Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 02, 2014

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    Susie Derkins D:  over 10 years ago

    what this a one legged race or a slow-mo race?

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    BE THIS GUY  over 10 years ago

    This may become an Olympic event in the future.

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    rentier  over 10 years ago

    But a funny cheater!

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    ORMouseworks  over 10 years ago

    For shame, Hobbes… ;)

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    blindavocado Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Well, it’s more exciting than soccer!

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    watmiwori  over 10 years ago

    Calvin is browned off ‘cos HE didn’t think of it first.

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    bluram  over 10 years ago

    Cheating? I wan’t to see the rule book

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    bignatefan  over 10 years ago

    @Hobbes. Thank you VERY much for the “black and white” strip yesterday. Really appreciate it.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    “The race is not to the swift.”— Ecclesiastes 9:11

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Click here: Reality Check (July 1, 2013)Click here: Peanuts (May 8, 1961)Here’s one from the third month of Peanuts, back when Snoopy looked like a real dog with a pointed nose and Charlie Brown’s head was bigger than his body:Click here: Peanuts (January 30, 1951)And here is the same idea in a more recent strip by Brian Basset:Click here: Red and Rover (June 9, 2009)Brian Basset is one of today’s best comic strip writers, who has created some truly wonderful Red and Rover strips. Here are two more examples on today’s theme:Click here: Red and Rover (January 24, 2013)Click here: Red and Rover (August 8, 2013)Like Red and his dog Rover, Calvin and his friend Hobbes savor the journey of life every step of the way.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    @Michael Ford: You’re welcome. Glad I could help you find it.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Reply from yesterday:flowergirl19 wrote: “@Hobbes: Thanks for your fascinating commentary and posting the old strips. I really love the 04/16/91 strip; if I could post it here on my profile as a favorite, I would. C&H is definitely the greatest comic strip ever, bar none. No other strip even comes close :)”

    Hi flowergirl. You can find the strip on GoComics at the following link, where you can add it to your favorites:Calvin and Hobbes (April 16, 1991)
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    jrankin1959  over 10 years ago

    Yeah, I remember doing that as a kid…

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    Mac6622 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    They must be imitating the garbage collectors on my block.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    @lightenup: Red and Rover contains many of the elements of Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts that made those strips so popular. What is amazing about Brian is that he is able to be so original after so many good ideas have already been used up by Bill Watterson and Charles Schulz.

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    dflak  over 10 years ago

    If you can’t play and cheat, don’t play.

    If you can’t cheat, change the rules. (Banks, insurance companies and the Government do this all the time).

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    Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr   over 10 years ago

    Hobbes(Reply's not working ????)-----------------------The "Reality Check" 'toon reminds me of the overly polite gophers, *Mac* and *Tosh* from the old @Warner Bros. cartoons; themselves based on the 1900’s comic strip Alphonse and Gaston .

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    neverenoughgold  over 10 years ago

    @Hobbes:re: yesterday’s commentThanks for your observation; I didn’t see it this way.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Hi neverenoughgold. I was reminded of a political comedy speech by Pat Paulsen:I’m not left wing or right wing. I’m middle of the bird. If you’re too much left wing or too much right wing, you tend to fly around in concentric circles.I have trouble visualizing that one. I guess the tips of the wings would move in concentric circles, since the wings would be of two different lengths. Maybe Pat Paulsen got his terminology wrong. Or maybe he just said it because “concentric” is a funny-sounding word.

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    CalvinObvious  over 10 years ago

    Calvin and Hobbes are having a race and Hobbes is going so slow that he is moving backwards. Calvin thinks that is cheating!

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