Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 13, 2009

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    cleokaya  about 15 years ago

    But then you would miss out on all of the fun.

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    farmermatt  about 15 years ago

    NEVER track mud into the house…at least when mom is around.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Calvin is a bit evasive in answering Dad’s question.

    Calvin should have covered his tracks. Then his mother wouldn’t have known “whodunit”.

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    Rakkav  about 15 years ago

    What parents wouldn’t get annoyed with a kid like this?!?

    Love ya, Calvin, but sometimes your screwballitude is a devouring fire.

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    newworldmozart  about 15 years ago

    farmermatt…. correction: never track mud in the house when you are a only child. that way she doesn’t know who to punish.

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    tbree  about 15 years ago

    I have a two year old whose favorite activity is to sneak a bottle from the spices and then go secretly dump it somwhere on the carpet. Then add soda. Homemade mud! It’s so fun! Grrrr.

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    Ivy0730Lcsq  about 15 years ago

    live with it , Dad!

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    cdward  about 15 years ago

    ”farmermatt…. correction: never track mud in the house when you are a only child. that way she doesn’t know who to punish.”

    There were six of us, and when nobody confessed to a crime, all six of us got punished.

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    Leonardeuler  about 15 years ago

    I’m with you, cdward. The same happened to the five of us.

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    lewisbower  about 15 years ago

    Zero population growth. Now what was the other reason I chose to remain childless?

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    lazygrazer  about 15 years ago

    Face it dad—you work five days to rest up from the weekends.

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    alondra  about 15 years ago

    newworldmozart Correction: Never track mud in the house. Period! Because Calvin will never have a brother or sister if his parent’s have anything to say about it. Calvin is a living, breathing example of a reason for abortion.

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    WRONG! Abortion is murder. Just don’t have kids period. But if you have one on the way killing it is not the answer!

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    rentier  about 15 years ago

    Not such a good day!

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    Suzywong  about 15 years ago

    Oh I am soooooo glad I had a daughter !!

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    3hourtour Premium Member about 15 years ago

    ..you could run this one every sunday and I would laugh…

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    joaski  about 15 years ago

    I don’t consider abortion murder like you do machushlalondra! I had two boys and they are very lucky to be alive. They were just as bad as Calvin if not worse.

    Having a girl is no better, this ex- school bus driver could tell you some stories about girls.

    It doesn’t make any difference how you raise them, if they are going to be like Calvin, good luck!

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    COWBOY7  about 15 years ago

    It’s not too late to head to the office now, dad!

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    JanLC  about 15 years ago

    Don’t they ever discipline this kid?

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    madampresiden12  about 15 years ago

    My mom was fond of saying I was lucky she let me grow up. I was always in trouble, much like Calvin. My sister was 5 years older and my brother was “a boy and two years older, So I spent much time playing alone.

    I remember one story about my brother that mom was fond of telling.

    No matter what time my mom got up he was always up before her and getting into mischief. On this one day my mom woke up and smelled a strange smell. Off she went to my brother’s room where he had dumped a can of coffee in his bed and was playing with it like sand in a sandbox. The smell? Ground Coffee and mattress. Ugh!

    I always loved that story because my brother actually got blamed for doing something.

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    Allen Rymer  about 15 years ago

    newworldmozart…. actually, if there are more than one child in the house, and Mom doesn’t know who did it(not likely, most parents know their kids), then all get grounded. Been there, believe me. Parenthood is not a democracy, it’s a dictatorship and sometimes that means coming down on everyone.

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    Ushindi  about 15 years ago

    Once again, I thank Bill Watterson for giving us Calvin for as long as he did (although I DID say bad things about him when it was announced he was stopping the strip).

    This one goes in my file.

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    jrbj  about 15 years ago

    Hey it’s not just kids that Moms yell at. My neighbor and I were having a water soaker fight and I ran out of water and ran for the house. He ran after me still firing away. We didn’t get half way across the living room before she lit into both of us and chased us back out. Just can’t have fun when Moms are around.

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    Yukoner  about 15 years ago

    I’m with Dad. You work too hard to afford the place and never get tp enjoy it. Says something about our core values, doesn’t it?

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    runninanreadin  about 15 years ago

    Aaaaaaaaah…the memories…(HOW in the world do we laugh about it NOW, when, back then, it was cause for childhood annihilation? And yet, the folks still chuckle…kinda…) Let’s face it, people, kids have been (and ALWAYS will be) wired that way…thank goodness!

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    ratlum  about 15 years ago

    If you dont spank Calvin your going to spend a lot of time telling some judge that it was not your grown up boy that did something bad Dad loves Calvin Dad waters the little guy with a water hose Dad laughs

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    humormehere  about 15 years ago

    Hey. First of all, murder isn’t birth control. No matter your beliefs. I can “believe” that any crime I can get away with is ok. But it aint true.

    Now…Calvin NEEDS a sibling. He spends too much time on his own, getting into too MUCH TROUBLE. I have ten kids. That’s one thing we DIDN’T have. BUT… sometimes my life (and MOM’S of course) was/is a curious state of breathless bewilderment.

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    NoBrandName  about 15 years ago

    Ten kids? I’m not sure you have any idea what birth control is.

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    lazygrazer  about 15 years ago

    Me and my brother still laugh over how mom used to command us to “Quit acting like children!” us: “But mom, we ARE children.” her: “Not much longer if you don’t knock it off.”

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    bmonk  about 15 years ago

    tbree said, about 14 hours ago

    “I have a two year old whose favorite activity is to sneak a bottle from the spices and then go secretly dump it somwhere on the carpet. Then add soda. Homemade mud! It’s so fun! Grrrr.”

    It could be worse. Once when a couple of my sisters were visiting another one, they turned all her many spice bottles around so the labels were hidden…

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    Trisha_Evenstar  about 15 years ago

    AHAAHAHAHAHHAAHHA! This was gr8

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    j42case  about 15 years ago

    We never got to see Dad’s childhood in this strip. Based on stories I’ve heard, the acorn never falls too far from the tree, and in Calvin’s case, that tree (Dad) must have been a whopper!

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    Dino-1  about 15 years ago

    We had an old carpet in the livingroom that came with our first place and we figured we’d leave it for awhile since money was tight. It was an ugly gold color and had hardly any nap on it so it resembled an indoor/outdoor carpet. My son was playing cars in the livingroom nicely and I was on the phone in the kitchen talking to an old friend that lived in another state. The phone was a wall mounted model and I bought a long cord from Radio Shack so I could talk and still check on things in the bathroom and the livingroom. I wandered into the livingroom at one point in the conversation and found he had taken his crayon and drawn streets and buildings all over the carpet for his matchbox cars. Asking why, I found out one of the boys at the babysitter’s house had gotten a carpet strip from Toys’R’Us with streets and buildings drawn on it, and they had played with it that day. Being creative he decided to make his own. Following his logic I couldn’t really yell at him. Never the less that was the time the saying came about in our house, “Kid you’re lucky I let you live!”, while scrubbing the carpet with a bucket of laundry detergent. My son’s 26 now and when he gets on my nerves I still say that to him and he says, “Yah Yah Mom, I know.” and gives me a kiss on the head and bear hug!

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    Crooky  about 15 years ago

    Kids just seem to have days where they go from one lot of trouble to another, however I think Calvin has those days more often than most. :o)

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    ilovegarfieald  about 15 years ago

    lol!CALVIN!CALVI!CALVIN!…

    if u play roblox,my id is mibs5996.i wont be logging on much.

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    Stede_Bonnet  about 15 years ago

    If you came home muddy when I was a kid, Mom just ordered you to strip in the yard and then sprayed you with the hose until you were clean enough to come inside… but I’m not scarred or anything.

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    Rakkav  about 15 years ago

    @OldHipster: Unfortunately I can’t get the link to my illustrative parody motivational poster to work properly, but therein I define “screwballitude” (the portmanteau is my invention, so far as I know) as “a state of mind combining eccentricity with audacity”. :)

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    1148559  about 15 years ago

    The funniest part of this is… these are the things the parents will look back on and miss when the kid is grown and gone.

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    Jacobrocks1997  about 15 years ago

    get in the bathtub Calvin

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    glitterygal07  about 15 years ago

    Maybe Calvin was adopted.

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