never got elementary school babes

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    artzilla  about 8 years ago

    @Yngvar Babes ain’t gross girls. In my opinion, “babes” was 1980’s slang for hot females whose attention was taken for granted, and whose worship provided affirmation of high social status. So while technically female with higher status than regular gross girls, not worthy of consideration as equals anyway. While I don’t believe that misogynistic baloney, I remember many of my boyhood friends espousing the stereotype.

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    David Rickard Premium Member about 8 years ago

    C’mon, Mom: you already know he’s going to be a pariah because of his personality; you don’t want him to be further ostracized because his clothes aren’t in style, do you?

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    JP Steve Premium Member about 8 years ago

    But the argument came from Hobbes, who likes “smooches” not Calvin, who fears cooties!

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    Peam Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Careful ,Calvin, babes => Smoochies!!! It’s a trap cunningly laid by Hobbes.

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    neverenoughgold  about 8 years ago

    Say Mom, as short as the legs are on the pants Calvin wants, keep in mind with your lithe figure, you could wear them as shorts when Calvin outgrows them…

    That is, if Calvin outgrows them!

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    neverenoughgold  about 8 years ago

    Mom could look like Jessica Simpson, for example…

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    Number Three  about 8 years ago

    I couldn’t care less about designer clothes. I just shove anything on.

    xxx

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    tea62  about 8 years ago

    Calvin, you are a babe (baby).

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