Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Calvin and Hobbes

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  1. margueritem

    margueritemGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Time for the T-Rex to take a time out….

  2. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, 3 months ago

    Cookies bedarned, he’s going to get cooked.

  3. vibjyor

    vibjyor said, 3 months ago

    Cookies are the right dessert after the butcher meal. Way to go, Calvin !

  4. sjoujke

    sjoujkeGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Of course you can’t take him anywhere. You should know that by now mom.

  5. Ivy0730

    Ivy0730 said, 3 months ago

    I looove Kraft Chips Ahoy! cookies!
    Yuuummy!

  6. rayannina

    rayannina said, 3 months ago

    Now the Tyrannosaurus wants to be grounded until he’s 34 …

  7. Carmy

    CarmyGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    …Tyrannosaurus alert, clean up on aisles 1 thru 24. Thank you for shopping at our store, have a good one!

  8. ♠Lonewolf♠

    ♠Lonewolf♠Genius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Going out of business sale at Sam’s Supermarket this Friday, Saturday & Sunday only!

  9. jukeofurl

    jukeofurl said, 3 months ago

    A muppet-that’s not a cookie monster. ^That’s a Cookie Monster…

  10. hagarthehorrible

    hagarthehorrible said, 3 months ago

    Good for the butcher. Every dog has his day.

  11. RobinaFox

    RobinaFox said, 3 months ago

    Oh the hours of boredom (well, it seemed like hours) I spent shopping with my mother. If only I’d had Calvin’s imagination… I might have been left at home.

  12. Richard

    Richard said, 3 months ago

    Dx, full bed restraints.

  13. Ronshua

    RonshuaGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    A WISE shopper will always eat and fodder all rogue or rabid children before entering any supermarket !

  14. unemandarine

    unemandarine said, 3 months ago

    I remember those days going shoppong with my mom… Once I ended needing stitches because my brother was following me everywhere grrr!

  15. R STJOHN

    R STJOHN said, 3 months ago

    What if she let Calvin push the cart?: “Oh, no there’s a giant bulldozer loose in the store…!”

  16. Johanan Rakkav

    Johanan RakkavGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Once he hit his stride, BW drew some really fantastic dinosaurs. Here’s one.

  17. jrbj

    jrbj said, 3 months ago

    The obvious answer to the problem is to leave
    Calvin [or any ill behaved kid] at home. Don’t you just love it when a mom will bring an ill behaved child to the store with her and then let it run loose and ignore what its doing.

  18. rshive

    rshive said, 3 months ago

    T-Rex Calvin is a little lucky he wsn’t hurt in a canned food avalanche.

  19. rac0308

    rac0308 said, 3 months ago

    All unattended children should be given a double latte and a puppy on the way out the door

  20. Puddleglum2

    Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

    Why didn’t Mom know that Calvin CAN create havoc ANYWHERE? Calvin should be canned!
    Calvin didn’t get a cookie with his fake dynamite recently. He certainly has blown it now.
    Yes, a time out is highly recommended until Calvin learns…

  21. Lewreader

    LewreaderGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Is it Calvin’s fault or his upbringing? A good swat on the…….

  22. Puddleglum2

    Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

    It’s probably Calvin’s fault AND his upbringing!

  23. shadowrider95

    shadowrider95 said, 3 months ago

    yeah, mom definately fits in with MANY parents today, rug rats everywhere. They’re as bad a all those ankle biters.

  24. Macushlalondra

    Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

    RobinaFox said,

    Oh the hours of boredom (well, it seemed like hours) I spent shopping with my mother. If only I’d had Calvin’s imagination… I might have been left at home.

    ~~~

    I hated going grocery shopping with my mom too. She wouldn’t buy anything I asked for and she’d get on me for dragging my feet.

    As for leaving Calvin at home, we’ve already seen what kind of trouble he can get into when he’s left unattended. I guess since she’s not rich and can’t afford to hire Roselyn to come babysit for him every time she needs to go to the store, the only other answer is to lock him in a cage til she gets back.

  25. lightartsteacher

    lightartsteacher said, 3 months ago

    Well, really, some of the most annoying students I’ve had, made great adults later. It is a shame that what makes really bright sucessful adults, often makes children the most troublesome. I tried to make allowances for that when teaching! :)

  26. primacyofreason

    primacyofreason said, 3 months ago

    So true, lightartsteacher.

  27. BC13

    BC13Genius_badge said, 3 months ago

    If I tried acting like that in the store duing my youth, my Mom would deliver a good swift kick to my rear-end. I think Calvin needs that more than a time out to snap him out of that T-Rex immitation

  28. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Calvin in a supermarket = Doctor Toon nightmare.

  29. Gene Strattmann

    Gene Strattmann said, 3 months ago

    I’d hate to think of what would have happened to me if I had pulled something like this when I was a kid. I bet I still wouldn’t be able to sit comfortabley, I would have gotten such a whoopin’ !!

  30. Doctor Toon

    Doctor ToonGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    It’s amazing what parents will let their children get away with in a grocery store.
    I’ve found the results of a parent letting a child “play blocks” with the Pot Pies.
    Probably took me at least as long to sort it all out as it took the kid to do it.

  31. bald 716

    bald 716 said, 3 months ago

    i well remember what happened when i played around in the grocery store, oh the pain

    now some stores have incorporated child care services for people who have children, even though my youngest is 22 there are times i’d like to leave hm there

  32. JanCinVV

    JanCinVV said, 3 months ago

    There was a turning point in the Calvin strip when his behavior went from cute hi-jinks to just being a brat. I stopped reading the original run at that point. I think we’re close.

  33. Destiny23

    Destiny23 said, 3 months ago

    I don’t know why he’d want cookies for dessert. A baker usually follows a butcher…

  34. Puddleglum2

    Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

    I wouldn’t object to an appropriate spanking for Calvin.That’s how he might get CANNED.
    BTW, did you notice how the can of tuna was opened yesterday? He must have used one of those old-fashioned can openers.It’s a wonder Calvin didn’t cut and slice his fingers.

  35. tonytiger29

    tonytiger29 said, 3 months ago

    Just wait til his mom gets him out in the jurassic park-ing lot…

  36. mroberts88

    mroberts88 said, 3 months ago

    How does mom not know this yet?

  37. bunnyface (bmonk)

    bunnyface (bmonk) said, 3 months ago

    It’s interesting that they just recently discovered a human-size T. rex relative. About 150 pounds!

  38. Johanan Rakkav

    Johanan RakkavGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Very cool, bmonk! From the article:


    ”It would seem to a human that forelimbs are so useful, that only when you got to the size of a tyrannosaur and you could frighten everybody with a growl could you get rid of [forearms],” he said.



    ”But this common sense type of thinking almost never works with evolution,” Sereno said. In the tyrannosaurs, for instance, “long, heavy forelimbs are a significant burden and would seriously curtail agility in the hunt.”


    I submit that it’s the evolutionist who’s lacking common sense here (as is true so often; his straw man arguments never cease to amaze and amuse me). Humans are designed (sic) differently because they have different needs. Calvin notwithstanding, they don’t go running around like Raptorex and T. rex do after prey, nor do they capture their food in the same way. We need long forearms. They don’t. That’s “common sense”.

  39. grazer

    grazer said, 3 months ago

    The beast ate the butcher—haha, I love Calvin’s catastrophic justice.

  40. LX013

    LX013 said, 3 months ago

    Calvin greedy!

  41. Susan001

    Susan001 said, 3 months ago

    Aren’t there shopping carts that have special seats for little kids?
    Or did they go the way of the T-Rex?

  42. Norman

    NormanGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    If Mom swats him SHE will probably get arrested for child abuse. No wonder the country is going the way it is.

  43. sierraseven

    sierraseven said, 3 months ago

    Certainly some humorless posts here today. It’s a comic strip, folks.

  44. Tigger

    TiggerGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    We knew better than to pull this type stunt, else we would be beat in the store, and then switched when we got home

  45. DaveGlass

    DaveGlass said, 3 months ago

    A monster in the store and in real life, heh, when I used to work for Homebase I used to tell naughty kids that we had a cage out the back for naughty kids, many a grateful parent were glad when that (apparent) threat calmed the situation down ;)

  46. ratlum

    ratlum said, 3 months ago

    This is dangerous behavior
    Moms do break down and whip the devil out of little boys

  47. loner13

    loner13 said, 3 months ago

    cleanup on aisle… . ah what the heck, cleanup on the whole store
    “we are currently closed for t rex tranquilization

  48. cholldekkgher stenstenstaffgher

    cholldekkgher stenst... said, 3 months ago

    Where will you find a Tyrannosaurus?
    Not driving around in a Ford Taurus
    Calvin you cannot take anywhere
    People will stop and openly stare
    At a T-Rex whose name is Horace

  49. Dino-1

    Dino-1 said, 3 months ago

    I find those car games they have in the store solved the problems in the grocery store for my son. We had these box ones that folded out and had magnetic pieces to play on the board. We had checkers, tic-tac-toe, and the favorite was shoots and ladders. Later we got him a had held computer game that taught numbers, shapes, and letter problems. The favorite game was hangman. Once when I was reading the cold medicine he was taking the shampoo bottles down in Rite Aid and arranging them in groups by matching colors. I thought it was cute but the girl in the store almost had a stroke! I was calm about it and I turned it into a seek’n’find lesson on shape and where on the shelves the matching bottles were as we put them away. The calm method works much better because if you yell and carry on they’ll do that or worse when they get bored in a store because they know it bothers you!