Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 17, 2012

An important discussion, perhaps they will get a price for science!

He probably likes flatulence jokes, too. ;-)

If you could auction age, I’d have sold 20 years ago at 47!

Snot your tastiest post- unless you wore a beard at the time, That’s a nice run, whether offshore or ICW.

Flies do barf. On everything they eat. The digestive juices break down their chosen food so they can suck it up in that little tube that serves as a mouth.So when they land on some dung or a dead whatever, and then land on your plate…Now, that’s gross.

Please, I know many of you are in the just before bedtime mode, but some of us are at breakfast…:-;

just seven years ?

My best friend is just like Hobbes. Not with the barfing and stuff, but the meeting of minds. Mainly we discuss food.

What insects do naturally is one thing, but…!

Some things really bug you if they’re just too gross to mention, …inappropriate, even! (Snagglepuss)

“The Importance of Being Ernest”I think the “real tiger” (according to Hobbes the commenter, [if I understood him correctly the other day]) is accommodating Calvin too much, here. The alter ego Hobbes often attempts to be more of a restraining influence on Calvin.

…good morning, Thirdguy!I hope you have stopped letting your mind wander (from yesterday) so it won’t end up in the wrong place. Were you able to observe (with your eyes, not your mind) whether a brain really bounces, as Calvin’s brain did in the comic? Don’t let that question ’rub’ber you the wrong way (bug you)?Have a good day! :o)

Calvin could apply for a government grant to study whether insects barf…

Did you ever play the game of coming up with gross sayings using as many words as you could starting with the same letter, like:

Great gigantic gobs of gassy gross gnarly gorilla guts.

or

Steamy stacks of smelly snake sh- -!

It was quite the fad when I was Calvin’s age.

Next time, please make something up!!!

After reading these posts…“an earnest discussion of ideas” indeed! Next subject: why dogs eat vomit. (Apologies to breakfast eaters, who just pushed their ham and eggs away….say, you gonna eat that?)

Honey is bee barf.Just saying…..

And now, for a complete change of pace, here are two comic strips on the theme of true friendship, which don’t involve vomiting.Click here: Peanuts (August 11, 1963)Click here: Pearls Before Swine (July 26, 2006)

That is true, Calvin.

I love his face in the 3rd Panel.

xxx

In “bug time” they’re probably moving really slowly, so no dizziness or barfage.

well in the case of flies they HAVE to barf up some stomach acid every time they want to eat something…

Calvin’s expressions—wonderful artwork!

@imrobert: LX013 is our Dutch poster on this site. English is her second language, but she does very well. She’s a good friend who appreciates an earnest discussion of ideas. (Or has someone already said that?)

@Jkissmya, @Perkycat, @Tacopielvr: Glad you enjoy the extra comic strips. I enjoy making the connections – between the comic strips, and with the people on this site.

Boy thats a deep subject ,with so many reasons and answers to go with it.But I go with Calvin and Hobbes reasons ,makes it more fun to study.

In today’s fourth panel, note that Hobbes is too tall to put his hand on Calvin’s back or his shoulder, so he has to put it on the back of Calvin’s head.

@LX013: Oops. I need to work on my Dutch. Do you live in the part of Germany that is next to the Netherlands?

You really should have mentioned how old you were at this time. Surely not more than 9 or 10.

couldn’t have done it without the governments help.

It IS great to have a friend who appreciates an earnest discussion of ideas . . . I call him my husband! ;-)

@GretchensMom: Yes, but what does your real husband think of this friend? (Just kidding!…………..… Just kidding!……………..… Just kidding!……….……. etc.)

Calvin and Hobbes are like Huxley and Darwin.

Calvin is a true six-year-old: bugs and barf are totally fascinating.

Don’t know but a real live dog would be my first try.

I have EVERY C&H book except the the complete collection three volume one….. I’ve read them at least three times…. add in the number of time I read the reprints/ republished…. and I have to say at least 5 or 6 times…. maybe more.

It is great, isn’t it?

I love their grossed out faces in the third panel.

Thank you, Mr. Kipling. Now tell me the one about how the elephant got his trunk.Big problem with that sort of thinking: if they didn’t have such weapons and tactics from the beginning of their appearance, either expressed by or latent in their genome, either they wouldn’t have survived or else they did just fine without them and, ergo, wouldn’t have ever gained anything else.As one committed evolutionist put it: “Natural selection explains the survival of the fittest. It doesn’t explain the arrival of the fittest.” (Come to think of it, that’s a paraphrase – I believe he said “Darwinism” instead.)

A friend of mine got her PhD studying caterpillar barf and how it grossed out other caterpillars!

OK, my next guess is that there was a lot of booze on board and no wives .

From where did the genes and the environment come?

Some wiggy-woggy logic there, but interesting anyway…

i didn’t think of that that is a good question