Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 01, 2015

That’s what keeps Hobbes in tip-top shape.

Back in the 60s one of my teachers told us about a “new” exercise programme that consisted of “just stretching, like a cat.” It wasn’t until years later I realised she meant yoga.

This was the same teacher who told us about seeing one of the first microwaves at a teaching fair. They heated up hotdogs in it, and passed them around to the onlookers. She boasted of being “too smart” to eat something that had only been warmed for a few seconds!

So instead of “downward dog” Hobbes is doing the yawning cat?

You may want to try it yourself, Calvin.

The third panel made me yawn…

My dog does the same thing

Lhasa Apso’s are said to be “cat like”. All of ours did, or do, this. Front, middle, back …hilarious … and that’s just to go out to pee. It took us five years of the soft touch to get our current boy to cuddle … on the way out the breeder’s door, she said, “He’s the alpha of the litter”. (Yes, we’re the omega, and love it [I got all the alpha out of my system as a mid-manager at Ma-Bell.])

Every wednesday I take a full isometric workout, but not with one yawning!

That’s nothing! I can throw my back out just getting up off the couch!

I just yawned right now.

xxx

I’ll bet he’s flexible enough to race round a tree and make butter!

@LeadingEdge and Kind&KInder,Both of you are so flexible that you’re not politically correct. That story was a favorite of mine. I never thought of it as racist, and it was in India, anyway, as others have mentioned previously.

Back massage I assume?

“Hobbes” said he’s going to be too busy for a while to post as often as usual. I think he’s fine, just busy.