Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 27, 2009

Pain without an audience is no fun at all….

That away Calvin let it all out. Maybe mom will kiss your owie and make it all better.

Hi Marg!

If a child scrapes their knee alone, does it hurt?

I remember an old DENNIS THE MENACE strip like this (And Dennis, at least, had real friends to play with). He wiped out somehow, fell hard and REALLY hurt himself. Tommy or someone says, “Wow, Dennis are you OK?” Dennis: “Yeah I guess so, but I think I’ll go home now…” All the kids: “Gee Dennis, you sure are brave (etc, etc)” Dennis walks a long way home, into his mom’s house, and THEN lets go: “Waaah - I fell down!!!”

Hi Shika!

gimmickgenius: That sounds like Dennis.

Reminds me of my toddler.

Hey, an owie is good for some motherly attention, maybe even some ice cream. You gotta get it when you have a REAL scrape because mom can see through a make believe owie.

(I’m listening to some Collective Soul as I write this).

I just love mom’s reaction. That protective instinct sure can kick in quick.

Just scream “MEDIC” at the top of your lungs.

If a child skins his knee in a forest and there’s no one to hear his wailing………..

mum told me i did this after i rode my trike down 2 stories of stairs into the garden (abt 48 yrs ago). copeing with pain & shock / dealing with reality, until one can find mum, when its ok to let it all out. mum is more the safe haven and fixer-upperer than audience. can remember the pink stained skin… but these days there is Betadine Ointment (no alcohol to sting). Thats what ist called here in Aus anyway (povidone iodine, ointment)

quiet an episode!

You mean all kids don’t do this? I did.

You need the audience to make it worthwhile.

I was quite the opposite..just let no one know it hurt! My brother, meanwhile…was in this respect absolutely like Calvin!

I need some attention right now. And I know how to get it.

We keep the band-aid company in business here. Nexcare has tatoo band-aids which we now have Winnie the Pooh, Disney’s Princesses, 60’s peace signs and eyeballs, and some left over Nemo band-aids. My granddaughter who’s 2 1/2 years old always has boo-boos when she gets her thanks to her Mom’s house’s hard wood floors. Buy a rug PLEASE!!! Anyway…she gives me a run down of where they are when she gets here and we cover her with them. Now though if she has one on her one knee we have to put a matching one on the other one. We only had the boring plastic pink/orangy band-aids when I was a kid! Actually the 60’s band-aids were mine I use when I get cut at work on the metal shelves or folders! My fellow employees made fun of me when I first started wearing them but now they all run to me when they get cut to get a cool band-aid to wear in the office. It brightens everyone’s day to be working at their desk and look down to see Winnie the Pooh or a giant eye etc. on their fingers. Admit it we all can use a smile when we get a stinging boo- boo no matter what our age!

baslimthebegger said,

you think it hurts now, just wait till the iodine/Mercurichrome hits the owie… or so it went when I was a kid

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Oh that brings back memories. My mother used something called Methiolade (I can’t spell it) and it was red. When she put that stuff on you it hurt like the dickens and the spot was dyed red. It was horrible.

That was me 55 years ago………MOMMY!

…why am I reading this repeat for free when I could be paying good money to re-read it?

I remember…Don’t get on the rug while you are bleeding!

Hey Grazer, If a man talks in a forest, and there’s no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

none of that stuff here… we always use peroxide and neosporin with a band aid

calvin has it down to a science, i’m kind of surprised that hobbs isn’t helping him walk to mom

Just for clarification. Iodine stings like the dickens… but it works. Mercurichrome doesn’t sting at all, and wasn’t really effective. [No pain, no gain?] Merthiolate stings some but not quite like iodine. Neosporin plus a band-aid is a nice modern cop-out. Effective and painless.

In kindergarten I ran for the door at the recess bell, slipped and went head first into one of those old cast iron radiators. I got up laughing holding my hand to my head. Then when I looked at my hand and saw the blood I started to scream and cry! Go figure.

Kids?!? I still do that.

Calvin needs attention ..

And yet in half the strips he talks about getting away from his parents. Hmm

I don’t know: someone looking for sympathy is somehow less sympathetic…

Anyone remember Gentian Violet? Dark black-purple stuff that REALLY stained. They used to paint my canker sores with it.

TMI,gimmickgenius!

We used to call something “monkey blood”, I think it was Iodine.

Pain without an audience is no fun at all…. Margueritem

rightly said

calvin is suh a drama queen or should it be king??haha

i remember using the red stuff whenever i got hurt..can’t recall the name

Mom knows best, and Calvin knows that.

What a ham!

Merthiolate was the other stuff, and my mother also used some stuff called ST-37, which didn’t hurt and has probably gone the way of the Oldsmobile.

I actually remember something called Kant Sting, used when I was a kid. I don’t know if it was the first non-stinging antiseptic, but given my age it has to be one of the first.

There was an old Andy Capp comic similar to this. He came back from a football game. In the last panel Flo says. “I have to make a fuss over it or he will and he takes longer!’ or words to that effect.

Don’t remember my parents really using anything, but my Grandma, she was quick with the Iodine…

Gentian Violet is still around. Used for treating thrush in the mouth. I remember Mertiolate and mecurichrome. Bactine was big in my day. Advertised as no sting, no stain and it did a little numbing to boot. Great for those skinned knees.

sfb5761, Thanks to my wife, we use ST-37 for everything! It works great. It is marketed as a mouthwash. Go to a market pharmacy (Wal-mart for instance) and ask them to order it, if they don’t stock it.

My dad used Zemo on everything. I miss my dad!

Then there’s Michael Constantine’s prescription from MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING: Windex!

My dad always used “black salve” in a tiny tin that he got from the nurse at the Westinghouse factory he worked at. Don’t think I ever used it because it looked so nasty but he swore by it.

We used peroxide at my house. Hurt like heck but used to sound a bit like Rice Krispies when you poured it on as it made a great foam. I’d have two or three sessions of that especially if it was a bicycle accident to draw out the dirt and germs Mom always said. When she poured it on and it only ran off like water she was pleased it was disinfected. I miss you Mom!

Calvin should be a professional soccer player.

pro soccer players be like