Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 20, 2014
Transcript:
Hobbes: "What are you doing?" Calvin: "I'm practicing my sneers" Calvin: "There's nothing like a good seer to dry up conversation. How's mine look?" Hobbes: "Awful!" Calvin: "Thanks. With this sneer, I hope to be an unbearable burden at any social occasion" Hobbes: "That will give you a real head start on being a teen-ager" Calvin: "I know! It's like getting seven extra years!"
BE THIS GUY over 10 years ago
Don’t expect to be invited to many parties.
rentier over 10 years ago
So it’s better, Cal!!
ORMouseworks over 10 years ago
You’ll have it down pat by the time you are 13, Calvin!!! ;)
thirdguy over 10 years ago
Isn’t it more like losing seven years?
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 10 years ago
No desserts for you!
rshive over 10 years ago
Don’t forget to memorize obscure personal information about the latest pop music sensation . Someone being a convicted abuser of bisexual animals is always a big conversation starter for a teen.
redbaron1966 over 10 years ago
Adding time in Calvin’s case is like killing time it would seem. Adding by subtraction literally makes Calvin a kid for life…
bluram over 10 years ago
One thing for sure, he will never be elected the eight grade class president.
Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago
Calvin is learning to do a sneer so that people at social occasions won’t pardon the expression.
Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (November 11, 1990)Click here: Peanuts (January 30, 1968)Click here: Peanuts (September 20, 1953)Click here: Peanuts (September 3, 1952)Click here: B.C. (February 9, 2001)Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.— William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
jrankin1959 over 10 years ago
Of course, when you WANT to have a conversation, then it gets to be a problem…
jessegooddoggy over 10 years ago
Sigh, the things I missed out on by never having kids….
StratmanRon over 10 years ago
Calvin’s life plans are pretty advanced for a 6-year-old. Although, maybe not for today’s 6-year-olds…
hippogriff over 10 years ago
masterskrain: Have you noticed the Bush sneer on Perry’s mug shot?
neverenoughgold over 10 years ago
Calvin is six, going on sixteen…
anorok2 over 10 years ago
All you political commentators are so damn tiresome Grow up!… it’s just a comic strip!
Number Three over 10 years ago
It pays to be prepared!
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Susie Derkins D: about 10 years ago
It is 7 Years.
Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago
@LinusF: The very early Peanuts strips are a lot of fun, because Snoopy is still a “real” dog, but he doesn’t exactly act the way that you would expect a real dog to act. Similarly, in Calvin and Hobbes, Hobbes is a “real” stuffed tiger, but he doesn’t exactly act the way that you would expect a real stuffed tiger to act.I think that’s right………..Hmmmm………….
hippogriff about 10 years ago
frank corona: Politics is for those who haven’t grown up? “We do not say he who is not involved in politics is minding his own business; we say he has no business here at all.” Pericles, in the part of the funeral oration contrasting the Athenian proto-democracy with the other surrounding city states.