Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 08, 2014

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    BE THIS GUY  over 10 years ago

    Mom should hose him down in the backyard.

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    ORMouseworks  over 10 years ago

    The Chimney! I guess you left your trusty companion, Hobbes, outside because he is still clean! ;)

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    cloudy now  over 10 years ago

    Santa never complains.

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    Kali39  over 10 years ago

    So how come Santa can come through without getting dirty?

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    rentier  over 10 years ago

    As black as night, that will need an abundant, thorough bath!

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   over 10 years ago

    When Santa shrinks down to fit in the chimney he doesn’t touch the sides.

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    Ragarm350  over 10 years ago

    No wonder Calvin doesn’t have any sibling’s!

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    orinoco womble  over 10 years ago

    I wonder why that is…as a kid, you resist getting into the bath or shower…and then once there, you resist getting out. Kind of like going to bed on the weekend a few years later…you don’t wanna go to bed, and then no power on earth can drag you out of it.

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    RoadTrip3500  over 10 years ago

    Hiding in a chimney before a bath… kinda like the old joke of eating a whole box of Oreos in the dentist waiting room… get your money’s worth.

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    Aaberon  over 10 years ago

    I know a little boy who, if he had a fireplace at his house, would do this. He’s been a big challenge all his life; I’m surprised he’s lived this long. He’s 9.

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    aejb  over 10 years ago

    Yah, Santa and Mary Poppins come out all clean …

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    Pirate Mike creator over 10 years ago

    This is one of my favorites. so simple and perfect.

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    sundogusa  over 10 years ago

    I remember getting hosed down as a kid. Water was frickin’ cold too!

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    Poollady  over 10 years ago

    Chim Chiminey Chim Chimeny chim charoo, it’s clean now.

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    Phapada  over 10 years ago

    like be crazy mom…

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    francisrossi  over 10 years ago

    Tsk. Someone ought to tell him blacking up is frowned upon.

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    orinoco womble  over 10 years ago

    My brother had a brief stint in his teens as a furnace-flue cleaner (ie chimney sweep in the modern world). Night after night he left black sludge in the bathtub, and couldn’t imagine why his sisters refused to clean it out after him!! The parents eventually got tired of him coming home looking like a California Raisin and told him to get another job.

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 10 years ago

    Calvin had his ashes hauled, to the bathtub!

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    Number Three  over 10 years ago

    Love Calvin’s ‘evil eyes’ in the last panel.xxx

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    zeexenon  over 10 years ago

    Calvin’s activities are St. Peter’s account of my boyhood. Definitely: snakes and snails and puppy-dog’s tails, and hunting and magnifying glasses and ants and really big fire crackers and misplaced fires and probation officers then adulthood then university then Bell Labs and Top Secret Clearance then 33.5 years later, retirement.

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    markmoss1  over 10 years ago

    The grim reality behind those Mary Poppins scenes: Victorian houses had a fireplace in every room and very intricate chimney and flue systems, which could not be cleaned by just pushing a brush through. So small boys were used as self-propelled chimney brushes. Since creosote and ashes are full of carcinogens and toxins, the adult sweeps were always on the lookout for more boys. Orphans preferred, but in a pinch they might try to inveigle a middle-class kid into running away.

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    tlynnch  over 10 years ago

    Twas the Night before Christmas

    “He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;”

    Yes Santa suffers from the same problem.

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