Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 18, 2010

sometimes people don’t belief you, when you tell the truth!

He bounces back fast…

I’ve said stranger things and expected to be believed.

An example of a mother’s revenge.

margueritem turned in early. Carry on guys!

Heavens! Where are my manners????

Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy!

Good Morning L’Wolf!

Calvin’s not a weirdo!

Maybe it ts we adults who are the weirdos and the six year olds are the ones in touch with reality. Just a thought.

Good mornin’ gang, Hobbes is still around to identify the “usual suspects”…………..

Help them out, Calvin!

G’Morning, Marg & Mike!

That wasn’t nice of the officier to call Calvin a wierdo. Kids look up to policeman and he probably feels even safer thinking he’s there to help get things back to normal again.

Mandibles of death - hahaha… the thief certainly got scared… officer, listen to Hobbes’ version..

BUT WAS THE PROPELLER BEANIE STOLEN???????

@Dino-1 - the cop didn’t call Calvin a weirdo out loud - he was thinking it to himself. That’s a thought bubble, not a speech bubble.

That’s quite a coping mechanism you have there, Calvin. Can I borrow it?

yeah,well, ya gotta get to know someone before you can call someone wired.

samnike: Thanks I didn’t realize that he didn’t say it out loud.

“Mandibles of Death!” A great line!

Dad! Dad! Did you tell the cop he stole those plants you were growing in the basement?

I was looking forward to Marg’s comment this morning. Darn.

I think Hobbes was hiding under the covers the whole time, Calvin.

Now we know Mom’s name! We’ve heard it before, too.

Good morning all! And good one Puddleglum2. I never thought about that. Glad to see Calvin’s back to his old self. I can’t wait to hear Hobbes’ version.

Hobbes was under the covers the whole time, Calvin. You should have conferred with him before making these unsubstantiated comments!

Johanan Rakkav, I assume you are jesting, since Calvin’s form of coping is unrealistic, as is often the case. He seems to be compensating ineffectively. “Compensate implies a making amends for or supplying a recompense for whatever has been suffered or lost through another;”

At least he’s got the nice side of the weirdos this time.

I think Calvin’s dad is the weirdo.

Yukoner: You may have a point… especially after the week I just had… :D

What is worse than spamming? A. double post spamming.

Tigers got mandibles?

Can’t wait to see what he tells the claims adjuster!

LOL! Mandibles of death!

Good Morning Mike Firesmith and Loki.

How wonderful. Calvin giving Hobbes the Hero treatment. Is there a parade in Hobbes future?

I think it’s wonderful for a child to have that much faith in his toy tiger. This shows Calvin DOES have a loving side to him :-) Hooray for you, sweet child.

Right now Calvin feels the immense joy of not having lost the thing he feels is most important to him … just like any other kid. His unbridled enthusiasm is wonderful; I don’t think the policemen is referring to Calvin, though …

Those mandibles of death have a real effect when inflicted from under the bed.

I hate to say it, but I rather doubt that Hobbes would be able to identify the burglars. He wouldn’t have seen much from his vantage point under the covers. Not to mention that he was probably asleep the whole time.

On the other hand, Calvin is probably right in that the burglars were scared off by the presence of a tiger in the house – asleep or not.

Personally, I prefer to let sleeping tigers go on sleeping.

There’d be burglar bones all over the place had he made a move on the comic books and tuna fish.

I would make short work of that burglar.

Ray C said, “Tigers got mandibles?” Mandibles of death sounds ‘grrrrreat’ until you get picky about it (in good humor). As you might know, mandibles is used especially of the jaws of beaked animals, as birds. In arthropods, mandibles are the interior pair of mouth appendages which often form strong biting jaws. We can give Calvin some ‘poetic’ license here for effect.

Calvins world and the real today world sometime do not mix too well. I like Calvins world the best the other is too dull.

YAWN, ‘morning, all! Congratulations, LX013!

Douda said, “This shows Calvin DOES have a loving side to him :-)” Since Hobbes is really ‘Calvin’s other self’, he has a loving side to him(self). However, it appears obvious that you have a loving side to you, and a smile face to boot so I won’t find fault. Have a ‘grrrrreat’ day!

Snoopy said, “I’d make a lousy ant..” Cheer up, Snoopy! Humans can’t make ants at all, and only God can make a good ant! BTW, Snoopy was really fascinated by the ants for their scurrying busyness and energy as opposed to his lazy idleness. I guess that’s where we get the term “dogging it”.

It makes you wonder if a personal experience for the Watterson household was behind this arc.

Marg, we already missed you! Are you tired? I am so tired too all day long!

We report; you decide:

1 a : jaw 1a; especially : a lower jaw consisting of a single bone or of completely fused bones b : the lower jaw with its investing soft parts c : either the upper or lower segment of the bill of a bird 2 : any of various invertebrate mouthparts serving to hold or bite food materials; especially : either member of the anterior pair of mouth appendages of an arthropod often forming strong biting jaws

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mandibles

sam.nike said: @Dino-1 - the cop didn’t call Calvin a weirdo out loud - he was thinking it to himself. That’s a thought bubble, not a speech bubble.

Be that as it may … how’s the cop going to take this whole break-in seriously if he doesn’t take the victims seriously??? Weirdos? Really???!!! Dad is acting normally in reporting what’s missing and Calvin’s 6 years old … with a 6 year-old’s vivid imagination! What’s so weird about that???

I also thought the officer was speaking out loud. Thanks for the clarification.

Come’on, let’s see this sequence from Hobbes’s view!

Pfft, I’m so relieved Hobbes is back. Calvin is right–Hobbes scared away the robbers.

LX013 I’ve been getting up at 5:00 to do my 18 mile bike ride. The lack of sleep caught up with me yesterday, and I had no time to take a little nap. Do you get enough sleep at night?

Since when is a little boy who believes his tiger is ferocious a “wierdo?”

Sadly those spammers will never go away. Wish we could go where they are and spam them there.

Dino I for one like your stories. As for the officer not very professional at all. Regardless of thinking not properly do his job.

Marg: I didn’t get enough sleep and so I have been tired all day long!

Calvin’s already back to normal.

A 6-year-old who thinks a stuffed animal is real??? What a weirdo! Cop mustn’t have kids…