Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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imaginarypet said, 18 days ago

it’s the vomit comet
Margueritem said, 18 days ago

Best hush up now, Hobbes.
LX013 said, 18 days ago

“Speck” means in German “bacon”. It#s good to go home and eat the bacon, Austrians love this especially and “Schnitzel”!
Margueritem said, 18 days ago

LX013 Schnitzel is a veal dish, correct?
Yukoner said, 18 days ago

The universe is filled with the evidence of purpose and design.
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 18 days ago

Are you getting air sick, Hobbes?
ejcapulet said, 18 days ago

Margueritem said,

LX013 Schnitzel is a veal dish, correct?

Normally yes (normal being the Austrian way). But not in my family; we’re German (and sort strange anyway). We prefer to use slivers of sirloin and serve it with a side of Gran’s spaetzle.
Johanan Rakkav said, 18 days ago

If your “speck” (bacon) is blue, I suggest you not serve it the Austrian or any other way. ;) And kindly spare the pig.

Which reminds me: I have a gift of beef bacon to crack open for breakfast tomorrow…
LX013 said, 18 days ago

Marg: Schnitzel of veal is a special offer, mostly for guests, but it is expensive and so for ourselves we mostly eat it from pork! When you have a fresh peace of meet, they taste fine even they are from the pork, with salad of potato!
unemandarine said, 18 days ago

Imaginary pet said: Vomit Comet….

HAHAHA!
sunrise814 said, 18 days ago

Hey Hobbes, don’t interrupt Calvin, he had a some good thoughts going!
jrbj said, 18 days ago

How quickly Calvin switched from “special purpose in being” and “great design” to being egotistical and threatening to make Hobbs walk home. Shows we are still mindless little monkeys who attach impressive attributes to the chaos we fail to comprehend.
RavennaAl said, 18 days ago

You can’t throw up in space, because there is no up or down.
Avolunteer said, 18 days ago

But you can still vomit…. now picture that!
Bdaysuit said, 18 days ago

You can’t “throw up” but you can “vomit”. lol
CogentModality said, 18 days ago

You can throw up. Up being the direction from your stomach to your mouth regardless of your physical orientation.
@jrbj
You can’t have it both ways. Either we are mindless or intelligent enough to “attach impressive attributes”.
Macushlalondra said, 18 days ago

All that talk about schnitzel made me hungry and the talk about vomit made me want to–vomit!
Fer Lefer said, 18 days ago

Surely, tuna sandwich vomit

( > _ < )

¡Feliz Día de Muertos!
ninmas said, 18 days ago

beautiful, calvin!
TimeWeaver said, 18 days ago

The goal is always down
runninanreadin said, 18 days ago

Reverse peristalsis…technicolor yawn…vomit…whatever….NONE of it is good in space!
Carmy said, 18 days ago

Projectile vomit?
nakula_sadewa said, 18 days ago

aha..now we get back the space
Puddleglum2 said, 18 days ago

I agree with Calvin’s comments in panel 3 except “…no more or less important than anything else in the universe…”
“The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth has he given to the children of men.”
Psalm 115:16
We humans are the center of God’s attention in the universe he created.
“You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for you have created all things, and for your pleasure they are and were created.”
Revelation 5:11
mroberts88 said, 18 days ago

Wow….that really makes you think….
treBsdrawkcaB said, 18 days ago

Lonewold - Hobbes can’t get air sick because space is a vaccuum! Maybe he’s space-sick or vaccuum-sick. Also, they couldn’t hear each other talk unless the little, red wagon has an invisible “cabin” with air in it.

…as long as we’re imagining…
Susan001 said, 18 days ago

Marg, “wiener schnitzel” is made from veal.

I was once a volunteer on an Israeli kibbutz, and the chef often made “turkey schnitzel”. It was delicious!
Saucy1121 said, 18 days ago

Really should have skipped some of the comments while eating my lunch.
dipsdayal said, 18 days ago

ha ha wonder- full…all wonders are wonderful why only the philosophical ones…
its the doing that we forget giving importance to the subject…
ratlum said, 18 days ago

Easy does it Calvin you could wind up both walking home
Where was this wagon made ?
bpshand said, 18 days ago

Puddleglum2: …”We humans are the center of God’s attention in the universe he created…

Well. Aren’t we special. The support for that assertion is not present .
BC13 said, 18 days ago

Deep thoughts from Calvin.
james the great and ... said, 18 days ago

If the heavens are God’s and the he gave the Earth to man then that explains it. Anytime you give your kid’s something that they don’t have to earn (be it with sweat, patience, or cash) they won’t really appreciate it. Now, if WE had had to make this ol’ Earth then maybe we’d take better care of it.
Well, anyway, back to Calvin… as there is no air in space but there is an applied force to the vomit then we would get a projectile that would move at a constant velocity equal to the final velocity it acheived as it exits the mouth and it would be a vector that would need to be summed to the forward velocity of the wagon to acheive resulting velocity or the square root of the first velocity squared added to the second velocity squared. Disgusting in any case as Newton says it would move forward infinitely.
Ushindi said, 18 days ago

Back to “Wiener Schnitzel”. There used to be a restaurant called “The Black Forest” on Hwy. 32 near Chester, in No. Calif. that was worth the trip just for their wiener schnitzel dinner (I developed a taste for German cooking after some time in Germany). Closed for the last few years, unfortunately, but here’s a good website that tells you all about that great dish…(sorry, hope I’m not JADing you)

WS
Vernon Bird said, 18 days ago

Hey, Puddleglum2, I’m going to take this strip and your comment to Bible study in three weeks, as we’ll be reading Psalm 115.
ogogogo823 said, 17 days ago

I can’t believe calvin thinks so deeply but is still so shallow.
JUJUBEANIE said, 17 days ago

LX013: What the heck???? y would we care????
Margueritem said, 17 days ago

JUJUBEANIE because I asked her, and she answered.
Dino-1 said, 17 days ago

If I remember it right from the experiments on the spacestation I saw on the space channel with liquids I think Hobbes will get the worst of it. If anyone else comments tonight, that knows different, please let me know in simple terms please we can all understand. Thanks!
mrprongs said, 17 days ago

Don’t try and figure it out Calvin. If you do, everything will vanish and be replaced with something even more confusing.
TMO1 said, 17 days ago

Everything has a purpose? Then why did the dinosaurs have dominion over the earth for so many millions of years? I’d say we’re no more important than the dinosaurs, and they’re long gone. We won’t be missed any more than they are when we’re gone. (And no, I don’t believe dinosaurs existed just to make oil for modern-day humans.)
Johanan Rakkav said, 17 days ago

On some subjects most of humanity is like the six blind men and the elephant. This is one of them. The answers given here so far, even the ones that actually make the most sense, prove it.

In other words, I submit that Calvin’s got most of you beat hollow in his metaphysics. The problem with us humans is that we descend so quickly to the physical, and Calvin shows that too. Bill Watterson, as usual, was truly brilliant here.

But this isn’t a question (for example) of us being monkeys attaching unfounded significance either to the universe or ourselves; that isn’t an adequate explanation either of human nature or of the universe. Someone, Dr. Einstein if I recall correctly, put it so well: the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that we can comprehend it. This isn’t explainable from the premise that we are simply hopelessly egotistical monkeys (as it were). But the premise of ultimate purpose for us and the universe on a divine level - that explains it perfectly. Other things must be invoked to explain the other half of Calvin’s little morality play, and they make perfect sense too.

I could get into the dinosaurs too, but this isn’t the place for a whole treatise on metaphysics, biblical religion and natural history! :)
Puddleglum2 said, 17 days ago

bpshand said,
“Well. Aren’t we special. The support for that assertion is not present.”
Our being special is not based on us humans and our own efforts. It’s based on what God can make of us through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
“For I know that in me, (that is, in my flesh), dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not.” Romans 7:18
Actually, pride (self, selfishness, self-centeredness) is our downfall and has been, from the fall in the Garden of Eden.
“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”
Romans 3:23
“Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
And the way of peace have they not known:
There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:13-18
“That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.
For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Romans 10: 9,10
“Being confident of this very thing, that He that has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:6
I’m sorry it was necessary to write more than you wanted to see, but the Bible has more than 31,000 verses. Much more could have been written on the subject, but I tried to be as brief as possible and still reply sufficiently to explain my position.
Puddleglum2 said, 17 days ago

james the great and…said,
“…then maybe we’d take better care of it.”

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish (fill) the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
Genesis 1:28
Unfortunately humankind has not very well obeyed God’s admonition to take care of the earth. However…
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, not come into mind (come upon the heart).”
Isaiah 65:17
“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.”
Isaiah 66:22
“Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.”
II Peter 3:13
Puddleglum2 said, 17 days ago

thebird55,
Thank you. That makes my effort worthwhile, already.
I’m tempted to type the whole Psalm 115, but I’ll restrain myself and type only verse one.
“Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto your name give glory, for your mercy, and for your truth’s sake.”
Psalm 115:1
Ivy0730 said, 17 days ago

That is gross, Hobbes!
Aardvark359 said, 17 days ago

The ability to control one’s gag reflex is an important survival mechanism in modern culture.

And in the interest of spiritual “restraint”: http://www.venganza.org/

;-)
bpshand said, 17 days ago

puddleglum2:
Arguing FOR the bible FROM the bible is absurd unless you accept the bible as the word of god which I don’t.
bpshand said, 17 days ago

P’Glum2:

You still managed NOT to support the assertion: “We humans are the center of God’s attention in the universe he created…

You did mightily thump the bible tho.
alanswann said, 16 days ago

puddleglum2: A donkey never spoke. No more than a snake did. Your God, your Jesus, is quite something extraordinary…but you need to rethink your theology. Every bit of it. A donkey never spoke.