Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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cleokaya said, 2 months ago

Monkey see, Calvin do.
Margueritem said, 2 months ago

Ah, I see that Hobbes did come along.
threlfallm said, 2 months ago

Now he’s hooked.
tbree said, 2 months ago

Reminds me of the time I went to the zoo with my parents years ago. Let’s just say the zoo had a visiting mountain lion, and was working to preserve the species. My mom made the comment, “Come on, we don’t need to see that.”
Johanan Rakkav said, 2 months ago

For the same reason your parents aren’t allowed to throw you into the alligator pit.
Dutchboy1 said, 2 months ago

As long as they don’t start throwing “stuff”.
Crooky said, 2 months ago

I don’t think birds are going to be enough of a distraction mom. Monkeys are exciting, but monkeys doing gross things are irresistible!
BC13 said, 2 months ago

My mom once told me a story about her youth that always cracked me up, even after the re-telling of it. She was at the store with my grandmother one day and she couldn’t hold it in so let it go right there in the grocery store. She looks up at my grandmother and points at the puddle that she’s standing in and says “Mom, what’s that?” My grandmother looked down at the puddle, then looked her in the eye and said, “I’ll give you what’s that when we get home, young lady”
yyyguy said, 2 months ago

BC13 she could have taken a lesson from the lad in the pictures above.
pouncingtiger said, 2 months ago

Mom and Dad will be regretting those moments for as long as they live. Why do you think they stopped when they had Calvin?
Yukoner said, 2 months ago

All little boys are fascinated by those types of activities while Susie and her ilk would call it gross and be offended. Seems that the differences are more substantial than plumbing.
sjoujke said, 2 months ago

The birds aren’t a save bet either. I took my friend’s 5 year old daughter to see some ducks at a pond and they were “playing piggyback”, or “fighting” as she called it!
Ivy0730 said, 2 months ago

What’s monkey doing??
Picking nose? hahhaha
awgiedawgie said, 2 months ago

I bet the tiger pit would be a suitable distraction. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Susan001 said, 2 months ago

Why would a six-year old WANT to do what the monkeys are doing? Assuming they’re doing what we think they’re doing.
BTW, it’s nice of Mom to hold Hobbes.
Crooky said, 2 months ago

I don’t think the monkeys are getting up to “monkey business” - more likely picking their nose or scratching their butt.
Lewreader said, 2 months ago

Imagine Calvins play time for the next week
carpetinwater9 said, 2 months ago

Show and tell for school ?
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

Susan001 said,
“Why would a six-year-old WANT to do what the monkeys are doing? Assuming they’re doing what we think they’re doing?”
I’m thinking three things, but I hope it’s ‘number 1’!
Susan001 said,
“BTW, it’s nice of Mom to hold Hobbes.”
Yes, but doesn’t Hobbes look rather ‘crestfallen’? That doesn’t apply only to birds.
By the way, does a ‘partridge in a pear tree’ have a crest? “But that was yesterday, and yesterday’s gone”.
Calvinator said, 2 months ago

definitely pushing the comic strip envelope.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

See how instructive Calvin’s mother is? But Calvin soon observed something more interesting…to him.
Yukoner said,
“…Seems that the differences are more substantial than plumbing?”
Tell that to the ‘radical’ feminists!
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

In panel 4 Calvin said, “HA HA! That’s gross!”
Isn’t that an oxymoron?…not to Calvin!
“Come look at the birds over here, Calvin”
As far as Calvin is concerned right now, the birds are “for the birds”. “Monkey business” is better.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

BC13 said,
“…I’ll give you what’s that when we get home young lady.”
Her mother used the word ‘lady’ rather loosely, didn’t she?
It reminds me of what policemen (and others) sometimes say after the arrest of a felon “This ‘gentleman’ mercilessly beat the victim with a sledgehammer”. That’s just an example. It could be any number of dastardly crimes a ‘suspect’ was commiting.
bmonk said, 2 months ago

It has been noted that the most popular nature shows involve sex and violence–animals procreating or chasing and eating one another…
Macushlalondra said, 2 months ago

I don’t think they’re “doing it” since Calvin’s asking why he’s not allowed to do it. Has he ever tried to do that? I doubt it since he’sonly 6. Therefore they must be doing something other than that.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

Incidentally, Hobbes is taller than Calvin even in his inanimate “Tigris Stuffedsus Polyester(us)” state, as N7326 Foxtrot said yesterday. At least he’s not crestfallen, now, although his head is hanging just a tad (bit).
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

pouncing tiger said,
“…Why do you think they stopped when they had Calvin?”
Stopped having kids or…?
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

sjoujke said,
“The birds aren’t a safe bet, either…”
“Isn’t that just ducky?”
What the ducks were really doing went “like water off a duck’s back” as far as the understanding of the five-year-old was concerned.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

tbree said,
“…Come on, we don’t need to see that.”
Isn’t that an example (or even worse) of some of the ‘sex education’ that the kids are getting in many of the schools these days?
I hope I haven’t raised a controversial issue here.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

Lewreader said,
“Imagine Calvin’s play time for the next week.”
Do you mean Calvin will be marking his territory all week?
MONTESE said, 2 months ago

That is sort of not cool……but do you you think theres really little kids reading those comics, that dont now about that stuff already???
MONTESE said, 2 months ago

There probably throwing there poop around
FishStix said, 2 months ago

That’s what I meant three days ago about “cue the monkeys”.

Ugh. Is nothing sacred? And no, this isn’t about throwing feces.
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 2 months ago

By the way Calvin asks the question. it seems he already knows the answer.

BTW, does someone need attention? lol
N7326 Foxtrot said, 2 months ago

Saw that happen at the Atlanta zoo years ago. The mothers were funnier than the chimps!
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

TerryLonewolf said,
“BTW, does someone need attention? lol”
Perhaps so, but isn’t at least most of it somewhat amusing, informative, humorous, instructive, encouraging and/or entertaining? It is for me, but maybe i’m another ‘Lonewolf’ :o)
Coffee-Turtle said, 2 months ago

Do as the Monkey Do with the Poo! :-)

@tbree - funny story! :-D
TheRedHatt said, 2 months ago

Man I guess TL ! Whoa !
Stede_Bonnet said, 2 months ago

“Zoos let people see how wild animals behave”

I propose that the inverse is equally true:

“Zoos let animals see how wild humans behave”

If I have learned anything from watching animals in Zoos, it’s that there’s very little difference between those inside the cages and those outside other than a misperception that captors are somehow superior…
homeygfunk1 said, 2 months ago

to Puddleglum2

Rakkav said,
“For the same reason your parents aren’t allowed to throw you into the alligator pit.”
For what same reason? Does it refer to the previous quote (in the post above yours)? Or does it refer to “How come I’m not allowed to do that?”
it is about the comment Calvin makes in the last panel “How come I’m not allowed to do that?” You are not allowed to do that for the same reason your parents aren’t allowed to throw you in the alligator pit.
homeygfunk1 said, 2 months ago

to Puddleglum2

Rakkav said,
“For the same reason your parents aren’t allowed to throw you into the alligator pit.”
For what same reason? Does it refer to the previous quote (in the post above yours)? Or does it refer to “How come I’m not allowed to do that?”
it is about the comment Calvin makes in the last panel “How come I’m not allowed to do that?” You are not allowed to do that for the same reason your parents aren’t allowed to throw you in the alligator pit.
bleepingdeadalien said, 2 months ago

Hah! That’s the only reason my bud RALPH AVERY from Maine would visit the monkey house. Hah!
MONTESE said, 2 months ago

GEEZ LOUISE!
cryptomaniac said, 2 months ago

@FishStix

Is nothing sacred?

Cows are… literally and figuratively, where I come from (India).

We also have sacred monkeys and elephants, and levels of religious significance are attached to various other animals, though that hasn’t stopped them from being poached / slaughtered to near-extinction.
Johanan Rakkav said, 2 months ago

(to answer Puddleglum2, very belatedly:)

The common thread is, whatever we might feel like doing naturally (throwing unruly offspring to the alligators, doing whatever the monkeys are doing, etc.), we don’t do it in public because it preserves what little veneer or pretense of civilization we have.

Happy? :)
musicnut1986 said, 2 months ago

When I was in the 7th or 8th grade, my Sunday School teacher took us to the zoo. At the chimp cage a couple of the guys started trying to get the chimps agitated by jumping up and down while making their best imitations of monkey noises. A few of the chimps did get agitated which prompted a few more of the kids to join in jumping up and down and grunting. One chimp in particular got very agitated and started jumping up and down and shaking his head. Suddenly he stood still against the bars and proceeded to urinate on the two original agitators. Needless to say, the rest of us avoided being close to those two the rest of the afternoon.

I imagine the monkey Calvin saw was doing something similar.
JonD17 said, 2 months ago

yeh TerryLonewolf, I hear ya, its like a constant echo
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

Rakkav said,
“…Happy? :)”
Yes, your answer is excellent. I concur wholeheartedly.
I was thinking that neither one would be appropriate. You expounded on it articulately . Thank you. :o)
sfb5761 said, 2 months ago

The monkey is probably peeing (outside) which Calvin is not allowed to do.

As for boys and girls: anyone who is a parent of both knows that they are as different as night and day from the day they are born.
Ronshua said, 2 months ago

Puddleglum2 said,“But that was yesterday, and yesterday’s gone”.

Sorry Puddleglum2 , JUST LIKE my wedding day 50 years ago . YESTERDAY, December 7th, 1941 – a date which will LIVE in infamy . The infamy part of my yesterday will never be totally “gone”, past yes .

Gone #6 past , is the closest to what I perceive your “gone”indicated .
I’m not claiming “sharpest crayon in the box” status , mind you .
That would be like me saying “yesterday is gone” .

I’d “say on” to “past” but you can keep your “gone”.

Brother , I’m NOT trying to be impertinent . Politics ever cross your thinking ? You seam to posses the necessary stamina & poise for a run at the covered public teat .

Matthew 18:22 A bunch ah yesterdays , not one truly gone .

That’s all I have to say on this matter . I’ve hit the end of MY obnoxious chain . Thank GOD right ?