Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 09, 2023

Or bugs.

Hobbes is me when I’m on Twitter.

And the rest are people he puts up with and why.

What’s wrong with raisins?

It’s obivous who’s the superior in a battle of wits…

Toast crumbs in the butter used to bug me too…

Except there was the older strip where Calvin liked to go ‘wormucking’ after a good rain.

He’s only up to 7. He still has 999,993 to go.

Calvin, put that in a time capsule and look at it when you’re an adult. It’ll be good for a laugh.

Sorry, Calvin, but the skin is the best part of the pudding.

I’d like to see Calvin actually write a million things lol

What do you LIKE?

Chocolate chip cookies with walnuts or pecans; lumpy mashed potatoes; 50s and 60s jazz; people who obviously enjoy my company; the Python programming language… and lots more!

A little slow recognizing sarcasm, Calvln?

Has Hobbes met Elly Patterson??

Take it into custardy…….

I’m with Hobbs!

It’s my destiny

To be the King of Negativity

I just can’t stand it when people tell you their pet peeves! :)

8. Precocious cartoon animals

I take it “air quotes” hadn’t made it into every day vocabulary yet.

How about sarcastic tigers?

1 through 6 would be me.

People who insist on telling me about their dreams.

Quiet, Hobbes- Calvin is working on the anti-My Favorite Things.

1. People who comment on GoComics.

2. People who make lists

3. People who don’t finish thin….

Subtlety somtimes eludes Calvin.

The skin on the pudding is the best part!

You know, just let him keep making his list. At least he’s being quiet and practicing his handwriting.

A million? You’re going to be at this for a while.

I like your list, Calvin!

Ketchup? Catsup? Ketchup? Catsup?

Every time Stephan Pastis does another strip ranting about people he hates, I want to suggest this to him.

I don’t like skin on pudding either.

Calvin is self-aware. Doesn’t change his behavior, though.

Circled back on himself.

You know what really grinds his gears?

Gotcha….

I’ve gone back to making cooked pudding just for the skin. Chocolate preferred.

This is my wife’s MO for sure. She’s spent the first year of our marriage telling me everything she doesn’t like. I finally asked to tell me something she DOES like now thar I know the plethora of people/situations and actions that she doesn’t approve of.

“Sarcastic Negative Tigers who don’t know my true genius”.

You think he’d like the worms on the sidewalk.

“#6 will shock you!”

People whose names rhymes with “Alvin”.

8. Fish that don’t bite.

9. Ten pins that don’t fall.

List-gripers

Definitely with him on mushy bananas. I buy them as green as possible so I can eat them all before they get all spotted. I’m lucky that a nearby grocer puts them out in all their green, starchy glory.

You got him good, Hobbes.

Absolutely love Hobbes… Calvins alter-ego and ID…

Making a hand gesture for quotation marks… yeah, he’s right.

I would think Calvin would find sidewalk worms endlessly fascinating and yucky.

And what’s wrong with raisins? Why do people abhor them?

As for “air quotes,” hanging is too good for them!

See? We all have our lists!

I’d agree with #2 & 6. I’m neutral on a couple of the others and like the rest. The crusty part on pudding is the best. Baked mac & cheese and ziti/shells/lasagna too.

All the better to make a good cartoon, I guess!

I suspect that the main culprit in #1 and #2 is Calvin himself.

Making hand gestures for quotation marks. Hilarious. And I plead guilty.

really like the finger quotations

Brutal. Well played Hobbes.

Hobbes has this knack to pitch in with right phrases. Love him rub the six year old smart lad on the wrong side.

The three things I hate most are: meta humour, lists, and hippocrites.

what’s so annoying about dehydrated grapes?

1/2/6 are legit…..