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1. about 14 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   It’s nice they recycled this cartoon to post on the appropriate day.

   Trick or Treaters never show up at my house because I live in the country up in the woods, but I buy candy every year–just in case. And then I have to eat it all myself!

2. over 14 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   When I was a little kid–many moons ago–we only took a bath once a week, on a Saturday so we’d be clean for church the next morning. It wasn’t unusual–everyone I know did. I even know some who used the same bath water, to conserve water. Gosh, I’ve finally gotten old…

3. over 14 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   If I had a student (grades 7-12) with the hiccups, I would have him/her stand in front of the class and ask all the other students to stare at him/her. Worked every time in just a matter of seconds. In fact, some were cured just walking from their desk to the front of the room. (I wouldn’t force them to stand in front of the class if they didn’t want to, but most chose that method because they had learned from me that it worked.)

4. over 14 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   LX013 said, I want to know, what Hobbes is saying in the next-to-last panel!

   The phrase is “A fool and his money are soon parted.”

5. over 14 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   One year when it snowed and snowed and snowed and we missed so much school we were going to have to go for half the summer to make up the days (I was a teacher), I made a huge fertility figure snowwoman, trying to entice Spring to come to the land. As luck would have it, the preacher came to visit instead, but it was almost dark so I don’t think he saw it. He didn’t have much imagination, though, so he would have probably thought it was just a misshapen snowman.

6. over 14 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Grog. Maybe Bill Watterson had just seen “Amok Time” for the tenth time (or by the 1980’s maybe for the hundreth time) before drawing this strip. Live Long and prosper.

7. about 15 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I used to do a bubble experiment with my college students (Elementary Education majors) when we studied light waves–kept them enthralled for 30 minutes or more. You tape a clear plastic lid on top of a flashlight in a dark room and use a straw to blow bubbles from the mixture you put in the lid. The bubbles are gorgeous and intricately combined. The experiment is at http://www.exploratorium.edu/scienceexplorer/bubdome.html if you want to try it or just Google the word bubbularium

8. about 15 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I think Dad is setting a bad precedent giving a six-year-old money for doing a specific chore.

   I’m reading these from Missouri in the middle of the USA.

9. over 15 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   THEDRIVER–that was my first thought, too: He’s turning on the lights so that someone “out there” will see earth. And then I read everyone else’s comments that seemed to think he was scared of the dark. Good to know at least one other person interpreted the scene the same way I did.

10. over 15 years ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    Tabbylynn, I learned the last line as “That’s what we had for lunch and I had to eat it with a straw.”