Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 30, 2019

Your parents don’t want you to remember that you used to do your business in diapers and they changed you; they don’t want to go through that again.

Because you don’t remember and were probably brain washed in the hospital, you are what you are until you find out and then Mom and Dad will pay.

Speaking of being forgetful, I’m not even sure I remember THIS strip in any of my C&H books.

Maybe your brain was replaced with that of an adult, hence your freakish vocabulary for a six year-old.

Side note: the final panel contradicts the first strip, since this implies Hobbes knew Calvin when he was a baby.

Hobbes was probably the recipient of all that burping up.

I’m told that retaining childhood memories is somehow linked to learning to speak, so the earlier you learn to speak the more you remember.

Think of your diaper as your cocoon. You used to be a caterpillar and after leaving your diaper stage, you are now a butterfly with no memory of your life as a caterpillar.

You fall asleep in class, Calvin. There! Mystery solved.

Going back to the very fist ‘toon, “Using a tuna sandwich to catch a tiger” I’m guessing Calvin already had Hobbes from long before. Or am I being over analytical?

The Calvin Bourne Project.

They say that burping up is better than burping down. But what do they know?

but Hobbes wasn’t even there yet! Calvin didn’t catch im in the tiger trap until he was already 6, I think.

Cal, your brain is definitely washed-up, that’s for sure!

I don’t care if it’s a rerun, it’s a wonderful Calvin moment, sooo totally his weird lil brain!!!

we weren’t going to tell you calvin but your real parents…..

Calvin is a mystery inside a riddle… wrapped in a diaper.

I am mysterious as well. I seem to have lost the better, or worse, part of my 30s. Perhaps it is better that way.

Burping up, and worse…

Life moves fast …

Hobbes can’t remember Calvin’s early years, he hadn’t been caught with the tuna sandwich yet

And interesting enough, the burping up stage was far more endearing than now… ;D

Probably better not to remember all that burping up.

(Most) Infant brains must grow a bit before they start to lay down long term memories. Alas, adult brains (mine, for example) seem to have trouble laying down long or short term memories: What did you have for supper yesterday? What/when was the last new word you learned?

How come Hobbes remembers it when he was also infant?