Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 27, 2010

I can go with that!

That’s how Hobbes earned his stripes.

Sluurp ! Lick ! Sluurp ! I have done that :)

Running food!

Surprised food! :D

How does a Tiger get surprized if he’s in a zoo???????????Close his eyes at mealtime

YOUR RIGHT, GEE, THANKS SB………

Calvin’s cone is running.

Exactly the way I like to eat my icecream. But being mom I often do not do that because I want to be an example for my children!

Standing still and screaming bloody murder would be just as entertaining to Hobbes… which is usually how he catches Calvin anyway.

When I first read this comic, I stopped eating my ice cream cones any other way.

So both Calvin and Hobbes have something in common with their food choices. Don’t suppose Calvin would be very interested in a bowl of ice cream.

Some years ago, Reader’s Digest reprinted an article called “How to Eat an Ice Cream Cone” (from the book, if memory serves, How to Do Things Right). It’s just as entertaining as Calvin’s way and a whole lot neater, more efficient and more polite.

Not (as the nifty artwork with the article confirmed) that this means anything to a six-year-old… :)

BUT… I’ve never eaten an ice cream cone any other way since.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Agree Hobbes. Preying for Tuna Fish sandwich includes a lot of sweating.

Last night my Maple Walnut cone dripping on the clean sterile hospital floor provided better medicine for my friend in bed than any medication or preparation the doctors had. Wonder if they’ll search me tonight?

Never I’ll give up and miss Calvin and Hobbes It’s finest of fine!

The messier it makes the better it tastes.

Our ice cream shop puts a square of chocolate in the waffle cone’s inside bottom so it doesn’t get soggy and drip. It’s the big county fair day today so we’ll be going past it, “Yipee!”

What an ingenious (and tasty) idea, Dino-1! I’ll have to remember that trick…altough wouldn’t a circle of chocolate work even better? :)

Although the worst I ever had was great, the important question about ice cream is what flavor do you favor. Here’s one vote for Blue Bell’s Banana Split.

I like this kid

Try your nose next time

SES1066 commented here yesterday while we were talking about Tumbleweeds about Rick O’Shay by Stan Lynde. I have seen Latigo by Stan Lynde on http://riphaywire.com/latigo/ if that’s any consolation.

Sandfan I like Moose tracks!!! :D

Calvin, you put nutrition before entertainment! I had thought that nutrition was near the bottom of your concerns.

“That’s why we tigers like our food surprised and running.” What does that have to do with nutrition, Hobbes? …except for you after/if you catch and eat it. Have you ever seen a tuna surprised and running? Do you prey/pray for it? That would be a mackerel, er, I mean miracle. I was really fishing for a pun with that one! “…surprised and running.” Are we back to eggs again? Isn’t that eggscessive?

I wouldn’t expect anything else from you, Calvin.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

I like Moose tracks too, LeslieAnne! We have something (more) in common. I add my own bananas, sandfan, …and nuts, peanuts, raisins, whole-grain cereal, etc. I don’t often eat cones, especially Calvin’s way. It’s way too sloppy for me.

You can’t beat the taste of surprised pronghorn………..

Black Cherry is my favorite ice cream - there’s a shop where I live that adds them fresh into the mix when they serve it - scrumptious .

I’m with you.. I like mine in a bowl with a spoon… My OCD side just can’t handle the mess! hehe And can we table the eggs… or make them eggstinct?? PLEASE :)

Oh those eggstinct will happen with what’s been on news lately wonder if restaurants will stop serving them.

I get ‘edgy’ with Calvin’s perpetual ‘preachiness’, and it’s self-serving, to boot, although “Once in a While” I get a kick out of it. “I Get a Kick out of You”. The ‘preachiness of any stripe’ belongs to Hobbes, not to mention zebras, skunks, ‘mangy’ polecats, etc.. Clean and wholesome rocks!

hey! i did that too!!!!!! and love Hobbes’ last comment. too good!!

Well Calvin, eating icecream from the bottom of the cone is very creative. But i think eating it from the top of the cone is boring. From the bottom you can do anything. You could hold the cone up higher so it’s like a fountain of icecream coming in to your mouth. Or tilt the icecream cone so it’s like a “icecreamfall” into your mouth. Theres endless idea’s to create.

Hey Johanan,

Thanks for the neat animated gif! Luv it!

yo jackdohany. What’s up

Of course Hobbes like’s his food surprised and running. It makes good use of his “mandibles of death”

Any woman who eats a cone like this is a keeper :)

I was teaching my 3 year old grandson how to bite a hole in the cone and get the drips from the bottom when both my wife and daughter in law screamed NO. No fun being grown up.

My OCD side might have to keep the egg yolks ‘running’. :o) If there’s a ban on eggs, there will be poachers! I hope eggs will remain eggstant. Calvin needs them for their nutritional benefit. Dodo eggs are eggstinct, however …or are they? When I see one, will I have to ‘hatchet’? ‘Henny’ Youngman: “Take my wife, …please! There’s brevity for you, Johanan!

Apropos of nothing whatsoever:

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. Doug Larson

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. Fred Allen

The goodness of the true pun is the direct ratio of its intolerability. Edgar A. Poe

Hobbes likes his food “surprised and running” … that’s absolutely hilarious!!!!!

Bill Watterson … you are the best!!!!!

I suddenly have a craving for Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food.

Yummm…

Nothing as good as ice cream running all over the place,< butter scotch> My cat is always chasing rabbits never catches one,too fat. So I think Hobbes would prefer rabbits . My cats name is TiggerToo.

@Lewreader. Maple walnut is my favorite but I have to drive three and a half days to get some. Evidently Blue Belle and Blue Bunny don’t think it would go over in OK. I have made my own, though. And while I have your attention: Your avatar looks like a gorilla head and face to me. Always startles me. Can you pose your big cat in some other direction? Anyone else see what I see?

CALVIN FOR PRESIDENT!

i like edgy

some soft-boiled types like eggy

eggscruciating

@Mythreesons, I totally see it! I never realized until you said something that it was a cat…

I don’t post often, not because I think you are all eggnorant, nor do i think you will eggnore me, I just like reading everyones eggcerpts as it provides me a pleaasant eggscape from the doldrums of work. I do have to make an eggception. I think the yolks about our little easter decorations are eggagerated and I am a-Fried that we a-poached the limit of puns. I might have hard-boiled some of You, and for that I ask that you eggscuse me. If not, I appreciate you sunny-side-up chocie and affer a toast, thank you, and don’t forget to tip

Love it! Now I REALLY want some ice cream …

Yes, I want some ice cream too!!!! I got some appatite!

Eggs are out again!

DU55!!! AWESOME!!!!! Well done!

Black walnut ice cream. Haven’t even THOUGHT about it, much less eaten any in more years than I can remember, since I saw the cartoon today. Yesteryear delight, fer sure….

du55. … don’t be a chicken… eggsplain Please ..

Hey Calvin, I thought I had the patent on nibbling the hole in the tip back in 1959! And I thought it was far neater than licking drips all around the rim, only to end up with bites of exploding soup at the end. Took me a long time to finish a cone, though.

You can’t suck Maple Walnut out of a hole in the bottom tip, but so what - it’s so tasty I don’t mind skipping the technique to get the flavor. I feel sorry for you in Oklahoma - here in the Northeast people get real serious about their maple, and if Maple Walnut weren’t widely available there’d be a revolt, or worse.

Being a vegetarian, I’m not so fond of this solution for dripping ice cream cones, but I pass it on for the rest of you: place a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of the cone before scooping in the ice cream. Even Martha Stewart approves…

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Oh! Coool! A quadruple flag on the play!