Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 13, 2009

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    margueritem  almost 15 years ago

    Great landmarks, both!

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    BobtheBandGuy  almost 15 years ago

    …and comment, and comment, and…

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  almost 15 years ago

    cowboyeddie said, “Wow! People actually comment about a comic strip?”

    Been doin’ it for over 50 years! It’s half the fun!

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    chchechia  almost 15 years ago

    Yeah of course! (: haha I love this

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    WoodEye  almost 15 years ago

    How would you know BtBGuy? That was your first comment too. Sometimes the comments are about each other… it helps to be funny.

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    Werebeagle  almost 15 years ago

    Reminds me of a Steven Wright joke - “I have a map of the United States. It’s actual size. The scale says ‘one mile = one mile.’ When people ask where I live, I say, ‘B4.’ ”

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    cleokaya  almost 15 years ago

    Oh and here I thought we were close, but I am in the “W’s” of the word states.

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    rentier  almost 15 years ago

    Home, sweet home!

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    rayannina  almost 15 years ago

    “By the giant letter E” would place Calvin’s house somewhere in central Kentucky. And here I’d always thought his family were Yankees!

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    Yukoner  almost 15 years ago

    Just trust the wagon. It knows where it’s going.

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    carmy  almost 15 years ago

    Who needs Google Maps? Calvin and Hobbes got their own system!

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    Pacejv  almost 15 years ago

    Still looking for the funk & Wagners!

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    MorganZ  almost 15 years ago

    There’s a “W” in “States” ?

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    Rakkav  almost 15 years ago

    Maybe in one of the fifty United States, perhaps Washington or Wyoming.

    I guess they had better trust the wagon! :))

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    bigCandHfan  almost 15 years ago

    They have to trust the wagon’s UPS!! (Universe Positioning System)! :)

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    tirnaaisling  almost 15 years ago

    It’s impressive that Calvin has studied an atlas, most kids when asked to identify the locations of other countries usually put them in the silliest of places and not always as countries. Sigh.

    <<Hopes he made no spelling or punctuation mistakes, but is too lazy to check!

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    Philbartle  almost 15 years ago

    Comics can be (not always) the most pertinent commentary on contemporary society. They deserve the comments of the readers. I get a lot out of some comments.

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    nakula_sadewa  almost 15 years ago

    Eskimo…go there for another trip..north/south pole is the best sign of climate change

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    Herocoder  almost 15 years ago

    The question is .. Do you see the ‘E’ Hobbes? same goes for the purple country .. ;-)

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    jrbj  almost 15 years ago

    Judging from the swirling clouds in panel 2 it looks like typhoon season in the lower latitudes. Hope they don’t run into turbulence after reentry. Actually, hope they get through reentry. Hobbs might get his fur singed.

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    CogentModality  almost 15 years ago

    VistaBill : Letters to the editor for the first forty, I presume.

    MorganZ: Yes! Texas but formerly of D.C.

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    wicky  almost 15 years ago

    Huston we have a problem… …we are out of tuna.

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    ninmas  almost 15 years ago

    cowboyeddie: the comments actually turn into chat forums, they are even bigger than the comic at times:) hey all, what’s happening?

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    carpetinwater9  almost 15 years ago

    purple country K-State !

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    Unclebup  almost 15 years ago

    Can’t even call Houston… Calvin forgot the radio. Maybe they spend a week globe trotting in their wagon until they get home.

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    Destiny23  almost 15 years ago

    I bet there’s more than one purple country in the atlas – er, world. If he gets the wrong one, he’ll have to spend another whole week trying to get home!

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    alondra  almost 15 years ago

    I wonder if they’ll end up in the right place. Remember Mom probably has dinner ready. I hope it’s not that green slop he hates so much.

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    bmwk12ltc  almost 15 years ago

    Not much Nimas, Just reading the important funnies before starting the day. What’s happening with you?

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    celeconecca  almost 15 years ago

    Going even smaller - the first time I traveled out of state as a kid, I really expected an obvious border or even a entirely different look!

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    midiranger  almost 15 years ago

    lol - me too. I was disappointed when there was no think black line, just a road sign saying “Now entering Oklahoma” Hope C&H can find the right ‘box’ to land in.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    On my map that would put Calvin in Nebraska.

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    Stede_Bonnet  almost 15 years ago

    You can tell that this is an old comic because the United States is still a nice blended shade of PURPLE. Since then, the purple has fractured into REDs and BLUEs.

    I miss PURPLE.

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    peterbiltman1980  almost 15 years ago

    Oh! To be a kid again.

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    desktopperson  almost 15 years ago

    the best part is not writing but reading the comments. guess u all agree wid me

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    k9mac  almost 15 years ago

    btw, cowboy eddie, this comic is the MOST commented on i have EVER read! and they can be the best part! enjoy!

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    mjensen9999  almost 15 years ago

    Amen Stede_Bonnet!

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    bald  almost 15 years ago

    all this talk lately about travel, i need to take another road trip, ahhh where to this time old man?

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    linsonl  almost 15 years ago

    As long as you have a couple of hours of fuel left, you ain’t lost, just a little confused, maybe.

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    musicnut1986  almost 15 years ago

    VistaBill, love your avatar.

    Remember, it’s FraUnkenstEIn.

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    lazygrazer  almost 15 years ago

    America is definately color-coded and easy to spot from space….purple mountains majesty….amber waves of grain….various shades of fruit on the plains.

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    Ed in Toledo Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    @ k9mac Go check out Pibgorn - it usually has PAGES of comments.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member almost 15 years ago

    aha!— finally figured it out!– looks like calvin lives in Cinncinnati:

    http://www.theodora.com/maps/new5/802649.jpg

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    Bargrove  almost 15 years ago

    We all love the comments. Especially our own

    We are just a clever Tribe, Crew, Gang, Mob, etc

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    spacepuppy56  almost 15 years ago

    I’m wondering how he is going to explain this to his mom as to where he’s been this time.

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    getmoreatp  almost 15 years ago

    Not just kids…even adults place Rome in Venezuela. I’ve heard that in the US, the majority of people can’t identify “England” on a map of the world – because it’s been renamed the “UK”. Geography should be a required high school class again.

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    Puddleglum2  almost 15 years ago

    Pacejv said, “Still looking for the funk & Wagner’s!” It’s Funk & Wagnall’s! Maybe that’s why you are still looking for it, unless you are using a play-on-words I didn’t get. :o) Are you new, here? There seem to be several, today.

    By the way, apparently Calvin uses Funk & ‘Wagon’all’s!

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    Ray_C  almost 15 years ago

    In my Atlas, Elbonia is also purple. Hope you brought turbans, guys. Lower Slobbovia, is purple, too. Fortunately, Hobbes has a fur coat.

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    YatInExile  almost 15 years ago

    Wow! People actually comment about a comic strip?

    This is nothing. Check out Pibgorn; 300+ comments is not unusual.

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    Rakkav  almost 15 years ago

    So what you’re saying is that we Humans have more than one way of royally messing things up.

    Calvin was trying to flee from more than he realized.

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    Wiseguy411  almost 15 years ago

    Pacejv - That Funk & Wagnalls - and its a dictionary !!!

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    rikw2  almost 15 years ago

    midiranger, there was a Sniglet years ago for Gapiana, the area between the “You are now leaving” and the “Welcome to” signs for the states.

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    cleokaya  almost 15 years ago

    Hobbes will at least find a neighborhood with tuna in it.

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    mroberts88  almost 15 years ago

    Well, they at least know where they’re going.

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    ratlum  almost 15 years ago

    If Calvin lived on Vancouver Isl he he would find home real easy Might not have traveled so far for peace and natural beauty

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    g24fowler  almost 15 years ago

    Ooooooooooooooops. Almost lost you when I switched from earthlink. Calvin and Hobbes are the consistent bright spot in my day. Thanks

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    Ellsass  almost 15 years ago

    Plenty of people comment, @cowboyeddie, but nobody gets a word in edgewise before Margueritem.

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    Aardvark359  almost 15 years ago

    Isn’t amazing how much Bill W. manages to say in only a few tiny frames?

    Proof that “more words” does not equal “better”.

    ;-)

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    musicnut1986  almost 15 years ago

    Margueritem’s opening comment two days ago at Pibgorn made me blush.

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    bmonk  almost 15 years ago

    Calvin needs to switch the view from “Satellite” to “Map”

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    bmonk  almost 15 years ago

    Another comic with plenty of comments is Big Top.

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    Puddleglum2  almost 15 years ago

    “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Sometimes a few words are worth little or nothing. It depends on the content, and how the words are written. Cogent Modality counts for much. By the way, I like that name. “There’s Something About that Name.”

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    Ray_C  almost 15 years ago

    cowboyeddie: Whatever you do, stay away from Dick Tracy!!!! Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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    megtheawesomeg  almost 15 years ago

    i awesome

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    Hirshhorn  almost 15 years ago

    Or something like that

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    funnyreader  almost 15 years ago

    Kentucky is yankee country if you remember your civil war history.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  almost 15 years ago

    CogentModality said, “VistaBill : Letters to the editor for the first forty, I presume”

    Nope. Talked about the strips at work.

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    marvee  almost 15 years ago

    Didn’t Tom Sawyer go up in a hot air balloon and expect to see the states with their distinct borders and the colors they were on the map at the front of every elementary classroom?

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    Skyhawk_maintainer  almost 15 years ago

    A fruited plane? Wasn’t that a DC-3 carrying Carmen Miranda?

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    Skyhawk_maintainer  almost 15 years ago

    A fruited plane you say. Wasn’t that a DC-3 carrying Carmen Miranda?

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    tamsin  almost 15 years ago

    I’m with Stede_Bonnet, too… not that that has anything to do with this strip… just saying. I usually enjoy the comments, too, although I rarely leave one…

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    AppleCrusher292  about 1 month ago

    Should’ve brought a map.

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