Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 13, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    It’s probably his way to slow down Hobbes’s attacks.

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    The Calvinosaurus That Calvin Wanted To Discover  over 3 years ago

    Great way to prevent cars from speeding on the yard!

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    Face palm indeed, Mom.

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    GreasyOldTam  over 3 years ago

    But the only one racing around the yard is Calvin (Hobbs can jump over those puny little things).

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    JudasPeckerwood  over 3 years ago

    Safety first.

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    dadthedawg Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Once upon a time, I lived on a corner lot with a big lawn, and would get automobile ‘lawn jobs’ every couple of months. Made me very angry at first, then learned to accept it. I matured…..

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    codycab  over 3 years ago

    There’s already a speed bump, Calvin. You!

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    With adequate speed bumps, you can catch some WICKED air in the little red wagon!

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    GROG Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Now give Calvin a good swift speed bump.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member over 3 years ago

    If you build them along contours, you can save water in dry areas!

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    Kind&Kinder  over 3 years ago

    I don’t know who will, be in the car, but I do know Calvin will drive Mom crazy!

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    orinoco womble  over 3 years ago

    Reminds me of my brother digging a foxhole in the front yard. He got it deep enough for an 8 yr old boy to stand up in before the parents came home.

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    Bilan  over 3 years ago

    It could be worse … if he knew where the power tools are.

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    Baarorso  over 3 years ago

    Give Calvin some Ritalin, STAT! That’ll calm him down!

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    jagedlo  over 3 years ago

    At least Calvin’s speed bumps won’t cost the taxpayers millions of dollars!

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    Troglodyte  over 3 years ago

    Mom will whack his little behind with that spade…this was the 90s, after all.

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  over 3 years ago

    Look on the bright side mom, Calvin will give you the family discount for his hard work.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    …or as they are called in some British places, “Sleeping Policemen”. Still, seems like a lot of work.

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    mattro65  over 3 years ago

    My boys like to dig holes and trenches. If I let them have their way the lawn would look like a WWl battlefield by the end of the summer. On the plus side, it saves on lawn mowing time.

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    tripwire45  over 3 years ago

    For who, Hobbes?

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    tripwire45  over 3 years ago

    For who, Hobbes?

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    Nyckname  over 3 years ago

    One time in San Francisco, I walked into the house and told the roommate that there were three guys humping in the road. He walked back in ninety seconds later, angry that it was a road crew putting in those wide speed bumps.

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    mountainclimber  over 3 years ago

    I hate speed bumps. What a stupid way to punish the innocent.

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    Culer (super mega based fc barcelona fan of gc)  over 3 years ago

    I think he made ’em pretty well

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    Calvinist1966  over 3 years ago

    During the past couple of weeks, I have made some comments on Bill Watterson’s view of the reality of Hobbes and how they affected my own view.

    I began reading Calvin and Hobbes in late 1987 and assumed that the stuffed doll Hobbes was meant to be the real one but started to change my mind in 1988. One reason for this was because Hobbes was shown as living even when Calvin wasn’t present.

    In 1989, I read the strip where Hobbes was left behind and Hobbes was shown as a stuffed doll so I went back to assuming that Hobbes really was the stuffed doll after all. In 1992, I read that Watterson had said in an interview that he considered Hobbes “more real than any kid can make up”.

    I then started to consider the theory that I outlined last week – that Hobbes may be a stuffed doll but was brought to life through a combination of Calvin’s imagination and a psychic power but was a swifter thinker than Calvin and more knowledgeable than Calvin.

    In 1995, I read The Calvin And Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book in which Watterson explains “I don’t see Hobbes as a stuffed doll who magically comes to life when Calvin is alone nor do I see him as a product of Calvin’s imagination.”

    This shot down my theory as Hobbes doesn’t seem to be a doll at all and doesn’t seem to owe anything to Calvin’s imagination. It seems that Hobbes as a doll is purely a delusion seen by characters other than Calvin.

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    Calvinist1966  over 3 years ago

    As for the matter of Hobbes being shown as a stuffed doll when left alone in 1989, I later decided that this may have been because of the burglars who broke into the house during the story arc. This wasn’t discovered by Calvin and his parents until they returned at the end of the first week. As I mentioned last week, Hobbes being shown as a stuffed doll could be a clue that he wasn’t alone.

    As for Hobbes’s later claim that he “scared off the burglars”, there are two ways in which that COULD be true. Either the burglars heard Hobbes moving around or they saw that the stuffed doll had moved and assumed that there must have been someone in the house to move him.

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    swanridge  over 3 years ago

    But ask him to dig the dandelions and I bet he’d scream bloody murder.

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    ImDaRealAni  over 3 years ago

    Yeah, that’s necessary /s

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    joefearsnothing  over 3 years ago

    Mom is on a crash course for “the Big One!”

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    j.l.farmer  over 3 years ago

    WHY?

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    Watchdog  over 3 years ago

    I have moles that do this. Grandpups love to ride their Big Wheels across humps. HOA not so pleased.

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    tremaine53  over 3 years ago

    Not aware of any reason the yard would need speed bumps, but… okay.

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    tremaine53  over 3 years ago

    “Son, loan me that shovel and I’ll give you some speed bumps on your head!”

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    mistercatworks  over 3 years ago

    Oddly enough in the UK, they are known colloquially as “sleeping policemen”. In Pasadena, some neighbors got the city to put in huge speed bumps in the belief if it would slow down the large vehicles speeding to and from the off-road-vehicle shop on the corner. Instead, I had to slow to a crawl to get into my driveway everyday and the OTR folk would come from miles around to enjoy the bounce. They love bounce.

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    hagarthehorrible  over 3 years ago

    A few seeds before the patting would yield a beautiful garden in the yard.

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    DanWolfie  over 3 years ago

    Another simple but fun strip from the comic’s infancy…

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    《Lily》 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Wow so many reruns

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    christelisbetty  over 3 years ago

    Mom would be happy, if they slowed Calvin down.

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    davetb1956  over 3 years ago

    The pot holes he is making are probably more effective than the bumps, after all he needs something to slow down his toy sports car that does 200 mph.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Well, I know I’d certainly slow down if I were driving in his yard…

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 3 years ago

    Funny to read this right after the garden mischief in today’s “Dog Eat Doug.”

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    jmworacle  over 3 years ago

    Mom had to ask.

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    jdthird  over 3 years ago

    He should’ve dug it just INSIDE of the front door, and said it was to keep Hobbes from nailing him when he comes home from school. :)

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    JadyngerbilWong  over 3 years ago

    ah, the snow is gone, so Calvin needs a substitute, I presume.

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    JamesSchulte  over 3 years ago

    i know

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    JamesSchulte  over 3 years ago

    Good thing Calvin

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