Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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Margueritem said, 9 months ago

OH Santa! What you said! Tsk tsk.
cleokaya said, 9 months ago

This reminds me of a Christmas Story. Constarn the flang flingin digastan prang floggin fliparitan mangastatatn flimigigans.
txmystic said, 9 months ago

Now THAT is how you can swear in the forum without getting bleeeped…
wndrwrthg said, 9 months ago

Pops is channeling “Yosemite Sam”.
Dutchboy1 said, 9 months ago

Hey, I know that language, and what he said…for shame!
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

Dickety Ding Dang
grazer said, 9 months ago

Uh oh….pottymouthed Dad just made Santa’s naughty list!
Yukoner said, 9 months ago

Calvin’s about to get a lesson in classic Anglo Saxon linguistics. Otherwise known as, “Pardon my French!”
krisch said, 9 months ago

wonder what Calvin’s gettin this christmas.. Love Hobbes face in Panel 1
hogar.strashni said, 9 months ago

well, you who know what’s dady saying, could enlighten us, non native English speakers :)
I thought it’s meaningless, so if you could explain me the pattern… I would be grateful! :)
LX013 said, 9 months ago

Fine swear, Daddy, get well again soon!
Macushlalondra said, 9 months ago

Calvin’s gonna think Santa’s a pottymouth and wonder why he’s been trying so hard to be good since Santa ain’t so good. He’ll think Santa’s a hypocrite.
JonD17 said, 9 months ago

cleokaya says:

This reminds me of a Christmas Story. Constarn the flang flingin digastan prang floggin fliparitan mangastatatn flimigigans.

Cleokaya, is that Finnish or Norwegian? :=/
JonD17 said, 9 months ago

hogar, we could explain it to you, but first you have to drop an 80 pound box on your toe to be in the right mood to understand, lol
Wenthral said, 9 months ago

Hogar:
You can’t print swear words. Author is just using other goofy words to symbolize swearing. Much like using “@#&**!!”
Carmy said, 9 months ago

If that would have been my husband, everybody on our block would have heard him.
benoire said, 9 months ago

Of course I’m awake. Silly Calvin.
BirishB said, 9 months ago

Imagine the dissapointment of thousands (millions?) of kids when they opened the newspaper the day this strip first ran; when they turned to the comics section to read their favorite ‘toon; and when they discovered that Santa was really Calvin’s dad …
Orgelspieler said, 9 months ago

Kids who read on their own already know about Santa. Kids who still believe in Santa think that mommy and daddy are just his helpers. I would draw the obvious parallel with religious faith and science, but that would probably start something. (evil grin)
Ivy0730 said, 9 months ago

Let the kids enjoy being kids…grow up and got the silly but beautiful memories to think of.
Dry said, 9 months ago

What, you mean there is no Santa? Of course there is! Where do all my presents come from?

@Roger (with the evil grin on face), yeah let’s not go there again!
cruncher3 said, 9 months ago

calvin might think aleins are coming
Penguin1021 said, 9 months ago

slippin rippin dang fang rotten zarg barg-a-ding dong!!!!!!!!!!!!1
cleokaya said, 9 months ago

JonD17. You are indeed a linguist, as I am both Finnish and Norwegian.
EMandEM said, 9 months ago

Clumsy ol’ dad…ding-a-ding-dong
Silverpearl said, 9 months ago

ROFL LOL !!!
Orgelspieler said, 9 months ago

Drystyha, since about 1972 my presents have generally arrived by USPS or one of the parcel services. Maybe that’s just ‘cause I haven’t had a chimney anywhere I’ve lived, but I always suspected it had more to do with my parents not living in the same state.
green_engineer said, 9 months ago

As if Calvin’s extensive vocabulary wasn’t enough…here’s a few more!
plus4 said, 9 months ago

I deliberately never let my kids think Santa (or the Easter Bunny, or the tooth fairy) was real.

I didn’t want them to be able to say later on, “Well, you lied to me about Santa (etc.), so why should I believe you about something else?”
Samka said, 9 months ago

hehe I told my kids Santa is a myth…when they figure out what a myth is, we’ll go from there.
DigitalFrog said, 9 months ago

Actually, I think Dad is cursing in mock-Swedish (ala muppet chef)
LittleBlackWidow said, 9 months ago

A Christmas Story, what a great movie!
**Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.
pookid54 said, 9 months ago

Nutta fingah!!!!!!!!
alife said, 9 months ago

I was SOOO busy watching my favorite cartoon “Beanie & Cecil” That I didn’t even hear my Dad Thumping & Banging up the stairs with my Swhinn
GretchensMom said, 9 months ago

I agree with you wholeheartedly, LittleBlackWidow. That IS a great movie! Christmas just would’t be Christmas without it (along with “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, too)! Even though it’s February and ten months away yet from Christmas 2009, you make me want to go pop this movie into the dvd player and watch it again right now!!!!!
Wildmustang1262 said, 9 months ago

Hey Daddy, bite your tongue instead of swearing out of your mouth.
Landri Sheppard said, 9 months ago

I love Hobbes face in panel 1! Nice goin “dad” nice clothes “mom” Calvin, who isnt awake at 11:00 at night anymore, especially on Christmas Eve? =]
Tabby Lynn said, 9 months ago

so funny. love it. calvin looks terrified as i dont know what. lol
longtimecomicsfan said, 9 months ago

*FUDGE. Only I didn’t say “Fudge.” I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the “F-dash-dash-dash” word!
windrunner said, 9 months ago

This is so sweet and reminds me somuch of childhhod christmas eves!!!
Love you both so much!!! xx
Sarah T said, 9 months ago

I only wish this was run a couple months ago….
Marderofski said, 9 months ago

@Truechristian

Go away, we don’t want propaganda on a comic strip. I bet even some conservatives would agree with me.
PaulAtreides said, 9 months ago

@cleokaya: Do you have any idea how many Finnish people you just swore at?

@truechristian: jesus didn’t come to wipe sinners off the face of the earth, he came to die & come back. thinking like you’re at war with islamic people makes you one of them.

…please let the debates be over…
mrprongs said, 9 months ago

Zarg?
SlyGuy54 said, 9 months ago

I hope this isn’t encouraging Santa not being real… GASP!

And @ TrueCristian.. STOP.
Burgundy2 said, 9 months ago

I love Calvin’s face in the third frame!
mark said, 9 months ago

Had to help a mate play Santa and put together a trampoline. His next door neighbour thanked him the next day for 4 hours of entertainment listening to us curse and carry on.
The instructions were in Chinese and we may have had a couple of beers.
To true Cristian- where do you get that stuff your smoking?
Dry said, 9 months ago

Can we ban people from here altogether, like TRUECHRISTIAN?
cleokaya said, 9 months ago

mark, I bought a 4x5 camera, which is the kind of camera where you put a hood over your head to block out light. All the directions were written in English by a Chinese individual who thought he could speak English. It was hilarious! Absolutely nothing made sense. The directions were in English alright, but words were put together that had no rhyme or reason.

TRUECRISTIAN, you are forgetting to follow the words of your avatar. Also, I’m wondering if you are posting as a hoax.
si_rat said, 9 months ago

DrystyhaPro says:
Can we ban people from here altogether, like TRUECHRISTIAN?

…. a true Christian.