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   cleokaya said, 5 months ago

   The great dig, Calvin’s closet.

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   Yukoner said, 5 months ago

   Well, she is something of an old fossil.

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   wolfbyte36 said, 5 months ago

   adventurous little tyke isn’t he.

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   Margueritem said, 5 months ago

   Quite an honor, Mom.

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   Ivy0730 said, 5 months ago

   Nice try Calvin! waiting for the day to come!

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   rshive said, 5 months ago

   The fossilized reamins of what, I wonder.

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   amberlight said, 5 months ago

   It is usually Dad who is sarcastic. This has to be the first time I have seen Mom so. Moms are never really sarcastic and this is especially out of character for Calvin’s Mom. Did you make a mistake Bill?

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   green_engineer said, 5 months ago

   amberlight - his mom has been sarcastic before: once she told Calvin that it wasn’t rice he was eating but maggots!

   There was another time when he was hungry but she was busy so she gave him a map to the refrigerator! Moms rule!

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   watcha said, 5 months ago

   hi amberlight - Bill never made a mistake, and if he did then he meant it to be a mistake.. :-)

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    carpetinwater9 said, 5 months ago

    backyard war zone

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    pwdce said, 5 months ago

    I think he should wear a Fedora or Pith helmet. What’s the matter Calvin?

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    BinaryWiener said, 5 months ago

    Calvin might be a bit late: Lucy the Australopithecus and Mitochondrial Eve are already known to scientists. But I doubt Mom would like being called the Missing Link !

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    FishStix said, 5 months ago

    Calvin may know about the genus Australopithecus - but don’t ask him to add 8+3!

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    jelzap said, 5 months ago

    an archeologist would pay to go through calvin’s room…

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    grazer said, 5 months ago

    Charlie, thanks for the extra info.

    How funny—Calvin’s major discovery would be displayed in some major museum as “Mom”.

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    bald 716 said, 5 months ago

    calvin knows what he wants and goes out and tries to find it
    unfortunately it is hidden somewhere in the back yard

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    Macushlalondra said, 5 months ago

    If you’re telling him to clean up his room, Mom, you’re going to have to be less subtle. You’ll have to pick him up and carry him in there like you did last week when he refused to go to bed. Then stand over him and watch his every movement.

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    TapiocaHead said, 5 months ago

    A woman with a small brain .. .how dare you Calvin! That’s your mother you’re talking to.

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    plus4 said, 5 months ago

    Since no one knows the names of Calvin’s parents, what would the fossil be called? Calvinsmomopithecus?

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    Leonardeuler said, 5 months ago

    We all know Calvin isn’t interested in the usual topics such as biology, math, geography. He only cares about extraordinary things such as transmogrifiers ( in which he already achieved a lot of experience) and now palaeontology. I wonder what he’ll discover ……… parts of the “Calvinosaurus” perhaps ?

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    Nick V said, 5 months ago

    I think I remember this strip - he assembles a bunch of stuff he finds in the back yard… still, it is rather amusing how Watterson tries to educate people while making them laugh. Avante garde art, quantum mechanics, multiple art styles, aviation, history, film noir, dinosaurs, tigers… you could get quite a varied education just reading this stuff.

    Of course, Tyrannosaurs never flew F-15s (see another strip about that one), so it’s a toss-up.

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    bat007 said, 5 months ago

    Calvin’s stance and facial expression in panel three is priceless.

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    wsfn said, 5 months ago

    and who’s mom isn’t sarcastic? My mom is sarcastic, I’m sarcastic, my kids are the epitome of sarcasm in a teenager…

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    ratlum said, 5 months ago

    Mom was not sarcastic,remember what Calvins room looks like

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    stonehenge1951 said, 5 months ago

    The “missing link” is named Ida. She’s 47 million years old. She was found near Darmstadt, Germany. The find was announced last month. And here I thought Curly Q. Link was the “missing link”! Nyuk, nyuk nyuk!

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    HyveO Alive said, 5 months ago

    Didn’t I ever see the names of his mom and dad pass when the babysitter talked to them?
    I cannot remember them for the life of me tough…
    Anyone?

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    Stede_Bonnet said, 5 months ago

    Once again, kudos to any child who know the word “Australopithecus”, can spell it and use it in a sentence. Today’s child would be impressive if they could spell “shovel”.

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    Madruga said, 5 months ago

    so much hope destroyed by so much sarcasm…sure, Calvin has to come up with such a comment…pure defence =DD

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    HappyLynx said, 5 months ago

    Nice come back Calvin, the only cost is probably going to bed hungry. I remember once I thought my mom was older than she really was. That was awkward.
    I agree with you Wolfbyte.

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    RAZOR09 said, 5 months ago

    For snappy come-backs, I’d have to say it’s a coin toss between mom and Calvin. Well done , once again , Mr. Watterson !! :):)

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    fredbenz said, 5 months ago

    Whereas Dad is pretty much resigned to Calvin’s antics, Mom appears to always be in control of the situation…. Always. Calvin with his “Dad poll” but never trying to test Mom. I suppose she means business, and Cal knows it!

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    FishStix said, 5 months ago

    HyveO, this from Wikipedia:

    Both parents go through the entire strip unnamed, except as “Mom” and “Dad”, or pet names such as “honey” and “dear” when referring to each other. Watterson has never given Calvin’s parents names “because as far as the strip is concerned, they are important only as Calvin’s mom and dad”. This ended up being somewhat problematic when Calvin’s Uncle Max was in the strip for a week and could not refer to the parents by name. It was one of the main reasons that Max never reappeared.

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    suesaroo said, 5 months ago

    I love being educated through pleasure - like reading the comics - thanks Bill!

34. 

    mrprongs said, 5 months ago

    So, he does know his parents’ names.

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    maluhiarg1 said, 5 months ago

    Hi all I’m new to posting, just got set up a few days ago. mrprongs he knows his parents names but can you imagine the fall out of him calling them by it!! I tried it ..once.. and only once!

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    yyyguy said, 5 months ago

    maluhiarg1, i’m reminded of a “Dennis the Menace” strip where the quote from Dennis was, “Alice. Alice. Alice! Aww, answer me Mom.”

37. 

    Nelson Diaz said, 5 months ago

    Great comic strip

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    Johanan Rakkav said, 5 months ago

    In real life (at least had it been like mine), Calvin would never have made it to the backyard after a retort like that. And he would’ve deserved the detention.

    But then, this is Calvin & Hobbes, not real life: a place where a kid gets to say everything he wishes he could get away with. Some days I can laugh at that, and some days I wonder what Bill W. was thinking…and I can think those two totally different things about the same strip on different days (or hours, or even minutes).