There are a lot of good weapons that are not guns Calvin, and people have been hunting tigers for a lot longer than there have been guns. Spiked pits in front of a sacrificial lamb are very effective, as is poison on said lamb so I would say you won the bet Calvin.
My Tonk (in foreground at left) has the most ferocious yawn I’ve ever seen. He loves to show off those choppers. Glad we’re friends. The Siamese is dangerous only to socks and toy mice.
Welcome back, Marg. We missed you.
I wasn’t gonna post. My question I think I missed on this strip. What was the bet about? Calvin to see his dad is not buffed? Hobbes why not ask for tuna fish.
The worst thing about getting up in the morning is catching that first glance of myself in the mirror. It’s probably why it takes me a good three hours before I have the stomach for breakfast.
In order to even the playing field you would have to make the tiger equal to man in ability, or vice versa. Therein lies the fallacy of that argument as applied to any animal.
ejcapulet…..yes you are so right, they could and very often would kill us just because they were bored or got annoyed with us.
Talk about dog bites….if cats were the size of dogs, NOW you have real bites, and how about those wicked nails to gut you while chewing on your head?
Oh yeah! There is a reason why pet cats are the size they are.
Cat Lovers, don’t get all upset with my post. I have five cats that I share my home and often my bed with and one is laying on my desk watching me as I post this comment.
Love my kitties, but I’m so glad they are the sizee they are.
Night-Gaunt, I think the novel you’re referring to is Wofen by Whitley Schrieber. I read it when I was about thirty years younger, and found it to be really creepy. Wolves that had evolved to hunt and eat mostly dying homeless people, if I remember right. They were highly intelligent and extremely fast. No one ever knew they were even there. A great read, if you can still find it.
Ten cents is all that Dad had in his pajamas that morning. The One who made the lamb most certainly made both the tiger and us as well. Agree with NightGaunt - our opposable and wonderfully flexible fingers and hands, not to mention our incredible brains, have made us pretty fearsome too.
According to a recent documentary on tigers in India and the work done there to prevent their extinction, tigers do not prey on predators. The meat of predators is generally too rank for their taste. They will resort to it if nothing else is available, but they by far prefer herbivores. Humans have that same rank meat as predators and for the most part are not preyed upon. None-the-less tigers are a real threat to humans though they do not normally eat those they kill. Of course tigers and others sometimes do acquire a taste for human flesh and therefore become far more dangerous than most tigers.
Thirdguy, I always am willing to be of service. Camera lenses can be used for years if not brought out in the morning around my household, except for the beauty of my dear wife.
Don’t be too hard on your dad, Calvin. You don’t realize it yet but you’ve just gotten a glimpse into your “early-morning-look” future when you grow up!
comicgos over 13 years ago
Pay up Calvin!
margueritem over 13 years ago
Never cheat a friend, calvin!
David Hamilton over 13 years ago
Never bet against a tiger! lol!
alviebird over 13 years ago
I don’t remember modeling for that third panel.
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
I think Calvin hates to lose as much as I still do.
Good to see you back, Marg!
Good morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!
DerkinsVanPelt218 over 13 years ago
Well played, Hobbes.
margueritem over 13 years ago
Thank you, Grog!
LittleSister18 over 13 years ago
Can I bribe Hobbes with a tuna fish sandwich and be safe.
rentier over 13 years ago
cutthroat, scrooge, skinflint……, patience, patience!
Marg is back, good morning!
Thebird55: Dad’s realy a strange model in the third panel!
pouncingtiger over 13 years ago
Hobbes knew he had the easy bet.
ratlum over 13 years ago
Havent we seen a grumpy,morning mouth unkempt Hobbes. Without man caught tuna ? Half payment of the bet is fair,Hobbes is only half right.
vibjyor over 13 years ago
Being heavier and stronger is not necessarily being ‘Perfectly Evolved’. There are other qualities too in the process of evolution.
But who is going to tell a tiger that ?
tbree over 13 years ago
Yeah, vibjyor, the “other qualities” being Teeth and Claws, as my cats so often remind me.
Kirokithikis over 13 years ago
There are a lot of good weapons that are not guns Calvin, and people have been hunting tigers for a lot longer than there have been guns. Spiked pits in front of a sacrificial lamb are very effective, as is poison on said lamb so I would say you won the bet Calvin.
crobinson019 over 13 years ago
Tigers hawk cereal as a way of fattening us up for lunch?
mac47 over 13 years ago
Don’t cheat Hobbes… uh Hobbes?
davidf42 over 13 years ago
Welcome back, Marg!
Kirokithikis - agreed.
florchi over 13 years ago
Hola marg: Welcome back! Please stop by FT today.
I repeat my comment from a couple days or so ago: “I am glad I am bigger than my cat.”
Ray_C over 13 years ago
My Tonk (in foreground at left) has the most ferocious yawn I’ve ever seen. He loves to show off those choppers. Glad we’re friends. The Siamese is dangerous only to socks and toy mice. Welcome back, Marg. We missed you.
cedes29 over 13 years ago
i don’t get the 3rd panel
vibjyor over 13 years ago
cedes29,
To Calvin, Dad looks like the ideal ‘CAT FOOD’.
Wiseguy411 over 13 years ago
Cedes29,
Dad is an incomplete evolution …
kab2rb over 13 years ago
I wasn’t gonna post. My question I think I missed on this strip. What was the bet about? Calvin to see his dad is not buffed? Hobbes why not ask for tuna fish.
midiranger over 13 years ago
Kab Buch – the bet was whether tigers are more evolved than man. One look at ‘morning Dad’ and Calvin knew he was lost. lol.
Marg, you had us worried, glad to have you back . .
cleokaya over 13 years ago
The worst thing about getting up in the morning is catching that first glance of myself in the mirror. It’s probably why it takes me a good three hours before I have the stomach for breakfast.
thirdguy over 13 years ago
Thanks for the warning Cleo!!!
CogentModality over 13 years ago
In order to even the playing field you would have to make the tiger equal to man in ability, or vice versa. Therein lies the fallacy of that argument as applied to any animal.
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
If evolution were true, Calvin’s descent from Dad would be a prime example of ‘punctuated equilibrium’ (at least according to Calvin)!
ejcapulet over 13 years ago
There’s a reason great Dane sized cats aren’t common pets… those are pumas. Housecats are only little because if they were bigger they could kill us!
Francine Long over 13 years ago
ejcapulet…..yes you are so right, they could and very often would kill us just because they were bored or got annoyed with us.
Talk about dog bites….if cats were the size of dogs, NOW you have real bites, and how about those wicked nails to gut you while chewing on your head?
Oh yeah! There is a reason why pet cats are the size they are.
Cat Lovers, don’t get all upset with my post. I have five cats that I share my home and often my bed with and one is laying on my desk watching me as I post this comment.
Love my kitties, but I’m so glad they are the sizee they are.
florchi over 13 years ago
Food for thought:
“God made the cat so man could pet the tiger.” (If that’s not the exact quote, you get the idea.)
Is it odd that cats hate water and love fish (especially tuna)?
Ray_C over 13 years ago
Exactly, Florchi, and the best way to do that is to give your cat a bath.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 13 years ago
Whose that handsome hunk in the third panel? :-D
HI MARG!
Florchi one of my cats loves water and hates fish!
junco49 over 13 years ago
Big guns big egos and big stupidity continue to undo the TIGER.
And regardless of my firm belief in evolution I could not resist:
William Blake
The Tiger
TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears, And water’d heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Ray_C over 13 years ago
Night-Gaunt, I think the novel you’re referring to is Wofen by Whitley Schrieber. I read it when I was about thirty years younger, and found it to be really creepy. Wolves that had evolved to hunt and eat mostly dying homeless people, if I remember right. They were highly intelligent and extremely fast. No one ever knew they were even there. A great read, if you can still find it.
khpage over 13 years ago
Ten cents is all that Dad had in his pajamas that morning. The One who made the lamb most certainly made both the tiger and us as well. Agree with NightGaunt - our opposable and wonderfully flexible fingers and hands, not to mention our incredible brains, have made us pretty fearsome too.
junco49 over 13 years ago
According to a recent documentary on tigers in India and the work done there to prevent their extinction, tigers do not prey on predators. The meat of predators is generally too rank for their taste. They will resort to it if nothing else is available, but they by far prefer herbivores. Humans have that same rank meat as predators and for the most part are not preyed upon. None-the-less tigers are a real threat to humans though they do not normally eat those they kill. Of course tigers and others sometimes do acquire a taste for human flesh and therefore become far more dangerous than most tigers.
bmonk over 13 years ago
Calvin agreed that Hobbes was right–but Dad was such a pitiful example that Calvin devalued his bet…
chamin over 13 years ago
I think tigers did not want to eat junk food so they did not invent guns :-p
cleokaya over 13 years ago
Thirdguy, I always am willing to be of service. Camera lenses can be used for years if not brought out in the morning around my household, except for the beauty of my dear wife.
Gretchen's Mom over 13 years ago
Don’t be too hard on your dad, Calvin. You don’t realize it yet but you’ve just gotten a glimpse into your “early-morning-look” future when you grow up!
rgcviper over 13 years ago
“Calvin and Hobbes” is probably the most imaginative comic I have ever read. It is wonderful.
alviebird over 13 years ago
What can you expect of a morning that begins with getting up in the morning?
Big cats like water. Just sayin’.
COWBOY7 over 13 years ago
Calvin’s poor eyes!
Frogman_tg over 13 years ago
Quick! Look and see if I am last????
bmonk over 13 years ago
Nope.
treBsdrawkcaB over 13 years ago
Tiger vs. Cheata…
Frogman_tg over 13 years ago
Shucks!