Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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  1. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Pain without an audience is no fun at all….

  2. Ladywolf17

    Ladywolf17 said, 4 months ago

    That away Calvin let it all out. Maybe mom will kiss your owie and make it all better.

  3. Shikamoo

    ShikamooGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Hi Marg!

    If a child scrapes their knee alone, does it hurt?

  4. gimmickgenius

    gimmickgeniusGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    I remember an old DENNIS THE MENACE strip like this (And Dennis, at least, had real friends to play with). He wiped out somehow, fell hard and REALLY hurt himself. Tommy or someone says, “Wow, Dennis are you OK?” Dennis: “Yeah I guess so, but I think I’ll go home now…” All the kids: “Gee Dennis, you sure are brave (etc, etc)” Dennis walks a long way home, into his mom’s house, and THEN lets go: “Waaah - I fell down!!!”

  5. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Hi Shika!

    gimmickgenius: That sounds like Dennis.

  6. ejcapulet

    ejcapuletGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Reminds me of my toddler.

  7. musicnut1986

    musicnut1986 said, 4 months ago

    Hey, an owie is good for some motherly attention, maybe even some ice cream. You gotta get it when you have a REAL scrape because mom can see through a make believe owie.

    (I’m listening to some Collective Soul as I write this).

  8. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, 4 months ago

    I just love mom’s reaction. That protective instinct sure can kick in quick.

  9. Skyhawk_maintainer

    Skyhawk_maintainerGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Just scream “MEDIC” at the top of your lungs.

  10. grazer

    grazer said, 4 months ago

    If a child skins his knee in a forest and there’s no one to hear his wailing………..

  11. baslim_the_begger

    baslim_the_beggerGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    you think it hurts now, just wait till the iodine/Mercurichrome hits the owie…
    or so it went when I was a kid

  12. hobbeseyist

    hobbeseyist said, 4 months ago

    mum told me i did this after i rode my trike down 2 stories of stairs into the garden (abt 48 yrs ago). copeing with pain & shock / dealing with reality, until one can find mum, when its ok to let it all out. mum is more the safe haven and fixer-upperer than audience.
    can remember the pink stained skin… but these days there is Betadine Ointment (no alcohol to sting). Thats what ist called here in Aus anyway (povidone iodine, ointment)

  13. Ivy0730

    Ivy0730 said, 4 months ago

    quiet an episode!

  14. Lewreader

    LewreaderGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    You mean all kids don’t do this? I did.

  15. rshive

    rshive said, 4 months ago

    You need the audience to make it worthwhile.

  16. Madruga

    Madruga said, 4 months ago

    I was quite the opposite..just let no one know it hurt! My brother, meanwhile…was in this respect absolutely like Calvin!

  17. carpetinwater9

    carpetinwater9 said, 4 months ago

    I need some attention right now. And I know how to get it.

  18. Dino-1

    Dino-1 said, 4 months ago

    We keep the band-aid company in business here. Nexcare has tatoo band-aids which we now have Winnie the Pooh, Disney’s Princesses, 60’s peace signs and eyeballs, and some left over Nemo band-aids. My granddaughter who’s 2 1/2 years old always has boo-boos when she gets her thanks to her Mom’s house’s hard wood floors. Buy a rug PLEASE!!! Anyway…she gives me a run down of where they are when she gets here and we cover her with them. Now though if she has one on her one knee we have to put a matching one on the other one. We only had the boring plastic pink/orangy band-aids when I was a kid! Actually the 60’s band-aids were mine I use when I get cut at work on the metal shelves or folders! My fellow employees made fun of me when I first started wearing them but now they all run to me when they get cut to get a cool band-aid to wear in the office. It brightens everyone’s day to be working at their desk and look down to see Winnie the Pooh or a giant eye etc. on their fingers. Admit it we all can use a smile when we get a stinging boo- boo no matter what our age!

  19. Macushlalondra

    MacushlalondraGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    baslimthebegger said,

    you think it hurts now, just wait till the iodine/Mercurichrome hits the owie…
    or so it went when I was a kid

    ~~~

    Oh that brings back memories. My mother used something called Methiolade (I can’t spell it) and it was red. When she put that stuff on you it hurt like the dickens and the spot was dyed red. It was horrible.

  20. Gene Strattmann

    Gene StrattmannGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    That was me 55 years ago………MOMMY!

  21. 3hourtour

    3hourtour said, 4 months ago

    …why am I reading this repeat for free when I could be paying good money to re-read it?

  22. N7326 Foxtrot

    N7326 Foxtrot said, 4 months ago

    I remember…Don’t get on the rug while you are bleeding!

  23. Superfrog

    Superfrog said, 4 months ago

    Hey Grazer,
    If a man talks in a forest, and there’s no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

  24. bald 716

    bald 716 said, 4 months ago

    none of that stuff here… we always use peroxide and neosporin with a band aid

    calvin has it down to a science,
    i’m kind of surprised that hobbs isn’t helping him walk to mom

  25. bandz

    bandz said, 4 months ago

    Just for clarification. Iodine stings like the dickens… but it works. Mercurichrome doesn’t sting at all, and wasn’t really effective. [No pain, no gain?] Merthiolate stings some but not quite like iodine. Neosporin plus a band-aid is a nice modern cop-out. Effective and painless.

    In kindergarten I ran for the door at the recess bell, slipped and went head first into one of those old cast iron radiators. I got up laughing holding my hand to my head. Then when I looked at my hand and saw the blood I started to scream and cry! Go figure.

  26. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Kids?!? I still do that.

  27. TapiocaHead

    TapiocaHeadGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Calvin needs attention ..

  28. stupendousman6

    stupendousman6 said, 4 months ago

    And yet in half the strips he talks about getting away from his parents. Hmm

  29. bmonk

    bmonkGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    I don’t know: someone looking for sympathy is somehow less sympathetic…

  30. gimmickgenius

    gimmickgeniusGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Anyone remember Gentian Violet? Dark black-purple stuff that REALLY stained. They used to paint my canker sores with it.

  31. rainman5353

    rainman5353 said, 4 months ago

    TMI,gimmickgenius!

  32. Carmy

    CarmyGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    We used to call something “monkey blood”, I think it was Iodine.

  33. userdce

    userdce said, 4 months ago

    Pain without an audience is no fun at all…. Margueritem

    rightly said

  34. pomy2191

    pomy2191 said, 4 months ago

    calvin is suh a drama queen or should it be king??haha

    i remember using the red stuff whenever i got hurt..can’t recall the name

  35. unemandarine

    unemandarine said, 4 months ago

    Mom knows best, and Calvin knows that.

  36. BC13

    BC13Genius_badge said, 4 months ago

    What a ham!

  37. sfb5761

    sfb5761 said, 4 months ago

    Merthiolate was the other stuff, and my mother also used some stuff called ST-37, which didn’t hurt and has probably gone the way of the Oldsmobile.

  38. Kerovan

    Kerovan said, 4 months ago

    I actually remember something called Kant Sting, used when I was a kid. I don’t know if it was the first non-stinging antiseptic, but given my age it has to be one of the first.

    There was an old Andy Capp comic similar to this. He came back from a football game. In the last panel Flo says. “I have to make a fuss over it or he will and he takes longer!’ or words to that effect.

  39. sjackson547

    sjackson547 said, 4 months ago

    Don’t remember my parents really using anything, but my Grandma, she was quick with the Iodine…

  40. Saucy1121

    Saucy1121 said, 4 months ago

    Gentian Violet is still around. Used for treating thrush in the mouth. I remember Mertiolate and mecurichrome. Bactine was big in my day. Advertised as no sting, no stain and it did a little numbing to boot. Great for those skinned knees.

  41. Tigger

    TiggerGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    My Parents never bought hat act

  42. rainman5353

    rainman5353 said, 4 months ago

    sfb5761, Thanks to my wife, we use ST-37 for everything! It works great. It is marketed as a mouthwash. Go to a market pharmacy (Wal-mart for instance) and ask them to order it, if they don’t stock it.

  43. pstream

    pstream said, 4 months ago

    My dad used Zemo on everything.
    I miss my dad!

  44. gimmickgenius

    gimmickgeniusGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Then there’s Michael Constantine’s prescription from MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING: Windex!

  45. JaneDoe40

    JaneDoe40Genius_badge said, 4 months ago

    My dad always used “black salve” in a tiny tin that he got from the nurse at the Westinghouse factory he worked at.
    Don’t think I ever used it because it looked so nasty but he swore by it.

  46. Dino-1

    Dino-1 said, 4 months ago

    We used peroxide at my house. Hurt like heck but used to sound a bit like Rice Krispies when you poured it on as it made a great foam. I’d have two or three sessions of that especially if it was a bicycle accident to draw out the dirt and germs Mom always said. When she poured it on and it only ran off like water she was pleased it was disinfected. I miss you Mom!