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1. 

   Margueritem said, 3 months ago

   Hobbes has the right idea.

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   rayannina said, 3 months ago

   Cats always know more about relaxing than humans …

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   Yukoner said, 3 months ago

   And that’s why, in my next life I plan to be a cat.

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   sallytripp said, 3 months ago

   Calvin and Hobbes is my favourite comic!

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   vibjyor said, 3 months ago

   I think this is the most poignant Calvin strip ever.

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   sjoujke said, 3 months ago

   Hobbes the philosopher.

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   ejcapulet said, 3 months ago

   That’s what I really don’t like about camping in some places - nothing to do at all but swat bugs. I like to hike and climb mountains.

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   Johanan Rakkav said, 3 months ago

   (light dawns in Rakkav’s head after reading this strip)

   Hey…that’s it…Calvin is an ENFP and Hobbes is a projection of his archetypical Opposing Personality. No wonder that Hobbes is so much like an INFJ. :)

   Before someone rails at me for being needlessly serious, I’ll say…nothing. :P ;)

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   runninanreadin said, 3 months ago

   (…is content to just sit inside and listen to the thunderstorm…)

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    shadowrider95 said, 3 months ago

    you sit still when you get old or dead, enjoy but do stop & smell the flowers periodicly.

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    Lewreader said, 3 months ago

    Isn’t it un-American or something to do nothing? Oh, wait, the politicians do it all the time

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    Richard said, 3 months ago

    Gad, what pathos!!!!!!

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    unemandarine said, 3 months ago

    Oh Hobbes you are so very right.

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    Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

    Hobbes is the expert at doing nothing? No that’s not right, Garfield is.

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    FishStix said, 3 months ago

    Sounds like retirement. Can’t beat it!

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    Stede_Bonnet said, 3 months ago

    can’t type… thinking.

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    blackman2732 said, 3 months ago

    Now THAT’S a vacation, Hobbes.

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    TapiocaHead said, 3 months ago

    Hobbes, you are good. Sometimes we all think too much.

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    cleokaya said, 3 months ago

    My dog had the perfect life, spending her life visiting her friends, swimming, going for walks with whomever was passing, relaxing, letting us know when it was time to be fed, enjoying car rides. Ha, ha, it’s funny how I would often look at her and think, “You live the perfect life. ” This I would think as I set forth to do some dreaded chore.

    I love Hobbe’s relaxed pose in panel 4.

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    Ivy0730 said, 3 months ago

    a long, relaxing vacation!!!!

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    madampresiden12 said, 3 months ago

    “Oh, wait, the politicians do it all the time”

    And then they take a recess for vacation or campaigning.

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    Comic-Nut said, 3 months ago

    Totally agree Hobbes! Totally agree!

23. 

    sam2 said, 3 months ago

    garfeild is the king of lazy

24. 

    Carmy said, 3 months ago

    Doing nothing is doing something.

25. 

    nighthawks said, 3 months ago

    of course he he’s an expert, he’s stuffed

26. 

    bandz said, 3 months ago

    “When all is said and done, more is said than done.” – unknown

27. 

    ratlum said, 3 months ago

    I cant help but like Hobbes more and more

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    grazer said, 3 months ago

    Glad to see those two get a much needed rest from all their playing.

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    Gaukelinchen said, 3 months ago

    How do I get a comic to my favorites? I’m too blonde…

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    GretchensMom said, 3 months ago

    I totally hear you, Cleokaya! I’ve always said that if there *is* such a thing as the “after-life”, I want to come back as my DOG!!!!! Talk about someone who’s got it made while her “servants” (that would be my husband and me!) do her bidding!!!!!!!!!!

    Meanwhile … I feel Calvin’s pain. My family just returned from a 2-week, out-of-state visit with my in-laws who live almost literally “in the sticks”: no internet access, no cable t.v., and at least 20 miles away from the nearest Wal-Mart (and not even a SUPER Wal-Mart at that)! I took PLENTY of reading material and cross stitch projects with me to keep me busy and from dying of absolute BOREDOM while we were there! Don’t get me wrong. I love my in-laws. I just absolutely HATE where they live!!!!! And just like Calvin will feel when his “vacation” is over, it was so nice to finally come home again!

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    Atma said, 3 months ago

    There is a joke the French often tell:

    The French work to live while the Germans live to work.

    If you can’t enjoy just BEing, then you just don’t know what you are missing. If you only know how to DO then all you have in the end is the memory of what you’ve DONE. If you also know how to BE, then you’ll also have what you’ve BECOME. Being is the basis of life. If you can’t or won’t just BE now and then, you won’t have the time to really see what you are DOING. Success in life is not what you do but what you BE-come. Hobbes is in the right direction.

32. 

    OldHipster said, 3 months ago

    Cool! I wake up lots of times!

    I woke up and found out we had Obama for Prez!

    Wish I could go back to sleep!

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    4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

    @ Gretchen’s Mom: May I move in with your in-laws, please?

    @ Gaukelinchen: Underneath the lower right corner of the strip there’s a little gray star. Click on it; it will turn gold.

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    MisngNOLA said, 3 months ago

    Lew, we only WISH the politicians would do nothing. It’s when they DO things that they cause the most trouble. They do things and then years or even decades later, they have to go back and fix what they screwed when they did the things they did before.

35. 

    Dawn said, 3 months ago

    Cleo you have that right!

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    BC13 said, 3 months ago

    Yup. Calvin’s an ENFP alright - and the complete opposite of me (ISTJ)

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    Gene Strattmann said, 3 months ago

    Hobbes has figured out the reason for a vacation, how I wish I was there with them enjoying nature up close and personal. Way to go Hobbes ol’ boy!

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    mrprongs said, 3 months ago

    Stop and smell the roses.

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    ninmas said, 3 months ago

    oh, i love when that happens!

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    Puck Burton said, 3 months ago

    Hobbes is familiar to me as most of my friends in college: unemployed, incomparably lazy, and having a superabundance of back hair.

    The only thing that’s different between Hobbes and them is that tigers are inherently better at pulling things off with style.

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    4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

    Felines: born to be Zen.

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    Dino-1 said, 3 months ago

    RinaFarina: Both my parents were great. I’ve started writing down some of the stories I share here and with my own family. The more I talk about them the more I realize they were pretty cool characters. Hey I might even find someone that might want to publish it someday. Atleast it’ll be a great hand-me-down for my granddaughter.

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    a4skyhawk said, 3 months ago

    I read in a lot of these comments that Calvin is a brat. I don’t think so at all. He’s just a wonderful creative kid. What’s not to love about Hobbes?