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   si_rat said, 9 months ago

   What if someone is neither good nor bad …

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   cleokaya said, 9 months ago

   That’s right…it’s purely hypothetical and if it happened it was only sort of on purpose.

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   Yukoner said, 9 months ago

   Calvin is starting on the road to self rationalization. This the start of a process that will lead him some day to be a great politician and leader of a nation. “I did not have sexual relations with that salamander!”

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   Margueritem said, 9 months ago

   Very hypothetical.

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   iowaweav said, 9 months ago

   Go ahead, Calvin–poke him with a big ol’ stick. I tripple-dog-dare ya!

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   windrunner said, 9 months ago

   How come all the Santa stuff Calvin? - Christmas is now long gone?!

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   farren said, 9 months ago

   These are repeats. From almost twenty years ago, now. Not quite 1-to-1, though - this one is dated “12-19”.

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   Yukoner said, 9 months ago

   si_rat: In that case could one expect both a present and a lump of coal?

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   JonD17 said, 9 months ago

   is that like, “well, yes I meant to do it, but I didn’t mean for all those things to happen after I did it.”?

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    Cameron1958 said, 9 months ago

    calvin’s facial exprsions change each panel

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    marvee said, 9 months ago

    He has described himself perfectly - oh, wait, that’s me…maybe everybody?

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    Fenyugreek Tubbsbott... said, 9 months ago

    …
    Good and bad eh, I suspect the best way to handle the problem then,is to give Calvin the present he most wants, but with an important part missing.
    …

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    MrBillT said, 9 months ago

    Sort of like slick Willie, “I never smoked cigars with that women.”

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    Doctor Toon said, 9 months ago

    I always make the best choice I possibly can, but sometimes my best judgment still leads to bad choices.

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    James E Masson said, 9 months ago

    Calvin is having the beginnings of post-traumatic distress under strong mental considerations of previous.. mmm… behavior?

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    dcguys said, 9 months ago

    si_rat & Yukoner - Lump of coal wrapped as a present?

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    Macushlalondra said, 9 months ago

    That argument won’t work with either Santa or God, Calvin.

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    Zippy007 said, 9 months ago

    For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Romans 7:19

19. 

    Groversfather said, 9 months ago

    MrBillT says: Sort of like slick Willie, “I never smoked cigars with that women.”

    SORT OF LIKE G.W.: “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!”

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    Groversfather said, 9 months ago

    But really…

    That Hobbes is quite the instigator isn’t he?

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    bmonk said, 9 months ago

    Was that hypothetical like when he had a bit of bad luck with the car (conversation reconstructed from memory):

    Hobbes: “How bad? Could it be repaired?”

    Calvin: “If we imagined that we could find the car, we might possibly suppose that it could be repaired…”

    (reading from language pamphlet): “¡Hola, senorita! I am el fugitivo.”

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    cello_wizard said, 9 months ago

    Love Hobbes’s face in the last frame there. It’s like he’s thinking “hey buster, i know who you’re talking ‘bout”

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    grazer said, 9 months ago

    Love the way he’s trying to rationalize his inability to rationalize. Anybody remember when he said this?…..

    “Should I?—or shouldn’t I?
    Too late….I DID!”

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    AndiJ said, 9 months ago

    Calvin sure does worry alot! Just go be a kid! :P

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    nur atiqah diyana said, 9 months ago

    u know from the first “Tried to be Good” i knew he was talking about himself. though i loved the part in panel 4 where he says “This is a purely hypothetical case, MR. SMARTY PANTS” and hobbes face. but really out of a million or ten how many would be like calvin?

26. 

    mrprongs said, 9 months ago

    Suppose some kids stuffed tiger is real and alive?

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    PaulAtreides said, 9 months ago

    hmmm… 364 days of fun and 1 day of coal… sounds good to me! lol

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    Saucy1121 said, 9 months ago

    I can remember being seated on Santa’s lap at about age 5 and asked the usual “have you been a good girl?” My response was “most of the time.” Took several years before I figured out why everyone in earshot was laughing.

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    Fenyugreek Tubbsbott... said, 9 months ago

    …
    Zippy007 says:
    “For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Romans 7:19”
    EXCEPT when I stop doing the evil I do not want to do. Then it’s all bananas and creme what?
    …

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    Zippy007 said, 9 months ago

    Fenyugreek Tubbsbottl lll,

    If only it was that easy …

    There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. Romans 3:11-12

    All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. Isaiah 64:6

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    si_rat said, 9 months ago

    Zippy007 says:

    Too sad to know how you feel about yourself and others around you.

32. 

    Miserichord said, 9 months ago

    In the hypothetical case presented, Santa turns the child’s file over to Sinter Klaus and Black Peter.
    A few presents and a BIG bundle of switches.

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    Zippy007 said, 9 months ago

    si-rat,

    The truth is the truth, but there is Good News. If you look past your biases you will notice that I am trying to present this Good News to you- THAT’S what I think of others. You can deny the truth and believe that Christians believe in nothing, but you cannot deny that legitimate Christians care enough to try and share what they know.

34. 

    Gray said, 9 months ago

    Calvin and Hobbes…Two of the greatest philosophers of our time