This was originally meant to be a longer Sunday strip, but Bill Watterson thought it would still be funny as a daily strip, with only the first four panels. Also, there was no way that the sexually explicit themes in the omitted panels would have made it past the editors.
I add my applause to Gweedo’s for your learning English. English is one of the more difficult languages to learn. Even native English speakers don’t get it right all the time.I have outed non-native speakers because they used English correctly.
BE THIS GUY over 8 years ago
Murderous pirates DON’T smooch!
Scoutmaster77 over 8 years ago
Good point!
Bilan over 8 years ago
Is this an early strip? The drawing is not as good.
Farside99 over 8 years ago
Six-year-old pirates don’t smooch! Eeeew, cooties! Maybe tiger years are like dog years and Hobbes is more advanced.
Kali39 over 8 years ago
Ve do not SMOOSH here!
orinoco womble over 8 years ago
Hobbes is such a tomcat…
rentier over 8 years ago
I like Calvin and Hobbes so much, so I make the effort!!
Cronkers McGee Premium Member over 8 years ago
Hobbes loves to smooch.
J Short over 8 years ago
Obviously he hasn’t read Zap Comics.
Kr38or over 8 years ago
This was originally meant to be a longer Sunday strip, but Bill Watterson thought it would still be funny as a daily strip, with only the first four panels. Also, there was no way that the sexually explicit themes in the omitted panels would have made it past the editors.
ladamson1918 over 8 years ago
Don’t ask, Hobbes. Just don’t ask.
yimhere over 8 years ago
….just try to smooch and say HHAAAARRRR at the same time. Could get messy.
InuYugiHakusho over 8 years ago
Murderous pirates smooch their booty.
Chris Kenworthy over 8 years ago
Hmm… you know, for the first time I’m starting to wonder if Hobbes is expressing feelings of Calvin’s that he can’t admit to himself. ;)
Old Texan75 over 8 years ago
I add my applause to Gweedo’s for your learning English. English is one of the more difficult languages to learn. Even native English speakers don’t get it right all the time.I have outed non-native speakers because they used English correctly.
magicwalnut Premium Member over 8 years ago
Hobbes is obviously somewhat older than Calvin.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 8 years ago
You couldn’t answer that question in a newspaper in 1986.
Back_phil over 8 years ago
Read your history, the pirates smooched with each other.
Get over it, they didn’t act any different then those prisoners in on long jail sentences do today.
Godfreydaniel over 8 years ago
If they were a clean band of pirates, instead of a dirty band, the girls might be more inclined to want to smooch them…..hygiene matters!
dflak over 8 years ago
Hobbs must be a 60’s tiger: make love not war.
flowergirl19 over 8 years ago
Hobbes is very smoochable <3
coffeeturtle over 8 years ago
Pirates did much worse than smooching, unfortunately.
Kirk Barnes Premium Member over 8 years ago
Squirrels!
Andrew Moore over 8 years ago
Calvin still looks different. Is the author/cartoonist on vacation and the “other” cartoonist drawing the strip?
Number Three over 8 years ago
The word “Smooch” even looks gross.
xxx
ChessPirate over 8 years ago
I happen to know that ChessPirates do smooch! :-)
ChukLitl Premium Member over 8 years ago
They’re pirates. They smooch who they want & kill who objects.
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
Occasionally you get one of those surprise smooches…Sometimes you take what you can get!
rentier over 8 years ago
I learn it by reading C&H and the comments!!
Susie Derkins :D over 8 years ago
I don’t know??? :)
Pthhht! over 8 years ago
Murderous pirates don’t smooch? Maybe that’s why there aren’t many murderous pirates around today.
heatherjasper over 8 years ago
Grace O’Malley comes to mind.
gforgina over 8 years ago
Anne Bonny and Mary Read were two famous female pirates.
Snoopy_Fan over 8 years ago
Hobbes is a pirate with a heart…
rgcviper over 8 years ago
Hey … wonder if this strip is the precursor to G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS)?
toohana over 8 years ago
Did Watterson injure his drawing hand? The usual high quality is missing.
tea62 over 8 years ago
Hobbes is the alter ego representing Calvin’s suppressed urges, BAAAAABY!