Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 12, 2024

Because the last several drinks just weren’t enough.

Dietrich Mateschitz’s yachts didn’t pay for themselves

Just imagine if he drank Adam@Home’s new coffee blend—loaded with sugar, of course!

Still won’t be enough to fly omnidirectionally.

Wow…such a beautiful creature.

Cal drinking caffeine is like mixing gasoline with nitro. Stand back.

If you don’t want him to consume highly sugared things like soda and chocolate cereal, Mom, here’s a wild thought: Don’t buy it. If it’s in the house it’ll end up in his mouth.

PS: Hummies beat their wings at UP TO almost 100 beats per second… which is actually faster than I thought.

We do feed the hummies: 1/4 cup of plain white sugar mixed with 1 cup of boiled (and still almost boiling) water. Nothing else, no red dye etc. Of course you must cool it to skin temperature or below before you make it available. Around here, most of them are Rufous, but we do occasionally see Annas.

Things go better with coke.

One little tidbit I had not noticed when the strip first came out: Watterson uses the term “soda pop”. Does this mean that Calvin and the family are from a part of the Midwest which uses the term soda pop instead of other regional terms such as simply soda (like we do here in FL), coke (as is used in much of the deep South), pop (in parts of the midwest) or even what one of childhood neighbors, a guy from the Boston suburbs said: tonic, etc…… The various regional dialects we have in the US are gradually blending away but some such terms are still popular in some regions and can be indicative of where in the US you grew up such as soda/pop/coke, freeway/highway, sneakers/tennis shoes, bubbler/water fountain/drinking fountain, crawfish/crayfish/mudbug, lightning bug/firefly, rotary/traffic circle, etc….. I think the NYT did a quiz on this where it asked you 3 questions and then told you 3 cities where it guessed you were from. Last time I tried it I was blocked by a pay wall but perhaps some readers know an alternate site?

Hummingbird beautiful. Calvinbird? Not so much………

Thirty years later, Calvin would be spokesman for Red Bull

At least, when Calvin rationalizes, he does it in style.

Since when it’s a crime to drink soda pop?

His drawings could have been placed in a Bird Field Guide book.

Boys and Birds…….two different needs!!!!

What an amazing coincidence and Blessing! The Count is right now having his first cups of coffee as the local hummingbird population is hitting the feeder hard this chilly morning. No kidding. The Count was thinking of it as Coffee with the Hummingbirds even before reading this comic. ❤️ sharing with you and Have a Blessed Day, all.

My wife can hear the hummingbirds cuss. I can only hear the beat of their wings.

I wonder what would happen if you added caffein to the feeder water, but I’m not saying to try it

We have one that lands on a wire that some flowers hang over and then hops along the wire from flower to flower!

Listen up to your Mom Calvin,…your kidneys will last longer.

You need to wait until you’re an adult, Calvin. Then you can ruin yourself with coffee and other people will celebrate you for it.

It’s amazing to me that hummingbirds can thrive on a diet of sugar water. No other birds do that afaik. No need for protein? Nice artwork btw.

Calvin is engaging in a bit of hyperbole. The speed of hummingbird wings ranges from 10 to about 80 beats per second, depending on the species, attaining speeds of 20 to 30 miles per hour and g-forces that would cause the average person to black out.

But there is no doubt that Calving can be quite hyper, even without the soda pop.

Tons of sugar and a hyperactive kid, gee! what could go wrong ;-)

When I was kid, a Coca-Cola was a rare and delicious treat. We were poor, so on those rare occasions we could convince Dad to buy some, he only bought 2 eight-ounce bottles for us four brothers.

When I worked as programmer for years, I would have a can of some soda sitting on my desk. Fortunately, my company’s insurance covered the cost of all those cavities.

Now that I am retired and watching my weight, I have not had a cola in a couple of years.

Multiple drinks of soda pop, Mom.

I have a Hibiscus plant in the patio and when the flowers bloom they attract hummingbirds, can’t wait for spring!

Bill must have grown up in the Midwest!

Texas translation – Coke. As in, “what kind of Coke would you like?” I’ll have a Dr Pepper…

Soda pop? That decides whether it should be called soda or pop. On the Oregon coast, where I grew up, it was pop.