Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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  1. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    Dang, Calvin stole my punch line!

  2. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, 12 days ago

    I’ve done that. Ouch!

    “Lest we forget”

  3. Ladywolf17

    Ladywolf17 said, 12 days ago

    Ladie and Gentlemen! I give you, Calvin the Human Slinky.

  4. Superfrog

    Superfrog said, 12 days ago

    I know it’s Fall for many but it’s Spring in Oz.
    Either way, this is good timing.

  5. Ladywolf17

    Ladywolf17 said, 12 days ago

    I used to ride a toboggan down the steps.

  6. sjoujke

    sjoujke said, 12 days ago

    He’s going to make one heck of a gymnast when he gets to high school….assuming, of course, he survives long enough.

  7. Magasek

    Magasek said, 12 days ago

    For our youngest, her stair nemesis was her older sister who just didn’t remember to close the baby gate. But the only time she fell down the stairs, she’d actually walked all the way down and was coming back up. She got halfway when my wife saw her and cried out in parental terror. The shocked look on my wife’s face, scared my daughter and she slipped and tumbled back to the bottom.

  8. ben_david

    ben_david said, 12 days ago

    Considering the number of 2-story houses built in the 19th and early 20th century, how did our population EVER survive and grow without baby gates? And fans. Have you ever seen an oscillating fan made in the ’30s or ’40s ? The cage on them consisted of about 6 or 8 wires around them. Now, how come there aren’t more 50- to 80-year-olds with more stubs than fingers? I never once stuck my fingers into a fan (from the back of it; the front just pushes you back like out like the wind).

  9. Ronshua

    RonshuaGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    Calvin is feisty enough , but slinky ? No , under aged .

  10. LX013

    LX013 said, 12 days ago

    Not funny!

  11. Puddleglum2

    Puddleglum2 said, 12 days ago

    It appears that Calvin saw Susie from the top of the stairs and fell head over heels (in love with her)!

  12. jrbj

    jrbj said, 12 days ago

    Hey Dad, Calvin was right about the elevator. From the looks of frame 4 they don’t have a banister next to the stairs either. It looks to me like they want the kid to fall and die.

  13. LX013

    LX013 said, 12 days ago

    Here we can bye a rubber spiral, that makes such motions. I hope it doesn’t meen, Calvin has fallen on his head and is out of his spirit!

  14. unemandarine

    unemandarine said, 12 days ago

    My cousins and I would use card board boxes to slide down the stairs… Also we would dare each other to see how many steps (top to bottom) we could jump at a time… Good times oh yes.

  15. BC13

    BC13Genius_badge said, 12 days ago

    LXO13
    That’s “buy” - not bye, as in good bye.

    Eventually, Calvin will learn how to land on his feet.

  16. Lewreader

    LewreaderGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    As a child I discovered bannisters can break

  17. Macushlalondra

    MacushlalondraGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    I’d like to see my cat try this trick.

  18. Doctor Toon

    Doctor ToonGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    Falling down the stairs is easy, try falling up them.

  19. Richard

    Richard said, 12 days ago

    At this rate, he will be completely retarded before his eleventh birthday.

  20. grazer

    grazer said, 12 days ago

    Stairs build character!….and scar tissue.

  21. marchman

    marchman said, 12 days ago

    Bought a two story house with a winding staircase. The first things the (then) young boys did was get their pillows and attempt to slide down those stairs. They would run into the wall at the turn. Today my oldests grandkids slide down his stairs.

  22. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    I have come close to falling down the stairs many times and think about the consequences every once and awhile. As you get older the thoughts of the results of falling make one extra careful.

  23. LX013

    LX013 said, 12 days ago

    BC13
    Thank you for “buy”! to land on feet is better than on head, and to lern this is important!

  24. celecca

    celecca said, 12 days ago

    Did anyone actually get their Slinky to go descend the stairs the way the ad showed? I never could!

  25. madampresiden12

    madampresiden12 said, 12 days ago

    Years ago parents told their children no and slapped their hands if they touched something dangerous. When my mom would first turn on the heat in the winter she would take us each in turn and lightly touch a finger to the radiator so that we would understand that it was hot. Can’t do either one of those today or you will be arrested for Child abuse.

    Six year olds don’t need baby gates. By the time they are six most kids know how to walk up and down stairs. I was accident prone when it came to stairs. One time I fell down the cellar stairs. My dad came running over and asked if I was OK. I held up my arm and said “I broke my watch.”

  26. BoisePadre

    BoisePadre said, 12 days ago

    The poor kid is lying there in a rubbery heap and SHE has to ASK?!!

  27. BigBadVidia

    BigBadVidia said, 12 days ago

    Move over, Spring Man!

  28. threlfallm

    threlfallm said, 12 days ago

    celecca, Yes my slinkies worked. For stairs the old metal ones worked much better than the new plastic–more inertial mass to push past the next ledge. Also, wood stairs are best, definately no carpet–adds too much resistance.

  29. Susan001

    Susan001 said, 12 days ago

    “Did you fall down the stairs again?” DU-U-UH!!!

    Now, Mom’s gonna yell at Calvin for falling down the stairs instead of checking to see if he’s hurt.
    Dad, of course, will just ignore the whole thing.

  30. 11Wilderness11

    11Wilderness11 said, 12 days ago

    celecca: yes. You really need one of the original metal slinkies. The plastic ones will still do it but not as well or as reliably. (My son loves to do this. He will start two at the top of the stairs and watch them race.) I should add that it doesn’t do so well on heavily carpeted stairs.

  31. Hirshhorn

    Hirshhorn said, 12 days ago

    It’s a new style of slinky.

  32. ratlum

    ratlum said, 12 days ago

    My boys worked out this
    Take a dresser drawer empty it put your brother or sister in it and push
    Watch for Mom Dad or a baby sitter

  33. MatureCanadian

    MatureCanadianGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    Yup, a metal slinky works best. Have one sitting on my mantel just in case I need to play. (My youngest is 28) Sliding down the banister was much more fun than falling down the stairs.

    Doctor Toon - Falling up stairs depends on the amount of alcohol ingested.

  34. celecca

    celecca said, 12 days ago

    I HAD a metal slinky - I don’t think plastic had been invented ;) I think it was the steepness - or lack of it - of the stairs. Once it went two whole steps and I ran to our neighbor’s house to brag to my friends.

    Thanks for the tips. I’ll have to get a new old Slinky and try again.

    I have an etch-a-sketch and magnets on my desk, and I’m old enough to have a 28 year old kid. Nothing wrong with play at any age!

  35. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 12 days ago

    celecca - I also had a metal slinky and it worked perfectly. I was very anal about my toys and kept them in immaculate condition. It really upset me when a small neighbor kid put a kink in my slinky.

    LOL, that sounds twisted.

  36. Amanda Tremblay

    Amanda Tremblay said, 12 days ago

    Hobbes: Oooooh, looks like SOMEONE’s falling for Susie!
    Calvin: Shut up, you miserable bunch of stripey orange flea bait!

  37. LX013

    LX013 said, 12 days ago

    Slinxy I meant!

  38. LX013

    LX013 said, 12 days ago

    Slinky, slinky, slinky!

  39. LX013

    LX013 said, 12 days ago

    Strange way to go upstairs!

  40. james the great and magnificent

    james the great and ... said, 11 days ago

    Considering what we didn’t have to protect us as we were growing up (ie bike helmets, knee pads, warnings on every single plastic bag in existence-even the one holding our milk duds,seat belts that we actually wore) it’s a wonder that the whole human race isn’t extinct;at least by today’s standards. I will say however that a staircae without banisters is scarey. Ever go down one before?

  41. BC13

    BC13Genius_badge said, 11 days ago

    James
    One of my buddies has a house designed that way with no banister to the upstairs. Even as a mature adult, I find it scary and very unsafe.

  42. Pacejv

    Pacejv said, 11 days ago

    James, I agree. How did some of us live to tell about when life was more fun.

  43. ahab

    ahabGenius_badge said, 11 days ago

    Time slows down when you fall down stairs,remember?

  44. JanCinVV

    JanCinVVGenius_badge said, 11 days ago

    James, the stairs to the basement in my grandfather’s house had no bannister. I was petrified every time I went down there. Although, come to think of it, that could have been his way of keeping the kids out of the basement.
    My metal slinky always worked best on concrete steps.