Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 13, 2021

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    in.amongst  over 3 years ago

    Yay! Long live the systematic.

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    flagmichael  over 3 years ago

    First rule of paleontology: look for sedimentary rock formations. Only the fiercest dinosaurs left fossils in igneous rock.

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    codycab  over 3 years ago

    And yet he never has the time to do his homework.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Archeology for dummies.

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    Our yard looks a bit like that every once in awhile when the gopher population explodes…

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    eastern.woods.metal  over 3 years ago

    A man watches as the first worker comes along and digs a hole. When he’s finished digging he moves along and starts digging another hole. When he’s finished that one he moves along and starts a third hole. And then another. Then along cones a second worker and fills in each hole. Finally the man is overcome by curiosity and asks the worker filling in the holes what’s going on. The worker replies " Normally there are three of us. Joe digs the holes, Bob plants the trees and I follow along and fill in around the tree. Today Bob is sick but that’s not going to stop Joe and me from working"

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    If Calvin doesn’t find anything, he can always plant more saplings.

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    dcdete.  over 3 years ago

    I think it is strange that dinosaur bones are so rare and hard to find considering the dinosaurs lived for some 200 million years. You find people’s graveyards and burial sites practically everywhere you turn, even though humans have been around for less than a million years. Why, I just read that they found a burial site surrounding Stonehenge!

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    JudyHendrickson  over 3 years ago

    After seeing the mess this kid makes maybe they’ll dig a hole for him!!!!

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    dadthedawg Premium Member over 3 years ago

    It’s called systemic…..excavation.

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    orinoco womble  over 3 years ago

    Reminds me of the day my parents went off and left the 3 youngest kids alone in the house. My brother decided to dig a foxhole. In the front yard. By the time they got back it was chest deep to an 8 year old boy. Fireworks ensued, and I don’t mean the celebratory kind!

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    rentier  over 3 years ago

    Mum and Dad will be very happy!!

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    WittyWeasel  over 3 years ago

    Well, at least the yard’s ready this year’s crop.

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    FuriosoTheDog  over 3 years ago

    Mom is going to go crazy when she sees this!

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    Doug Taylor Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Better move that sapling farrrrrrr away before dad cuts a switch off it.

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    Casey Jones  over 3 years ago

    Actually, pretty accurate for an exploratory dig.

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    jagedlo  over 3 years ago

    I hope he remembered to call the gas company before he started digging!

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    bpscg  over 3 years ago

    The Badlands are in South Dakota, not Montana. No wonder he can’t find any fossils.

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    lmuller7  over 3 years ago

    Oh, The Apple tree !

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    The father wants to plant a garden and told Calvin there might be dinosaur bones in that area….

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  over 3 years ago

    Diggin’ a Hole by Big Sugar would be an appropriate song for this kind of activity.

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    MikeM_inMD  over 3 years ago

    Someone is getting ready for a trip to Camp Green Lake.

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    IshkaBibel1  over 3 years ago

    I live in an area built up with landfill from an old sand mine. I have hundreds of marine fossils I retrieved from the back alley when it was dug up to lay new water lines.

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    LeanderWallace  over 3 years ago

    Calvin, you better run or your Mom and Dad are going to kill you

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    Say What? Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “Holy backyard, Batman!”

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    Watchdog  over 3 years ago

    Calvin going to outer space again

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    mistercatworks  over 3 years ago

    When I was kid, there was a 12-year-old neighbor who would dig up holes in the back yard at night, then tell us next day that it was where a flying saucer landed. We would actually see him digging the holes. Don’t know what that was about. Probably grew up to be a cult leader or something. :)

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    ImDaRealAni  over 3 years ago

    Blame it on gophers!

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    Jogger2  over 3 years ago

    Reminds me of the movie Holes. A kid is wrongly convicted of theft. He’s sent to a boys’ detention camp. The warden has the boys dig in a dried up lake bed.

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    jessegooddoggy  over 3 years ago

    When I was about his age I dug a big hole in the garden trying to reach China. Mom and Dad were not amused.

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    BiggerNate91  over 3 years ago

    Diggy diggy hole

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    kathleenhicks62  over 3 years ago

    Everything is going smoothly until Mom or Dad steps in a hole, then THE END of Calvin.

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    felipenollaFFA  over 3 years ago

    Calvin is going to be featured in a future issue of National Geographic… posthumously,of course

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    sobrown51  over 3 years ago

    Bottom line guys and gals, if Calvin were well behaved or overly supervised this would not be a funny comic strip.

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    David_J Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I’ve read some papers that say the arrangement of some of the fossils found up in places like Montana and the Dakotas suggest they were placed there by the tsunami that originated down in the Gulf of Mexico, estimated to be a mile high.

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    DCBakerEsq  over 3 years ago

    Once, my childhood friends and I dug our way to China.

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    yangeldf  over 3 years ago

    you have to keep digging through the bedrock level, if you give up before getting through the soil all you’ll find are a bunch of roots and bugs

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    cleokaya  over 3 years ago

    You dig up that sapling and mom or dad can use it to tan your hide

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    briangj2  over 3 years ago

    “It looks as though all the moles in England had been let loose in it. I have seen something of the sort on the side of a hill near Ballarat, where the prospectors had been at work.”

    Dr. John Watson, “The Sign of Four”

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    theincrediblebulk  over 3 years ago

    With that many freshly dug holes, he police will have no idea where to dig to look for Calvin’s body.

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    hagarthehorrible  over 3 years ago

    A systematic starting is the first thing in any endeavours. By the time you grow up, you are sure to find some fossil someday. BTW Going deeper would be better bet than shallow pattern.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 3 years ago

    You have to work with what you’ve got…

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    davetb1956  over 3 years ago

    If only he was willing to work this hard doing homework.

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    phoenixnyc  over 3 years ago

    There are *good*lands in Montana?

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