Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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  1. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    Some grownups think of them as nooses, too.

  2. h2oman

    h2oman said, 10 months ago

    “He is not repentant” I love it !!!
    Must be Sunday go to church time , hope he behaves himself.

  3. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, 10 months ago

    Back in the middle ages, when I was in a public high school, it was mandatory that we wear a white shirt and a tie. Our response was that we wore the same tie ever every day for the entire school year and that we never untied it completely, only loosening it enough to slip it over our head. Not everyone was this uncouth but I reveled in it. (One of the problems was to keep Mom from getting her hands on the tie and washing it during the year.)

  4. Gweedo Murray
  5. grazer

    grazer said, 10 months ago

    Wonder what the upcoming occassion is. Hope it’s not as grim as the gallows. School pictures maybe?

  6. Sneha Jain

    Sneha Jain said, 10 months ago

    Calvin n his imagination jus rock!!!!

  7. DEBRADIAS

    DEBRADIAS said, 10 months ago

    OK

  8. DEBRADIAS

    DEBRADIAS said, 10 months ago

    THAT REMINDS ME OF MY FIRST SON.

  9. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    I can count myself lucky. I now own no ties and would be just as wretched as Calvin does.

  10. LX013

    LX013 said, 10 months ago

    Yesterday was such a day, I felt like Calvin.

  11. Jackone

    Jackone said, 10 months ago

    Gweedo Murry, love the song. Poor Calvin. lol

  12. Ldywldkat

    Ldywldkat said, 10 months ago

    Oh my gosh!! Please tell me he’s not having to go to a wedding…. can you just imagine him and hobbes having to sit through a wedding?

  13. Doctor Toon

    Doctor ToonGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    When I started working in the grocery business dress shirt and tie was mandatory, with an apron.
    Now they’ve switched us to a uniform shirt with no tie. Still have to wear the stupid apron.

  14. prasrinivara

    prasrinivara said, 10 months ago

    Has Calvin’s dad never heard of clip-ons?

  15. Silverpearl

    Silverpearl said, 10 months ago

    Womens fashions change faster than mens. Bring back the style George Washington wore and you’ll really hear yelling!!

  16. Fenyugreek Tubbsbottl lll

    Fenyugreek Tubbsbott...Genius_badge said, 10 months ago

    Gweedo Murray:
    Interesting link good Sir. A message for Calvin from the future perhaps?

    “Hey! you gotta look out how you act, cause if you not careful, you gonna end up in trouble anyways!”…. Father Guido Sarducci

    see: http://www.fathersarducci.com/images/frsarducci.gif
    …

  17. Loomis_C

    Loomis_C said, 10 months ago

    The times have changed, haven’t they? You don’t see cartoons today with imagery of a hanging - it’s just not “PC”. I wonder if Watterson took any flak when this one was first published. I doubt that a cartoonist could get away with something like this today…

  18. EMandEM

    EMandEM said, 10 months ago

    Maybe whoever invented the tie got his inspiration from the ritual of hanging, and wanted to play a practical joke on the generations to come :) Fortunately he let the noose hang down rather than against gravity…

  19. alife

    alife said, 10 months ago

    GM + FTIII thanks for the links Helps start the day :000

  20. Clarkygal

    Clarkygal said, 10 months ago

    Everyone in my school has to wear a tie! The girls tie them really loosely though, so its not that bad :)

  21. om1e5ga

    om1e5ga said, 10 months ago

    EMandEM:

    I’ve always been of the opinion they were invented by feminists….

  22. RoseMickey

    RoseMickey said, 10 months ago

    Hey, om1e5ga, that’s how many women feel about a bra, must have been invented by a male woman-hater,lol

  23. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    I worked for years in a liquor store that was state run. It was mandatory that we wear ties. Everytime that I would pick up a heavy case, my neck muscles would flex and I’d feel the tightening around my neck. I couldn’t loosen it to much because customers would be in the store and I might have to go up to the register. Another frequent downside, was picking up a case and placing it on top of another. When I would try to step away, I would discover to my dismay, that my tie was pinned between the two cases.

  24. Wildmustang1262

    Wildmustang1262 said, 10 months ago

    What occasion are Daddy and Calvin gussing up the white shirt and tie for? Attend the church, wedding or what? I am curious to know what occasion they are up to. :-)

    Gweedo Murray says: For Calvin:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJaIwZLPzN4 What is the name of song did you paste that link on the post comment? :-) (I know Johnny Cash sang the song) Wink! :-)

  25. Macushlalondra

    MacushlalondraGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    That Johnny Cash always had such a sense of humour. I remember he also sang “The Green Green Grass of Home” in which he was also hung I think, that was a more bittersweet and sad song. Wildmustang the song was called “25 Minutes to Go.”

  26. Thewatercolorist

    Thewatercolorist said, 10 months ago

    Hmm, I don’t remember Johnny Cash singing “The Green Green Grass of Home”. I do remember Tom Jones singing it.

  27. BugsMoran

    BugsMoran said, 10 months ago

    Re: SueHarper
    Tom Jones rendition of GGGoH was a pathetic, pasty flop. Johnny Cash sang it long before ‘Pretty Boy’ Jones and JCash was the second one to sing it. Jim Reeves was the first (though he didn’t write it) but it was never as memorable a song as the rendition by Cash. Others have sung it as well, but very few had ever attained the deep sonorous tonation that Cash put on it.

  28. GretchensMom

    GretchensMom said, 10 months ago

    Just as much as men hate ties … this how we women feel about wearing pantyhose!

  29. WestwoodGryphon

    WestwoodGryphon said, 10 months ago

    Love that second frame.

  30. cello_wizard

    cello_wizard said, 10 months ago

    I actually like wearing ties. (i’m a girl) I think they are fun to wear! (though a little confusing to put on)

  31. cello_wizard

    cello_wizard said, 10 months ago

    WestwoodGryphon says:
    Love that second frame.

    I agree. I love how menacing his eyes look. ^_^

  32. Tabby Lynn

    Tabby LynnGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    i like to wear a tie. i am just strange like that.

  33. m_ortal

    m_ortal said, 10 months ago

    I have hundreds of ties (gifts, mainly) but never tighten them completely now. I found the pressure on the jugular veins triggered severe migraines. I plan to have them made into quilts when I reretire.

  34. BinaryWiener

    BinaryWiener said, 10 months ago

    @om1e5ga I’ve always been of the opinion they were invented by feminists…

    So now when girls wear them, it means that the trend has come full circle! =)
    I’m LOL at Calvin’s face in the fourth frame.

  35. mammacass

    mammacassGenius_badge said, 10 months ago

    Watch out, Dad, it sounds like Calvin is hawking up a furball!

  36. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 10 months ago

    Whew !!! Step away from the screen for 5 minutes….. You’re welcome for the “25 minutes to go link” guys, which came from the Folsom Prison concert record done in 1968. I thought it mighty fitting for Calvin’s close fitting “tie”. John’s rendering of “..Green Green Grass..” has a deep melancholy feel. I’m glad I didn’t hear T.J. do it, by what some of you said about it. Since it’s getting towards turnover time I will probably rerun this tomorrow.

  37. The Swordfish

    The Swordfish said, 9 months ago

    I wonder why Calvin’s dad is making him wear a tie..