Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 03, 2014

It’s cuter when a little girl does it.

The Spaggetii Song.

Calvin attempts to correlate song with joy. Note the downward arc of the result, as if he were actually plotting hypothetical joy against time. Psychological impact will be evident when joy=zero (soon). Wait – no – surely @Hobbs will have a better explanation for this :)

For my kids, it was the ‘greasy, grimy, gopher guts’ song that would get them sent outside…

Ahhhh, Songs from the golden age!!!

What I truly adore about this strip is that marvelous Audobon-style bird….. LOL!

Made me want to listen to the whole song. Here’s a cute version.

Love Song Sparrows, they are truly lovely.

Why? How?

And for my next number… “The Addams Family started…”

@spirit1942: Heh heh.

@spirit1942: Note that while Calvin’s pleasure is decreasing, his parents’ pleasure is increasing. It’s the fundamental principle of Conservation of Ecstasy.

Conservation of Ecstasy?? Grasshopper has so much to learn from @Hobbes. Must clear mind of old beliefs

Let’s just be glad Calvin didn’t imagine he was a Screech-Owl

One of my favorite “Calvin and Hobbes” strips. Who says repeats are bad?

Odd that the 22 posts before this one did not mention the original song that this was a parody of. Does no one remember “On Top of Old Smokey”?

On top of old smokeyAll covered with snowI lost my true loverFrom a courtin’ too slow

On top of old smokeyI went there to weepA false hearted loverIs worse than a thief

For a thief, he will rob youAnd take what you haveBut a false hearted loverWill send you to your grave

She’ll hug you and kissAnd tell you more liesThan the cross ties on the railroadOr the stars in the skies

On top of old smokeyAll covered with snowI lost my true loverFrom a courtin’ too slow

Every so often, I remember a strip from when it originally appeared. This is one of those strips..Funny then, hilarious now…

…and then my poor meatball was thrown right out the door!

i’m 56 years old, and i could never understand this comic.

Wonderful artwork on the sparrow.

Yesterday I had realy poor meatballs!

@spirit1942: Heh heh.

The real Calvin would have been singing “Shaving Cream”

So now that he’s outside…

Ohhh, nobody likes me, everybody hates me]I’m gonna find some wormsBig fat juicy worms, squish squash slimy wormsBig fat juicy worms.

Fuzzy wuzzy worms.

Who threw him out?

xxx

This is definitely one of my favorites.

I loved that song “On Top of Old Smokey”

Look, he can fly now! Just like a sparrow!!

Continuing with “my versions”

Great big globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,marinated monkey meat,little birdy’s dirty feat.Great big globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,and I forgot my spoon…

LMBO! Why did this strip, ever end?

ON TOP OF SPAGHETTI ALL COVERED IN CHEESE I LOST MY POOR MEATBALL WHEN SOMEBODY…~Mom kicks me out~ Ouch….

Lol