Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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  1. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Such an anti climax…..

  2. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Bubbles need some good mushrooms as accompaniment.

  3. EarlWash

    EarlWash said, 2 months ago

    Some days are like that!

  4. yyyguy

    yyyguyGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    one of the most fascinating things i ever saw was an act on the tonight show back when Carson was hosting called something like “bubble magic” (not too sure if that was the actual name). i just remember the guy blowing cigarette smoke into bubbles to make them more visible and linking them and even making various shapes by combining them. it was really cool, but Calvin would need a lot more practise to get to that level.

  5. vibjyor

    vibjyor said, 2 months ago

    Even life is like that !

  6. Johanan Rakkav

    Johanan RakkavGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Calvin, some things work better if you don’t try so hard to do them. :)

  7. Dino-1

    Dino-1 said, 2 months ago

    ninmas: Happy Belated Birthday!
    Stuart Gathman: What a horrible story! Talk about the cops way to overreact! I remember a bathroom break that I took when my son was little to find the door wide open and my neighbor with him in hand saying someone came over to visit her. Another time after he had his own twin bed I checked on him and he wasn’t there or anywhere in the house but the door wasn’t open that time. I still searched the yard calling his name and checked with the neighbors and no one had seen him. I came back in the house just to see if he doubled back on me and was playing a grand game of hide and seek. I went in his room and heard a snoring sound. He’d woke up and it was too bright and couldn’t sleep so he crawled under the bed!
    My husband and I just played bubbles again today. I got one of the foot wide wands with the dish at Price Chopper at the beginning of the summer. One of the cheapest and best toys I’ve bought for her. It works great and we all take turns making these huge bubbles and she chases them. She makes sounds likes she’s watching a fireworks display. The bubbleblower came with Imperial’s Miracle Bubbles and it’ really thick which I thinks helps alot. We’ve been through two gallon bottles so far!

  8. Carmy

    CarmyGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Ahoy there, Calvin. If ye be lookin’ for some adventure, join me for some swashbucklin’ me hearty!

  9. BC13

    BC13Genius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Was he hoping for fire works?

  10. johnnydoc5

    johnnydoc5 said, 2 months ago

    At least a small scale explosion….

  11. Ronshua

    RonshuaGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    BIP ? So they do generate a sound .

  12. Madruga

    Madruga said, 2 months ago

    …yeah, very impressive =DD

  13. DreamScourge

    DreamScourge said, 2 months ago

    @yyyguy I’ve seen something pretty similar, tho’ not on the tonight show, maybe it was the same guy… I was pretty cool tho’ ;)

    All I remember from doing this as a kid was all the bubble mixture down your hand and along your arm drenching one of your sleeves, the bubbles themselves never seemed to behave themselves… Calvin I simpathise :)

  14. Ludekuize

    Ludekuize said, 2 months ago

    yyyguy, I guess you are referring to a performance by Tom Noddy (find him by searching “bubble magic”). One good example of what he can do is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcraIOkc2ZU

  15. rshive

    rshive said, 2 months ago

    Sorry Calvin. No explosions–they just pop.

  16. dkram

    dkram said, 2 months ago

    What I have seen was called a bubble cube.
    He grouped six bubbles together, then carefully pushed a straw in to the middle and blew smoke in.
    There was a bulging cube shape in the middle.

  17. Puddleglum2

    Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

    Don’t let anyone burst your bubble, Calvin!
    “Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee
    “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” debuted in 1918.
    Anyway, life is more than bubbles.
    PTL

  18. Susan001

    Susan001 said, 2 months ago

    You want excitement, Calvin?
    Toss another water balloon at Hobbes and get beaten up again.

  19. Vonnegut

    Vonnegut said, 2 months ago

    “Wheeee.”

  20. jrbj

    jrbj said, 2 months ago

    This is reminiscent of life in general. “Bip” “Weee” Remember the old song Julie London use to do called, “Is that all there is?” Well, yep. That’s all there is. The artist, Frida Kahlo, wrote her own epitaph. It went something like “It was interesting, but I’d never want to do it again.” I guess that was a round about way of saying” Bip” “Weee.”

  21. Huntermoon

    Huntermoon said, 2 months ago

    I used to do a bubble experiment with my college students (Elementary Education majors) when we studied light waves–kept them enthralled for 30 minutes or more. You tape a clear plastic lid on top of a flashlight in a dark room and use a straw to blow bubbles from the mixture you put in the lid. The bubbles are gorgeous and intricately combined. The experiment is at http://www.exploratorium.edu/scienceexplorer/bubdome.html if you want to try it or just Google the word bubbularium

  22. Lewreader

    LewreaderGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Calvin, there is a lesson in love to be learned here but you probably won’t learn it either.

  23. vexatron1984

    vexatron1984 said, 2 months ago

    Want to have fun with bubbles? Get the catnip scented kind and blow them at Hobbes. The tigers I know love it!

  24. LX013

    LX013 said, 2 months ago

    Some idea in life is a wonderful sparkling star, it bursts like a soap bubble and only the memory stays, but the membory is excellent!

  25. grazer

    grazer said, 2 months ago

    Bubbles would be alot more fun if they had fangs and claws.

  26. grammahotsho

    grammahotsho said, 2 months ago

    My grandpa used to say, “Never expect any more than you get and you’ll never be disappointed.” Think of that often. Words to live by!

  27. ♠Lonewolf♠

    ♠Lonewolf♠Genius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Love the expression in the last panel!! LOL

  28. JonD17

    JonD17 said, 2 months ago

    Wow Dino, 2 Gallons…. did you by any chance do a bubble count on that consumption…. Inquiring minds want to know. lol

  29. EarlWash

    EarlWash said, 2 months ago

    ….and for those of us old enough to remember such things, there was Lawrence Welk’s “Champaign Music Makers” bubble machine. “Wonderfula, wonderfula”.

  30. dianecliff

    dianecliff said, 2 months ago

    My cats ignore the catnip bubbles…. they want the real thing.

    Fun: try blowing bubble outdoors once the temp goes below freezing… they freeze almost instantly.

  31. yyyguy

    yyyguyGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Ludekuize many thanks for the link. It was, indeed, Tom Noddy who I saw that time. I remember Paul Daniels’ Magic Show as well. I have a vivid memory of his son doing Houdini’s water torture escape on the show, and also a hokey “Loch Ness Monster” episode filmed at the Loch. I’ll probably go back tonight to watch it again, wish I knew how to save it.

  32. JonD17

    JonD17 said, 2 months ago

    from 2 days ago: Wiseguy411 said, 2 days ago ……..

    Oh and Stede_Bonnet …
    Youth is wasted on the young.
    Amen to that Wiseguy, When I turned 60 is when I really started having fun!

  33. jtpozenel

    jtpozenel said, 2 months ago

    Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most rewarding. Unfortunately Calvin will never grow up to learn this.

    grammahotsho, my own motto is: “Expect nothing. You’ll never be disappointed.”

  34. bald 716

    bald 716 said, 2 months ago

    i bought one of those giant bubble wands for my youngets son when he ea 1 1/2 and took him out to play withthem, scared the living heck out of him

    Carmy :

    it took me a little while but i finally figured it out

    happy national pirates day

  35. Ushindi

    UshindiGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Ludekuize: My thanks also for that great link - I had never seen Tom Noddy (Attercop? Bilbo?) before and enjoyed it. Poor guy could never do his act in California now, not with that cigarette.

    Huntermoon: Your link no longer works, it seems, but I googled it OK - I’ll have to try that.

  36. bmonk

    bmonkGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    @Huntermoon, Back in “the day”, there was a whole book on Soap Bubbles and the sort of science you could do with them. Including cylinders, bubbles inside bubbles, cantenaries, and I forget what all. Fascinating!

  37. ratlum

    ratlum said, 2 months ago

    Didnt dancers use bubbles at least in movies ?

  38. NoBrandName

    NoBrandName said, 2 months ago

    Ahoy, bald716, apparently you still didn’t get it, since it is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrrrgh!

    All praise to the FSM. May you be touched by his noodly appendage!

  39. Saucy1121

    Saucy1121 said, 2 months ago

    At work, I often have to give a brief hearing test to very young kids. Bubbles have saved me many a time. Nice distraction that keeps them from yanking the test probe out and screaming.

  40. farmermatt

    farmermatt said, 2 months ago

    Welcome to the real world, kid. Someone always out to burst your bubble.

  41. mrprongs

    mrprongs said, 2 months ago

    I always enjoyed blowing bubbles.

  42. Ivy0730

    Ivy0730 said, 2 months ago

    Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

  43. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Ludekuize, Thank you for the link, that was fascinating!

  44. Dino-1

    Dino-1 said, 2 months ago

    JonD17: Sorry we get too caught up in the my granddaughter’s reactions to count the bubbles. I’d say we probably blow a couple a hundred a night and we started in April so as a rough estimate I’d say 34,000 bubbles and counting!

    On the subject of bubble blowing fun an elderly friend of mine died five years ago. She was in my water workout class at the YMCA and lived in my mother-in-laws apartment building. My mother-in-law’s patio was by the pool and they’d all gather there in the afternoons to chat and swim. My friend was a real cut-up and one day showed up with a bottle of bubbles and everyone laughed so hard taking turns blowing the bubbles. After my friend died I went to the store and bought 30 bottles of bubbles and gave everyone from the workout class that went and the apartment building in the church parking lot before we went in. As my friend’s casket went past the pews on the way out the girls positioned at the ends started blowing bubbles and we continued until they loaded her in the hearse.

  45. humormehere

    humormehere said, 2 months ago

    Had a friend that took an acetylene tank and a bubble maker and make acetylene filled bubbles…They really POP!

  46. cholldekkgher stenstenstaffgher

    cholldekkgher stenst... said, 2 months ago

    Great job …..for an old hippy. Speaking of old hippies, I’ll bet old Hippy has something to say about this one.

  47. OldHipster

    OldHipster said, 2 months ago

    Heeeyyy maaannnnnnn, I remember this guy before he had long hair!! He was cool then!

    OK, I said something about him.

    Next?