Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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margueritem said, 3 months ago

I’m sure glad that she could understand that….
cleO'kaya said, 3 months ago

The toilet, the toilet , get to the toilet.
cleO'kaya said, 3 months ago

Skip to the loo my darling.
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 3 months ago

Pray he makes it Mom!! Been there done this!!
Downeasta said, 3 months ago

Loosely translated….

“Im
gonna
throw
up again”

I feel for Mom, then again what was in her last dinner? lol
Yukoner said, 3 months ago

When our kids were sick like this we kept a large plastic pail by the bed. It saved a lot of extra laundry.
Fer Lefer said, 3 months ago

Calvin: “You’ve better run”
Mom: “You’ve better take some cover!”
Radical-Knight said, 3 months ago

I’m gonna throw up again???
sjoujke said, 3 months ago

In my case, it was a large plastic dishpan.
WoodEye said, 3 months ago

The plastic trash can next to the bed served me well, even into my teen years when it was beer induced.
Carmy said, 3 months ago

Poor Calvin! I hope he makes it to the bathroom in time.
Grog said, 3 months ago

I couldn’t figure out what he was trying to say. Good thing Mom knew. My sister could have used the plastic trash can for sure. She had a real weak stomach.
Susan001 said, 3 months ago

I think he’s saying, “I’m gonna throw up again”“, or something like that.
It may be time to call in the EMS.
Jocko84 said, 3 months ago

Nothing funnier than kids throwing up.
Unless it’s sleep deprivation.
krisch said, 3 months ago

wonder what temperature hes running
pintcape said, 3 months ago

the poor boy,the only time he’s pleasant is when he’s sick,dad will pay that he didn’t help.
cdward said, 3 months ago

Many’s the night we spent doing just this, complete with our barf bucket, the temperature taking and, yes, both parents staying up. We figured if one of us didn’t sleep, neither of us did even though one of us just hung out (because it really is just a one-parent job).
unemandarine said, 3 months ago

cleokaya said,
Skip to the loo my darling.

Very well put…. HAHAHAHAHA!
rshive said, 3 months ago

Mom is a great translator. Run for the sink Calvin.
Herocoder said, 3 months ago

I think he said ‘Its gonna come again’ .. good reactions mom .. still the little slack attitude is panel 3 .. Mom should learn faster than this ..
beachbum56 said, 3 months ago

Happy Thanksgiving all!
PTui2 said, 3 months ago

From Monty Python:

Waiter: “How are you today, Sir?”
Patron: “Better…”
Patron: “Better get a bucket.”

“Skip to the loo my darling.” (Ha! Classic!)
Fer Lefer said, 3 months ago

How about “It’s gonna come up again”?
Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

bandz said, (yesterday)
“Reminds me of 5 year old Sean who listened in church to the story of how God created Adam and then, because Adam was lonely, created Eve from one of Adam’s ribs to be his wife. Sean wakes up the next morning complaining to his mother that he doesn’t feel well. Ma asks him to be more specific and Sean says, “I’ve got a pain in my side. I think I’m gonna have a wife.””

I do think the story is amusing.
I differentiate between lonely and alone, however.
“…it is not good that the man should be alone…”
God in his omniscience, anticipated that Adam would be lonely without a “help meet for him”. He was not yet discontented or dissatisfied because the fall of man into sin had not yet occurred. The Garden of Eden was still Paradise.
Eve was beguiled by the serpent (Satan, the devil) and ate of the forbidden fruit, and gave unto Adam, and he did eat (Gen. 3). Since then, woman has been a pain in man’s side. Actually, it goes both ways. It’s mutual “badmiration”.
Dry said, 3 months ago

Jocko84 you’ve obviously never had a sick child! It’s not at all funny to see your child in pain. And when they have chicken pox, your heart breaks for them!
Richard said, 3 months ago

Give him a 3H enema. (high, hot and a helluva lot)
Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

You lingered too long both times, Mom!. There’s no time for a reaction or a reprimand. Just say “Run! Run! (to the toilet)”
midiranger said, 3 months ago

Haven’t met a parent yet who hasn’t been in this boat. No fun for any involved.

“cleokaya said,
Skip to the loo my darling.”
– wow. There are some comic geniuses on this board. lol - good one.
notinksanymore said, 3 months ago

We used to put an army cot outside of the bathroom for those long nights of vomiting.
Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

I agree, keep a bucket or something beside the bed!

Thanks to those of you who could translate, I couldn’t make out what he was saying.
Vigilante de noche said, 3 months ago

Is it just happenstance that this comes around at the point in time when the H1N1 is having a go again?
Or are the powers that be just pulling these old strips out of mothballs when history repeats itself…
jakebb2 said, 3 months ago

Same here Macush. I didn’t get it either.
nighthawks said, 3 months ago

you are right Paul M, and the moon landing WAS faked, and the mafia DID kill JFK and 911 was an inside job, and the sky is falling and they are ALL OUT TO GET US!

like calvin’s mom said: run, RUN!
Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

Fer Lefer got it fully translated (possibly with help from three or four others before him/her). Good going, guys! You came up with it!
Jocko84 said, 3 months ago

“Jocko84 you’ve obviously never had a sick child! It’s not at all funny to see your child in pain. And when they have chicken pox, your heart breaks for them!”

My point exactly: not funny.

Jocko forgot to put on his irony face. (~;{
bunnyface (bmonk) said, 3 months ago

“Hasten, Jason,
‘Bring a basin!

“Ulp! Too late;
‘Bring a mop!
bald 716 said, 3 months ago

get the bathroom trash can and put it next to the bed mom.

so sad that calvin may be sick for thanksgiving. : (
whitecarabao said, 3 months ago

bmonk, you beat me to it.

My mom spread newspapers and put a galvenized bucket beside my bed (we didn’t have plastic buckets 60 years ago).
Johanan Rakkav said, 3 months ago

About whether this strip is funny (having to do with a sick child as it does):

There are those who could find something funny in a famine, and there are those who could not.

Sometimes I wonder why I had to be blessed (and/or cursed) to be one of the former.
Goodvibrations1968 said, 3 months ago

igh fdheew dah shahmme ghdwae!!!
ogogogo823 said, 3 months ago

Real considerate mom.
Tim said, 3 months ago

Aww, heck, when I was sick as a kid, they never let us OUT of the bathroom :)
Dino-1 said, 3 months ago

Thank goodness for the plastic grocery bags. We have a wastebasket in every room and a bag in each. They definitely make things alot more sanitary when someone is throwing up alot. It seems like everytime my grand-
daughter has a cold for about 12-24 hours we’re on barf alert. She’s not quite 3 years old yet so I’m hoping it’s something she’ll only do occasionally like the rest of us as she matures.
Rmom said, 3 months ago

I was SO glad when my youngest (who barfed the most often) got old enough to learn to grab a bucket, trash can, or something to catch it before it was too late. I really hate cleaning up barf, as I have a weak stomach myself.
Hosfac said, 3 months ago

It’s really funny how seriously some of you take comic strips. It would do many of you a service to finally realize that Calvin is not a real boy, and his mom and dad aren’t real either.

When I was a kid, my parents taught me the difference between reality and fantasy. What ever happened to that lesson?
bunnyface (bmonk) said, 3 months ago

@Hosfac, a well-told story, or well-executed comic, engages us as if it were real–as Calvin and Hobbes certainly does.

Even in re-runs.
Tigger said, 3 months ago

Projectile Vomit coming up and it will coat the walls
Tigger said, 3 months ago

@Hosfc You have Zero Sense Of Humor
Tigger said, 3 months ago

@Pual M. Calivn and Hobbes was retired year ago. This is a Repeat. Charles Slulz is deceased, yet Penuts still appears as Reruns. You need to emerge from your cave morethan every 20 years
HighNoon said, 3 months ago

cleokaya said

“Skip to the loo my darling.”

That was good. :D