Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 18, 2023

Just be happy he isn’t gas.

Please! Everyone knows tigers are furry.

you’re going to be a liquid, Calvin, once Hobbes spills your bodily fluids for mocking him

All cats are liquids. It’s the only explanation as to how they fit into some of the places they fall asleep in.

They are nice, soft and pliable – as long as you stay away from the pointy ends.

Well, it looks like he’s actually puddling.

Just the bones, Calvin.

2017 Ig Nobel prize awarded fr demonstrating that cats are both liquid and solid: https://www.science.org/content/article/cats-behave-liquids-tampons-play-music-and-other-advances-honored-ig-nobel-prizes#:~:text=Cats%20can%20be%20simultaneously%20solid%20and%20liquid%20because,this%20year%27s%20Ig%20Nobel%20Physics%20Prize%20winner.%20g-stockstudio%2FiStockphoto

All the better to wrap around you, Calvin……

By what published reference, Calvin?

Many videos, at least. Check out Maru:

https://www.youtube.com/@mugumogu/search?query=liquid

On Sunday, someone asked where Hobbes was and someone replied that Hobbes may be in bed with Calvin but under the sheets. I then replied that we usually see Hobbes’s head on the pillow and sometimes he is snoring. Today’s strip is another example of Hobbes snoring. He has two speech balloons today. One shows him snoring and the other shows he is making a sarcastic imitation of laughter at Calvin’s comment.

Watterson has explained that this marvellous strip shows how different people see reality – “Calvin sees Hobbes one way and everyone else sees Hobbes another way.” This is well illustrated in today’s strip with Calvin seeing a large animal draped over a chair which is obviously based on Watterson’s cats. Any character other than Calvin would see a stuffed tiger doll on the chair – and would be unable to hear the doll snoring as dolls do not snore.

All cats are liquids, not just tigers.

According to Snoopy, a boneless cat.

LOL! I’m using that line.

Or pirates.

“All tigers actually are classified as liquids.”

Does it “matter?”

…you’re still not getting the chair, Calvin! ☺️

My dog’s like that…

More like an amorphous solid, in the way of Jello and modeling clay.

Careful Calvin, fangs and claws are still in a solid state.

Actually, a good lazy boy is worth its weight in gold, or tuna. Whatever.

Jeremy Duncan’s spirit animal!

A liquid with fangs and claws. Would that make a heck of a highball? No hangover; just sutures.

Our cat is definitely solid when he thumps down stairs and turns to liquid in much the Hobbes does in this episode, but when any man in work boots comes to the door that cat becomes the wind.

Actually all cats can change from solid to liquid

https://stemfellowship.org/the-ig-nobel-prize-why-are-cats-liquid/#:~:text=It’s%20because%20they%20do%20not,into%20the%20space%20as%20well.&text=The%20first%20part%20of%20the,has%20come%20to%20an%20end!

“Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind.” – A.S.J. Tessimond

Actually, the more proper term is fluid.

I have always said that cats have no bones.

For a while there, we were pretty sure our son was boneless during his teens. I asked his doctor if he’d do a quick x-ray just to check. My son was not amused, but his doctor and I sure were. :)

That’s why you never see them on aeroplane flights….banned! ㋡

So are cats. Just do a Google image search on “cats are liquid.”

Don’t push your luck and risk liquidation, Calvin.

Or perhaps a non-Newtonian fluid?

Well, cat.

Cats are definitely liquid:

https://www.boredpanda.com/cats-are-liquids/?utm_source=duckduckgo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic

spineless

The feline amorphous phase is a scientific fact. Cats of all species are able to take the shape of any given container. It’s the origin of the expression, “If it fits I sits.”

Indeed, Hobbes seems to fill the sofa.

Tiger Milk?

All cats, like cornstarch and water, are classified as both solid and liquid.

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Who did this joke first? Calvin and Hobbes or 9 Chickweed Lane?

This reminds of a very short-lived character in ‘Peanuts’, Frieda’s cat Faron. He was mainly shown draped over her hand, and he seemed like liquid. Snoopy even remarked about Faron: ‘They deboned a cat!’

Hobbes ability to turn to stuffed tiger in presence of anybody else other than Calvin, is a masterstroke by Bill.

Fluids.