Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 07, 2023

Let Hobbes track it down.

Whatever it is, it probably died in the washer.

Depending on where you live in the world this is alarming at different levels.

Did it just jump into Calvin’s pocket?

If you don’t want holes in your walls, a chancla might work better.

My mom used to find flattened, dried out worms in my pockets. :P

How many legs does it have?

Maybe it’s just an overripe banana. In that case, you might need a poinTED stick. (My apologies to Monty Python)

It’s in that escaping sock on the floor……..

Ya didn’t need gloves and a stick to put it IN your pocket !

Is it a squirrel, like out of that Ray Stevens song?

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU

And now for a song called “The Thing”

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=-1tKZ3flZZY

I’m wondering if he knows what it is, much less where.

♫ ♪ I don’t like spiders and snakes… ♫ ♪

What did you brought in the house this time, young man?

MY mother was NOT amused when she checked my jeans pockets and found a lizard. I was about 8 years old at the time and I wasn’t sure I’d live to be 9 after that little incident.

If I needed gloves and a stick to subdue it, I don’t think I would have stuck it in my pocket in the first place…

Great laugh today. What it was is left to the imagination.

A thingamasaurus.

When I was a kid me and my accomplice, I mean brother, found a bunch of Garter Snakes. Being polite kids we shared them with our friends to play with. My mom, wise in the ways of 6 yrs olds, wouldn’t let us in the house with the sack, we had to empty our pockets as well. Other mom’s along the block were more trusting of their children. My mom was getting calls for a week, different wash days you see, over that one.

The Count was thinking Calvin’s cell phone… channeling The Count last night when The Count could not find his cell phone and was going through pockets in the wet, half washed laundry in the washing machine.

In the “Calvin Zone”, the real and the imaginary are hard to separate, Eat your heart out, Rod!

If that’s how you feel about it, kid, why’d you bring it into the house in the first place?

Besides, if Mom found anything… surprising… half the neighborhood would have known by now.

Ok, I feel bad about it now. I used to collect lizards, Blue or Yellow bellied skinks (we called them), and especially Alligator Lizards. The Alligator’s had a great hiss, were fun to watch as they snapped at flying insects, and sometimes could slightly pierce your skin when they bit you. Fun!! I was allowed to keep them in the Apartment manger’s (my Mom) cellar Once in the cellar their cage got tipped and as my mom started up the stairs she saw one ahead of her and she claims it followed up the stairs. I question that though I did hear her screaming. I had to release then. . Of course one accidently got released in my room. Or maybe it followed me. The irony is years later my son wouldn’t even hold one I caught for him. I don’t bug them now, just smile when I see them protecting my yard from evil insects.

Based on Calvin’s words, it sounds like he had a snake, which leads me to ask “How did you get it in your pocket in the first place?”

He also doesn’t know what it is.

Instead of a stick, it probably could use some counseling

He doesn’t even know what it is.

When we were kids, my Mom would check our pockets before each load of laundry. The one time she didn’t there was a garter snake in my brother’s pocket. It did not survive.

He doesn’t even know what it is. He’s just jerking her chain.

Did one of Calvin’s aliens come through his space and time portal ??

Maybe Hobbes could find it, kill it, and drop it off at their front door. Something ALL cats do.

He could have just made it up to mess with mom.

My Dad was telling me earlier today when he took his cat our for his walk the cat was hissing and trying to get to something nearby and Dad tried to pull him back with the retractable leash but Biscuit just didn’t want to give in so Dad walked closer to see what he was hissing at and here it was a snake, here in North Central PA the snakes are usually hibernating by now but it has been in 60’s for about a week now, so Dad backed up slowly and Biscuit still wouldn’t come so Dad picked him up and ended up with a two inches cat scratch on his arm, he washed it out and put anitbotic ointment on it and told Biscuit that weren’t going in that area again.