Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 16, 2010

Keep on a runnin’ guys!

Run, Calvin, run!

I remember playing with matches, ( which I had, of course, been warned about ) and setting a small fire. There was actually myself and a friend. So anywhoo….his mom came out with a pan of water and that was the end of the fire. She asked ” ok , who has the matches? ” I was the one that had them and I still remember the smug look on my friends fce as he turned his pockets inside out and said ” not meeee..” So I did aCalvin and turned around and ran away. I went to the playground and hid there for something like an hour or whatever it was. Finally, I went home and took my medicine even though I was sooo scared. I got into a bit of trouble, but nobody killed me ….But the things a little kid can imagine…..

Oh man … Dad’s probly on his way! RUN!!!

Run ‘til you can’t run any more!

Love the sprint at the end…lol. Apparently Daddy doesn’t play.

Don’t give up, Calvin!

G’Morning, Mike, Marg & Grog!

so much for resting for a minute..

I never ran, but I was a patient hider..

I want to thank all who posted zip codes yesterday. I’m now up to 22.

Post your zip code, please, if you haven’t. The plan is to see how many states I can get here on gocomics. Thanks.

Marg, tonight’s chapters in the adventures of SS are already posted.

Feet, don’t fail me now.

How far will they get

Hey, Slim….what is your avatar? Is it about 4 inches in diameter? It looks like the ones we saw at the Little Big Horn..

Maybe when we are hungry and we run out of Tuna and Sandwiches, we can ask forgiveness from father. But for now, run!!!

Run, far far away.

My zip: 31093

Shirttail Slim, how about Y1A 3L3 for a zip?

MontanaLady said:

“Hey, Slim, what is your avatar?”

Yes, it’s about three or four inches wide, I don’t know what it is. I was working landscaping at the time so, it was just another weed. I always carried my camers in the truck, and this looked almost perfect, so….

It was taken in the early 80s up in the San Bernardino Mtns in southerb CA. About a mile altitude, give or take. I took a lot of pictures of “weeds”, being a weed does not mean ugly!

You’re probably right, Calvin.

Good morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

77573

Yukoner said:

“Shirttail Slim, How about Y1A 3L3 for a zip”?

You got to explain that one to me. Six digits? Clue a slow old man, please?

Good morning, all.

Shirttail Slim, my zip is 97520.

You can run, Calvin, but you’ll never escape Mom.

Manitobaman, Had similar experience at about 5 or 6 (way old enough to know much better anyway). Fire was about 6 - 8” from the foundation of our house over on the side where Mom should not have been aware of any activites. But directly under my bedroom window which was about 18” over our heads.

Mom never did “explain” how she found out, just ended the experimentation with fire and forbid me to associate with my classmate/two doors away neighbor outside of school for the next week.

After getting conned by the neighbor into breaking the bann Mom provided a lesson in trying to lawyer my way around a parental grounding and tacked on another week for trying to chisel the bann down to the minute using the calendar and then being off on timing to boot.

Shirtail Slim, it’s a Canadian postal code.

The face of Hobbes with inflated cheeks is wonderful!

I never ran either. I had a big tall bed, high off the floor with plenty of crawl space underneath. I always had a bed skirt which made my hiding place the best in the house.

I’m going to second Yukoner. My code is V8N 3L8. We should help Slim out and explain. Our (Canadian) postal codes are based on the British system. All you really need is the person’s name and their code and the letter will arrive. My code tells the post office my Province, city/town, street, whether it’s an even or odd house number and between which 2 blocks my home is located.

Oookay, Now I try to guess your province.

Yukoner……….Alberta?

cymbol………….Mova Scotia? Don’t know if it’s a province?

I’ll come back tomorrow and see how I did. Dooj sleepom’ up there in the northern reaches,

Hi Slim; Nova Scotia is a province, but it’s about 4,000 miles east. I’m on the other coast, British Columbia. Victoria to be exact. Look at a map of Canada. Yukoner is due north of me. He’s not in a Province though, he’s in a Territory.

zip-code: Germany 64372

Shirttail Slim said, about 3 hours ago

MontanaLady said:

“Hey, Slim, what is your avatar?”

Good Morning folks. The avator is a Dandelion gone to seed. Starts out as a yellow flower (for about a week). Turns into a white puff ball where each seed has a “parachute” that releases in the wind. It is extremely prolific, very hardy (runs all across Canada), and hard to kill.

Isn’t it funny how many experiences seem life threatening at the time and only humorous in retrospect?

ZIP 77351.

@Slim

We call it a PIN here in India. Mine’s: 500 003

ZIP + 4: 77098-5226

Mom has probably seen the car, probably called dad and he’s probably on his way home. Add it all up and I’d say Calvion is probably going to be in big trouble, which means he probably won’t be able to sit down for quite a long time!

Oh, and 49506

Hi all. ZIP here is 46350, for Shirttail Sam’s collection! When we were kids, there was no place to run, and it was worse if you did.

“Nowhere to Run” - Martha and the Vandellas It has been so from the beginning… “and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” - Genesis 3:8b

musicnut1986 said, “That brings to mind an image similar to Dali’s melted clocks.” Your imagination is ‘surreal’.

Shirttail Sam, mine is 18036.

“Wait til your father gets home!” Filled me with dread & fear when I was a child.

Back to today’s strip. Doesn’t dad usually take his car to work? Looks like he choosed a bad day to take the bus…

Shirttail… I’m here at 57702

‘Mornin’ y’all..

Bet they’re more concerned about Calvin’s disappearance than the wrecked car … and I’d be pretty sure that they won’t let him get off with any kind of administered punishment, just let him feel guilty for a long, long time.

26347 West Virginia

52402 Iowa

(a phone sales person once asked me “Iowa, is that in the United States?”)

Hey Slim, mine is 49002, Michigan

01923 … Ma.

run Calvin run!

zip: 61822

Not Dad! He gives LECTURES!

74112 Oklahoma

Hey Slim, zip code is 07753…Jersey Girl! Can’t ya tell by the avatar?

‘Morning Mike and Loki. GM all.

Slim …. that weed makes a wonderful wine.

Mom is probably cooking supper, and C & H haven’t even crossed a street yet. Susie should bounce by any minute, full of question (just guessing, not spoiling).

K9H 2W3 in Ontario , Canada

Hay Slim, I’m at 05820.

Should I tell you or let you guess?

I think I’ll let you guess, (hint, if it starts with 0 look in the east.)

Slim & Wiseguy411: Dandelions are classified as a weed, but are eatable if dug up before they start to bloom. The closer to bloom they are, the more biter they taste.

Have a mess of Dandelions next spring and see for yourself.

\\//_

yeah, the guilt trip. It’s worse than the punishment.

for Slim – 85345

See Calvin! See Calvin Run! Run Calvin Run!

Oh the loom of gloom…..As a child I hated that feeling of knowing that you have done something wrong and your just dues are in store …..The feeling of knowing that the belt was gonna get warmed up as well as my behind !! West Tenn ….38059

Japan postcode 168-0072

73503

95747 - California

90001-94500 = Southern CA 94500+ = Northern CA

Manitobaman: I did something like that with matches, but some big boys came and took away my matches and started a wildfire. When my father (and half the police department) asked me how many matches I had struck, I could smile and say: “noooone”.

98116

all these repetitious admonitions telling calvin to run; excuse me but isn’t that what he’s doing? that’s not the advice he needs imo, because as the song says: “nowhere to run nowhere to hide”

zip 01970.

I remember plotting with my cousin, who lived next door, to set our alarms for 2am and to sneak out of the house and run away to a wooded area near our home and try to live off the land. My little sister ratted on us the evening of the great escape, and my parents gave me a lecture about going to them if I ever wanted to run away and we could talk out anything. I was soooo embarrassed. My father even made me sit on his lap.

I still wonder if we really would have done it.

@david5995

Not quite accurate. mine is 94025 San Francisco Bay Area

Hi SIim! Zip code from Portugal: 3060-226 ;)

Zip = 84074

43060

my zip 38108-3505

Zip code 90814, Long Beach, Calif.

Ha, I ran away as a youngster, not sure why though. I’m sure I’d done something I knew I wasn’t supposed to be doing. I wasn’t allowed to cross the street alone, so I went to a friend’s house around the corner. My mum called and talked her mum - who of course tattled on me. When I got home, in a pouring rainstorm, my mum was standing in the garage, mad as a hornet. She wanted to whip me, but all she had was a fuzzy, pink bedroom slipper. I took quite a lashing with that slipper - still remember all that wet, pink fuzz flying about the garage. Mum and I still laugh about how silly that whole affair was.

scrollingwino - love your avatar

Canada again: L5C 4J7

28472

ZIP 27455

85711

Mine zip is 76040

84010- Utah

Spammerflaggen!

And - 43214 - OH

49316

bmonk said, “Are you saying that Calvin had better plan to become a Venetian?” …’shades’ of Marco Polo the Venetian? But Calvin won’t make it to the court of Kublai Khan. He’s about 740 years too late. It’s way too far, anyway, as C&H are already almost out of poof poof poof poof poof. Is it hoof and poof now instead of huff and puff, or is that the way some Brits and Canadians pronounce it? :o)

I think Calvin is looking for a new Zip Code.

They will be short of Sandwiches soon :(

Go Calvin, however I think you might return when you get hungry or have to use the bathroom.

93449

Hah. I’d post my zip code, but I live in Canada.

Shirttail Slim 03110 New Hampshire

Slim: 98837. Smack in the middle the desert in Washington state.

What’s up with people giving their zip codes?

Danged zip codes are getting worse than spam! Not giving mine.

Hi Slim:

06825 Connecticut.

By the way, what’s yours currently??

92646

55009-4014

Slim’s avatar may be a dandelion. However if it as as large as reported it is something else. It could very well be a Canadian Thistle gone to seed.

This weed spreads by root systems and wind blown seeds from an “puff” that looks very much like the avatar.

It is terribly prickly with vicious stickers. If you tried to pull it out of the ground with your bare hand you would wish heartily that you didn’t.

Canadian thistle is very serious scourge for farmers, but is also used by some as food. Boil it up and eat it like spinach.

Maybe Calvin can carefully pick it out there in the wilderness and live “off the land.”

I live on an island on the west coast of canada secret location . My friends Calvin and Hobbes are showing true mountain climbing second wind . I cant call on that reserve of strength any more but it used to give me a high.

I discovered, too late, that more hiding spots did not mean less growing pains. ……………………………………….. For Shirttail Slim: 96746 - Kauai, Hawaii

Slim, thanks for starting the postal/zip code thing. It’s been fun to see how wide spread we C&H fans are.

Yukon is the far northwest of Canada.

justmeta said, about 5 states ago

52402 Iowa

(a phone sales person once asked me “Iowa, is that in the United States?”)

Probably from the Right Coast. Like the New Yorker who asked, “And where are you from?”

“Iowa”

“Well, in New York, we pronounce it ‘Ohio’!”

58601 West Dakota

91406, CA

@Slim

Frisko 94117

Did you know that ZIP stands for “Zoning Improvement Plan’?

Muzition said:

“Hay, I’d post my zip. But I live in Canada.”

I’ve gotten three Canadas, a Japan and a Portugal? Are you a musician?

Chinook2 said:

“What’s uo with people giving their xip codes?”

I asked for them. I’m trying to see how many states I can get here on gocomics. Believe me when I say I am amazed at the number I found here this morning. Calvin and Hobbes seem to have world-wide fans. Japan? Portugal? Canada?

ratlum said:

“I live on an island on the west coast of canada, secret location.”

So, how’s the fishing up there?

My zip code is 85705 Tucson, AZ. My thanks to all of those who’ve posted their zip codes. What you all have given me more than doubles what I had. And a spacial thanks to those who have posted non-U.S.A. Postal codes, they are an unexpected bonus

Here is my zip code from India - 560078 I hope comments cross a 100 for this comics

Oh, by the way, dahawk, I’m sure this won’t happen again, at least not anywhere near this magnitude. Like I said above, C & H seem to have fans everywhere!

to MatureCanadian thanks

Mine is 97004, but I travel 45 weeks a year around the world, so I’m reading C&H from home to Dubai and beyond. Haven’t made it to Africa yet but Capetown is a potential opportunity.

Not surprising that C&H has worldwide appeal. I rank it at the top of my list of best comics of the latter part of the 20th century, and it can hold its own in the company of many of the great strips of the early part of the century too!

Oh, yes - 08052, Maple Shade, New Jersey.

poor calvin. i feel bad for him. i remember an incident with rocks when i was 8. this reminds me of this…

47304 Indiana (And it is very hot at the moment)

Pontix,

I thought that was Mom’s car they rolled out and trashed.

Hi Slim;

Perris, CA 92570

Slim, Do you need another Californian? 94523

Calvin and Hobbes is awesome!

Friend of mine nearly burned down his parent’s house after messing about with chemicals of some sort while in his bedroom. After the firemen had come and put out the fire, they were all treated to a large tumbler of scotch apiece. Ahhh, life in the 1950’s…..When he told me the story at a high school reunion I nearly fell on the floor laughing….

@cymbol, I once used the USPS to get a letter to my uncle with just 8 characters in the address:

Abe 57325

Edit: name and number changed to protect his identity.

My zip is LV-2163!

Hi Shirttail Slim – I’m usually a lurker at C&H and a poster on other comics, but mine is 30068 (Georgia, USA). I think it’s a great idea and I’m enjoying seeing where everyone’s from also.

p.s. If you’re afraid that posting your zip will cause someone to steal your identity or whatever, believe me, they can find all that and more outside of gocomics… :-)

Hi onehipdad:

I really hope you get to Cape Town. My oldest son just returned and the pictures are fabulous. It is a very rugged, beautiful place.

dKam and Slim cover you dandelion with ply wood or heavy burlap they stay wight and tender all summer,my grandmother came from the old country and cultivated this so called weed.

Calvin is on a trip a guilty one when he stops running he will be sentenced to hard labor an Zorg for eternity or so it will seem.

Hey Shirttail Slim 06093

07850

My zip (for shittail slim) is 37023, North Central Tennessee

Sad part of all this is that I remember when the strip ran the first time, and I know what happens. It’s really crappy getting old sometimes, but not when I get to re-read C&H, (or “Good Old Charlie Brown.) Maybe this time Calvin won’t….

Shirtail Slim, of all of the foreign countries listed here, Canada should surprise you the least. Though I have a U.S. Zip, I am a Canadian as are many posters here at GoComics. I got C&H, Beatle, Blondie Adam, Dilbert and many others in my local paper when I was living there, so it should not surprise you that there would be fans posting here.

Just caught another bleeping scammer!!!

onehipdad……. send postal codes from EVERYWHERE!!!!

They will all go into my notebook, and someday I will sort them out and put them in some type of order….I hope. One of my biggest problems is being a world-class procrastinater? Easy to do at 79?

There’s no frame around the last panel, just sheer and abject panic as far as the eye can see.

PatPiano……….I’ve lived in Crestline, Gregory Village and Cedar Glen. Bet you know where all of them are?

Do you play piano?

97501(Oregon) V0N3A4( SUNSHINE COAST BC CANADA)

00270 Suomi

Now guess that one!

slim - 77979

There’s that spanner again. Same ad, differebt name.

Mukyou said:

00270 Suomi

Now guess that one/

Guess? How about Finland?

25313 West Virginia

I got friends I visit at CR11 1RW; I consider them to be my extended family.

Oh the postal code?– Brereton,, In Cheshire, UK