Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 08, 2015

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    BE THIS GUY  about 9 years ago

    Rosalyn probably has a nice college fund by now.

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    Kaputnik  about 9 years ago

    The experience Rosalyn got dealing with Calvin has probably paid off by now in bringing up her own kids. Either that, or it made her decide not to have any.

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    mkd_1218  about 9 years ago

    Well, we knew that was coming, didn’t we? :)

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    marararam  about 9 years ago

    shouldn’t it read “ruin these stockings” instead of “run”?

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    Ravenswing  about 9 years ago

    Yeah, 20 years ago the costs colleges charged were already zooming far in advance of inflation.

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    Old Texan75  about 9 years ago

    Stockings are now called hose, I think. The Brits (who don’t speak English, either), called hose “runs” “laddered”. In those far off days it was a major disaster to a woman, as they actually cared how they looked.

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    Thomas Scott Roberts creator about 9 years ago

    Great gag and layout- but by this time the adults had lost their appealing cartooniness. Watterson was putting simple, cartoon heads on more realistically proportioned bodies, and it had an odd effect. Mom looks eight feet tall- Rosalyn seems to be standing at attention; her shoulders are too broad.

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    dlkrueger33  about 9 years ago

    Would love to see Calvin “today”. You know, get a glimpse of a 25 or 35 year old Calvin. Could be interesting.

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    jrankin1959  about 9 years ago

    By now, I’d be thinking, "The heck with what the neighbors (and authorities) would think — the kid’s getting SERIOUSLY spanked! (No jury in the world would convict us…)

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    loner34  about 9 years ago

    Only doubled? Now THAT’s a bargain!

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    neverenoughgold  about 9 years ago

    I wonder if Calvin’s parents ever considered taking Calvin with them when they went out…

    …locked in the trunk!

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    Poollady1  about 9 years ago

    Don’t worry, Roselyn will lock him in the closet.

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    JanLC  about 9 years ago

    If they would control that kid in the first place, this strip wouldn’t be nearly as funny.

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 9 years ago

    Two days ago, we saw his mom dragging him to the school bus. Calvin has no perspective for abject horror.

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    cheap_day_return  about 9 years ago

    Calmly, Dad asks, “Rosalyn, would you mind getting the tranquilizer gun? You know where it’s at.”

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    ron  about 9 years ago

    Next time Mom needs to put that grilled cheese sandwich dinner on a nice table in a large dog kennel and then lock the door while he is eating.

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    locake  about 9 years ago

    A college fund means any money you have saved for college. It doesn’t have to mean the entire cost of college. A thousand dollars can be a college fund for a teenager.

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    hippogriff  about 9 years ago

    SPOILER ALERTUltimately, they got along fine – after Rosalyn proved to be a better Calvin Ball player than he.

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    josh_bisbee  about 9 years ago

    Doubled would be $16 a night (she said in an early strip that her rate was $8 a night). Adjusted for inflation, $25 a night.

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    Susie Derkins :D  about 9 years ago

    Let’s see how things will work out this time. Hopefully it won’t be a disaster like last time.

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    neverenoughgold  about 9 years ago

    Aw come on Calvin, lighten up! After all, it is just one evening of exciting torture entertainment…

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    Daniel Quilp  about 9 years ago

    It appears that Mom is wearing some sort of pants, not a skirt or dress. So why then is she also wearing nylon stockings?

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    Aurora Borealis  about 9 years ago

    @Daniel Quilp What? No, you’re definitely wrong on that. Look again.

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