Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 24, 2024

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    codycab  3 months ago

    You’re gonna be worried the rest of your life, Dad.

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    dadthedawg Premium Member 3 months ago

    Can’t hit very well, but what a pitcher…..

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    The Calvinosaurus That Calvin Wanted To Discover  3 months ago

    I see a professional Calvinball future for him.

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    oldpine52  3 months ago

    Don’t worry dad, there will always be jobs for janitors.

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    Limpid Lizard  3 months ago

    If he were, not if he was.

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    snsurone76  3 months ago

    Betcha if they were playing Calvinball, the kid would beat the pants off his old man!!

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    The Duke  3 months ago

    That’s why they invented T-ball.

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    Jayalexander  3 months ago

    Can’t play if the grades are bad, if they were good he’d never make the team.

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    Calvinist1966  3 months ago

    Today’s strip is notable for two reasons. First of all, the strip is divided into seven panels rather than the usual four panels or one long panel. Secondly, the catcher turns out to be Dad rather than Hobbes. The punchline would not have worked with Hobbes but Watterson would have used one that suited Hobbes’s usual snide comments about Calvin. This time, he uses Dad rather than Hobbes. One of the rare occasions when Calvin and Dad are shown playing together.

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    enigmamz  3 months ago

    No baseball scholarship in the future, eh?

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    Kaputnik  3 months ago

    I could never learn to throw a ball up and hit it either.

    Granted, I didn’t try very hard to learn.

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    The Reader Premium Member 3 months ago

    Calvin is a student of life. …yeah, I’d be worried!

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    mark_chapin  3 months ago

    Condition contrary to fact.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  3 months ago

    We’ve arrived from Pearls Before Swine. Nothing to see here.. moving on to Scary Gary…..

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    sandpiper  3 months ago

    Appears Dad isn’t doing a lot of coaching.

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    Gen.Flashman  3 months ago

    Doubt if many or any 6 year olds can fungo a baseball. Wiffle ball with dad pitching underhand would be more age appropriate.

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    SquidGamerGal  3 months ago

    Forget it, Dad! Calvin’s only good at things he likes. And of course, it’s things you don’t like him doing.

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    gozirra2 Premium Member 3 months ago

    Hey dad! Loosen up! Both of you can consider this bonding as ‘character building’. Winner, winner…chicken dinner!

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    mckeonfuneralhomebx  3 months ago

    He is not a jock, he is not a book worm, he is not a fighter, which only leaves being a great lover…. G.R.O.S.S.

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    BJDucer  3 months ago

    If Calvin would only open his eyes when he swings, he’d have a much better chance at hitting the ball!

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 3 months ago

    Maybe basketball is his sport

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    rshive  3 months ago

    There are many things that Calvin isn’t. The trick is to find out what he is.

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    Redd Panda  3 months ago

    Looks like no one is gonna pay Calvin $5 million a year to hit a ball with a stick.

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    uniquename  3 months ago

    Actually Dad, Calvin’s quite intelligent and could turn out to do very well.

    This ‘toon reminds me of my younger brother a bit. My dad used to worry about how he’d turn out and tried to ride him hard. They had many huge fights. My brother is now one of the best businessmen I’ve ever met and a very ethical person. He’s why I know that there are some very good people in corporate C-suites.

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    g04922  3 months ago

    Calvin checking off the ‘boxes’…. Top Student, nope. Potential star athlete, nope again. Annoying Pain in The Butt, yep.

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    MS72  3 months ago

    My dad took me to a kid’s baseball game when I was about 6. Dad talked to the coach and I ended up in right field with a glove. Thank goodness, nobody hit anything my way.

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    jrankin1959  3 months ago

    Get a tennis ball; he seems to hit them with no trouble.

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    moosemin  3 months ago

    Forty-five years hence: Professor Emeritus Calvin, Chairman of Paleontology department, Yale University, has been awarded the Homer-Simpson award (Presented by son Bartholomew) for his discoveries of new mega-gigantic, previously unknown, Jurassic predator. It will be named CALVINOSAURUS. His wife, Susie and their four grown children were in attendance, as were his parents, watching proudly as Prof. Calvin accepted the award. (Although Calvin’s father had a continuous expression of surprise and shock on his face!)

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    wndflower1  3 months ago

    we can be friends—-or—- i can correct your grammar.

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    mindjob  3 months ago

    It’s trade school for him

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    dgaietto22  3 months ago

    I was just like Calvin. (still am).

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    Mediatech  3 months ago

    Maybe he’s just a late bloomer. There is something he’s good at that he just hasn’t tried yet. Maybe music, dance, oratory… brigandage….

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    rockyridge1977  3 months ago

    Steee……rike…..ONE!!!!!!!

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    amaryllis2 Premium Member 3 months ago

    Dad needs to go back to English class. It should be “if he were a better student”. You would only use “was” if you were referring to a specific time in the past.

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    markkahler52  3 months ago

    HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

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    HodgeElmwood  3 months ago

    C’mon, dad, he’s six! Nobody’s a phenom at six!

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    hagarthehorrible  3 months ago

    Cheer up dad. He is much more than you can ever contemplate. He stars in the realm of Bill.

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    RPS11  3 months ago

    So? That’s strike two?

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