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)
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.
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.
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.
BE THIS GUY over 3 years ago
They understand you quite well, sadly for them.
codycab over 3 years ago
What’s not to understand about a kid who constantly lives in imagination land?
dadthedawg Premium Member over 3 years ago
Let the folks get their own decoder rings…..
Templo S.U.D. over 3 years ago
sort of a pointless prize already, isn’t it?
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)
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…
in.amongst over 3 years ago
Of course, Calvin – parents do not ‘get it’ at all. They barely understand each other.
EasternWoods over 3 years ago
And you put a lot of effort into that
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.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 3 years ago
Love the two conspirators in panel three.
79nysv over 3 years ago
What would Calvin do if all of a sudden he had a new brother or (gulp) a sister.
The Reader Premium Member over 3 years ago
They cracked the code! Go to your room.
dcdete. over 3 years ago
What’s a decoder ring? Some kind of encrypted walkie talkie?
BigDaveGlass over 3 years ago
An addition to the arsenal of the G.R.O.S.S. Club….
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
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.
rentier over 3 years ago
They don’t understand you even without the ring!!
Red33410 over 3 years ago
“No that they anyway do.”
tremaine53 over 3 years ago
Oh, good! Now Calvin can tell Susie Derkins that she’s a snothead IN CODE!
wiley207 over 3 years ago
Love their faces in the third panel!
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.
Troglodyte over 3 years ago
We can understand why, Calvin.
Gent over 3 years ago
Oh no. Not that. Anything but that. Not a Starbucks Jones decoder ring.
nyscotsman1 over 3 years ago
That is one sneaky looking tiger!
Moh'slifelife over 3 years ago
Well The mom and the doesn’t don’t because hobbes only speaks to calvin
awcoffman over 3 years ago
Don’t they need two?
Sir Ramsey over 3 years ago
Hobbes and Calvin. Next criminal.
Sir Ramsey over 3 years ago
Why is the ring in the cereal? Why not in the box?
[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!
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.
ChessPirate over 3 years ago
(^¬ᴥ¬^) ( ͡¬ _ʖ ͡¬)
kathleenhicks62 over 3 years ago
That would really make them a mystery to mom and dad.
Jesquire over 3 years ago
I remember the baking-soda submarines. And the stick for multiplication tables.
Iseau over 3 years ago
I still have my Sky King magni-glow ring, 1949 I think.
christelisbetty over 3 years ago
With multiple kid families, Cracker Jacks were better, each kid could have their own box/prize.
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.
Grandmaster3 over 3 years ago
Calvin is a bit strange
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.
STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 3 years ago
What we have here is a failure to communicate! [Coo Hand Luke]
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.