Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 24, 2010

Bad memories!

I certainly enjoyed this arc.

Parents can be that way sometimes. They were just happy their little Calvin wasnt hurt. Guess Calvin doesnt like digging up the past too!

There are some subjects that are best left alone.

Not a few days ago, I had gone to the library. My parent had dropped me off, and wasn’t showing up, so I was sifting through the books. I took Yukon Ho, the only one they had, in the flap someone had stuck a fake million dollar bill. I swear this is true. It had Rutherford Hayes on it, and in small writing on the back, ‘The million dollar question, will you go to heaven when you die?’ I don’t want to share the rest because it may be depressing to some. Anyway, it really enlightened my view of these strips. There are no limits to what a person can believe and do, but belief of natural limits may find you. Best to avoid it.

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

What ever happened to the propeller beanie?

This definitely was a good one, Marg! Love it!

G’Morning, Mike, Marg & Grog!

Lucky break Calvin.

Hobbes, Hobbes! Bad ideas!

Hey! I want to hear the one about the worms on Dad’s…..

I agree, Marg. I think this is one of my favorites.

“Parents are sure inscrutable.” Great line!

Yes, I’m ready to hear the story about the worms now too!

“What ever happened to the propeller beanie?” From yesterday’s crossword puzzle in The Republican:: “50 Nerdy cap” Is Calvin SURELY inscrutable (from his parents), and a nerd to boot?

“…but try keeping live worms in your Dad’s…” texassoldier86 said, “Guess Calvin doesn’t like digging up the past too!” Was that a ‘no pun intended’?

….in your Dad’s underwear drawer.”

“…but try keeping live worms in your Dad’s…” fishing basket? Would that be ‘creel’?

“Don’t be cruel!” - Elvis

”,,,in your dad’s Thermos.”

Nice arc. Best usage of “inscrutable” from a 6-year-old I’ve heard all year.

Calvin’s vocabulary is inscrutable! “Incapable of being searched into and understood; incomprehensible; unfathomable. Synonym: see mysterious.

I slightly remember sterilizing horse manure in Mom’s roasting pan at 350 degrees in her oven. It was for science class.

OH!! calvin u did put a live worm in ur dad’s …(beep) (beep) (beep)!!! LOLOLOLOLOL

And yet another happy conclusion, this one always makes me smile ;)

texassoldier86 said “Guess Calvin doesnt like digging up the past too!”

Isn’t Calvin digging up the past vicariously through Hobbes?

Love the look on Hobbes’ face in the last panel.

Lewreader, That stinks! But I’m sure you had pure (sterilizing) motives! Did Mom forgive you? :o)

I know how he feels. My parents couldn’t be scruted either.

Yeah Calvin, there are limits to parents’ inscrutability.

Where will the next adventure take us?

My parents did this! I would do something huge and they would say, oh well. Then the next time, I would so something I thought was no big deal and they went ballistic.

A new day awaits and more trouble as well.

All’s well that ends well….okay, so it’s rare for Calvin but…

From inscrutable to corporal between one frame and the next.

Lewreader, how did the next roast taste?

LEWREADER= I’m hoping if I post early enough you might actually see this. I know your avatar is an overweight cat, but it looks like a gorilla face to me. Startles me every time I see it. Does anyone else have this reaction? Bet I looked at it for a week or more before I really saw what it was.

The cat doesn’t look overweight at lewreader’s site….guess I’m just used to mine….Gator weighs 24 pounds - but he’s all muscle - seriously - just a BIG cat - with extra toes…

Yes that live worm thing can get you a spanking.

excessive use of strained puns can give one the pained runs and really takes the funny fun from a punny pun for this one

Goes to show you never can tell.

I’m still kinda surprised he got off so easy! My parents would’ve went bat cr@p crazy if they had to pay for a tow truck!

”… but try keeping live worms in your dad’s … “

… briefcase … ?

@Teresa, Bill Watterson knew, and used, the truth that sometimes things are better left unsaid or unseen–our imagination is so much stronger than what is made explicit. Hence “The Spaghetti Incident” or “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey”. Or “keeping live worms in your dad’s …”

Lewreader said “I slightly remember…” I’m surprised your parents didn’t “impress” on you the seriousnes of your offense.

MARVEE I also slightly remember calling SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED “Fat” once. I slightly remember the maple I hit with a Mustang 8 feet above ground level. My psychiatrist has a long word for forgetting traumatic events, but I find medication works best. Try it. Call your boss a horse’s a@@. See if you remember to tell your wife.

And appropriately enough for the last day of this arc:

http://tinyurl.com/26fhjxn

It’s not just tigers!

i hope we find more about those worms

That strip JPSteve was on the news to. That’s why I don’t keep food in car. But then I don’t live where bears roam far far away. Several states actually away.

And not a word about G.R.O.S.S. or “slimy girls”. Oh well, I guess all that got put on hold by a heavy dose of catastrophe theory…

I have a sneaking suspicion that Vonnegut or Aardvark359 is back with another name. The poetry could be ‘verse’, though.

JP Steve said: And appropriately enough for the last day of this arc: http://tinyurl.com/26fhjxn It’s not just tigers!

I saw this story on the news yesterday.

Along those lines … is anybody else troubled by the fact that every time a human does something wrong (like feeding bears, which, in turn, makes the bears unafraid of humans in their search for food), then it’s the bears that are punished (killed) for it?

Equally troubling for me are people that go walking/hiking/running in mountainous areas, they’re attacked by bears, etc., and the first thing people want to do is go out, hunt them down and kill them! Under the circumstances, wasn’t the human the one that trespassed on the bear’s territory to begin with and it was just defending itself from a perceived threat??? We keep taking more and more land for ourselves so that bears, mountain lions, etc., are losing more and more of their habitat. What are they then supposed to do with what little they’ve got left? It’s in their nature to defend it and when they do, that makes them the “bad guys”!

does this involve the noodle incident ;:o