Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 27, 2010

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    PetrusS  over 14 years ago

    This was to be expected…

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    Let’s see if your wish comes true, Hobbes

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    Tineli  over 14 years ago

    Oh, I feel with you, Calvin. I’m looking for someone, who’s fault it is, when I broke something, too.

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    WoodEye  over 14 years ago

    Anything can be fixed with Gorilla glue… and maybe a little duct tape. Or duck tape if you are from the south.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    Calvin’s disappointment is really showing now!

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    rentier  over 14 years ago

    It’s always the fault of someone other, God, when you can find nobody else!

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    ‘Morning Mike Firesmith and Puppy Boy!

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    ladywolf17  over 14 years ago

    The agony continues!

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    Mishaps build character……and vocabulary.

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    alviebird  over 14 years ago

    When I was about 4 I was riding my tricycle and watching my cousin, across the street, instead of what I was doing. When I took a spill, I got up and shouted, “Look what you made me do!”

    It made sense to me. If I hadn’t been looking at him I wouldn’t have wrecked, so of course it was his fault. That’s what I told myself. But I must have known better. Why else would I remember it?

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    Yukoner  over 14 years ago

    It’s okay Calvin, even though you vent on Hobbes he’ll still be your friend.

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    Yukoner  over 14 years ago

    Good morning to all you Calvin fans.

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    COWBOY7  over 14 years ago

    Calvin, might as well look in the mirror when you blame Hobbes!

    Hi, y’all!

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    kreole  over 14 years ago

    Lonewolf –(above) —about the mirror—looks like you’re the only one who really gets it.

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    whims  over 14 years ago

    Calvin could score points for the ‘willed him to do it’ argument if he jumped into the septic tank at this point, but this probably isn’t crossing his mind.

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    carmy  over 14 years ago

    Back to the cereal bowl!

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    pineapplehoney  over 14 years ago

    Its ok Calvin! Eat another four packs and order for another Beanie. But remeber to learn from your mistake and be careful next time. The wait would be worthwhile

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    moronbis  over 14 years ago

    how can God let this happen to Calvin? why doesn’t he have a more docile friend?

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    jgcp1  over 14 years ago

    This is one of Waterson’s best arcs. What it says about life and how we deal with it puts it right up there with the “meaning of life” strips.

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    harrietbe  over 14 years ago

    “Subliminal”… Wow! That’s a heck of a word for a kid his age.

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    black_knight15_au  over 14 years ago

    Check the underneath. Bet is says “Made in China”

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    Rakkav  over 14 years ago

    Calvin is saying more than he knows. Hobbes is his psychological Shadow made manifest, and right now under stress, making the conscious Calvin jump into the septic tank’s probably the least damage he’d wish on him.

    In simpler words, Lonewolf is right. In blaming Hobbes, Calvin ironically blames himself.

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    rentier  over 14 years ago

    Marg: This wish comeing true would not be so pleasent for Calvin!

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    mike.firesmith  over 14 years ago

    Morning Marg!

    Morning Fran and Shep-Mutt-Mix!

    Poor Calvin. I wonder if he will go for another one and another wait?

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    JTGAM  over 14 years ago

    Good morning everyone! This is priceless! I love the gestures and facial expressions. And that “aaarrrggghhh!” is so Charlie Brown. Poor Calvin, the old saying “You’ve only got yourself to blame” is so true here when Calvin blames Hobbes.

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    unemandarine  over 14 years ago

    I know people who still do this, blame others for their mistakes…

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    Plods with ...™  over 14 years ago

    99% of politicians, *unemandarine *

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    KEA  over 14 years ago

    It’s Notme’s fault. (according to Bil Keane)

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    PTui2  over 14 years ago

    Tigers are a woeful lot. Blamed for what is and also what’s not. The guilt lies within and not from without. Thanks be to tigers, who’ve figured it out.

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    agpeter  over 14 years ago

    I know, Calvin! Blame the President! Everyone else does…

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    stuart  over 14 years ago

    @BlackKnight15 - I always look for electronics made in Taiwan. Almost as cheap as China, but much better made and long lasting.

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    DolphinGirl78  over 14 years ago

    Good Morning to ALL!!!

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    Unclebup  over 14 years ago

    AH ha! Now I know what Calvin will be when (if) he grows up… a Lawyer. Always looking for someone else to blame.

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    jslabotnik  over 14 years ago

    He will probably go for another one, eat all the cereal, only to be denied as the offer expired.

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    mrslukeskywalker  over 14 years ago

    We WILL you to duct tape it!

    Imagine if he got into the epoxy?

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    ninmas  over 14 years ago

    “all sanity is lost.”

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    fran650  over 14 years ago

    Smiles for everyone.

    Septic tank. Interesting touch.

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Hobbes, can you will the broken piece to be fixed and the beannie put together? Not that you’d want to but can you?

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    davidf42  over 14 years ago

    I agree that this is one of the best C&H arcs ever.

    And agpeter - No, blaming the former president is the thing now.

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    lewisbower  over 14 years ago

    My better half and me can’t decide which of us is Calvin and which is Hobbes. Look what you made me do.

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    paullp Premium Member over 14 years ago

    We don’t appreciate it when we’re six, but eventually these experiences can teach us to handle the things that wind up in our hands with greater care, whether they’re material goods or immaterial things (like friendships and people’s feelings). Without such lessons we may risk doing damage on a larger and greater scale than Calvin did to his beanie. Wonder if he ever grew up to understand that lesson.

    Yes, he knows a lot of big words for his age, and seems knowledgable beyond his years. That’s one thing he has in common with the Peanuts gang. Calvin also does algebra in school and creates the most amazing snowman sculptures (granted, they look like they belong in the front yard of the Addams family). Aren’t comic strips fun!

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    calpal10  over 14 years ago

    Oh the pain of waiting so long and then having it break….I can feel his pain

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    BigHug  over 14 years ago

    Oh it’s much easier to blame someone else.

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    Poladog  over 14 years ago

    Forget about buzzing over Suzie now. Besides the way that Calvin creates his snowmen, I’m sure Calvin can build a better beanie himself

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    madampresiden12  over 14 years ago

    In most families today, the kid would show it to mom or dad who would get on the phone to the company and threaten to sue them if they didn’t overnight another one. When we were kids my mom would sit us down and explain how you never get anything for nothing. I was always trying to get her to buy cereal for the junk inside, but I hated cereal and wouldn’t eat it. My brother only ate shredded wheat, so I was up the creek as far as cereal premiums went.

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    bald  over 14 years ago

    my favorite t-shirt said

    “i didn’t say it was your fault, I said i was going to blame you”

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    cleokaya  over 14 years ago

    I love panel 3. With all Calvin’s slugging, he proves to be nothing more than a minor annoyance to Hobbes.

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    musicnut1986  over 14 years ago

    rac0308 said, several ticks of the atomic clock ago,

    “99% of politicians, *unemandarine *”

    You beat me to the punch. I thought to myself while reading the strip that Calvin could have a successiful career as a politician. Always take credit when events are good and blame others when events go to the septic tank.

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    treBsdrawkcaB  over 14 years ago

    …and for all those who don’t know or remember the story line, Calvin didn’t really break it as we will see tomorrow. He’s just panicking. Again, more life commentary by Waterson - how immature people who don’t carefully consider what they’re doing or know the facts, driven by a sense of urgency, will blame anything and anyone else for their own incompetence and failure. They fail to realize that the path that they are on will only create more damage until the wake up to the truth and course-correct.

    WOW! Sounds just like our liberal administration and Congress!

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    billdi Premium Member over 14 years ago

    hey backwards – that’s precisely what what we were subjected to by the right wing, conservative administration for eight years. when it comes to inane blather the tea party and the becks and palins of the world win easily every time.

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    Captain_Commando  over 14 years ago

    agpeter said, “I know, Calvin! Blame the President! Everyone else does…”

    By “everyone else” you mean Gary Trudeau, right?

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    twistedhumor  over 14 years ago

    One of life’s learning experiences, you get what you pay for. Hopefully Calvin will have learned something from this, NOT!

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    dflak  over 14 years ago

    It’s Bush’s fault.

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    Puddleglum2  over 14 years ago

    “C’mon Lizzie,… open up!” as Calvin did, and take your medicine! “It’s good for you.”

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    cicirivas21  over 14 years ago

    nice going calvin you just had to break the beanie lol priceless.

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    Puddleglum2  over 14 years ago

    “Do all things without murmurings and disputings:” Philippians 2:14 …especially with your own ‘subliminal’ self.

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    coffeeturtle  over 14 years ago

    eat ‘em, Hobbes!

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    seanachie  over 14 years ago

    Good post PTui2! It’s always nice to find a post here from someone who actually has something to say.

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    bmonk  over 14 years ago

    Calvin is just getting to his favorite hobby–fighting with Hobbes. (Isn’t that the real rule of Calvinball, and Get Rid Of Slimy girlS, and other such activities?)

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    alviebird  over 14 years ago

    Hey, Coffee-Turtle,

    Looking at panel three, I thought for a minute that he just might.

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    bmonk  over 14 years ago

    Somehow I can’t really see Calvin as a lawyer. More a scientist type, or author, or even an artist.

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    ratlum  over 14 years ago

    Blaming Hobbes makes as much sense as blaming a politician Hobbes is Calvin imaginary friend and politicians are our collected wishes of some one to do what I want .again imaginary

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    McLovin92  over 14 years ago

    It’s funny how people blame others for there mistakes. Calvin needs to learn to take responsibility for his own actions.

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 14 years ago

    I wish the people here that knows how a story goes (like this one, for instance) would please quit spoiling it for the rest of us who either didn’t read it the first time around or maybe saw it the first time around but don’t remember how it goes because it’s been so long since it first appeared.

    Thank you!

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    benbrilling  over 14 years ago

    Time to start eating more cereal.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Hey agpeter – must be the Obeanie

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    khpage  over 14 years ago

    Calvin is getting early training to be either a lawyer or a politician, or both. His alter ego qua the great unwashed public, is blowing him off, of course.

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    will.lowe  over 14 years ago

    Why doesnt calvin buy the cereal and cut out the boxes and eat the cereal over time???

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    Tommygunn369  over 14 years ago

    whats really funny isall the people that post a comment about a 20 year old comic strip, duh ha ha ha ha

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    JTGAM  over 14 years ago

    20 years old it may be but that just goes to show it’s ageless. The story still speaks to us. Or what? People who are in book clubs aren’t allowed to comment on Tom Sawyer?

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    paullp Premium Member over 14 years ago

    GretchensMom, you make a good point. As one who has occasionally done that, I will forthwith refrain.

    Tommygunn369, Calvin and Hobbes is one of the best comic strips of all time, and fans will still be enjoying it and commenting on it a hundred years from now!

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    alviebird  over 14 years ago

    I think it’s alright as long as the post has a ‘Spoiler Alert’ in the first line.

    I hereby officially propose this for consideration.

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 14 years ago

    It always amuses me how the majority of “spoilers” that get posted have the story wrong!

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    spiritoflionelhutzlives Premium Member over 14 years ago

    …Sue Calvin Sue!…We can bring a law suit against the manufacturer, and maybe even Hobbs too…

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    Dry and Dusty Premium Member over 14 years ago

    So SOTU is gone! Don’t bring it to Calvin and Hobbes.There are plenty of political strips you all can go to!

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    JTGAM  over 14 years ago

    Amen! And good night all!

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    Fastfur07  about 6 years ago

    Calvin being Calvin. (Also me sometimes.)

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