Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 17, 2010

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    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    LOL, love it.

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    SWEETBILL  over 13 years ago

    GM Marg, I’ll say ,great story Cal at diner time :-) Calvin is smiling too, rare

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    kittenpah  over 13 years ago

    The kid’s a natural scientist. Just let’s hold off on the disections until after desert.

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    rentier  over 13 years ago

    And this during a meal!

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    Brother_James437  over 13 years ago

    Well there goes my appatite.

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    hawgowar  over 13 years ago

    As long as he’s learning - let him go.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 13 years ago

    Calvin finds all the good ones! Betcha he tells Susie about the book!

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    GreenJade  over 13 years ago

    Ewww ! Those facts are hard to digest ! Love the look on dad and mom’s face !

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    moronbis  over 13 years ago

    Quite an achievement for Calvin considering he chose a book on wildlife and not comics.

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    Tineli  over 13 years ago

    I was fascinated by stories like this as well - and I never thought about that this might not be the right thing to discuss at diner time. I understand Calvin perfectly. Fortunately I’m not the spider…

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    harrietbe  over 13 years ago

    There will come a time, Dad, when you’ll look back on this little incident and have a good laugh.

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    Bittermelon of Truth  over 13 years ago

    Check out Mom’s face! “Eww. Really Calvin!” They should be grateful he knows what a book is… unlike today’s kids :-/

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    Ooops! Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Learning is such fun!

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    Herocoder  over 13 years ago

    Who knew books had stuff like that !!!

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    Troglodyte  over 13 years ago

    He he

    Reminds me of college days when we used to come up with “interesting” descriptions of food while others were eating at the cafeteria - the more queasy ones would stomp off in a huff, leaving their food behind for us to enjoy. Used the savings thus made to invest in more important purchases like fuel and cheap booze… that was the life!

    Strangely, none of us won any popularity contests - wonder why.

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    GrimmaTheNome  over 13 years ago

    If the dad was my husband he’d have got in quick with some philosophy ‘So much for the idea of a loving creator god’

    The first book my daughter chose from her school library when she was not yet 5 was ‘The life cycle of a snail’ …. at that age they are totally cool with an introduction to hermaphrodite sex!

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    derdla  over 13 years ago

    ha ha ha even now at my old age,its stil good

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    Dino-1  over 13 years ago

    That’s why I’ve always been more drawn to the boys and their mentality than the girls. I was a “Science Geek” in school and I’ve always enjoyed working in the medical field. I’m not the girly girl into makeup, hair, perfume, clothes, and shoes. It just bores me to death. I grew up the only girl on my street and I got into it all. I hated the Girl Scouts because it was all sewing and girly crafts. I would have been alot happier in the Boy Scouts. When I had my son I was thrilled and I was in my element. I got my wish when he took an interest in Cub and Boy Scouts and became a leader for 4 years.

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    cdward  over 13 years ago

    This sounds like the conversations our boys had about their books around the table! I remember the shark anatomy book my youngest kept showing us when he was maybe 8. Actually bought that one and still loves marine biology.

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    It looks as if the wasp stung Mom in the eye. Just recently, Calvin was terrified by a ‘70 pound bee’. Apparently, talking about such creatures at the dinner table is not scary. Calvin eats that stuff up!

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    GrimmaTheNome  over 13 years ago

    Dino, girls can have it all nowadays. My daughter is of the ‘science geek’ mentality, but when her girly friends come to play they’re happy to grub about bug hunting and beg to do chemistry in our kitchen. Maybe they take more delight in finding a pregnant woodlouse than a parasitic wasp, but I think they’d be interested in that too.

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    tqnism  over 13 years ago

    I wonder… If mum and dad lose their appetite, does it mean that Calvin does not have to eat his vegetables as well?

    And does Calvin get their desserts?

    Books may be really useful!

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    Ray_C  over 13 years ago

    We’re taking a course in “History of Science” this semester, and we had to get five books. One of them is a history of medicine. My wife said, “I hope it doesn’t have a bunch of gross stuff in it.” I said, “You mean like the guy with the hole in his stomach so they could watch his digestive processes?” Last night was a lonely night.

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    Ray C, “I’m just a lonely boy, lonely and blue I’m all alone with nothing to do” - Paul Anka

    tqnis said, “And does Calvin get their desserts?” Calvin will get his just deserts. That should make him happy. It seems that all Calvin wants is just desserts, anyway.

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    LeslieAnne, If you haven’t been able to sign on for awhile, you might have missed Saturday’s comic and my comment. Is the following comment typical of the conversation among you and your friends when you get together?

    Extortion excites, enthuses, exhilarates, and energizes Calvin. However, Mom extemporaneously enervates his enterprising endeavor. That’s how the cookie crumbles!

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    lewisbower  over 13 years ago

    Vikings to spaceships. Don’t let any other little boys find out about MY library..

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    I never was interested in such things, and certainly not while eating!

    Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

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    LeslieAnne  over 13 years ago

    Puddleglum2…It does sound like something that I would have said and that they would make fun of me for!! :) But I love it!!!

    And he may “eat it up” but his parents are more likely to want to “table” the discussion!

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    dsom8  over 13 years ago

    Interesting question for the evolutionists as to how this spider-wasp relationship came about in miniscule stages. Oh the glory of (fallen) Creation!

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    greatgreenmoose  over 13 years ago

    As a kid I grew up in Asia and ate all sorts of weird things. I used to catch and eat ants because I was told you could eat them… I’d be ok with what Calvin was talking about.

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    oletimer  over 13 years ago

    hey! watch it with all the philisophic pomposity…..

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    mike.firesmith  over 13 years ago

    **Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

    She blinded him with science!

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    LeslieAnne, “You Beat Me to the Punch!” - Mary Wells (1962) ‘You are faster on the draw than I am’ this time. If this continues, a few people might want us to “table” OUR discussion, and I can guess who might want to be the ‘chair’man of the ‘bored’. From yesterday, “after today’s flyghty comments, i’m running with calvin”. He could have said, I’m fleaing with Calvin, but flyghty alone is better than a ‘run’ of the mill play-on-words. It looks as if Calvin has lunched (launched) a web of intriguing puns, which should be good for a few larvas (laughs), but hopefully not a fly in the ointment. Calvin’s parents certainly won’t ‘egg’ him on, but at least his comments were ‘organ’ized. Still, he might end up “Standing on the Corner” - The Four Lads

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    musicnut1986  over 13 years ago

    VistaBill said, about 9 gags and chokes ago:

    “Calvin finds all the good ones! Betcha he tells Susie about the book!”

    That was the first thing I thought of after reading this cartoon. “You Beat Me to the Punch!”

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    kab2rb  over 13 years ago

    Now we know where Calvin gets his face expressions at.

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    cats32  over 13 years ago

    sweet

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    MustLoveDogs  over 13 years ago

    I love Mom’s face! HA!

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    jaws2049  over 13 years ago

    This spider reminds me of some school administrators I know…amazing! Out of the mouth of babes…never teach those kids to read…you never know what they’ll learn! JW

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    George Arnold  over 13 years ago

    Calvin just being Calvin! Great toon!

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    coffeeturtle  over 13 years ago

    LOL!! Fascinating… bad timing… but fascinating nonetheless.

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    mikec5959  over 13 years ago

    Ha! Calvin’s moms face..!

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    gocomicsmember  over 13 years ago

    In my family, we didn’t purposely go for gross stuff just because it was gross. But neither did we feel that a subject was taboo just because you were eating. That was where our family conversations took place, so if a subject was suitable for discussion, it was suitable for the dinner table.

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    LeslieAnne  over 13 years ago

    Yes Puddleglum2 we could end up in a sticky stiuation… or maybe we would end up with ‘egg’ on our face (which would most assuredly be better than in our internal organs!

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    Calvin … the future “Bill Nye The Science Guy”!

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    Iwa Iniki  over 13 years ago

    Someday he will be a famous Biologist?

    If you think this is gross, try viewing a Brown Recluse bite.

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    khpage  over 13 years ago

    Speaking of gross, how about that fried egg left eye of his mother?

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    oletimer said, hey! watch it with all the philosophic pomposity…..

    …not to mention the pedantic punditry with a prerequisite predominantly postulating posture! “In short”, said Mr. McCawber, “the two posts were precisely presented.”

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    ratlum  over 13 years ago

    Yep seen that on tv in colour Calvin you would have loved it.

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    Nebulous Premium Member over 13 years ago

    What a coincidence!

    That’s what’s in today Insect Picture of the Day. http://www.insectpod.com/

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    LeslieAnne  over 13 years ago

    Iwa Iniki, my father had a brown recluse bite and you are right. They are bad!!

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    larney45  over 13 years ago

    Oh dear. I fear The verbose verbal vivisection Will entail entrails And descriptive details Of all things That should be Best left unsaid. “Great big globs of greasy grimy gopher guts, marinated monkey meat, itty bitty birdy feet. Great big globs of greasy grimy gopher guts, and me without a spoon…”

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    fredbuhl  over 13 years ago

    Where can I get this book?

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    JTGAM  over 13 years ago

    Now this is a book after my own heart! I have no problem reading, talking about or observing such things. I too am like Dino-1 in that I am a true nerd/geek at heart. But I don’t see Calvin necessarily moving in that direction. Remember the insect collection catastrophe?

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    ellisaana Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Dino, I identify with not being a girly-girl. My sisters weren’t either. We were all in Girl Scouts. In Scouts, we did a variety of things: acting, singing, crafts like pottery but also much more active stuff like camping, overnight hiking and canoing. My senior troop was a “mounted troop” which meant riding and working with horses. We also did volunteer work. At age 8, I helped my older sister gather insects for a science project. I remember catching a spider in a neighbors doorway and bringing it home in a glass jar. It was a black widow. My sister went on to get a degree in Botany and was one of the first women naturalists with the US Park Service. Its all in how you grow up. Both our parents were college educated and encouraged us to read anything and everything. Mom used to say, ‘if you can’t understand what you are reading, it won’t hurt you, and if you do understand it, you are old enough to read it. Our mother was an expert seamstress and a good cook, but she was the one who taught us to fly fish. She also hunted deer and squirrel with my brother. Our dad hunted and fished, too, but he loved to build things. It was Dad who introduced me to the joys of gardening.

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    jimcracky  over 13 years ago

    Whoa, so much for intelligent design by a compassionate creator, huh? You got it, Calvin.

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    NebulousRikulau, That was apropos!

    jimcracky, Apparently, you didn’t read the posts from Johanan Rakkav and dsom8! Also, “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” Genesis 1:31a In Revelation 12:9 “And the great dragon was cast out,, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world:…” starting in Genesis 3 at the fall (first sin) of Adam and Eve. The sin of mankind brought the “curse”. Ultimately, the devil will get his ‘just deserts’. “Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.” - II Peter 3:13

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    carvteach  over 13 years ago

    This is wonderful! I’ll be holding on to this one to share with teachers!

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    Me_Again  over 13 years ago

    Calvin is awesome.

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