Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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comicguy250 said, about 1 month ago

Three strikes Calvin. You’re out.
Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

Yeah, that’s it! Aliens! From Pluto! Yeah!
vibjyor said, about 1 month ago

Some how I feel ‘Dad, I was trying to fix a leaking faucet’ would have been better.
LX013 said, about 1 month ago

Vibjyor is right, to say the truth would be better!
kpeiyin said, about 1 month ago

I can’t wait what Hobbes has to say…
ben_david said, about 1 month ago

Hobbes’ll probably tell the truth. “HE DID IT!”
PetrusS said, about 1 month ago

Calvin would never admit that it is his fault…
tbree said, about 1 month ago

Believe it or not, there are actually people that will Never admit that they are wrong, ever, on anything.
Lewreader said, about 1 month ago

I believe all three stories, I also believe those men wouldn’t be in Washington if they didn’t know what they were doing.
tqnis said, about 1 month ago

Admitting that he tried to fix faucet would mean admitting that he was stupid. It is much worse than being just bad and naughty.
somebodyshort said, about 1 month ago

tbree, you must know my ex then.
Leonardeuler said, about 1 month ago

Three filthy lies Calvin, tsk, tsk tsk !!! That will cause the Great Pumpkin and Santa to pass you by !
Ivy0730 said, about 1 month ago

Nice new hair-do Calvin!
But the truth will appreciated by Dad, too bad….
Dino-1 said, about 1 month ago

tbree: I worked with a 20 year old girl like that. No matter what she did wrong it wasn’t her fault it was someone else’s. She came in to be trained by me and I had problems with her repeated screw-ups and me trying to correct her and her telling me she was going to do it her way! I told my supervisor about her problem on Monday and she had already gotten caught for several screw-ups and blamed them on me! I had trained many people before and this was the first time I ran into this behavior. This happened repeatedly and I told the supervisor not to keep her on after her trial period but she was such a, “kiss-up” that she wouldn’t listen. She made problems for everyone in the department and finally stormed out one day saying, “She didn’t have to take this kind of abuse”. We all applauded after she left and she never came back! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kreole said, about 1 month ago

I wonder if that’s payback from what Calvin’s Dad did to his Pop?
Yukoner said, about 1 month ago

“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”

Sir Walter Scott
Leonardeuler said, about 1 month ago

C’mon Dad, look in Calvin’s innocent eyes and forgive him…..
rricchhterr said, about 1 month ago

along Yukoners’ comment,

especially when (people in general) we lie to ourselves
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

tqnis,
Is stupidity a sin after all?
Far be it from me
to disagree!
DreamScourge said, about 1 month ago

@Dino-1 We had pretty much the same problem here, this girl came in for an interview straight from college, she appeared quite bright and willing to work so she got hired. Within a week she was spending most of the working day hidding the fact that she was doing nothing but social networking on the PC or her cell, and messing all her work up (the first can be ignored if the work gets done). When brought up on the the mistakes she was making she would blame the person who gave her the job saying they told her to do it that way or didn’t explain it properly, or that they never told her how to do it at all (the fact that there’s a procedure manual seemed to have gone in one ear and out the other), as the pressure built she directed her attention on her supervisor and tried her hardest to get her sacked, unfortunately for her the company boss and the supervisor are good personal friends so he had already got to hear all about her, after a few quick checks with the rest of us and a couple of written warnings she was out the door without any references. It seems there are a lot of people out there like this :(

As for Calvin and Hobbes… I’m impressed how despondant and sorrowful Hobbes can look, whilst in stealth mode, at the sound of Calvin’s denials and blame. You never know the truth might have got him brownie points with dad… ’Aww! He’s tring to be like me’
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

Yukoner,
“…when first we practice to deceive.”
It has been so from the FALL in the beginning when Eve was deceived by the serpent, (as I’m sure you know).
Genesis chapter 3

Nick V (from yesterday),
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
And prevailed not; neither was their place found anymore in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, who deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:7-9
jrbj said, about 1 month ago

You gotta know that Calivin is just following man’s oldest tradition. When God asked Adam why he ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam spoke right up and said, “Eve made me do it”. We’ve been doing that ever since.
jopado said, about 1 month ago

Hey Yukoner, your observation doesn’t seem like something that a person in the territories would come up with. Unless, of course, your up in Dawson City and looking at that winter coming down the river.

I guess you could somehow compare Calvin’s mishap with spring break-up although it never occurred to me to blame it on the kids.
scbaguru said, about 1 month ago

That’s it Calvin. When on the hot seat, pass the buck.
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

jrbj said,
“We’ve been doing that ever since.”
“And the woman (Eve) said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.”
And Flip Wilson said, “The Devil made me do it.”
I agree that there has been a find a scapegoat mentality among humans from time immemorial, but in this case I believe both Adam and Eve were confessing to God. What each of them said was a statement of fact. In my opinion they were not accusations. Note the implied first blood sacrifice in verse 21 for the forgiveness of sins (requiring repentance).
“The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 6:23
rshive said, about 1 month ago

I might believe the one about the aliens. But not that they had bug eyes.
Richard said, about 1 month ago

Calvin merely observed the first rule of congress “when in doubt, deny, deny, deny”.
madampresiden12 said, about 1 month ago

When mom finds out she will probably say to dad: “If you had fixed that leaky faucet, Calvin wouldn’t have been tempted to try and fix it.” Because in the end they always blame dad. It’s too bad that Calvin didn’t listen to Hobbes and figure out how to shut off the water. Given Calvin’s penchant for over doing the small things, he probably would have shut off the water main to the house. That would have gotten mom and dad’s attention.
comicgirl1000 said, about 1 month ago

i’m back i was at seaworld
Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

Uh… “Usual suspects”
Macushlalondra said, about 1 month ago

I can’t believe this kid’s imagination. I sure hope he won’t become a politician (though he lies well enough for that) because we’d lose a great potential science fiction writer.
Coffee-Turtle said, about 1 month ago

Trying to push the blame on Hobbes is a BAD idea.
♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

Calvin is tummy deep in water and Hobbes has to be soaked all the way through!! LOL

Dad, don’t worry about this one, it’s done! Ask what he has planned next!!
BC13 said, about 1 month ago

If Calvin were Pinochio…
Vonnegut said, about 1 month ago

“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
N7326 Foxtrot said, about 1 month ago

Now I know Calvin’s calling in life. He is going to be an engineer. However, I never heard one blame his screwup on bug-eyed space aliens.
algurka said, about 1 month ago

For those who’ve read this far, thank you. I have just two comments:
RE: “Oh what a tangled web …” I have an addition, “And if at first we don’t succeed, lie, lie again.”
And as for the aliens from Pluto, they’re probably still steaming about their planetoid being downgraded from planet status and are seeking havok on Earth thru various evil and nefarious acts such as this.
shakeswilly said, about 1 month ago

I’d go with the pluto aliens story. It has the most potential. I mean now that Pluto is demoted from planet to asteroid plutoans would be looking for payback (not to mention the complex about their bug eyes). As Calvin is destined to be future ruler of earth, it makes sense for plutoans to try to skrew things up for Cavin.
Who knows if they didn’t make the faucet leak in the first place?
kab2rb said, about 1 month ago

My son was not near as bad as Calvin, but he liked to help his dad. His main problem and it caught up with him and he finally admitted what we stressed to him tell the truth lies will always hurt/harm.
Nick V said, about 1 month ago

o/ Oh, we dig dig dig dig dig dig dig, we dig the whole day through, for to dig dig dig dig dig dig dig is what we like to do! o/

The truth might have been a bit more agreeable. At least Dad wouldn’t have been surprised.
bmonk said, about 1 month ago

Cosby: “The man came in the window!”
nighthawks said, about 1 month ago

any lawyer will tell you:
deny , deny , deny!
grammahotsho said, about 1 month ago

When you’re in a hole QUIT DIGGING!
EarlWash said, about 1 month ago

And let us also not forget, “I didn’t do it. It did it all by itself!”
Comic-Nut said, about 1 month ago

Just tell the truth, Calvin, no matter how hard it hurts.
Aardvark359 said, about 1 month ago

Carbo Diem Calvin!
jtpozenel said, about 1 month ago

This is the last time the Plutonians will trust Calvin to keep his word.
grazer said, about 1 month ago

I’m not sure who did what, but rest assured it WAS NOT “big, evil, bug-eyed monsters from Pluto”.
We had nothing to do with it.
Wildmustang1262 said, about 1 month ago

Oh my jester! It is soooooooo hilarious! LOLs! Blame on Calvin for fooling around in the bathroom with his father’s tools!
Susan001 said, about 1 month ago

I’m curious: Has a kid ever pooped while being spanked?
Ewwww!
LOL