Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 07, 2011

Well, you do invent more things.

Wish I had that kind of time.

People used to do this for fake “Big Foot” sightings.

Good Morning all.

I think Calvin has a good idea…

A two ton chickadee walked by with a tiny human at his side. Suddenly the human prints disappear. Fowl play??

Feeling a little bored there are you Calvin.

What if the two-ton chickadee was Cloverfield?

Hey Calvin we got to do something with the human tracks walking with this bird.

Yes…Calvin is well accomplished!

The tiger’s right, and he really isn’t jealous, just has better things to do.

By my side must have walked Jesus and must have rescued me, but I don’t think, he has two-ton bird feet, who knows, perhaps for I am so heavy!!

Jesus doesn’t care how heavy you are, but I don’t think he would have bird feet either.

Knowing Calvin, as we do, he might do some very clever things with his newly created toy, this week.

If this were Lio, there really would be a 2-ton chickadee following him.

@Supersurfer nice play on words :)

I resemble that remark Hobes. I’m just gathering my thoughts for my second childhood.

These were the days when children actually had imagination and had to use their heads for play. Today, kids have to have expensive working models or the toy is no good. We have stifled this type of creativity by giving kids everything by the time they are in Kindergarten. My parents didn’t have much money, but we sure had fun, playing games with our friends and making up scenarios, much in the way Calvin does (though not to the extent that he does). We didn’t have our every move psychoanalyzed either. I think sometimes that backward would be better than forward. My dad was fond of telling us that if he came into a million dollars tomorrow, our (the kids) lives would not have changed a bit.

I like his idea and I’m glad Hobbe’s reality check didn’t win as it almost did. You never disappoint with your imagination, Calvin!

Hey, that bird has two left feet!

(Er, right feet??)

That’s my Boy!

I suppose it depends on how you define accomplish. I would think that Hobbes wouldn’t want any part of most - if not all - of the things you accomplish, Calavin.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

This clears up one of the most perplexing mysteries of the New Testament, “the two ton Chickadee of Nazareth”.

Imagination is so grand….I imagine winning the lottery….lol

“A two ton chickadee out walking its human.”

I was thinking more along the lines of Tweety Bird having ingested the Hyde Formula again…

When Calvin gets older he will be the source of crop circles. Now you know.

Yesterday legaleagle48 “enlightened” us about why Bill Watterson retired. He needs to get his facts straight. While it is true that Watterson battled with his syndicate for control over the licensing issue, and that he threatened to quit because of it, that was ~5 years before he actually ended the strip, and he did not possess the rights to it, so it would probably have been continued by a replacement artist. By the time he actually retired, Universal Press (his syndicate) had already given him the rights to his strip back, so there was no more licensing battle. He quit for no other reason than that, as he clearly states, his interests had shifted and he had accomplished all he could with the strip. I think he was wise to go out on top instead of letting his strip go the way of Garfield.

It is also noteworthy that he never criticized Charles Schulz, but rather admired him quite a bit.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Chickadee

Calvin great imagination though one flaw. Your foot prints give you away.

@ JohnDiFool: :—D Thanks for the AWESOME reference to Tweetie ‘roiding out’!! Looney Tunes Cartoons: The Gold Standard of American Animae!!

“Th-Tha-That-That’s All, Folks!”

If Calvin has not already figured out that his footprints will be a giveaway–he could always have the bird eat the kid or some other such funny/gross result. That’s what an imagination will do for you.

Calvin’s footprints are there because he is tracking the two-ton chickadee, walking beside the prints so that they will not be disturbed for future scientific analysis. However, I believe chickadees hop forward on both feet, rather than walking on one leg at a time like a crow. Or maybe it was Mae West.

Is the boy walking a 2-ton chickadee … or is the 2-ton chickadee walking a boy?!?

Destiny: What is the difference between a duck? One of his legs are both the same. Say that to a fairly large, aroune 8, group and watch the looks as people try to figure this out.

I tried that once, except I HAVE NO ARTISTIC ability(I’m more of a writer type) and it looked like deformed alien feet!!!

No wonder everyone in the neighborhood drives by Calvin’s house just to see what’s going on with his front lawn…..wonder if his parents have clued onto this …

Now if Calvin could have convinced Hobbes to help him it would have looked like a tiger was stalking that 2 ton chickadee! What a feast!

Why not end the bird tracks with a pile of feathers.Making Calvin a great tracker,and one hyyou hunter for the tribe.

I wouldn’t say time was weighing heavily on Calvin’s hands. He has things to do………. it’s not like he is going to:

Lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness……….. (aproximate quote from The Grinch)

Actually, Calvin, your footprints in the snow by the bird foot will make people KNOW that you pressed a cardboard bird foot into the snow…

Somebody did that in the back of our elementary school in the snow with footprints that looked like a dinosaur’s. As little kids were always looking out the windows toward the playground thinking we’d see it walking by one day!

lol

My sister and I had these weird things as kids that were like snow shoes with bear and dinosaur tracks on the bottom. Extremely hard to walk in, very clearly fake, never were used much. Looking back the snow was enough fun of its own accord, so those things were left in a box of sports equipment on the front porch. Probably are still there gathering dust and cobwebs.