Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 05, 2009

Can’t you mosey any faster, Hobbes?

Welcome to the jungle.

It seems Calvin and Hobbes had a real high jump ino space.

Probably dad getting even for the binoculars and the camera.

somebodyshort - ACK! Just thinking about it gives my vertigo a real tweak!

Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish I wish tonight.

I wish ………

Hey! That was MY line! :-)

Okay, here’s another thought. Do you realize that at one time every molecule in your body was hotter than the center of the Sun?! True, very true. Most of the matter of this planet came from a Supernova long, long ago.

I like it course Hobbes doesn’t run back alone to the tent. He snaps Calvin, he doesn’t leave Calvin allone and runs with him back to the tent. This is very attentive and nice from him! So acts a real friend, he is a real friend, bravo!

Not a squirrel – them’s daytime critters. Might be a raccoon. Or a possum. Or a skunk. Or … (many many possibilities)

tbree: That’s very interesting and insightful thought :)

The moon at my house was beautiful tonight , almost full

ladywolf17, what was it full of?

CHEESE!!

tbree - hate to be “that guy” but I gotta correct you. While you are right that the matter on earth came from other places and was likely the result of an explosion (maybe a supernova, who knows, not really sure) the “molecules in your body” were not formed at that time, and many didn’t even exist as the MOLECULES they are currently until they formed inside your body from other ATOMS.

Futhermore, heat/temperature of something is a function of how actively the molecules of which it consists are moving and bumping into one another, therefore a molecule, in and of itself, is neither hot nor cold.

Hey, Hobbes is a tiger. He should be used to this. And with all the power he uses to attack Calvin when he gets home from school, nothing short of a rhinoceros should be able to stop him from protecting his little buddy.

But then again, they’re both scared of Monsters Under the Bed. :)

Welcome to the delightful inconsistency of Calvin’s imagination.

The moon at my house was beautiful tonight

Run for your life!!!!

But ‘Molecules’ just sounds better than ‘Atoms’! :-) I suppose my literary license expired.

Anyway, elements heavier than iron have to be formed in a supernova. (That doesn’t mean elements between hydrogen and iron aren’t formed, they are. Those get distributed with everything else.)

And if you really look at the stars, no two are alike. So ‘If you seen one star, youve NOT seen them all!’

Now now Hobbes .. thats no way for a tiger to behave .. ;-)

Have legs,will travel

I trust my stuffed animals to protect me from noises in the night. Of course I also trust my government

The moon is shining on my house and in the gulley behind it, I expect that the gully monster is out tonight.

The moon is NOT full of cheese–it’s full of LEMs and flags and crashed satellites and stuff the astronauts left behind. It’s a giant salvage yard awaiting a crafty entrepreneur. Wanna buy some used space parts cheap? The expensive part is the delivery charge.

Something outside the campsite is drooling!

somebodyshort said,

Try this for fun: Go outside at night when the stars are out. Lay on the grass and look straight up. Focus only on the stars in that direction. Hold onto the grass tight. Now think to yourself: “I’m looking DOWN!” Thanks again tbree

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That makes me dizzy!

Spaceman Spiff wouldn’t be afraid. Would he?

i’d like to go out there and see those for myself. hey gang!

Hobbes tail all fluffed up.

baslimthebeggerGenius_badge said, about 7 hours ago

Somebodyshort’s contribution explains his/her avatar!

Probably a squirrel… In 1970, I was camping at Sunset Beach on Monterey Bay. Early in the morning I kept hearing this heavy footed walking around, but in an odd way….

Friend of mine went camping with a group one time. One of the youngsters kept saying “Mr Smith” (not real name). “There’s a bear our there!” Mr Smith checked, used a flashlight from the tent but saw nothing. The Third time the boy said “Mr Smith, I’m telling you there’s a bear out there.” Well Mr Smith used the flashlight again and saw nothing but then noticed something from the corner of his eye. He moved the flashlight and realized, he had been shining it between the bears legs. The bear was after the food they had up in the tree but tell that to his racing heart.

Are they in Texas? The stars at night are big and bright….

TC– Great “Chicken Heart” reference!!

carny–the song doesn’t lie.

KO first star,here goes,one BIG wish, I , I , wish ah Mr. Obama HAD A CLUE , thank you Mr. Star .

lol – Hobbes tail in panel 3. tbree & somebodyshort – you guys enjoy playing with peoples heads, dontcha

star light, star bright, first star i see tonight. i wish i may, i wish i might.. oh .darn it’s just a satellite!

A.

@iamtxmilady: TN Charlie is quoting from Bill Cosby’s “ninth st. bridge” routine.

Maybe dads out there walking enjoying the night hopefully with mom. That why all the snap and crackle.

I love the last panel how Hobbes has Calvin slung over his shoulder and is getting the heck out of Dodge! :-)

Hey your tail would pucker to if you was that scared

I remember a business trip I was taking on a freighter sailing from Tortola B.V.I. ending in Grenada. Before I would retire for the evening I would hang out at the stern and gaze up at the stars. It was as if soeone had put pin holes in the dark curtain of the night.

Shall we mosey back to the tent?

i like the image jmworacle. i also like stargazing on a warm summer night, as long as i don’t need to make a sudden mosey to safety. i prefer a nice brisk amble around the block, myself.

Sissies—It’s probably just a foraging field mouse. Or a drooling werewolf.

Happy birthday Carmy

Is mosey the right word ? Hasty retreat is not a mosey I love Hobbes

Yukoner said, about 9 hours ago

ladywolf17, what was it full of?

She meant to say “FULL MOON!”

mosey?

Hobbes’s tail looks like it was electrified.

yes, @jmworacle, I too like the image very much.

@somebodyshort, I do it a little differently. I lie down on the grass in the daytime, on a day when the air is very clean and clear, and the sky is full of white (preferably fluffy) clouds. Then I just watch the sky.

After a while I feel like I’m high up in the air and the clouds are below me. I start to feel like I’ll fall off the grass and down into the sky. Wonderful feeling!

If there’s a nice breeze, no matter how small, I can see the clouds slowly drifting.

Actually I haven’t done this in a long time. Hmmm… something good to do soon… while it’s still summer!

ratlum said, about 4 brief hours ago

“Is mosey the right word ? “Hasty retreat is not a mosey “I love Hobbes”

Yes: mosey, because when your are frightened and worried, you slowly back away (moseying), but when you are terrified out of your gourd, like C & H, you RUN!

That’s the downside of an active imagination.

boogity! boogity! BOOGITY! What do you do , Let’s go Racin boys ! ! ! or Coon hunter or are you Darrell Waltrip or his impersonator ? This is none of my never mind , but I’m nosy & not the brightest STAR in the sky Maannn .

Predator or prey. We each have our role.

(You all sound yummy.)

tar light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish I wish tonight.

I wish it were daytime.

Armadillos. They’re nocturnal, and sound just like a person walking noisily through the woods. They also are not very observant, and if you are still and quiet, will walk right over your feet.

If you buy any of quantum physics, our bodies are composed of matter and energy that once were part of the very beginning of time and existence, though not in the form of atoms or molecules. More like quarks and electrons, neutrinos and photons. However, just since about 1890 we’ve already subdivided supposedly indivisible particles 2 or 3 times. My guess is we are following the wrong path, and that every time we begin to think we fully understand the latest smallest layer of organization, another one will slowly reveal itself.

For 2 panels, Calvin was actually enjoying the camping trip.

Time for more than a mosey!!

OK J42case — If you swear to that I’ll back you all the way .

My dog was barking and we could hear something at night coming from the field out back for several nights. It sounded like twigs breaking! We finally figured it out that it was crabapples falling from the trees.