Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 09, 2023

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    BE THIS GUY  over 1 year ago

    You should have seen the other things that were squeezed before the milk producing ones.

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    dadthedawg Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Is it afternoon yet?…..

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    codycab  over 1 year ago

    Maybe try goat’s milk?

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    Sugar Bombs 95  over 1 year ago

    What’s especially weird is that there’s recent evidence humans started drinking cow milk BEFORE we evolved the ability to digest lactose.

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    sirbadger  over 1 year ago

    Who was the first cow who wandered over to a human and offered milk?

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    Zykoic  over 1 year ago

    I want to know the first person who milked an almond.

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    ItsEvie!  over 1 year ago

    Weird !

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    paulscon  over 1 year ago

    For once Calvin makes a lot of sense. I prefer almond milk on my cereal.

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    Robert4170  over 1 year ago

    Calvin is oblivious to the fact that people would have observed calves nursing essentially the same way human babies do, so people would have realized that the liquid that comes from cows would hardly be the “mysterious”, potentially dangerous/awful substance he implies.

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    lalapalooza Premium Member over 1 year ago

    i wasn’t there but i am betting that humans started borrowing a cup of milk from the Goats in order to feed their babies when mom’s milk wasn’t dropping.

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    orinoco womble  over 1 year ago

    How hungry was the first person who looked at a sea urchin and said, “Cool spines! Oooh, they’re toxic! You know I bet I could eat this!”

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    These are actually really interesting questions that Calvin is asking. Along with “who was the genius who invented sausages?” And “who invented string?”

    In my opinion, string technology was more important than the wheel. Holds human life together. With string and knots, you can tie the goat skin round your waist and protect the essentials. You can tie your stone axe head onto the wooden handle, and then attach the whole thing to the string round your waist so your hands are free. Tie a big string to a log, and three or four blokes can concentrate their strength on one part of the log to move it. Then someone with an IQ of 180 will invent the bow.

    I’m sorry, I get carried away. I’ll stop.

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    Marc Poschman  over 1 year ago

    One of my FAVORITE C&Hs!

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    snsurone76  over 1 year ago

    Looks like Calvin is partaking of his daily dose of Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs.

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    Imagine  over 1 year ago

    Easy explanation actually: it was a dare.

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    californiamonty  over 1 year ago

    I understand tigress milk is not good for humans, though, Calvin, in case you get any ideas of having some of Hobbs’ female friends over.

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    glowing-steak32  over 1 year ago

    Honestly, I prefer almond milk nowadays.

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    Temnospondyl - I have my father's eyes...  over 1 year ago

    I say the same thing about lobster. Think about how hungry the first guy to eat one must have been. “Look at this weird, ugly thing with the monster claws. I wonder how it would taste served boiled with some clarified butter to dip it in?” Don’t get me wrong, I love lobster – I live smack dab in the middle of lobster fishing central. We pack live lobsters and put pallets full of them on airplanes to ship all over the world.

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    Yngvar Følling  over 1 year ago

    I think this was the strip that Watterson himself included in his 10th anniversary book, where he said that he really had that thought: “Who was that guy?”

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    Calvinist1966  over 1 year ago

    Something I’ve been wondering is what people would see if they could see Hobbes walking behind Calvin with his own bowl of cereal? Possibly, they would see Hobbes in Calvin’s arms and would only see Calvin’s bowl of cereal. But what would happen when Calvin and Hobbes were both at the table? Would they then see that Hobbes has his own bowl of cereal? As I said earlier, I agree with Calvin that some things do seem weirder the more that you think about them.

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    BigDaveGlass  over 1 year ago

    ’Cause milking almonds is harder…….

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    eced52  over 1 year ago

    Hobbes afraid Calvin is going to ask what comes out of a tiger if he tries to milk it?

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    maczuk  over 1 year ago

    As a human, I do not consume breast fluid from other species. If our bodies needed to drink milk we would never ween off of our mothers. Dairy consumption increases the risk of several chronic diseases. If you are interested in the science, go to:

    https://nutritionfacts.org/?s=dairyhttps://switch4good.org/https://drmiltonmillsplantbasednation.com/

    It’s your body and your choice. Do what you want but at least know the facts.

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    jagedlo  over 1 year ago

    Interesting how Calvin can have deep thoughts at times…

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    French Persons' Celebration of Peeved Harry Dinkle Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Hmm, yeah.

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    desvarzil  over 1 year ago

    I am with Hobbes in the last panel.

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    The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Yeah! Who goes around squeezing ‘things’ all the time?

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    rmercer Premium Member over 1 year ago

    As a teenager, I learned how to “moo” very convincingly. Excuse me while I let loose with a good one…

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    dlkrueger33  over 1 year ago

    Calvin – the original vegan!

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    VegaAlopex  over 1 year ago

    So what does Calvin think about eggs?

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    mfrasca  over 1 year ago

    Because bull milk is too expensive?

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    mourdac Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Many things fall into that category.

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    Forest Dweller 54  over 1 year ago

    I’m with Calvin on this one. We are the only species on earth that never gets Weaned off of milk. Think about it.

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    david_42  over 1 year ago

    Until recently, most people spent most of their time trying to find enough Calories to survive.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Okay, now I can even think about cheese. Happy fricken Friday!

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    johnec  over 1 year ago

    Well, I can think of other things I would rather drink the milk out of, but every time I try, I get slapped!

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    Will_Scarlet  over 1 year ago

    I have a couple of friends from Japan who still find it unbelievable that western people drink cow milk on such a regular basis.

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    figuratively speaking  over 1 year ago

    Much of the society we enjoy (?) today was built on someone defying accepted norms and/or common sense and doing something icky and gross.

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    BiggerNate91  over 1 year ago

    When Calvin asks a weird question that’s actually a good one for once

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    Mediatech  over 1 year ago

    Ever tried to milk a pig?

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    djtenltd  over 1 year ago

    I don’t blame you, Hobbs.

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    mistercatworks  over 1 year ago

    Yeah, and “drowning” cereal in sugar. Whose idea was that?

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    g04922  over 1 year ago

    Yeah…. What about snails, too ??

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    christelisbetty  over 1 year ago

    The first guy needed it for his cereal, Calvin.

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    ThreeDogDad Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’ve thought the same thing about the first person to eat kiwi fruit. Looks like a road apple.

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    brooklyn51  over 1 year ago

    People eat beef tongue! Ugh! I could never eat something that’s been in an animal’s mouth. Just fry me an egg.

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    brooklyn51  over 1 year ago

    Milking a cow and drinking the milk was an evolutionary step. The guy who tried to milk a bull didn’t pass on his genes.

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    Steverino Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Bananas were first eaten in puritan England. Think about that for a moment.

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    slbolfing  over 1 year ago

    One of my favorites – had it clipped and posted at work for years!

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    John Jorgensen  over 1 year ago

    Apparently cattle, sheep, and goats produce milk whose fat content is roughly similar to humans’ which is why we milk them and not other domesticated mammals like horses or pigs. And of the three, cows are by far the most productive.

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    John Jorgensen  over 1 year ago

    Hobbes is right, and not just in this specific case. The earlier in the day it is, the less interest I have in talking with people.

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    Holden Awn  over 1 year ago

    Many a young lady has succumbed to that “I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of this when I squeeze it” notion.

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    NRHAWK Premium Member over 1 year ago

    When we were little, my sister refused to drink cow’s milk or eat butter but when we told her it was from a horse, she was okay with it.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 1 year ago

    We should be fed on mother’s milk alone. Keeping up the lactase allows us to enjoy other products made from cow and goat milk.

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    maverick.kaminski  over 1 year ago

    I too thought it was weird when I was a kid that people drank what I thought of as breast milk for calves. Later, when I learned they separated the calves from their mothers soon after birth I thought it was cruel.

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    morokiane  over 1 year ago

    This comic single handedly ruined milk for me.

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    PC200X  over 1 year ago

    I’ve seen Calvin’s quote from this particular strip a lot on websites over the years, but not actually attributed to this strip. It’s so commonplace that it’s hard to believe it actually originated here.

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    goboboyd  over 1 year ago

    And who thought – Ahh, let it sour and curdle. And, I’ll help it along. Besides, I’ve got all this Cheese Cloth laying around.

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    pamela welch Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I think the same thing about lobster …

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    JoeMartinFan Premium Member over 1 year ago

    And which was the first cow to let some human squeeze her teats?

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    willie_mctell  over 1 year ago

    When I was in my late teens and early ’20s my friends and I had this conversation about alcohol and a large number of other more or less naturally occurring drugs.

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    Arghhgarrr Premium Member over 1 year ago

    People with very little to eat will try most anything especially after observing other animals eating something.

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    hagarthehorrible  over 1 year ago

    You make us to think gross as well, Calvin.

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    rgcviper  over 1 year ago

    One of my favorite quotes from “C&H” as well. Kinda makes you wonder about cows and milk, too, doesn’t it?

    Made me laugh.

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    zontab Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Actually an old David Brenner joke

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