Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 15, 2023

I could go for a sandwich myself!

The little victories add up.

There’s been a lot of jokes about Calvin as Trump, but what about Calvin as Elon Musk?

Aspirational goals

“could have anything it is possible to have” vs. “could have anything I can imagine”.

I would have aimed higher than just a sandwich. Maybe some fries or a salad on the side, too.

Who needs a space shuttle when you have a wagon?

One of my favorite strips. Is it better to wish for the stars or for something you can get easily? Philosophy is more fun than lots of other options… but I never really wished to be a philosopher.

You could wish for the $214 sandwich from Serendipity3. The sandwich is served on made-to-order French bread which is made with Dom Perignon champagne and has edible gold flakes baked into it.

Each sandwich gets roughly a half pound of the rare caciocavallo podolico cheese, which retails for upwards of $50 per pound.

The bread is slathered with white truffle butter and brushed with white truffle oil — which has gold flakes mixed into it — before being grilled.

Peanut butter? I thought Hobbes preferred tuna.

Wishing is a natural human trait, usually a result of both minor and major frustrations. Some people just spend more time at it than others.

Hobbes is a simple tiger, he don’t need none of that :)

Private continent? Give him Antarctica.

“You’d like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn’t you, Comrade Sergeant?’ said Reg encouragingly.’I’d like a hard-boiled egg,’ said Vimes, shaking the match out.There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended.‘In the circumstances, Sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher—’‘Well, yes, we could,’ said Vimes, coming down the steps. He glanced at the sheets of papers in front of Reg. The man cared. He really did. And he was serious. He really was. ‘But…well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I’m pretty sure that whatever happens we won’t have found Freedom, and there won’t be a whole lot of Justice, and I’m d*mn sure we won’t have found Truth. But it’s just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

I’ll take eating and drinking anything without any consequences!

Watterson includes today’s strip in both The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book and Calvin and Hobbes Sunday Strips 1985-95.

In the first book, Watterson explains, “One of the running jokes in the strip is that Calvin learns the wrong lesson if he learns anything at all. His expression in the last panel of this strip suggests he is strongly resisting learning the lesson here.”

In the second book, Watterson comments, “In my October strips, I tried to capture the grey, austere look that Ohio gets in the autumn.”

“A private continent”? Knowing Calvin’s luck it would be Atlantis…….

Peace on Earth, goodwill to all.

So actually Hobbes was making a sandwich for a sand-wish?

I do not have everything I want, but I do have everything I need. I am content to stop there.

The simple wishes are the ones most likely to be fulfilled.

Heyyy … pretty deep there, Hobbes!

One of my all time favorites!!!

And there it is…

“Wealth is the satisfaction of desires.”

To quote another famous orange feline from the comics, “People who have simple pleasures should be admired…”

“And then executed.”

Some people are more easily pleased than others.

I’d like a private continent for Calvin too. So would the rest of civilized society.

Hobbes wasn’t making a “stupid” wish, he made a realistic wish.

Great stump

Well, maybe if it was a nice MLT, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They’re so perky.

What do you call a goal without a plan?

If wishes were sandwiches Tigers would eat. Sounds good to me.

Calvin aims to become Elon Musk. Now there’s a terrifying prospect

If wishes were Lear jets, beggars would fly.

The simple life delights some, confounds others.

O’ I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weiner."

Hobbes.. the Pragmatist. Love him…

And this sums up people who like to play blackjack vs. people who like to play the lottery.

Like my dear Dad used to say, “wish in one hand and _____ in the other and see which one fills up first”.

Two schools of thought. At a wedding social set of prize drawings, there’s the high value TV, lottery ticket collection or vacation weekend with a lot of tickets and low probability or something that’s nice with far fewer and a greater chance. I guess it doesn’t matter if you’re less wishful and more accepting you’re going to lose.

In Hobbe’s case, he made his own destiny.

This strip was originally printed on my fifth birthday!

Ha ha Hobbes, I had fry bake with peanut butter for breakfast!

I would wish for every cat and dog to have a safe and loving home.

Always good to wish within reason.

Great comic, great art, and I got a good laugh, I got my wish…

I’m in love with Hobbes!

If wishes were horses all beggars would ride.

That would be one sextillion dollars (1e12 X 1e9 or 1e21).

Hobbes’ no frills wishes are realistic and hence satiable. But then geniuses are not that way.

Pops always told me, "poop in one hand and wish in the other, and tell me which fills up first

Hobbes is a secret Zen master! Hands down in my top 10 C&H strips!

note to self… don’t wish for anything you know you can’t get. :J

Set the bar low and you’ll never be disappointed. The story of my life.

I miss Calvin & Hobbes… mostly for Hobbes, and especially those times when we see him both in and out of Calvin’s mind in the same comic.