Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 20, 2010

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    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    Too many, Calvin me boy.

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    SWEETBILL  over 13 years ago

    The devil made me do it!? Strike while the slushy hot

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    COWBOY7  over 13 years ago

    Wait until the day after Christmas, Calvin.

    G’Morning Marg, Mike & Grog!

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    chamin  over 13 years ago

    All of them, if Santa still wanted to give you any :-p

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    pouncingtiger  over 13 years ago

    Calvin’s in the bargaining stage.

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    whims  over 13 years ago

    How many is it worth to him? The fact that he’s asking suggests two or more presents are on the table, here.

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    WoodEye  over 13 years ago

    One well placed slushball in her earhole won’t hurt…. us.

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    D-i-c-e-R  over 13 years ago

    The sacrifices men make for love.

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    rentier  over 13 years ago

    Yes, too many, Calvin!

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    Kirokithikis  over 13 years ago

    Calvin, we know you too well - you could throw a dozen and you still wouldn’t hit her :P

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    Dino-1  over 13 years ago

    Only a few more days until Christmas Calvin, try to stay the course little buddy!

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    Yukoner  over 13 years ago

    Calvin, listen to Hobbes. It ain’t worth it.

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    mike.firesmith  over 13 years ago

    **Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

    I live for the day that is the biggest moral question I have.

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    vibjyor  over 13 years ago

    Strike Susie with a slushie ? What a thought ! I wonder Calvin even bothers to ask how much he would lose ?

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    chuck_henebry  over 13 years ago

    I know what Nietzsche would say to Calvin. Choose fierce joy, every time!

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    Rakkav  over 13 years ago

    “Men are bigger and stronger, but not as bright or compassionate as women.” Wow, talk about stereotyping.

    Just for the record, the average IQ of men and women is the same - the point spread for men is bigger in both directions (more geniuses, more, eh, Brewster Rockits).

    And compassion? While that has a strong link to estrogen and therefore to sexuality, it also has a strong link to temperament, and for the same reason. Calvin and Suzie both have personality types driven primarily by estrogen in the brain. Both show themselves to have considerable compassion when the chips are down. All else being equal, Calvin would get along better with girls than with most boys - if he let himself. But he doesn’t let himself get along with anybody, male or female.

    Whatever’s motivating Calvin to throw slushballs at Suzie, you can bet it’s not a simplistic sense of inferiority because she’s a girl. Calvin doesn’t feel inferior to anybody. He feels he’s the center of the universe, as immature ENFPs usually do. Suzie, who knows better, challenges that perspective. Not because she’s a girl, but because she’s an INFJ girl, she challenges Calvin at every point of his self-image, and particularly at that part with deals with logical frameworks - for him, his inner mischevious child which indeed is a source of violence (but that’s true of us all, not just males). Hobbes (also INFJ) does the same, and so Calvin fights with him a great deal too. But notoriously, Hobbes isn’t a girl! :)

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    wicky  over 13 years ago

    Go ahead Calvin…let fly!

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Don’t do it, Callvin. You’ll likely miss, but Susie’s retaliation shots won’t.

    Good Morniing, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

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    gaebie  over 13 years ago

    Calvin needs to use the policy of what was on my waitress’s shirt yesterday:

    “I’ll be good next year”

    Go ahead and hit Susie with that slushball Calvin!

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    cleokaya  over 13 years ago

    Save the snowballs in the Freezer until Boxing Day. Santa won’t remember the incident one whole year later. Besides maybe one of your presents will be a bazooka.

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    ses1066  over 13 years ago

    “How many presents do you think I’d forfeit …?”

    The simple and straight-forward answer to this question is “one more than you would want to lose!”

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    runar  over 13 years ago

    Calvin needs one of these.

    Chovil needs to chill. It’s not ‘cause he’s a boy, it’s because he’s a kid. I wish I could repay my sister for all the cruelties she inflicted on me, but I have a thing about not spending the rest of my life in prison.

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    SWEETBILL  over 13 years ago

    @runar, wish I had one of them when I was a kid..

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    esconopeles65  over 13 years ago

    Thanks Chovil, I needed a bunch of sweeping generalities to get my day off to a proper start. Maybe I’ll go throw a slushie at my wife while she sleeps. Maybe I won’t live to see the sun set in the Pacific tonight.

    If Calvin chooses to throw, he will miss. Susie’s compassionate retaliation will soak him to the skin. Stay cool Calvin.

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    musicnut1986  over 13 years ago

    Good post Johanan Rakkav, but we should just ignore Chovil’s post. He/She is just using the standard troll practice of posting something controversial and then hiding while watching what the reaction is.

    This comic just reinforces the impression that Calvin would have had a great future as an attorney or policitian.

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    hendel213126  over 13 years ago

    Chovil,

    It could be because he is a child and a little boy to boot. Why do we continue to over-analyze children being children equating behavior with non-sensical psychobabble?

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    robinafox  over 13 years ago

    It’s being sneaky that’s bad. Why doesn’t he just challenge Susie to a snowball fight? They could have fun together, and Santa would approve. Or is this just girly of me?

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    DavidGBA  over 13 years ago

    Wait until Calvin discoveres his fixation on her is an early crush.

    I think he can afford one, at least, if it is not too hard. Boys will be boys!

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    gofinsc  over 13 years ago

    If Hobbes were concentrating on building a snowman, Calvin would want to pelt him with slushballs, too. Does that indicate tiger-envy?

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    Why bother? You’re just going to miss her, Calvin, and she’s just going to soak you in return!

    And in response to your question … all of them!!!!!

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    Trolls are better off left to starve and die alone so everyone needs to ignore them and stop “feeding” them … doing so only makes them bolder and stronger!!!!!

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    ratlum  over 13 years ago

    It makes you wonder how many would be forfeited. Because one good smack means a lot to our hero/brat.

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    dahawk  over 13 years ago

    Johanan, you got it wrong. David, you got it right.

    The fixation on Susy is nothing but Calvin’s response to unrequited puppy love, even though he doesn’t yet know it.

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    WittWicked Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Since Santa’s probably buried you so far on his naughty list you’re not getting anything next year either, I’d say fire at will, Calvin.

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    josh_bisbee  over 13 years ago

    I think it’s just the boy/girl rivalry that we all went through as young kids, and nothing more.

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    dandrew55  over 13 years ago

    I think all of them

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    bobe70  over 13 years ago

    he likes susie thats all ,you’ll forfeit all if you trow a single 1

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    tirnaaisling  over 13 years ago

    Avery accurate summation Johanan Rakkav :)

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    spiritoflionelhutzlives  over 13 years ago

    …its all or nothing Calvin…

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    Wiseguy411  over 13 years ago

    Calvin you would probably lose your lump of coal as well.

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    Alxeter8  over 13 years ago

    Calvin… its not worth it!

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    mrslukeskywalker  over 13 years ago
    None.
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    khpage  over 13 years ago

    Rakkav - what do the acronyms ENFP and INFJ mean in English? I don’t have a clue. Agree with others about Calvin’s rhetorical/political bent. I’d vote for him in a New York minute just to see what would happen….

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Rakkav is refering to the Myers-Briggs personality types. There are 16 combinations of 4 letters, referring to 16 different personality types:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-briggs

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    Death2100  about 10 years ago

    yo would get 5 more presents for doing that!

    (hehehe)

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    Death2100  about 10 years ago

    yo would get 5 more presents for doing that!

    (hehehe)

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