Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 22, 2012

Such an honest kid! I would have been spanked by my mother for this honesty!!

Well, we can at least give Calvin brownie points for effort.

Maybe Calvin really likes the “raw maggots”, but pretends for Santa that he doesn’t so it is a good deed to eat them?

Oh, and an extra serving of drama too.

With a double-helping of stewed monkey heads!

A delicacy in some cultures. But not in ours.

Calvin’s such a drama prince.

Sounds great to me I wish I was there to enjoy it to.

Maybe it’s Casu Marzu, that Sardinian sheep’s milk cheese with the jumping maggots in it.

FOR SALE. . . . One disgusting spiked haired little boy,. Cheap!

Spätzle.

I guess this is what the Bandit referred to as a choke and puke.

Curry on top of rice maybe?

And when he grows up, that will be his favorite dish, and he will be asking mom to make it for him on his birthday.

We only eat organic maggots.

Add bacon…everything is better with bacon on it.

Pretty soon he’ll have enough coal to start a small fire.

The face in panel 1.

I love this! I love that mom is going along with it – even if she fails to see the humor.

Me too, Perkycat, I love the way Mom is so calm serving him more “maggots”

Calvin doesn’t know what “spontaneous” measn, does he? For that matter, he doesn’t seem to know what “good will” means either...He has “act” covered pretty well though… :-)

What do you have to endure, until Santa will finally come!!

“Sure! Pile ’em on!”Isn’t Calvin just a tad bit disingenuous here?

Your not winning any points with santa for that Calvin!

calvin in later life became a segment producer for bizarre foods.

Haha! I love Calvin…

What about Hobbes, Is he being a good boy?

xxx

hey, S.O.S for breakfast was GREAT in the Army!!!

I’m looking into the future Calvin. Aha, I see two lumps of coal in your stocking! And I don’t think they are ordinary coal. Yes, I now see you picking one up and it instantly bursts into flame! Burnt offering Calvin. Try the other one. That’s the exploding one!

@at sparkle 13,I liked that Slop On a Shingle, too!

“You’d better come through in ‘spades’ for this!”Do you ‘dig’ me?

Is Mom trying to ‘bowl’ Calvin over?

I’m sure maggots must be better than Brussels sprouts! By the way. Did you hear about the two maggots that fell in love in dead Earnest?

This reminds me of the time when I was about four years old and my father had done some carpentry work on the King Ranch in Texas. The foreman had invited my father to bring his family (us) to the big spring round-up. When we got there the calves were being ear-notched, branded and the males were castrated. The testicles were tossed onto a fire and later, after they had been roasted they were eaten. The cowboys called them “mountain oysters” and loved them.I say to each his own and there’s no explaining taste.

Mom should pop him on the butt that is what should happen LOL

Rocky Mountain Oysters they have a big bash just out of Missoula MT every year with this being the main dish. Thousands come to it. Testical Festiville look it up on Google

Naw – those are shrunken green monkey heads.

Sounds like sausage gravy on white hominy grits.

I always thought rice looked like maggots.

Calvin’s mom sure has the measure of him. Now maybe she could give him a large bowl of sugar frosted Chocolate Bombs in the spirit of Christmas. BTW, putting mayonaise on any of the bitter vegetables like broccoli and brussels sprouts sure makes ‘em taste better. Try it, you’ll see….

Guano is a fertilizer containing the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats.

I love Brussels Sprouts.

Maggots are usually analogized to rice.

Santa’s not buying it kiddo.

Maggots only interested in dead flesh.