Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 19, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  10 months ago

    I know girls who play with all the things that Calvin mentioned. Then they go shopping for clothes and shoes.

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    dadthedawg Premium Member 10 months ago

    Different strokes…..for different folks.

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    codycab  10 months ago

    Calvin played with all of those things. And he hasn’t grown up at all!

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    Spacehog  10 months ago

    It is a matter of preference

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    Robin Harwood  10 months ago

    Girls have no appreciation for the finer things in life. Spaceships, giant squids, desert islands with pirate treasure mean nothing to them.

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    The Calvinosaurus That Calvin Wanted To Discover  10 months ago

    I guess he’s still salty about getting socks for Christmas instead of the nuclear weapon he asked for.

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    californiamonty  10 months ago

    Wasn’t this basically the entire premise of Tim Alan’s “Home Improvement” TV series?

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    sirbadger  10 months ago

    She’ll steal all that stuff just before filing for divorce.

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    Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member 10 months ago

    Maturity ain’t all it’s cracked up to be!

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    STEPUP  10 months ago

    You have to be at least 60 to “putter around”.

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member 10 months ago

    It’s GREAT Calvin!

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    cracker65  10 months ago

    Calvin is stuck in the past.

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    snsurone76  10 months ago

    Is Calvin using his parents as an example?

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    The Duke  10 months ago

    Girls get to play with the boys things!

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    hariseldon59  10 months ago

    Calvin’s a little young to know about the ‘toys’ that some women play with.

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    Dr. Quatermass  10 months ago

    Nigel Tufnell on sexism: “What’s wrong with being sexy?” smh

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    Zykoic  10 months ago

    I recall a women at work that owned Dodge Viper. She liked to go 140 mph commuting home. She was different.

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    Herman2mris7 Premium Member 10 months ago

    And you get to play with girls. (some time boys)

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    flagmichael  10 months ago

    I have all sorts of tools and have done all sorts of things with them I never thought of it as “playing around.” I remember pulling a muscle in my face trying to hold a gearbox in position while my son got a bolt started. I remember replacing a speaker in an airplane when the windowless cabin was somewhere above 170F. Life is a wild ride!

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    win.45mag  10 months ago

    And when he finally matures, he can go dinking around

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    sheilag  10 months ago

    I have all of that little Cal… ;-)

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  10 months ago

    Actually we’re all doing fine.

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    sandpiper  10 months ago

    Susie gave that one up too easily. Things had already change a great deal by the ’90’s.

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    Wren Fahel  10 months ago

    My husband had a ‘77 Firebird when we were dating. After we got married, some of the “old biddies” I worked with told me that, now that we’re married, I could make him “get rid of his ‘toy’.” I answered, “First of all, I don’t ‘make’ him do anything & he doesn’t ‘make’ me do anything; we’re partners. Second, if he gets rid of the ‘toy’, I’LL kill him!” (I loved driving that thing as well & even helped a little in the restoration. It was a sad day a few years later when we were indeed forced to part with it.)

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    gantech  10 months ago

    Is this sexist person the same Calvin who oft times waxes poetic and contemplates the meaning of life?

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    Ol' me  10 months ago

    I’m old enough to putter around. I wish I had time to.

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    Egrayjames  10 months ago

    The ’’Calvin’’ in me knows I’m puttering around all the time. Retirement has worked well into my plans for thirteen and a half years now.

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    jagedlo  10 months ago

    But by then, will you have enough money to putter around, Calvin?

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    Redd Panda  10 months ago

    Puttering ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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    goboboyd  10 months ago

    We all need black holes to throw our money down.

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    Mediatech  10 months ago

    Puttering is overrated.

    (never mind how I know this)

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    ilovecomics*infinity  10 months ago

    Ah yes, puttering around. I’m not even that old and it’s one of my favorite things.

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    ladykat  10 months ago

    Girls can do all those things too, Calvin!

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    Skeptical Meg  10 months ago

    Yet your only friends are imaginary and a girl. Hmmm…

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    John Jorgensen  10 months ago

    Pretty sure there’s nothing unusual about a woman owning any of the things Calvin’s mentioned in Panel 2.

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    Wizard of Ahz-no relation  10 months ago

    when I was a kid i hated going to the hardware store with my dad, but now it’s a big toy shop

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    old_geek  10 months ago

    Puttering isn’t all it’s cracked up to be…

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  10 months ago

    Calvin’s gonna be mighty upset when Susie blows his doors off on the quarter-mile.

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    Bruce1253  10 months ago

    Sorry Susie, guys never really grow up, they just get more expensive toys. This is as good as it gets. . . .

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    dv1093  10 months ago

    I truly hope Calvin and Suzie marry when they grow up, and live happily ever after.

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    g04922  10 months ago

    Calvin confirmed it… boys never grow up.

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    swanridge  10 months ago

    I’ve finally reached that age. It’s actually pretty good!

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    Calvins Brother  10 months ago

    Retired 4 years ago, been puttering around ever since.

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    KageKat  10 months ago

    If I have my way, my daughter will get to do whatever combo of what she wants!

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    basspro  10 months ago

    Funny thing, I think Arnold Palmers wife used to play around with his putter.

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    1JennyJenkins  10 months ago

    That last panel made me LOL.

    It reminded me of when my mother said that her sitting down by her sewing machine and making a dress for one of my girls was her “puttering around” with odds and ends from left over pieces from materials of custom made clothes for her clients.

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    mistercatworks  10 months ago

    Calvin is thinking of “Girly- girls”. I’ve been married (at different times of course) to a “tomboy” and a “girly-girl”. Tomboys love the toys and getting things done by manipulation of power tools and physical effort. Girly-girls enjoy getting things done in a light-hearted but effective manner using personality and brains.

    I loved them both and would not have had either change.

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    Imhungry  10 months ago

    Today’s strip leaves a lot of openings for comments, but the censors would probably shoot me down by the second or third word that I wrote.

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    metagalaxy1970  10 months ago

    Still a tomboy at the age of 53.

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    willie_mctell  10 months ago

    I have my mom’s circular saw and a set of sockets. Someone got to her Yankee drill before me.

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 10 months ago

    If Calvin doesn’t change his mindset, he’ll be puttering around the streets with the homeless. :(

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    GKBOWOOD Premium Member 10 months ago

    Better hope your Mind and Body are still in working order by that time.

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    bjminnis  10 months ago

    yes, we girls get to do everything you guys do plus the shopping the only drawback is 1) if you’re married you can’t borrow money like a male can and 2) you have to clean and cook and wipe up after all the kids – no matter the age.

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    jfikse Premium Member 10 months ago

    I was something of a tomboy, but I also played with dolls. When I had two my real-life “dolls,” feeding and dressing them, reading and singing to them, was the most fun ever!

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    ephraim.haritonov  10 months ago

    cavln and Hobbes is the best

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    pchemcat  10 months ago

    I don’t know Calvin, I enjoy playing with my 1968 383 Formula S Fastback and my 1970 Challenger R/T SE. For Christmas I got a really nice battery-powered chainsaw. Last year I got a battery-powered tire inflator. I like my toys. As for shopping, meh, someone else can do that, it is not for me.

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    hagarthehorrible  10 months ago

    Mars and Venus arguing on the school bus pavement.

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