Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 27, 2009

The Mickey Rooney of Pterodactyls.

Aw, it’s a cute widdle baby pterodactyl…

Aww…a harmless pocket edition of a Pterodactyl.

This just isn’t a job to trust Hobbes with: why not transmogrify yourself, Calvin?

Calvin wanted to be a Pterodactyl, but he nover said how big. It was assumed. And not we know what happens when you ASSUME!

I signed up after reading all these comments for the last few months, some which were educating.

Calvin, Susie and Moe, Watch out! Don’t step on my toe, Coz that will start another row, And I am not your foe.

I guess the new improved version isn’t all that improved. same problem as the old one when he transed into a tiger. He was disappointed that he stayed the same size.

Have you noticed that Calvin still has chicken feet?

aww calvin he looks cute! Nice Hobbes!

look at hobbes takin aim!! he’s got his tongue out n all! :D

Which kind of feet does a pterodactyl have? I think chickenfeet!

On the nail, pouncingtiger–though he did imply the size as large by the statement “transmogrify me back when they call out the National Guard”.

For JonD17, since you wrote about “improvement”, see my spoilers from yesterday and the day before…

Aw, he’s so cute. I think it would be more fun to be a chicken than a tiny pterodactyl, though.

The diet coke of evil. Just one calorie. Not evil enough.

hobbs is looking through one eye while squinting with the other , his brain registered a smaller pterodactyl.and that is why it came out so small

He had to keep you smaller than himself Calvin so he can be the boss.

Why can’t he just shoot himself with it? Maybe it would transmogrify the transmogrifier along with his body into part of the new form and he’d be stuck. What if he thought of nothing when he used it?

I feel happy they never took the transmogrifier in production. Anyway, Calvin deserves a Nobel Prize for his invention.

Just a few little bugs in the transmogrifier.

Now, now, everyone. One thing the TM can’t change is the age of the subject. Therefore if Calvin is a child of 6 then he will TM into a young Pterodactyl. Of course it could be that going from a small chicken to a pterodactyl made him stay smaller. I love how Hobbes is so smug “what? who? me?

Ahhh, A Purse Pterodactyl, It’s all the rage!!

Hobbes wanted a toy of his own to play it. Smart moves Hobbes!

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A chiguagua pterodactyl!! ROFLOL

Oh my… Hobbes did it again…

pouncingtiger says:

Calvin wanted to be a Pterodactyl, but he nover said how big. It was assumed. And not we know what happens when you ASSUME!

So very true: never assume anything hahaha!!

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Well rshive, you do remember it’s the Beta 0.0 version?

Arghhh. Skulker virus is upon us. Back to baby pterodactyls

Sometimes my typing is %$&*)&^%& so the t didn’t get on the end of my name which is grammahotshot. I asked my little grandson if he was my little hotshot. He giggle and say hawshaw. I’m a retired gramma who has four adult children and 9 grandchildren. I read all your posts and I have to admit that some of them fly right over my noggin.

As pouncingtiger stated, Calvin didn’t state what size or genus/species–there were boxcar-loads ranging broadly in size between sparrow and Folland Gnat interceptor, a fact which Calvin ought to have known given his interest in dinosaurs and contemporaneous animals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listof_pterosaurs#Thelist

Based on the picture, Hobbes thought of a composite between several species…well, the size is within the range I stated.

calvindino, I don’t mean to start one, but your “row” doesn’t rhyme. “Row” as you mean it rhymes with “now,” not “toe.” (Hey, you signed up for the educating :-)

lol this is great. i love it. that happy look on his face when he aims. sha. love calvins look of happness when he turns into pterdoactyl. then he relizes that he is tinny.

Calvin’s a Pteradacvtylus.

Never trust a great cat with your transmogrifier.

1) To TheSkulker: Thanx for the info about Pogo!

2) Could we now say that Calvin is a petite p-tooie-daffodil? (Sorry, I just can’t help myself.)

Thanks, Skulker! I love Escher’s works, and would love to own one.

Love Hobbes in the second panel!!!<3 And poor Calvin, how cute he is!!! Muah

Ooops

My theory is that this isn’t in Calvin’s imagination, it’s actually happening in real life.