Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 04, 2012

It’s a tasty sambar, it seems…

In this case, the “sambar” is a large, dark brown deer. An alternative meaning of “sambar” is a South Indian vegetarian dish.

From the smile on Hobbes’ face, it must be an all you eat sambar.

Beats a salad bar any day.

Sweet dreams, Hobbes.

@King Shark You are absolutely right ….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambar_(dish)

don’t confussed with sambal.

Pity. There are several dictionaries and thesauri readily available to anyone with enough curiosity to make use of them. I relish learning new words and their meanings and nuances. Even after 67 years of reading, I find some new ones.

Again beautiful, and again saved (like last year’s that were lost due to a misadventure in trying to speed up my computer, along with a lot of personal photos.) Are these copyrighted, or public domain? The world should see them.

Dream on, Hobbes.

Hobbes would get a better deal with Rosanne Barr.

Love that last panel.

I’ve come to the conclusion that you’re just jealous. I enjoy learning new words, no matter the source.

From the look on his face, i’d say hobbs was getting a belly rub or smooches :-D

Margureritem – 2 questions1. Do you paint these eegs yourself?2. Where are you from? I’m on the East cost of the USA and your time stamp is 6 hours ago. Deutchland?

More like a tuna fish sandwich.

I think it adds to the comedy of Calvin and Hobbes . . it’s funny to me that a 6 yo kid and his tiger would be using sophisticated words. I also think using a larger vocabulary was more common back in the day. Things have been dumbed down far more for today’s viewers. (example: my parents tend to have a larger vocabulary than I – not because I read any less, but because the books they used to read had a larger range of words.)

I think you lust signed up to be the sambar, Calvin my boy! :D

I think you just signed up to be the sambar, Calvin my boy! :D

I, for one, prefer to eschew obfuscation, especially in my elocution.

I love the mob mentality, jumping to conclusions, even when the poster may have been posting in jest. Gotta love it when dissent forms a crowd of opposition. :)

Kipling spelled it slightly differently:

Rudyard Kipling : The Jungle Book / Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack … As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled;

(Do you like Kipling? I don’t know, I’ve never kipled…)

let us not forget that Hobbes is a tiger – I suspect this is what he’s dreaming of…

http://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/mammals/sambar.htm

Somnolent might seem redundant, …superfluous, even (Snagglepuss), but I assume Calvin was using the word for emphasis!

Awwwwww. Sleep well, Hobbes!

xxx

Is Mr. Waterson penning the Calvin and Hobbes strip again and if so Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My cat has a look something like that,every once in a while when hes sleeping,I wonder if hes dreaming of exotic prey or just a mouse.Hes too fat to dream of catching a bird.

Calvin, an imaginary cartoon character, is speaking to what he would regard as an imaginary audience = us, about a talking tiger who is also imaginary to himself and us as well. Man, it’s getting existential around here…..

Given that gmartin997’s comments were gone by the time I got here, I can’t respond specifically to that.

But people need to keep in mind that when it comes to the written word in a medium such as this (versus the face-to-face spoken word), not everyone can automatically tell when someone is just being “facetious” — or if they actually are being rude, nasty, sarcastic and insulting.

Some people leave the “trolls” alone, figuring they’re not worth the time and energy needed to respond to them. Others, on the other hand, get offended and upset and will say what they think of that poster’s comments in return. It’s just everyone exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech . . . not to mention it’s also just human nature to do that too.

It’s situations like this that if I think someone may misconstrue my joking around as sounding nasty when it really wasn’t meant that way at all, then I add the little winking-with-a-smile emoticon at the end of my comment(s) so that people will (hopefully!) know the difference and I don’t get angrily flamed for, as you said, a “poor choice of words.” It doesn’t always work but I find that it usually does more often than not.

I’m not trying to lecture here. I’m just trying to make a helpful suggestion so that maybe more people can get a “jocose” comment across without having others jumping all over them for something they said but may not have meant.

;-)

Given its waviness, I imagine Hobbes’s HMMMMMMM is quite musical – no doubt indicating supreme satisfaction.

it could be gas

I’m old. I used to actually have the “Little Black Sambo” book when I was a kid. He had some tigers chase him around a tree until they turned into butter, for some reason.

The other tactic is to play with a sleeping cat’s mind by waving a tuna can (or, in Hobbes’ case, a cookie) over his nose.

have a good dream Hobbes very nice soong

I think he’s dreaming about smooching. Hobbs always was a lady’s tiger.

That sweet ‘fierceness’ is under-whelming. I love it.

I got it I got it I got it!! Calvin was actually saying a poem!! That rhymed!!

Didn’t anybody else notice? Here’s the rhyme scheme:

aab ccd

ooops how could I I meant

aab ccb

My reply itself was tongue in cheek, as was his post. That may be lost on some here, but not you I am sure.

Hobbes looks so cute! I love looking at a sleeping cat.

C&H was the only comic strip that ever sent me running to the dictionary, which was one of the things I liked about it.

The Sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to southern and southeast Asia. Although it primarily refers to R. unicolor, the name “Sambar” is also sometimes used to refer to the Philippine Deer (called the Philippine Sambar) and the Rusa Deer (called the Sunda Sambar). The name is also spelled sambur, or sambhur.