Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 01, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    I don’t believe Calvin would surrender so easily.

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    Mr_Cool  over 3 years ago

    ……and the legendary Rosalyn makes her appearance……

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    ImDaRealAni  over 3 years ago

    I have classes that start after 6:30 !!! Swim practice was like 7:30-8:30 or 8:45…

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Calvin finds one’ s match.

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    codycab  over 3 years ago

    She should be getting more than 8 bucks dealing with Calvin.

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    Ahuehuete  over 3 years ago

    8 bucks a night? Wow, this strip really is old.

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    Crann Bethadh  over 3 years ago

    Buckle up, Rosalyn. He’ll soon figure out ways to be more challenging!

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    Bilan  over 3 years ago

    This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship – NOT!

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    Kali  over 3 years ago

    Welcome, Rosalyn!

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    Susan00100  over 3 years ago

    I wonder what became of Rosalyn in later years. Probably joined the US Marine Corps. and asked to be deployed to Afghanistan.

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    mwest  over 3 years ago

    Once upon a time long, long ago, I was babysitting some kids who lived up the street from us. It was just for a few hours in the afternoon but it felt like a short eternity in hell. I ended up calling my mom, and she came over and laid into those kids, then when their mom got home, she informed her I wouldn’t be babysitting for her any more. Fifty cents an hour was definitely not enough to put up with them! (Like I said, a long, long time ago…) This strip re-awakened that trauma.

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    pathfinder  over 3 years ago

    Wow eight bucks a night? I was getting more than that in 1956. Of course I was babysitting 4 children and one of them was still in diapers. I was 14.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Most convincing explanation I ever heard about anything: “Because I’m the mom, that’s why!”

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    uniquename  over 3 years ago

    Calvin should have eaten the note and then said, “Now what!?”

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    TSRaman  over 3 years ago

    An inspired speech in Frame-5, with rhyming words: … ANYTHING YOU SAY …SO STAY OUT OF THE WAY

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  over 3 years ago

    The babysitter has a note with emergency numbers from mom and she’s not afraid to use it.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Apparently, back in the day, child abuse wasn’t really all that bad if the child started it first.

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    gmu328  over 3 years ago

    and i’m surprised calvin didn’t tear up the paper and swallow it …

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    Calvinist1966  over 3 years ago

    The throwaway gag with Calvin and Hobbes putting on their army helmets reminds me of an early Rosalyn story arc which appears in “Something Under The Bed Is Drooling”. Rosalyn arrives at the house and two rubber darts narrowly miss her once Calvin’s parents leave. “Right, kid. Bedtime for Bonzo!”

    The suggestion is that both Calvin and Hobbes fired a dart at Rosalyn at the same time although one reader suggested that it was really Calvin firing a rubber dart gun in each hand. Watterson left it to our imaginations. Rosalyn, of course, blamed it all on Calvin.

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    mountainclimber  over 3 years ago

    I wonder how baby sitters are doing during COVID?

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Would this be the earliest appearance of Rosalyn?

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    momkastner  over 3 years ago

    I used to babysit for a “Calvin” – got $5 an hour when the going rate was .50. Until the day they came back to me having a black eye. I should’ve let the brat fall off the roof……..

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    hagarthehorrible  over 3 years ago

    Love mom’s call to the young lad. The desperation in her voice is poignant.

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    Scoutmaster77  over 3 years ago

    She’ll do well as an NCO, someday…

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Clever girl.

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    elliott.manning  over 3 years ago

    Back in the 1960s, I sat for three little Boys like Calvin for a total of 50 cents total!!!

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Sweet Rosalyn…

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    CHAD OCHOCINCO JOHNSON  almost 3 years ago

    102nd COMMENT!

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