Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 06, 2014

Try out for track.

In H.S. PE, the “quarterback” who picked who was going to be on his team thought it was funny to put me up against a member of the opposing team who was twice my size.When the ball was snapped, I just stood aside. I reasoned that I wasn’t going to slow him down by much anyway, why should I get smashed for a split-second delay?

Good Thinkin’

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Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (December 6, 1993)Click here: Peanuts (October 22, 1963)Click here: Peanuts (November 23, 1969)Click here: Peanuts (September 12, 1977)

@Number Six: Removing the pads from Hobbes’s paws made him look more human, but since Hobbes doesn’t have white arms like Calvin, it also made Hobbes look more like he was wearing white gloves, like Mickey Mouse:

@Number Six: Here’s a case where Hobbes looks even more like Mickey Mouse.But this is an early strip (near the end of the first year), so Hobbes still has the dark pads on his feet, as can be seen in the last panel.Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (October 1, 1986)

@Number Six: You wrote that Bill Watterson leaves it up to the reader to decide whether Hobbes is real or Calvin’s imagination.It seems to me that Hobbes is real. But maybe that’s just my imagination.

Of Course he’s real, he’s real to Calvin and that’s all that matters.

It’s useless in football.

Hobbes is real: It’s Calvin, his family and Suzy who are all imaginary. ;)

I don’t care if you like American football or not, but what makes it “stupid”?

I’m with Granny Grump. Hobbes is real to Calvin and that’s all that matters.

If there is anything on this planet more boring than soccer I have not seen it. I’ll take what Petyon Manning can do or what Jim Brown did in the “60’s” over anything anybody has ever done on a soccer field. And yes I am an arrogant American!

Isn’t “survival” a lot of what football is all about? I mean, what’s the point of a game, any game, if all the players fail immediately; or worse, never actually play the game?.It’s like playing a game of pool with a pro. You just stand there holding your cue while the pro clears the table! I don’t see much fun in that…

You can do anything if you put your mind to it, Calvin. That is if you can be bothered to put your mind to it. Haha.xxx

tcar-1: All languages are gibberish if you don’t understand them.

Yes it’s odd for me, when I’m not playing sports I’m a nice relaxed guy, however once I’m “in the court” I turn into a monster who is out to win, I’m supper aggressive and strung up. That’s why I stopped playing sports in high school, oh and because it’s a game for popular people….

That’s how my 5-year old grandson played soccer last season…ran so slowly he never had to worry about being hurt in the fray.

Football? or any team sport?

Euro Football in the US is called team flopping. I love the writhing in pain and then the miraculous recoveries

I understand Football, Futbol (Soccer), Basketball, Baseball, and Rugby, but I will never understand Cricket.

What’s the point of playing Football when you’ll just run away?

This must be a pre Calvinball strip

Susie Derkins D: “In baseball, you run home.” George Carlin