Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 10, 2009

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    I’m with Hobbes, oh please!

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    WoodEye  over 14 years ago

    Acme in the roadrunner sense.

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    ladywolf17  over 14 years ago

    Yes Calvin and we thank you for giving us laughs along the way.

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    vibjyor  over 14 years ago

    Doesn’t speak much for the concept of evolution !!!

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    ejcapulet  over 14 years ago

    The staff of the local gradeschool would say he was the acne of evolutoin.

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    Flintstoned  over 14 years ago

    Have you seen some of the evolved winners in schools out there, Darwin would cry.

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    sjoujke Premium Member over 14 years ago

    It always amazes me how much Calvin knows when he doesn’t really need to know it.

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    Yukoner  over 14 years ago

    That means that Calvin is now 27 years old. Frightening, isn’t it?

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    ARF2  over 14 years ago

    Every organism on the planet (and a few off it!) is the acme of evolution. We are all the survivors of those billions of years of competition.

    And the question of whether “human intelligence” is a survival trait is still open. We could still lose to the cockroaches.

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    vibjyor  over 14 years ago

    Fer Lefer :

    Evolution is not what it used to be…

    : A good one !!!

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    rentier  over 14 years ago

    ME! The acme!

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    vibjyor  over 14 years ago

    Evolution is not what it used to be…

    If ‘Evolution’ is what ‘Evolution’ used to be then it wouldn’t be ‘Evolution’.

    Can ‘Evolution’ itself ‘Evolve’ ? If it doesn’t, then can it be called ‘Evolution’ ? If it does, then which is the real ‘Evolution’ ? The ‘Evolution’ that was before or the one that it has currently ‘Evolved’ into ?

    I wonder.

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    Ivy0730Lcsq  over 14 years ago

    OH Please!

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    tirnaaisling  over 14 years ago

    Ah the glories of evolution! It created humans the pinnacle! Unfortunately this paragon of evolution(That’s you!… Yes you!) is capabable of stepping outside of the rules and either doesn’t evolve any more, or worse tries to do the process manually, either way it’s doomed to failure.

    I have seen it happen so many many times now, maybe if I changed the software….

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    windrunner  over 14 years ago

    How old is this one??!!……Knew i’d seen it before (some new material, please!!)

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    gjsjr41  over 14 years ago

    Evolution is………is……….changing. ARGH

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    COWBOY7  over 14 years ago

    And where did eveolution take the wrong turn?

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    zero  over 14 years ago

    Boy, do I wish it WAS 1988. Happy bd Liza…

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    Mr.Mirage  over 14 years ago

    Wow that makes Calvin exactely my age. Figures he was a product from my generation ^_^

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    Aikidodog  over 14 years ago

    Let’s see….if that 4.5 billion years were crammed into one year, I believe humans arrived on Earth with about 2 seconds to midnight on Dec. 31st. Sure makes you think when life is in those terms.

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    watcha  over 14 years ago

    windrunner - uhm, there is no new material for Calvin & Hobbes. I am not going into it so go read it on Wiki.

    You can only find Classic Calvin & Hobbes - no evolution here or required!

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    dinosaur123  over 14 years ago

    Yukoner said, about 3 hours ago

    That means that Calvin is now 27 years old. Frightening, isn’t it?

    Calvin at 27? Able to vote, drive, hold public office (or have his picture hanging in the Post Office) is frightening.

    Calvin at 27 with a Calvin JUNIOR is terrifying!

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    bigCandHfan  over 14 years ago

    What about Hobbes?? Any idea anyone?

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    unemandarine  over 14 years ago

    Calvin is the product of acme evolution, cool, really cool hahaha!

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    Downeasta  over 14 years ago

    Wait a minute! For Calvin to know any of this means he paid attention in school!

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    notbugme  over 14 years ago

    Lol @ windrunner, there hasn’t been a new Calvin and Hobbes in about 14 years. A lot of people on here don’t seem to realise that.

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    jbmetalmonster  over 14 years ago

    ya think that mitght be because waterson is dead?

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    lewisbower  over 14 years ago

    If Calvin is the crown of evolution, I think I’ll explore the alternative. Didn’t they write a book on it a long time ago?

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    flyers2185  over 14 years ago

    Calvin is now 21 years old….where is everyone getting 27?

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    Chronoclast  over 14 years ago

    jbmetalmonster…Mr. Watterson is very much alive (But I’ll presume you know that and are trying to be funny)

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    KEA  over 14 years ago

    A) No, Bill Watterson is not dead, he’s just more reclusive than J.D.Salinger

    B) Evolution is not about progress, it’s just about change. Saying something is more evolved only implies more change not more progress.

    C) Yes, evolution is changing, because humans know too much for their own good and keep messing with the environment and their own survival w/o a clue as to the long term effects.

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    alviebird  over 14 years ago

    Oh please… everyone knows that tigers are more evolved than humans… or anything else, except cockatoos, for that matter.

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    APPLESCRUFF  over 14 years ago

    At 21, Calvin would probably have Hobbes packed away, to one day pass down to his own kid. Just can’t imagine Calvin without Hobbes. Sigh

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    wicky  over 14 years ago

    Waterson is alive and well and sipping martinis in NYC.

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    DolphinGirl78  over 14 years ago

    flyers2185: if he’s 6 years old in the strip in 1988, then that would make him 27 years old today. 21 years between 2009 and 1988, add 6, equals 27.

    Don’t worry, it’s early… and it’s almost Friday!

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    Ray_C  over 14 years ago

    Calvin’s teacher would say that he’s the AAAK!-ME of evolution.

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    It can’t get much better than this, can it Calvin?

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    luvly  over 14 years ago

    Love Hobbes’ expression in the last panel! :)

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    tonytiger29  over 14 years ago

    i guess some people may not realize there hasn’t been a new c & h because the strip is and always will be poignant and funny. if calvin hadn’t said 1988, no one would ever know it wasn’t done yesterday. i, like many of you here, read these when they first ran, own all the collections, and still check in here everyday to enjoy them again and again.

    bill, if you read this, or some one has a pipeline to him… if you have any unseen strips squirreled away or ever feel like making more, many long time fans would love to see them.

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    mjlew01  over 14 years ago

    according to the texas school system and the christo-right the Earth is 6,000 years old. No such thing as evolution in their minds.

    How does Calvin get around that?

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    COWBOY7  over 14 years ago

    Just dropping a note:

    Birthday party at Big Top for Dry today!

    Now back to your regularly scheduled program!

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    Wildmustang1262  over 14 years ago

    I am with Hobbes, the tiger. Oh Puleeeeeeeeezzzeee!

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    jrbj  over 14 years ago

    Evolution hasn’t stopped you know. We are still ongoing and in a million years whoever digs one of us up will find we look to them like Australopithecus looks to us. Hopefully, by that time, we’ll have learned how to get along with each other and take care of our world.

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    yyyguy  over 14 years ago

    jrbj: Amen to that! (and that’s about as “religious” as i’m ever going to get!

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    spbatwork  over 14 years ago

    Evolution fundamentally denies the law of Entropy which cannot be denied. Therefore, it would be much more correct to say “Calvin is the Acme of Entropy”.

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    crlinder  over 14 years ago

    This is one of my all time favorites, in part, because I am an evolutionary biologist. I’m fond of including this strip on my exams to give my students a chuckle as they struggle to answer the questions.

    I wonder how much longer I’ll be able to use it before C&H will be such ancient history they don’t get the full humor. Many of them became conscious after the Cold War was over and no longer understand the analogy of an arms race to describe antagonistic coevolution.

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    Shikamoo Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Did he say he’s the anvil of evolution?

    Acme makes anvils, right?

    Hi yyyguy! Hi gang!

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    billdi Premium Member over 14 years ago

    got to love Calvin’s self-esteem at such a young age.

    got to love Hobbes’ (a stuffed animal that’s Calvin’s imaginary friend) dose of reality, which (in reality) comes from Calvin himself.

    imo C&H is one of the deepest, most significant and timeless strips of all time – it makes you think and laugh.

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    martymac  over 14 years ago

    no such thing as evolution. earth is only 5,000 to 10,000 yrs old.

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    JanLC  over 14 years ago

    bigCandHfan: Hobbes is probably the same place my 32-year old son’s “kitty” is. Lovingly preserved and stored away in a memory box. BTW, “kitty” is a stuffed lamb. I never did know why he was named kitty.

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    yyyguy  over 14 years ago

    hi Shika

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    Vonnegut  over 14 years ago

    It saddens me that a fictional comic strip child has a better understanding of basic evolutionary principles than millions of real American children who have been brainwashed to believe that the Earth and all of its life forms were created 6000 years ago over a six-day period.

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    Madruga  over 14 years ago

    oh c’mon hobbes…let calvin stay in his dreams!! :D

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    bald  over 14 years ago

    be wary of being the acme of evolution calvin

    after all look at what happens to wile e coyote when he uses acme products

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    bald 716 I think that’s a problem with the user…like those who couldn’t program a VCR.

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    ratlum  over 14 years ago

    VONNEGUT You forgot the talking serpent But I still have to agree with you

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    johnnydoc5  over 14 years ago

    Calvin’s vocabulary amazes me.

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    jbmetalmonster  over 14 years ago

    i understand why u think this chronoclast, but waterson is dead, i’m not trying 2 b funny now does that explain the re-runs?

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    bmonk  over 14 years ago

    spbatwork said, about 5 hours ago

    ‘Evolution fundamentally denies the law of Entropy which cannot be denied. Therefore, it would be much more correct to say “Calvin is the Acme of Entropy”.’

    Actually not: that would be true only if evolving organisms were closed systems. They are local exceptions to a rule that applies across the whole universe.

    Furthermore, every creature can claim to be the (current) acme of evolution. And Hobbes seems to have a better claim to the ideal than Calvin…

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    KJCaufield  over 14 years ago

    Wow, 1988 - that makes Calvin around 30 years old in today’s age. I wonder what he would be doing!

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    KJCaufield  over 14 years ago

    Heh, I see someone else caught that too :)

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    Awesome-o  over 14 years ago

    Hobbes, this time I’m with you…

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    Ed in Toledo Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Bill Watterson isn’t dead, just retired (of course there are some that would say it’s the same thing…). Check out http://billwatterson.net/index.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson

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    avonsalis  over 14 years ago

    Wow. Watterson’s biography is cool. By googling “Watterson political cartoons” I found the original late-1980s interview which appears to be the source of most of what’s now on Wikipedia, as well as considerable other stuff such as his comments on Garfield, B.C., and Watterson’s most admired cartoonists (6 pages). I guess he wasn’t quite as shy when he first hit big. Or, possibly it’s a fraud (reverse-engineered into an “interview”)? http://bob.bigw.org/ch/interview.html Quite a lively guy, at any rate.

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 14 years ago

    That’s what I say when I look in a mirror:

    Ack! Me!!

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    flyers2185  over 14 years ago

    Mitstan: Your very right! It was early in the morning and I forgot to factor in that he was 6 at the time.

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    mrprongs  over 14 years ago

    ACME as in maker of fine products that backfire on you.

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    benbrilling  over 14 years ago

    Where did he get all that wisdom? He never pays any attention in school.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    If Calvin is the acme of evolution – uh oh!!

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    Bittermelon of Truth  over 14 years ago

    thepeoplesmushroom then Calvin would be the paragon of creation.” Does that sound any better?

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    Puddleglum2  over 14 years ago

    Calvin certainly isn’t a paragon of virtue, or modesty either. It’s amazing how people who think they are the most right are often the most wrong. Give it up, die-hard evolutionists! There is no ‘hopeful monster’, only hopeless monsters. Read the book of Revelation. Believe it or not, God wins. At least that’s my (confident, I hope) hope. It’s the only worthwhile hope there is, from all I’ve seen, heard, read or experienced. PTL

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    Aardvark359  over 14 years ago

    Yes! Yes! Keep American children away from those pesky “science” books! Have them read Revelation! Ahh, yes. Just imagine an America populated entirely by fat, dumb and happy god-worshipping zealots all praying, hugging, citing scripture, repeating song lyrics and forcing bad puns.

    And after all those “well-educated” children from Japan, China and India grow up, buy America, and turn it into their summer vacation estates, they can just herd our happily ignorant population into veal fattening pens where they will harvest our excess fat cells as an alternative fuel source.

    What a wonderful future that will be!

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    rugratz2222  over 14 years ago

    Oh, golly gee whizzo … let’s instead dumb down their social accountability and give kids the long run “not your fault” no personal responsibility theory of evolutionary change so they don’t have any sense of urgency to fix current global, social, political, environment events since it takes billiyuns and billiyuns of gears … I mean years … to affect mass change on a semi-positive basis … with no effect from the intelligent created beings (uh, that’s usually “us”, folks) … granted all that global warming junk science is going through the public relations studios so they can learn to better wag the dog, but other than THAT bit of “truth” … yeah, all of those credited PHD scientists who believe nature better mimics the creation by God rather than test tube sludge have no idea either … what? evolution is still a THEORY? hmmmm … quick - we need a deflective tangent … what’s happening in the entertainment world?

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    Stede_Bonnet  over 14 years ago

    “Global warming is just God hugging us closer”

    – Tina Fey in character as Sarah Palin on SNL

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