Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 16, 2013

Thats a terrible thing to say to your loving child.

If your child is loving, that is.

Our existence is reduced as a baby and is reduced, when we become very old!

Loud and Stinky. :D

Or to describe him with one of his own two-dollar words,noisome.

Now go and ask dad.

Reduced down to one unflattering word at that.

It’s not hard to see why Calvin lives in a fantasy world with only his pet tiger as his friend and why he has developed such anti-social characteristics (if he were a real person and the strip was a documentary). It heightens my respect for my friends who were grown up enough to acknowledge that they’d have made poor parents or lacked the total commitment it takes to raise a child and fulfill its needs so they remained childless. If my children had asked me what they were like as Calvin did I would have cut my tongue off before delivering such a scathing put down.

Also Sticky. At both ends.

Today it would be a "tweet’

Stinky Calvin’s… hahaha

My wife, like most women, thinks all babies are cute. I say puppies and kittens are cute. They have their own t.v. shows on animal planet, Too Cute Puppies and Kittens.

Now he is a stinky mess.

Parents need to speak in a language that their children can understand. In the case of Calvin, his mom should have said, “Your odiferous neonatal effluvia were repugnant to my olfactory receptor neurons.”

Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (April 26, 1991)Click here: Thatababy (April 6, 2013)Click here: Ziggy (May 17, 1976)Click here: The Argyle Sweater (July 1, 2011)

True story—my 2 older brothers were watching my son (about 10 months by then) one Saturday while I was working. The diaper he filled was so bad that the brothers flipped a coin to see who had to change it. Apparently a couple windows had to be opened. Personally, I think they were exaggerating but they’ve sworn for years it was the truth :D

Expostulate and elaborate, Mom!

My mother’s cousin was born in the south in the 20s. As a baby her mother would change diapers and say to her, “Your so ‘tinky’,” dropping the s and with a southern accent. So when she grew up the whole family and extended family called her Tinky.

Is she sowing?

As I once heard somewhere online …

“I am not disturbed, or even perturbed, that you observed your love of ‘blurb’ as a verb.”

@HobbesThanks as usual for the comics. They always make me smile.

@Perkycat and @rgcviper: Glad you enjoy the extra comics. I rarely get complaints about them anymore, since I started frequently including an extra Calvin and Hobbes strip.

The truth hurts I’m afraid, Calvin!

xxx

Thanks, @GretchensMom. Red and Rover is set in the 1960s, so Red is reading the original Peanuts strips, not the reruns. And Red watches the original Gilligan’s Island, not the reruns. What a concept.

That isn’t a blurb, it’s even smaller than a blurb. It’s an adjective.

what about noisy?