Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 21, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    They understand you quite well, sadly for them.

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    codycab  over 3 years ago

    What’s not to understand about a kid who constantly lives in imagination land?

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    dadthedawg Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Let the folks get their own decoder rings…..

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    sort of a pointless prize already, isn’t it?

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    M2MM  over 3 years ago

    I never saw the point to those sorts of prizes. Now, the ones that gave you a full-sized chocolate bar certainly got my attention. (Yeah, it really dates me. :P)

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    I am pretty sure that most moms and dads understand most kids a LOT better than the kids believe. But maybe not Calvin’s parents…

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    in.amongst  over 3 years ago

    Of course, Calvin – parents do not ‘get it’ at all. They barely understand each other.

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    EasternWoods  over 3 years ago

    And you put a lot of effort into that

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    orinoco womble  over 3 years ago

    As a kid I never understood why mom changed our cereal so often. Now I get it; it was to avoid having enough box tops to send away for anything. By the time I was in fifth grade, she only offered us toast and chocolate or plain milk, and I had stopped eating breakfast at all. We were served lunch at 11 in my school, and I hated cold milk first thing in the morning.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Love the two conspirators in panel three.

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    79nysv  over 3 years ago

    What would Calvin do if all of a sudden he had a new brother or (gulp) a sister.

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    The Reader Premium Member over 3 years ago

    They cracked the code! Go to your room.

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    dcdete.  over 3 years ago

    What’s a decoder ring? Some kind of encrypted walkie talkie?

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    BigDaveGlass  over 3 years ago

    An addition to the arsenal of the G.R.O.S.S. Club….

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    Opus Croakus  over 3 years ago

    B-E S-U-R-E T-O D-R-I-N-K Y-O-U-R O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E

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    Looneytunes65  over 3 years ago

    There used to be a cereal that you could take off the box top and send it in, and they would send you a baseball. Don’t remember which one it was.

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    rentier  over 3 years ago

    They don’t understand you even without the ring!!

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    Red33410  over 3 years ago

    “No that they anyway do.”

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    tremaine53  over 3 years ago

    Oh, good! Now Calvin can tell Susie Derkins that she’s a snothead IN CODE!

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    wiley207  over 3 years ago

    Love their faces in the third panel!

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Sort of like encrypting the Microsoft licensing agreement. There may be something worth knowing, but who cares. Just do your thing.

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    Troglodyte  over 3 years ago

    We can understand why, Calvin.

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    Gent  over 3 years ago

    Oh no. Not that. Anything but that. Not a Starbucks Jones decoder ring.

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    nyscotsman1  over 3 years ago

    That is one sneaky looking tiger!

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    Moh'slifelife  over 3 years ago

    Well The mom and the doesn’t don’t because hobbes only speaks to calvin

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    awcoffman  over 3 years ago

    Don’t they need two?

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    Sir Ramsey  over 3 years ago

    Hobbes and Calvin. Next criminal.

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    Sir Ramsey  over 3 years ago

    Why is the ring in the cereal? Why not in the box?

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    [Unnamed Reader - f6a37a]  over 3 years ago

    Anyone here following Bloom County on Facebook with the C&H story line? Today’s episode is simply delicious!

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    Banjo Gordy Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Good Grief, I still have decoder badges. Secret messages always were "drink more Ovaltine. Best was the Atom Bomb Rings [go into a dark closet & see the sparkling lights] & Tom Mix Whistling Ring.

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    ChessPirate  over 3 years ago

    (^¬ᴥ¬^) ( ͡¬ _ʖ ͡¬)

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    kathleenhicks62  over 3 years ago

    That would really make them a mystery to mom and dad.

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    Jesquire  over 3 years ago

    I remember the baking-soda submarines. And the stick for multiplication tables.

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    Iseau  over 3 years ago

    I still have my Sky King magni-glow ring, 1949 I think.

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    christelisbetty  over 3 years ago

    With multiple kid families, Cracker Jacks were better, each kid could have their own box/prize.

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    buflogal!  over 3 years ago

    My parents did a good job of raising me but I always remained a mystery to them. Black sheep I guess.

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    Grandmaster3  over 3 years ago

    Calvin is a bit strange

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    hagarthehorrible  over 3 years ago

    The last text panel is just what I wanted to comment! BW went a bit more than he should have drawn.

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 3 years ago

    What we have here is a failure to communicate! [Coo Hand Luke]

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 3 years ago

    When I was a kid I had a wristwatch with glow-in-the-dark numerals. I was probably irradiating myself, but nobody knew any better way back then. They’d barely discovered water at the time.

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