Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 30, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    Just move to the right and let him through.

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    codycab  over 3 years ago

    Of course Calvin would know what a siren sounds like.

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    dadthedawg Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Kids need a…..mute button.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    oh, what did the mother need her son to come in for?

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    rentier  over 3 years ago

    My son cried such of loud, when he was a baby, it was not to bear!!

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Another sound from Calvin’s siren will cause mom to have chronic tinnitus.

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    Ahuehuete  over 3 years ago

    And people wonder why they only had one.

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    I would have enjoyed, I think, working with young children, before they get all twisted by society, but I simply cannot possible deal with their high-pitched (and loud) voices. Even with my own, the phrase “Use your INSIDE voice!” became very common at our house.

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    JudyHendrickson  over 3 years ago

    Calvin is the reason why birth control was invented!!!

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    Opus Croakus  over 3 years ago

    Every time I see the Emergency Alert System test on TV I’m reminded of this. https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/02/21

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    PaulAbbott2  over 3 years ago

    Yeah, he’s the only kid in history to make loud noises. What a monster.

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    jmworacle  over 3 years ago

    A bell might have been better.

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    The Reader Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I can’t wait for him to back up!

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    TampaFanatic1  over 3 years ago

    I bet the sound that Calvin made in this strip would be right up there with Jim Carrey’s “Most annoying sound in the world” from “Dumb and Dumber”. I wonder what Calvin can do for an encore?

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    M2MM  over 3 years ago

    I had one kid just like this. He’s improved over time, but still a brat. :D

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    Calvinist1966  over 3 years ago

    I have sometimes argued in support of Bill Watterson’s claim that he never saw Hobbes as a figment of Calvin’s imagination by pointing out that I wondered about this before Watterson confirmed this as Hobbes seems to know things that Calvin doesn’t know. Someone replied two days ago that I can’t provide any actual incidents where Hobbes has known something that Calvin couldn’t either know or imagine.

    One example I can give is the time that Hobbes was invited to Susie’s party and told he could bring “that dumb kid” if he must. Calvin and Hobbes were separated for a time while at the party. When they were reunited, Calvin hoped that there would be a good cake.

    Hobbes: I saw it earlier. It was chocolate.

    Calvin: Good! Did you get a slice?

    Hobbes: It was delicious!

    Susie called from outside the panel, “Hey! Who’s eaten my cake!”

    The suggestion was that Hobbes ate the cake and Calvin hadn’t even seen it but I expect that some people will insist that Calvin must have eaten the cake and therefore knew the answer to the question that he asked Hobbes.

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    tripwire45  over 3 years ago

    My five-year-old granddaughter likes to sneak up on me when I’m working in my home office. She’s terrible at it but it makes her happy when she thinks she’s “scared” me.

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    bbenoit  over 3 years ago

    You have to annunciate it out loud to get the full effect, give it a try!

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  over 3 years ago

    Calvin is unfamiliar with the expression: Children should be seen but not heard.

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    Alfyn Greengrass  over 3 years ago

    How the parents even get sleep is beyond me…

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I’m thinking some kids could be used as sirens. Particularly the squealers.

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    mountainclimber  over 3 years ago

    The letter size implies the Doppler effect. Very nice.

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    mistercatworks  over 3 years ago

    I have a cat who has a “siren meow” that means she’s coming back with prey. One day I listened to her “siren” for half an hour while she wrestled a dead rabbit over the back fence. In the wild, I’m sure it serves to get the kittens ready for their dinner.

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    Display  over 3 years ago

    It’s the sound needed in the maternity ward. If not the bedroom some months before.

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    KEA  over 3 years ago

    gee mom, he was just trying to be helpful %

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    DanWolfie  over 3 years ago

    LOL! I like to picture that Calvin’s legs are moving much faster in the second panel than in the first and third.

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    Calvins Brother  over 3 years ago

    A kid being a kid, get over it.

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    ChessPirate  over 3 years ago

    One of Sheldon’s “Car Games”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqh8PiCZCd4

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    verticallychallenged Premium Member over 3 years ago

    OTOH, if he’s silent, we know Calvin’s going to be in big trouble in three… two… one….

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    hagarthehorrible  over 3 years ago

    Keep it that way Calvin, if you do not want a sibling.

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    donwestonmysteries  over 3 years ago

    Give him a megaphone.

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    christelisbetty  over 3 years ago

    I have to disagree with Mom here, tornado warnings save lives.

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    rstove428 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    He drew in the Doppler Effect. Clever.

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    Troglodyte  over 3 years ago

    Don’t think Mom wishes to a-wail of his services!

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    ChrisTrey  over 3 years ago

    Babies and kids yelling and shreking make no sense. Pre-civilization humans barely had the means to protect themselves – a crying baby or yelling kid would be a tasty snack for the first large animal to hear it. According to evolution, we should have learned to be as quiet as possible as kids in order for the species to survive. Baby animals stay hidden and quiet so as not to attract predators, so why didn’t humans?

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I don’t know… it might be nice to know that they are coming.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    My siren goes off every evening at 5:29 – alerting me to turn off the tv before the national news begins.

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