Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 18, 2010

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    margueritem  almost 14 years ago

    An evil thought, Hobbes…

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    << Yesterday, dahawk said: The mind of a child can be fascinating. >>

    Hello everyone. There was some interesting discussion yesterday about whether or not I am the real Hobbes.

    Speaking from my vast experience using a pencil and legal pad, It is necessary for me to recuse myself from the deliberations on this subject because, being the real Hobbes, it is too difficult for me to give equal treatment to both sides of the issue.

    Each participant in the discussion group must make up their own mind whether they simply wish to observe what Calvin and I do each day, and sometimes comment on it, or whether they also wish to participate in it with us, through an analogous experience.

    Deciding whether or not to see me as the real Hobbes depends, in part, on how fully you are still in touch with the vivid imagination that you had when you were Calvin’s age.

    Choosing to see me as something less than the real Hobbes is analogous to the way Calvin’s parents see me when they are around.

    But deciding to see me as the real Hobbes, who is paying a visit to your discussion group, is analogous to the way Calvin sees me. For adults, it is a window into the mind of a child. And it can be fascinating.

    Comments, anyone? (If you can’t think of anything to say, try using your imagination…… hee hee hee.)

    Hobbes

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    SWEETBILL  almost 14 years ago

    Love Calvins look ,last panel, see Santa ,he is a good kid heh heh

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    MontanaLady  almost 14 years ago

    Hey, Hobbes….be that you REALLY are Bill Waterson…… what a treat….

    But, I have my doubts……:))

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    rentier  almost 14 years ago

    Evilness breaks in, perhaps he’ll change his mind before doing it! I think most people wish from their heart to be good, but it doesn’t work always! We need a mercyful judge!

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    Not really sure who Bill Watterson is, since I’ve never met him. But Calvin and I sometimes see a guy sneaking around drawing sketches of us. Somebody told us that Bill Watterson is our pen name. Not sure what that means. My best guess is that Bill Watterson is the creation of someone’s overactive imagination.

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    tis4kis  almost 14 years ago

    Calvin wouldn’t be lying saying he is really good… He’d just be leaving out the part about what he’s good at… being bad.

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    Yukoner  almost 14 years ago

    In just over a week Calvin will have some coal to pack into the centre of his slush balls.

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    Destiny23  almost 14 years ago

    No-one can accuse Calvin of being thoughtless. It’s just that all his thoughts are naughty!

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    kpreethy  almost 14 years ago

    GOOD KID…& calvin…LOL

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    vibjyor  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes’s posting remind me of this quote of Chuang Tzu :

    “I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”

    I am thankful to BW and Hobbes for the cartoon and comments. I do not need to know which one is imaginary and which one is not. Both seem equally great.

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    Dino-1  almost 14 years ago

    I had a slushball thrown at me once right in the ear, I returned it promptly and the kid cried. Nobody ever did it to me again after that! You’ve gotta give as good as you get, when you’re the only girl in the neighborhood!

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    hannahmw  almost 14 years ago

    Are these brand new Calvin and Hobbes from Bill Watterson, or reposts from his books or something? :O

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    GROG Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    Calvin, I don’t think you have a legal leg to stand on.

    Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠.

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    kreole  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes—-whoever you are it is for sure you are a gal. You’ve given several clues…but my gut feeling is your excellent insight….guys just don’t have it. What say you?

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    Troglodyte  almost 14 years ago

    Love how BW has captured the changes in Calvin’s mood just by the way he’s drawn his eyes - panels 2, 3 and 4 are a true study in contrasts.

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    magnamax  almost 14 years ago

    Interesting, kreole. I mean, how does Calvin know what sex Hobbes really is? As far as I know, no-one has come up with an anatomically correct stuffed animal.

    Hobbes: The real question is, who do you think you are?

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    florchi  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes - I am intrigued. You seem to think like the “real Hobbes” (the Hobbes that Calvin sees).

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    mike.firesmith  almost 14 years ago

    **Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

    Well, he’s good when he’s sleeping, does that count?

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    alviebird  almost 14 years ago

    If you can’t be good,

    be good at it.

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    rentier  almost 14 years ago

    Oh, Mike Firesmith you are so very kind!! The last panel reminds me on the wolvesravine in the opera “Freischütz”, do they fight their duel here or have they forgotten the cause why they struggled?

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    rshive  almost 14 years ago

    Calvin can resist anything but temptation.

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    davidf42  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes - I still say you’re a figment of Calvin’s imagination. You are the voice of his conscience, representing his “good” side, which is constantly in conflict with his “naughty” side. Someone said I over-think it. Maybe so, but I love this comic strip and believe it is one of the funniest of all time.

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    Ursula A Kehoe Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    Despite the fact that I had read all of these the first time they ran, and own the complete C & H boxed collection, I continue to enjoy each strip as if it were the first time. Much of that sentiment is because of the comments posted by first-time readers. There are always details in the drawings which I missed in each of the previous viewings. I’ll continue to respect and admire Bill Watterson’s work and decision to remain true to his principles.

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    afeeney  almost 14 years ago

    On the other hand, isn’t it possible that WE comic readers are all figments of Hobbes’ and Calvin’s imaginations?

    Seriously…look at politicians…aren’t most of them more or less tall versions of school-aged squabbling kids? And aren’t far too many CEOs the greedy kids?

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    larney45  almost 14 years ago

    I usually see Hobbes as the voice of conscience, which is almost an oxymoron as he is male…sorry, guys. If, however, being an imaginary “reason”allows for some reasonable doubt, then wouldn’t it follow that Hobbes’ reasoning is always going to be a reasonable facsimile of T. Hobbes’ struggle to explain good vs. evil in the state of nature? I mean, Hobbes is a very “natural” creature with all of natures’ dilemmas thrown in by way of Calvin? (Wow. Sorry. We’re on break for 2 whole weeks and I’m giddy…)

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    cleokaya  almost 14 years ago

    Calvin is good…good at acting on his impulses.

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    Wiseguy411  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes, We have three options. You are who you believe you are, or we can believe you are who you are, and finally we can believe the reality (whatever that may be).

    In keeping with the season, I prefer to side with Virginia

    Yes there is a Hobbes. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its greatest joy.

    Not believe in Hobbes!

    You might as well not believe in Santa Claus!

    (paraphased from Frank Church’s famous editorial)

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    larney45  almost 14 years ago

    Well said, Wiseguy411! Bravo!

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    alviebird  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes was real.

    “When Hobbes is a stuffed toy in one panel and alive in the next, I’m juxtaposing the ‘grown-up’ version of reality with Calvin’s version, and inviting the reader to decide which is truer.” - Bill Watterson

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    Ouflah  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes is real, I just wonder where is Calvin on the forums!

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    magnamax  almost 14 years ago

    The “grown-up version of reality” totally sucks.I’m a ‘grown-old,’ not a grown-up

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    rentier  almost 14 years ago

    Calvin & Hobbes is fantastic, if we understand it or not!! The art allone is grand!!

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    jdacquisto  almost 14 years ago

    Come on everyone there is some good in all of us ,even calvin.

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    << kreole said: Hobbes – whoever you are it is for sure you are a gal. You’ve given several clues…but my gut feeling is your excellent insight….guys just don’t have it. What say you? >>

    Hi kreole

    So, let me get this straight. It sounds like you have chosen not to believe that I am actually Hobbes, and you are saying that you think that somehow I am actually a gal, pretending to be a guy, pretending to be a real tiger, whom Calvin’s parents think is a stuffed tiger, but whom Calvin believes is real, and whom Calvin believes is a guy.

    I say you have a very vivid imagination. So does Calvin, but his is a lot easier for me to follow. :>)

    When I read the postings from the group members, it is sometimes very hard for me to guess whether they are a gal or a guy, based on what they write. In your case, I concluded yesterday that you were a guy, based on what you wrote. (“Calvin is the boy all us guys once were.”)

    But I did fail to consider the possibility that you might be a gal, pretending to be a guy……. (Just kidding).

    Hobbes

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    Marty241  almost 14 years ago

    “Hobbes - I still say you’re a figment of Calvin’s imagination.”

    Davidf42, This doesn’t explain how Hobbs can know something Calvin doesn’t know.

    Marty

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    Mythreesons  almost 14 years ago

    As I said yesterday, HOBBES first name and initial are Bill W. Only he could read the mind of a stuffed tiger and express it so well since he has known said tiger longer than the rest of us. I’m an elderly female, since gender seems to be common thread today. Turn 79 on Jan 1–Blah!

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    gofinsc  almost 14 years ago

    Calvin is good at throwing slushballs.

    “Hobbes”–

    Give it a rest. It was sort of cute the first 15 times, but not now.

    And really Bill Watterson? Not likely.

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    ratlum  almost 14 years ago

    A little off the subject I guess but Calvins resolve reminds me of the first time I quit smoking.

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    dahawk  almost 14 years ago

    magnamax, obviously you haven’t heard about the mistake the factory lady made when she was told her job was to give the stuffed Tickle Me Elmo dolls two “test tickles”!

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    ses1066  almost 14 years ago

    The most famous quote from Adam Savage of Discover Channel’s Mythbusters proves that Calvin is a prologue to their existence…

    “I reject your reality and substitute one of my own!”

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    khpage  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes (the tiger in the cartoon) is the dispenser of truth. Calvin is the dispenser of snowballs….

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    Quantumtorpedo1  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbs is real to me. Thank you Hobbs for your presence.

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    Kirokithikis  almost 14 years ago

    Calvin is still going to be on the good (er, not as bad) list because we know he’s going to miss, then say he missed on purpose :P

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    GESWho  almost 14 years ago

    @Hobbes; you are who you say you are.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COI2tHj6yyQ

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    Alxeter8  almost 14 years ago

    Regardless of whether or not you believe Hobbes exists, I don’t see why you wouldn’t you want to.

    It’s like not believing in Santa Claus, even if you don’t believe in him it is more fun to believe.

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    JTGAM  almost 14 years ago

    All in all I don’t think Calvin is doing anything “evil”, I just think he’s doing something “in love” at least as far as a 6 year old would. I think Santa will understand. He probably threw snowballs at Mrs. Claus when he was 6.

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    << gofinsc wrote: “Hobbes”– Give it a rest. It was sort of cute the first 15 times, but not now. >>

    Don’t worry, gofinsc, nothing in this life lasts forever. Stay tuned.

    I have been writing for those who are introspective and imaginative, who enjoy subtle humor, and who like to think on multiple levels at once. Cuteness has not been my purpose.

    Hobbes

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    Fogger_man  almost 14 years ago

    @Hobbes You just keep on posting. Anyone who does not have a malicious nature is more than welcome to post to this site. I enjoy your comments… and “I” believe you are who you say you are! My motto is “the first portion of ignorance is ignore”, and that is what we should do in the case of those who can not speak nicely, or not at all.”

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    Gretchen's Mom  almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes: I believe in both of you!!!!!!!!!!

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    yyyguy  almost 14 years ago

    Apostle4God that sounds more like Judas Priest’s Electric Eye than Santa.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    Hobbes, I believe even though common sense tells me not to.

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    rentier  almost 14 years ago

    Be quick with changing, I’ll have to leave soon!

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    Crabbyrino Premium Member almost 14 years ago

    I just adore Hobbes. And the postings of Hobbes. and the postings of all – it is stimulating. thanks

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    Death2100  almost 11 years ago

    a very “good” kidlol

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