Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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margueritem said, 3 months ago

Yum, phlegm!
mroberts88 said, 3 months ago

Only Calvin would think of something like that.
somebodyshort said, 3 months ago

must be last weeks milk
yyyguy said, 3 months ago

reminds of the punch line to an old joke that’s probably too risque to post here. i’ll just say i got an extra chuckle out of this one.
Yukoner said, 3 months ago

isn’t that one of the new varieties of soup from a well known company?
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 3 months ago

Ha ha! Got her again! She should know better by now.
sjoujke said, 3 months ago

When I was four, my cousin told me tapioca pudding was fish eggs….I haven’t been able to eat it since!
Carmy said, 3 months ago

YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vibjyor said, 3 months ago

A feint followed by a KO. Well done Calvin !
Johanan Rakkav said, 3 months ago

Getting out of my mind the idea that tapioca = fish eggs? For me, very, very easy.

Getting out of my mind the image that Calvin’s THERMOS(R) is full of phlegm? I may be sick to my stomach for the next week at least.
Grog said, 3 months ago

I wonder if it’s cup-o-phlegm. I wonder what’s really in the thermos.

Classic Calvin. Love it!
Parethed said, 3 months ago

A-hem…I need to clear my throat on that one…
cryptomaniac said, 3 months ago

Yechh… I’ll never be able to look at custard the same way again - thanks a lot, Calvin! Really have to appreciate his creativity, though.

No wonder Susie’s so slim - all those skipped lunches musta helped!
Taz said, 3 months ago

Ah! fond memories.

What’s the use of being a boy, if you can’t be gross.
WindFactory said, 3 months ago

Well at least it will slide down nice and easy!!
DreamScourge said, 3 months ago

I’m guessing something like pea soup. and shouldn’t peanut butter be cat dung scraped off a gravel drive?

As for tapioca and fish eggs, they are both vile so it makes little difference lol
theoneandonlynever said, 3 months ago

yuck…only a boy would do that…!
jrbj said, 3 months ago

Way to go Calvin! You knew she’d be on to you right off the bat and you diverted her suspicions and then, ZAP, you got her anyway. I’ve got to tell you, Calvin, I’m impressed. You may well be our world leader some day.
Herocoder said, 3 months ago

So much for civility eh ..
Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

…and Lucy will hold the football for Charlie Brown to kick it!
BrotherFlounder said, 3 months ago

Didn’t Watterson say this one got the strip kicked from one newspaper?
krisch said, 3 months ago

considering susie should have learned her lesson by now, I wonder who sits by who at lunch? Is it the preverse attraction angle again (on susie’s part) as she continues to have lunch with cal..?
krisch said, 3 months ago

fitness tip: date calvin and you won’t be able to eat anything, much less, carbs!
Calvinator said, 3 months ago

I was expecting something made with earwax.
Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

Peanut butter is fine; it’s the white bread that’s “disgusting”! There’s hardly any taste, and not much nutritional value, either. The wheat germ and bran have been removed.
All-purpose flour is a misnomer.
“I don’t want it; you can have it; it’s too ‘flat’ for me.” - slight paraphrase from an Arthur Godfrey tune.
crimsonpig808 said, 3 months ago

At least Calvin’s dessert is low calorie.
Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

Calvin has a peanut butter sandwich. Susie has a piece of fruit, if not a banana. “…what an unimaginative lunch”, says Charlie Brown. “And it’s because my mother is playing pool with your mother on that stupid pool table.” - today’s Peanuts
Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

Calvin is being civil.
I’m sure he would even share his phlegm with Susie if she asked nicely.
Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

WindFactory said,
“Well at least it will slide down nice and easy!!
It might slide back up even easier!

Johanan Rakkav said,
“…I may be sick to my stomach for the next week at least.”
Maybe you can ‘come up with something’ to get rid of being sick to your stomach.
N7326 Foxtrot said, 3 months ago

Susie,, Susie, Susie,,,,,,Did you really believe that “one day out of the year” nonsense?
Grog said, 3 months ago

So many comments with so many added laughs. Who knew phlegm would be gross, yet a great catalyst for humor.
ninmas said, 3 months ago

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Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

sjoujke said,

When I was four, my cousin told me tapioca pudding was fish eggs….I haven’t been able to eat it since!

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I love tapioca pudding but my husband hates it for the same reason you do. It’s one of the few foods he won’t eat. He says the gobules or whatever look gross and disgusting. I can’t stand mushrooms for approximately the same reason, they’re slimy, the colour is gross and the texture is disgusting.
tonytiger29 said, 3 months ago

I wonder if it’s homemade or instant phlegm. The instant just isn’t the same as what mom used to make.
AllensBrain said, 3 months ago

Sadly, Calvin isn’t kidding. His mother really WAS a horrible, abusive woman!
No wonder he has an imaginary friend who’s a tiger; i.e. fierce, vicious animal that would be a protector.
Richard said, 3 months ago

Susie is such a stupid child.
Lewreader said, 3 months ago

When Calvin and Susie are married, she’ll get back at dinner time.
Leonardeuler said, 3 months ago

Next time, Calvin should play the same trick with Moe. I wonder what would happen then…………
JanCinVV said, 3 months ago

My husband and I love tapioca, especially home made and served very warm.
and Macushlalondra, the globules are called pearls.
nighthawks said, 3 months ago

and, when you swallow it, it will go down in on long strand
james the great and ... said, 3 months ago

Isn’t it funny how something we all swallow countless times every day can still be so gross when it’s not your own (or even when it IS your own if you think about what you are doing!)
WinnieNicklaus said, 3 months ago

In the Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, Watterson says that it was this strip that got Calvin and Hobbes cancelled from one newspaper. Seems it was a little too graphic. Personally, I’m just impressed that he could come up with something nastier than a slug sandwich that requires heavy salting. http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2008/12/29/
cambelr said, 3 months ago

When I was young and watching my mother make pancakes one day, I saw some oil floating in the batter. I looked at my older brother and asked him what that was and he said “Boogers”.
Susan001 said, 3 months ago

Calvin must have met up with Regan MacNeil from “The Exorcist”.
Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

If Calvin was well-bred (whole-grain), he wouldn’t be so gross!
“It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone…,” he needs peanut butter with it.
Susie has to eat the ‘bread of affliction’ as the Israelites did in Egypt. She should leave the table in haste as the people of Israel did leave from Egypt in haste at the Exodus.
AllensBrain said, 3 months ago

Puddleglum2,
Also like Daniel & his companions, Susie is rejecting the rich food of King Calvin’s table in favor of the vegetarian sandwich & water.

Just finished listening to a radio adaptation of The Silver Chair, so I love the name.
grazer said, 3 months ago

“phlegm”—wonder if it tastes as yucky as it’s spelled.
Coffee-Turtle said, 3 months ago

Got Phlegm?
Grog said, 3 months ago

Somehow I don’t think that’ll be a catch fraze for a new commercial.
Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

These posts today are phull of phlegm, and as phlat as the taste of white bread. Some of it doesn’t phinally phail to be amusing, but at the risk of being phinicky, shall we phlee to another subject, and bid phinis to this tomphoolery, posthaste, or am I phlailing away, inephectually? - Exit stage right (Snagglepuss)