Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 19, 2009

Yum, phlegm!

Only Calvin would think of something like that.

reminds of the punch line to an old joke that’s probably too risque to post here. i’ll just say i got an extra chuckle out of this one.

isn’t that one of the new varieties of soup from a well known company?

Ha ha! Got her again! She should know better by now.

When I was four, my cousin told me tapioca pudding was fish eggs….I haven’t been able to eat it since!

YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A feint followed by a KO. Well done Calvin !

Getting out of my mind the idea that tapioca = fish eggs? For me, very, very easy.

Getting out of my mind the image that Calvin’s THERMOS(R) is full of phlegm? I may be sick to my stomach for the next week at least.

I wonder if it’s cup-o-phlegm. I wonder what’s really in the thermos.

Classic Calvin. Love it!

A-hem…I need to clear my throat on that one…

Yechh… I’ll never be able to look at custard the same way again - thanks a lot, Calvin! Really have to appreciate his creativity, though.

No wonder Susie’s so slim - all those skipped lunches musta helped!

Ah! fond memories.

What’s the use of being a boy, if you can’t be gross.

Well at least it will slide down nice and easy!!

I’m guessing something like pea soup. and shouldn’t peanut butter be cat dung scraped off a gravel drive?

As for tapioca and fish eggs, they are both vile so it makes little difference lol

yuck…only a boy would do that…!

Way to go Calvin! You knew she’d be on to you right off the bat and you diverted her suspicions and then, ZAP, you got her anyway. I’ve got to tell you, Calvin, I’m impressed. You may well be our world leader some day.

So much for civility eh ..

…and Lucy will hold the football for Charlie Brown to kick it!

Didn’t Watterson say this one got the strip kicked from one newspaper?

considering susie should have learned her lesson by now, I wonder who sits by who at lunch? Is it the preverse attraction angle again (on susie’s part) as she continues to have lunch with cal..?

fitness tip: date calvin and you won’t be able to eat anything, much less, carbs!

I was expecting something made with earwax.

Peanut butter is fine; it’s the white bread that’s “disgusting”! There’s hardly any taste, and not much nutritional value, either. The wheat germ and bran have been removed. All-purpose flour is a misnomer. “I don’t want it; you can have it; it’s too ‘flat’ for me.” - slight paraphrase from an Arthur Godfrey tune.

At least Calvin’s dessert is low calorie.

Calvin has a peanut butter sandwich. Susie has a piece of fruit, if not a banana. “…what an unimaginative lunch”, says Charlie Brown. “And it’s because my mother is playing pool with your mother on that stupid pool table.” - today’s Peanuts

WindFactory said, “Well at least it will slide down nice and easy!! It might slide back up even easier!

Johanan Rakkav said, “…I may be sick to my stomach for the next week at least.” Maybe you can ‘come up with something’ to get rid of being sick to your stomach.

Susie,, Susie, Susie,,,,,,Did you really believe that “one day out of the year” nonsense?

So many comments with so many added laughs. Who knew phlegm would be gross, yet a great catalyst for humor.

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sjoujke said,

When I was four, my cousin told me tapioca pudding was fish eggs….I haven’t been able to eat it since!

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I love tapioca pudding but my husband hates it for the same reason you do. It’s one of the few foods he won’t eat. He says the gobules or whatever look gross and disgusting. I can’t stand mushrooms for approximately the same reason, they’re slimy, the colour is gross and the texture is disgusting.

I wonder if it’s homemade or instant phlegm. The instant just isn’t the same as what mom used to make.

Sadly, Calvin isn’t kidding. His mother really WAS a horrible, abusive woman! No wonder he has an imaginary friend who’s a tiger; i.e. fierce, vicious animal that would be a protector.

Susie is such a stupid child.

When Calvin and Susie are married, she’ll get back at dinner time.

Next time, Calvin should play the same trick with Moe. I wonder what would happen then…………

My husband and I love tapioca, especially home made and served very warm. and Macushlalondra, the globules are called pearls.

and, when you swallow it, it will go down in on long strand

Isn’t it funny how something we all swallow countless times every day can still be so gross when it’s not your own (or even when it IS your own if you think about what you are doing!)

In the Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, Watterson says that it was this strip that got Calvin and Hobbes cancelled from one newspaper. Seems it was a little too graphic. Personally, I’m just impressed that he could come up with something nastier than a slug sandwich that requires heavy salting. http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2008/12/29/

When I was young and watching my mother make pancakes one day, I saw some oil floating in the batter. I looked at my older brother and asked him what that was and he said “Boogers”.

If Calvin was well-bred (whole-grain), he wouldn’t be so gross! “It is written, that man shall not live by bread alone…,” he needs peanut butter with it. Susie has to eat the ‘bread of affliction’ as the Israelites did in Egypt. She should leave the table in haste as the people of Israel did leave from Egypt in haste at the Exodus.

Puddleglum2, Also like Daniel & his companions, Susie is rejecting the rich food of King Calvin’s table in favor of the vegetarian sandwich & water.

Just finished listening to a radio adaptation of The Silver Chair, so I love the name.

“phlegm”—wonder if it tastes as yucky as it’s spelled.

Got Phlegm?

Somehow I don’t think that’ll be a catch fraze for a new commercial.

These posts today are phull of phlegm, and as phlat as the taste of white bread. Some of it doesn’t phinally phail to be amusing, but at the risk of being phinicky, shall we phlee to another subject, and bid phinis to this tomphoolery, posthaste, or am I phlailing away, inephectually? - Exit stage right (Snagglepuss)

Hey, I’m looking forward to these

Well, at least I almost finished my coffee.

Is that a hot or cold thermos o’ Phlegm? And why is he hoggin’ it all?

The trick is to be clearing your throat while saying the catch-phrase…gotta love dem weasel words…

I’d have to say that we have some real phlegm gems here.

Anybody else remember when Hi-C (I think) introduced their “Frog” flavor juice drink?

It appears to me that Calvin sought out Susie. Of course, it was only so he could gross her out.

susie,you’re suppose to be brainy,how in the world did you fall for that.

good old calvin

pintcape, not many can outsmart an ENFP like Calvin when he’s playing the Trickster! :))

That’s personality-type-speak, by the way. :))

Calvin & Susie sittin’ in a tree…

My father used to call tapioca “fish eyes & glue” and rice pudding with raisins he called “people of colour (politically corrected) in a snowpile” . My brother and I ate both avidly because they tasted good in spite of the nasty names. It is a boys duty to gross out girls. Six years difference in age between my brother and I, and sixty years later he still tries to gross me out .

It’s lunch in Elementary School all over again. It never failed that one of the boys would make sounds like he was going to hurl, snort some snot loudly, or make noises like he was raising phlegm! Boys are so cute at that age when they’re trying to impress a girl!

MatureCanadian, I believe you must be my long-lost sister. I’m Canadian, and my father also called tapioca “fish eyes and glue”. I never heard it anywhere else, so I assumed he made it up. But maybe it’s just a Canadian thing from long ago… (I never actually tasted the stuff. Between what he called it and what it looked like, I couldn’t bring myself to put any in my mouth!)

When we were kids we were lucky to get phlegm for lunch. We usually had to have medical waste from the clinic dumpster down the alley from our box. And, we were glad to have it.

Tapioca is not fish eyes, but caviar is fish eggs.

..and she believed Him!!!!!