Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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cleokaya said, 3 months ago

I like dad’s enthusiasm.
Margueritem said, 3 months ago

SURE THING, CONAN.
vibjyor said, 3 months ago

At least Mom is hopeful that there will be slimy fish gasping and flopping at the bottom of the boat. I thought fishing has nothing to do with actually catching any. (Jerome K Jerome)
Gweedo Murray said, 3 months ago

I’d like my worm to get hooked.
Wildmustang1262 said, 3 months ago

Ugh! I won’t touch that slimy worm on the hook.
4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

Mom finally has something to say. Her timing needs work, though.
polkadottsss said, 3 months ago

If there’s real coffee, then what’s fake coffee?
ejcapulet said, 3 months ago

Apparently, mom isn’t too big on camping, either.
Ladywolf17 said, 3 months ago

Real coffee or fake coffee , someone call doctortoon , only he can answer that question ( lol ) .
Patrick1946 said, 3 months ago

My sympathies are all with Mom. After years as a Scout, then a Scouter I finally realised I wasn’t built for this sleeping on the ground lark!
CobraDBlade said, 3 months ago

forget the worm on the hook, wait until he teaches you how to gut the sucker!
Johanan Rakkav said, 3 months ago

Hey, give “Conan” a break. His survival skills just might do you all some good some day. :)

That said, husbands, you really have to be careful where you take some of your wives and children in the mountains.
Yukoner said, 3 months ago

Camp coffee IS the real coffee.
papawhale said, 3 months ago

Yum..any camp food is delish, especially crispy fried trout.
unemandarine said, 3 months ago

I’m with mom, real coffee comes out of an espresso machine!
Destiny23 said, 3 months ago

Calvin + fishhook?!?! I hope they have an industrial-strength first aid kit in that boat!!
LX013 said, 3 months ago

I would appriciate going out with dad into the nature!
carpetinwater9 said, 3 months ago

Mom will have pan fry the fish.
Leonardeuler said, 3 months ago

Seesh, the barbarian !! I don’t understand what’s so barbaric with camping, good grief.
prasrinivara said, 3 months ago

Len, it’s not the camping that is barbarian, it’s dragging an unwilling spouse into it.
Calvinator said, 3 months ago

Dad has no glasses - I hope Calvin is a fast learner or else dad will stick himself for sure.
Bdaysuit said, 3 months ago

C’mon Mom, don’t be such a spoil sport. You’re there, make the best of it..
Lewreader said, 3 months ago

Dad, don.t forget to bring your binoculars and camera.
Carmy said, 3 months ago

If I was Mom, I’d be at the nearest hotel.
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 3 months ago

Still no glasses. Has he brought extra’s?
madampresident said, 3 months ago

My idea of roughing it is staying in a hotel doesn’t have a restaurant. However, that said, I used to love to go fishing with my dad and I used to bait my own hook.
Coffee-Turtle said, 3 months ago

Fake coffee can be instant or decaf, but here she probably means they use a percolator instead of a drip. It has more of a ‘burned” flavor to it. Some campers bring a French press, and that tastes much better…and stronger! :-)

Behold the Elixir of Life!

I feel your pain, Mom!
LX013 said, 3 months ago

An unwilling and bad tempered spous can spoil all the vacations!
Jackknife15 said, 3 months ago

She probably means coffee one makes, not instant coffee.
Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

Instant or decaf to me is not real coffee. She needs a nice trip to Tim Horton’s for coffee and a muffin. But really I would have flat refused to come. Why should Dad get to choose what they do for vacation? Let her choose where to go sometimes!
Dry said, 3 months ago

Real coffee is from Starbucks! Or Doc!!
Stede_Bonnet said, 3 months ago

Wouldn’t we all like to see a “decent newspaper”? Talk about an endangered species…
comicsnoob said, 3 months ago

How about some pancakes and bacon!
ninmas said, 3 months ago

FUN, FUN, FUN!
Avolunteer said, 3 months ago

We go fishing every year and I love it, can’t wait to get to go. Baiting the hook, (Catching the fish!!) getting the fish off, and yes, even gutting the fish. Nothing is as good as fresh caught quickly cooked fish! YUM Not all Moms are hotel resort types! (and don’t get me going on cruises… Not my idea of fun at all!)
musicnut1986 said, 3 months ago

At least Dad got Mom to go camping, even if she doesn’t have the right attitude. My wife told me if I ever forced/tricked her into going camping, the divorce papers would be in the mail.
prasrinivara said, 3 months ago

So madampresident, a campground with plumbing-equipped buildings and a large “well-equipped” kitchen (for cooking for large numbers) would count in your book as “major roughing”?
sjoujke said, 3 months ago

Coffee…nectar of the Gods.

Boy - mom’s REALLY going to be pissed when she finds out the car battery is dead!

(or did Calvin tell dad - NAH!!)
yyyguy said, 3 months ago

there’s a fine line between “fishing” and “sitting in a boat looking foolish”

and “fake coffee” would probably imply chicory
Ushindi said, 3 months ago

I still love camping, but “camping” changed as I got older. Went from a tent to a pickup and shell camper, then an in-bed camper, then a full size camper with stove, water tank, and ice box, and now a 27 foot motor home with bathroom and shower, refrigerator, generator (Yeah, but it’s not very noisy at all), microwave, beds, everything, basically, INCLUDING the kitchen sink. It’s not MY fault, it’s the ground’s - the ground has gotten much, much harder over the years. Fun filling up 2 - 20 gallon gas tanks when it was $4.50 per gallon. Still love the wind in the pines, the smells of a campfire and fresh coffee perking, though (AND fresh trout).
grazer said, 3 months ago

If everybody loved camping where would we all go to get away from it all??–-Thank god for the spoilsports!
LX013 said, 3 months ago

I don’t like fishing so much. But I like being in the nature, driving with the boat and look to the fishes and other animals and swimming. A cup of coffee is always fine!
prasrinivara said, 3 months ago

A Manic Sorcar joke-cartoon (not printed in his 1983 Indians In America) showed an Indian immigrant (perhaps naturalised to US) family setting up camp. The wife tells her husband, “let me get this straight: you moved us from our native village to Mumbai, then immigrated to the US so we could go “rough it” camping–at a similar comfort-level which we ‘enjoyed’ in the village originally?”
Mel(ody) said, 3 months ago

Until my eldest nephew was around 7 years old, he fished with a plastic worm tied to the end of the line. After he hit 7 we let him have a hook and real worms, but stood a good 30 feet away from him. The only one who would stand next to him was the dog……and he hooked him.
prasrinivara said, 3 months ago

Which kind of muffin (corn, blueberry, English…) did mum mean?
BC13 said, 3 months ago

Dad looks different without those glasses. I wonder if he can see.
Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

Camping coffee can resemble my Nuclear Coffee if you let the percolator sit in the fire long enough.
Watch tho lid, the coffee does try to escape.
yyyguy said, 3 months ago

i, too, love being outdoors - though i no longer camp.
fortunately, i live in an area with lots of green spaces (i have a pond with a “natural” area right behind my home), and spend a lot of time walking through them (with or without golf clubs - depending on where i walk).
Stuart Gathman said, 3 months ago

We rented a cabin in Appalachia a few years ago with loft, wood stove. We cooked all meals on the wood stove, chopped the wood for the stove, and even baked. The wife and kids were fascinated. A few weeks ago we rented a cabin in the woods an hour from the beach. We cooked many, many delicious things in the campfire using a pie iron, and putting corn cobs and potatoes in the embers.

Many who don’t enjoy tent/backpack camping do enjoy cabins. There are many degrees of “roughing it”.
Leonardeuler said, 3 months ago

Yes BC13, dad can see even better: he’s wearing contact lenses now.