Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 20, 2012

Gripping, but not a page turner.

hehehehe

Common elements in a boys daily encounters. They were bound to mix…

@Dogsniff: Heh Heh.I’ve never seen Calvin so attached to reading.

Click here: Peanuts (February 3, 1958)

I haven’t read that one. Is it a culinary book?

I hear that’s almost as good as duct tape.

GoComics StatisticsI see that the number of people who have joined GoComics during the five years of its existence has now passed one million.Greetings to Snoopster, one of our newest Calvin and Hobbes posters and perhaps our youngest. Snoopster is number 1,004,645.Among the earliest posters, Margueritem joined in 2008 and she was number 31,856. Thirdguy also joined that year, and Thirdguy was the 36,321st guy.If you want to know someone’s number (or your own), click on their name to view their profile. Their sequential number is at the end of their URL.By the way, the number of people who have signed up for Calvin and Hobbes over the past five years is now up to 198,000, making this the most popular GoComics strip. Of course, 197,000 of them may have drifted away by now…..197,001………..197,002……….197,003……….OK, so a few people found this post to be boring.

@leftwingpatriot: Heh Heh.

@rogue53: Heh Heh.

@margueritem: Heh Heh.

Good one.

A book suited to your taste, Calvin.

That mixture will hold him by the lecture!

Interesting figures Hobbes (Pro), but Marge is nothing compared to the early member that is you. For all we know, you might be the webmaster. I clock in at 32,029 which is earlier than many others on this page. Ages are another matter entirely.

A book made of gluons.

Hobbes, thank you for making the comment section of comics worth scrolling down and reading. Your inputs are usually well-timed, interesting and well written. Sometimes they’re better than the day’s comic, itself. Keep it up, Hobbes. You’re a bright spot in some people’s day.

We’re number 36,321!We’re number 36,321!Ok, so it isn’t quite the same as saying “We’re number 1”

Thanks for the info Hobbes!

Calvin might be reading “50 Shades of Grey.” Nobody wants to turn the next page on that one…the pages are all stuck together. Signed, 920806

Actually, peanut butter is used to neutralize the adhesive properties of chewing gum. Parents use peanut butter to get the gum out of children’s hair. Mixing the two should have allowed Calvin to release the book easily. There would be oily splotches on the pages and the cover from the peanut butter, but Calvin would not stick to it.

Thanks, Hobbes. And now to quote a Bob Seger song, I Feel Like A Number – and mine is 279,143.

ew wewwww……!!!!!

Thanks, Jaddis, I really appreciate your comment, and I enjoy reading everyone else’s comments. This morning I am deeply saddened to learn about the mass shooting in Colorado.

@margueritem,“Stuck on You” – ElvisYou hit the nail on the head, although with duct tape you don’t need a nail!Quack doctors use ‘duck tape’!

Calvin you might get Bazooka Joe to help you with that. Should have it cleaned up in a Jiff.

I love everyone’s comments! Such fun to read and interesting too. I have recommended that my friends start reading so they can get a laugh as well. thanks to all of you who contribute!

@LX013,“…here people hardly know and use peanut butter!”You really ’jar’red me with that ‘scoop’! My bubble gum almost stuck to the roof of my mouth. I had thought peanut butter use was universal, and eaten by everyone who is ‘well-bread’. I just thought I’d ‘sandwich’ …jam, even (Snagglepuss) that jocularity into the mix.I’ll send Jimmy Carter with his Planters in a Jif. Surely he can negotiate ‘grounds’ for cultivating a liking for peanut butter there.P.S. You can even eat peanut butter in your “Teddie”! I almost ’Skippy’ed’ right by that one!

Calvin this doesn’t surprise me because kids are always sticky anyway. Well at least mine seems to be.

PS: My number is 373,630 Wonder how much time I’ve spent here since I joined. But I’ve made some good friends, and I really don’t follow many comics.

No hidden agenda here. Just a typical sticky kid.

Ewwwwwwww!

LOL xxx

Peanutbutter and bubblegum:ingredients for stickiness.

Peanut butter,bubble gum,a good book.Need to wash your hands noo.I do not want to borrow your book.Besides I have Kindle.

Were I Calvin, I’d be tempted to give Hobbes a hug after a comment like that.

Thank you, Hobbes, for your contributions to the comments.

 

I love your “recent favorite” on your profile — one of my favorites, too. And it is an appropriate thought on this day of tragedy.

@The Snoopster: You da Snoop! I was talking about you. Click on your name in your posting above. It will take you to your profile page. Then look at the Web address (URL) at the top of the screen. You will see that you are GoComics user number 1,004,645. You’re one in a million!

@Astute Social Observer: My low number is misleading, because I joined the site in 2008 but I didn’t post for the first two-and-a-half years.

@MagicFan: Welcome! Maybe you are the closest to number 1,000,000 of the current posters on Calvin and Hobbes.

Not only gripping, but also ripping as well…

@The Snoopster: No kid should ever have to go through an experience like what happened in Colorado last night. It will affect everyone who was in that theater, for a long time. I hope that all of their families and friends will be supportive and understanding in the months and even years ahead.

this reminds me of Christmas Vacation, Chevy reading a magazine in bed, lot of sap, lot of sap.

I am 42627.

@Hobbs 955772 Sad for Colorado. Thanks Hobbs for all the advice you give to those of us that don’t know that much about computers. Sometimes I wonder if you were invented by Al Gore.

I guess I’m 88,128, which is still rather low. Compared to 1,000,000+. And nearly 14k comments.

Did some checking…there is no Number 01. However #02 is “dsparling”, who doesn’t seem to have posted since 2007. Lo, thine eyes are saddened to have parted e’er knowing you anon. Prayers for Colorado; they’ve been through a lot.

Welcome Snoopster!

@Lovecraft: It’s a good idea to know your number, just in case we all attend a GoComics convention someday, and they ask us to all line up in order.Click on your name, in blue, in the posting that you just wrote to me (single click, left mouse button).Your profile page should open up. Near the top of your screen you will see the Web address (URL) of your profile page: www.gocomics.com/profiles/719310.Your number is 719310.Click on the back arrow to return to the comments page.

Thanks, Popeyesforearm. But you forgot to mention that I’m also one of the key contributors to making it a nuthouse.:>)

the funniest thing is that I’m looking at an ad on this page right now for a Kindle Fire. I don’t even want to THINK about what would happen to one of those in Calvin’s hands!

@Saucy1121: You signed up on the same day as Margueritem, and you probably beat her by a few hours! It was July 1, 2008.

@Hobbes…er…so, did today’s strip bore you? Had to find something else to occupy our minds? Lack of focus could be early-onset-Halfzheimers.

The mix is a pop-up.

I’m 771,298…

We must OK people that live in another world because of disability of some kind but curb your stupidities if you can.

Back to bubble gum and peanut butter

Calvin hates reading and any kind of education, right? So why did he pick up a book in the first place?

Alas, what we all hoped for—and dreaded—has finally occured: 4-D books!I didn’t think they would be so messy, though.