Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 17, 2012

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    BE THIS GUY  over 12 years ago

    With friends like Hobbes, who needs…

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    The#1BoiseStateFan  over 12 years ago

    He could have just done Calvinball

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    cookies333  over 12 years ago

    He’s an animal Calvin, of course he took their side!

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    That’s mean! Poor Calvin!

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    This punishment is too cruel!

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Click here: Peanuts (June 2, 1960)

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    mithungo  over 12 years ago

    That stings Hobbes.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    So, did Calvin put himself up there dangling from the tree branch? Or did he imagine that Hobbes did it? Or…….Neither one. The only possible explanation that even begins to make perfect sense is that Hobbes becomes alive when he is alone with Calvin.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    @cookies333: You are up late tonight also. SnoopBronco must be contagious.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Click here: The Argyle Sweater (February 1, 2009)

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    Linux0s  over 12 years ago

    Seems all Calvin’s morals rest in Hobbes.

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    pouncingtiger  over 12 years ago

    You have earned it, Calvin. It will build character.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Sometimes, the repercussions of thoughtless actions may sting a bit.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Calvin’s actions in the pastDid not make any sense.Now his punishment from HobbesHas made the present tense.Burma-Shave

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    bluskies  over 12 years ago

    I don’t have to be able to run faster than the bear. I just have to be able to run faster than YOU.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    There was a dumb six-year-old guyWho kept throwing rocks at the sky‘Til one hit a nestWith more bees than he’d guessedAnd his friend left him hung out to dry

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    It looks like, very soon, the hornets will get together with Calvin and find a way to make ends meet.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Thanks, demtrug. It looks like it’s mainly you, me, and the Snoop Bronco who are the insomniacs tonight.Incidentally, just what is a Snoop Bronco?

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    demtrug?Snoop Bronco?Anyone?(Sigh)

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    Sciatic  over 12 years ago

    Calvin must have very bad aim if it took him all morning to hit the nest

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    thirdguy  over 12 years ago

    All in favor say AYE.

    The motion is carried!

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    GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago

    That’ll teach you to monkey around with hornet’s nests.

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    gjsjr41  over 12 years ago

    Way to go, Hobbes. Maybe he’ll learn something from this.

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    bluram  over 12 years ago

    Some cry “Wolf”, others cry “Hornets”. Looks like Calvin has just been hung out to dry for a while.

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    battle of plattsburgh  over 12 years ago

    Tigers and Yellow Jackets have similar coloring….I think they’re distant cousins. Hobbes was just “sticking up” for family.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    @SUSAN NEWMAN: Actually, the old strips that I post are stored on GoComics. On my computer I save searchable information about the strips (thousands of them), but when I display a comic here, I do it by posting the GoComics link.

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    cubswin2016  over 12 years ago

    How did Calvin get up there by himself?

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    rogue53  over 12 years ago

    Anaphylactic shock waiting to happen.

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    If one of those hornets happens to be green, don’t worry…Cato will save you!

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    Phapada  over 12 years ago

    Run away.. ha ha ah aha ha poor boy..

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    Mythreesons  over 12 years ago

    Mom finds Calvin hanging on a tree branch with no shirt. Asks for an explanation and gets a story about rocks and hornet nests, and Hobbes protecting himself by sacrificing poor Calvin. Makes perfect sense.

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    dahawk  over 12 years ago

    What I wonder is how he has them all catalogued so the appropriate one can be retrieved so quickly!

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    sonnygreen  over 12 years ago

    Bill needs a more realistic feel for the size of tree branch necessary to hold up a 30 pound child. . . . C r r a a c k !

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    @aicarrie1,When Calvin told Hobbes about the hornets, he ‘went out on a limb’!

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    I like a five-line limerick “in anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme”, especially when it’s clean!

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    @Hobbes,And the Burma-Shave poem has razor-sharp wit …double entendre humor, even (Snagglepuss)

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    ratlum  over 12 years ago

    Does not take long for a boy to learn two things about these so called bugs they are usually the right height to poke with a stick or throw stones at no 2 when mad these things travel faster than the speed of sound .

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    Number Three  over 12 years ago

    It’s your own fault, Calvin.

    Love the last panel.

    LOL xxx

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    cookies333  over 12 years ago

    Bill Watterson said in the “Calvin and Hobbes 10th anniversary book”. Page 22.“The so called “gimmick” of my strip-the two versions of Hobbes-is sometimes misunderstood. I don’t think of Hobbes as a doll that miraculously comes to life when Calvin’s around. Neither do I think of Hobbes as a product of Calvin’s imagination. The nature of Hobbes’s reality really doesn’t interest me, and each story goes of its way to avoid resolving the issue. Calvin sees Hobbes one way, and everyone else sees Hobbes another way. I show two versions of reality, and each making complete sense to the participant who sees it. I think that’s how life works. None of us see the world in exactly the same way, and I just draw that literally in the strip. Hobbes is more about subjective nature of reality than about dolls coming to life."Sorry for the long post! : )

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    I would like more Calvin and Hobbes going on tomorrow!!!

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    @orinoco womble (from yesterday),Your point is well taken, but I was thinking in terms of the recent situation in Greece where there were protests and some rioting because of the proposed government austerity measures to cut spending, etc. to be able to meet government financial obligations. Since Spain seems to be “socialist”, and taxes have been increased (not necessarily the best remedy during a recession), entitlements will have to be reduced, and other measures taken to make the government solvent, don’t the people have to elect leaders who are willing to do what is necessary, and don’t the people have to “bite the bullet” so to speak, which is especially difficult when there is 25% unemployment. The USA is heading for ultimate financial disaster as well with “unrestrained” government spending.Well, I wish you well no matter what happens!

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    It is not right throwing stones on the hornets nest but I’d not let them sting Calvin!!

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    Calvin will lern from thisCalvin is only a single one and hornets are thousends, they surely will survive. Calvin can only die for one time!!

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    ShadowBeast Premium Member over 12 years ago

    I’d take the Hornet’s side too.

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    yangeldf  over 12 years ago

    ha, look at him running from personal responsibility, he’d be a great republican.

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    Popeyesforearm  over 12 years ago

    It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

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    Shikamoo Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Hung out to dry……….

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    tuslog64  over 12 years ago

    Anyone remember the Farside cartoon of the hornet’s nest outside the picture window, and the hornets were throwing rocks at the window?“And the two species coexisted until one day——”

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 12 years ago

    I’d be mad, too, if Calvin spent all morning throwing rocks at my house! And when (not if!) I caught him, I’d make his little fanny hurt worse than any hornet sting with the spanking I’d give him on his bare bottom!!! I’d probably be arrested for “assaulting” the little juvenile delinquent . . . but it would be worth it!!!!!

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    WOW! We have a bad reaction in common, but my story isn’t that good.When about 5 yrs old, the next door neighbor kid (named Wayne) took one of my toys. I chased him around our adjoining houses. He ran between a tree and the metal fence rail, kicking the fence. I followed. The hornets/wasps/bees – whatever they were – that lived inside that fence rail flooded out and caught me. I don’t remember anything after that except waking up in the hospital in an oxygen tent.Since then, on the occasions when I accidentally got stung (avoid them like the plague) – say on the hand – my arm from the elbow down would swell and I would get a bad flu-like allergy. Medication time.Isn’t life just so grand?!?!?

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    calvinsfriend110  over 12 years ago

    Well, maybe he won’t be stung if he holds still.

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    Donriess  over 12 years ago

    What would be bad…if the hornets decided to nest between his Calvin Kleins and Calvin butt.

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    Snoopy_Fan  over 12 years ago

    It was nice of Hobbes to leave an opening so the bees can get to the most “sensitive” parts of Calvin! :-)

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    speedy905  about 12 years ago

    What a good friend…

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    random gamer  about 4 years ago

    he gave him a wedgie and hung him up so the hornets could finish him he kinda deserved that

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