Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 24, 2009

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    ladywolf17  over 15 years ago

    c’mon mom don’t ruin our fun.

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    Mother, you doubt your son?

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    cleokaya  over 15 years ago

    She means your bones have a more modernistic aspect to them.

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    ramkeshmeena  over 15 years ago

    of course calvin u shud ask for more…….. the paleontologists from the museum will not only get a dinosaur skeleton but newly discovered bone structure as well ;)

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    cleokaya  over 15 years ago

    Mom, keep your mouth shut.

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    Ivy0730Lcsq  over 15 years ago

    Mom’s dilemma, but Calvin will knows by himself as it unfold…what a cutie Calvin!

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    Hi, Gweedo!

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    vibjyor  over 15 years ago

    Does anyone know what was the GNP/GDP of US when this was originally published ?

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    Rakkav  over 15 years ago

    A lot more than ten billion dollars, but still…

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    tis4kis  over 15 years ago

    Okay, maybe not the Natural History Museum… but maybe the Museum of Modern Art might offer you a shekel or two…

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    Jor-El  over 15 years ago

    vibjyor: C&H was syndicated from 1985-1995.

    U.S. GDP in 1985 was $4.2 trillion. By 1995 the GDP had grown to $7.4 trillion.

    U.S. GNP in 1985 was $6.1 trillion. By 1995 the GNP had grown to $8.1 trillion.

    Hope that helps.

    (GNP is larger because it includes GDP + Net Foreign Assets.)

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    green_engineer  over 15 years ago

    Aim high and accept second best offer.

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    wolfbyte36  over 15 years ago

    I have awaken in time to see standing before mom, Calvin(yawn) and his discovery could this be the missing link, the next wonder of the world the Calvinosaur. Oh! sorry about the yawn.

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    JackParsons  over 15 years ago

    Look at the CPI instead. Regular people do not participate in the growth of the GDP.

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    baneberry  over 15 years ago

    Mom doesn’t realize that Calvin might have just made the discovery of the century. :D

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    Leonardeuler  over 15 years ago

    How much is the nobel prize in dollars ??

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    moamesquita  over 15 years ago

    a incompreensão de quem não tem olhos para ser um grande cientista dessa mãe castradora de genios

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    carpetinwater9  over 15 years ago

    I wonder ? Did Calvin use airplane glue? Hmmmm!

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    vibjyor  over 15 years ago

    Jor-EL, Thanks for the figures. That means Calvin is asking for just about one five hundredth part of the US income.

    Here are some more interesting figures that I found :

    Wednesday July 5, 1995 guardian.co.uk

    Bill Gates, founder of the Microsoft Corporation, is the world’s richest private individual, with $12.9 billion (£8.3 billion). He has knocked a Japanese real estate magnate off the top of the annual list compiled by Forbes magazine.

    This was in 1995 when as you say C&H syndication stopped.

    How I wish Calvin does become the richest of those days in tomorrow’s strip !

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    tyrannusbe  over 15 years ago

    No, mom meant that not only should the museum give Calvin more money, but also a well paid job digging for dinosaurs in some faraway place.

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    theIrishman  over 15 years ago

    Hey Calvin, try selling it to a modern art museum instead. Looks like it would fit in perfectly with one of their collections!

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    prasrinivara  over 15 years ago

    Or (thinking out-of-box) sell it to Canadian government (which did, in 1989/1990 give an 8-figure amount for a canvas with three vertical stripes on it–and claimed “if turned sideways it becomes a landscape, so we’d have to evaluate differently”; I actually thought of sending in to them a Japanese or Bangla flag and titling it “bullseye” and asking for a similar figure).

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    alondra  over 15 years ago

    Mom you need to humour Calvin this time.

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    bald  over 15 years ago

    calvin.. keep it in your own private collection and have the kids in your neighborhood pay to see it

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    Silverpearl  over 15 years ago

    Hmmmmm. Reminds me of Piltdown man somehow. There have been dinos assembled that way too.

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    lewisbower  over 15 years ago

    10 billion? Calvin, I have a daughter about your age

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    TapiocaHead  over 15 years ago

    Calvin got his eyes on the prize ….

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    humormehere  over 15 years ago

    I would love to see a Watterson strip with Calvin and HIS son…

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    ninmas  over 15 years ago

    cleokaya, ladywolf, and wolfbyte, thanks all of ou for being friendly to jane30165, she’s kind of shy but i think she will post sometime today.

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    BirishB  over 15 years ago

    Mommy-sore-at-us Rex … all the fun we would be having if she wasn’t?

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    Madruga  over 15 years ago

    yeah calvin..ask for another ten billion!!! (at least =D)

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    musicnut1986  over 15 years ago

    Kis said, “Okay, maybe not the Natural History Museum… but maybe the Museum of Modern Art might offer you a shekel or two”

    theIrishman said, “Hey Calvin, try selling it to a modern art museum instead. Looks like it would fit in perfectly with one of their collections!”

    THATS what I have been saying for the past two days! No one commented on my posts. Thanks for backing me up here.

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    If I were Calvin, I’d hold back on selling the Calvinosaur and here’s why…..Back in the 80s the refund on a pop bottle was 2 cents….today it’s a nickle. If he holds out for another 20 years he could get up to a dime!—and 10 cents split two ways in the year 2030 might not be all that bad the way things are going.

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    JonD17  over 15 years ago

    prolly gonna draw flack for this, but this ladywolf, wolfbyte, ninmas, jane 30165 scenario is getting interesting.

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    Wildmustang1262  over 15 years ago

    That must be an abstract sculpture! Scoffs!

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    ninmas  over 15 years ago

    just wondering, but what do you mean interesting, jon?

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    ladywolf17  over 15 years ago

    C’mon Jon, as comic readers here at this site tell me what’s wrong with welcomming new people here. Did you even welcome her? For that matter how many people here have welcomed jane 30165.

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    ladywolf17  over 15 years ago

    ninmas if you or jane 30165 have any problems here, then try pibgorn, they are very friendly over there.

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    musicnut1986  over 15 years ago

    ninmas said, just wondering, but what do you mean interesting, jon?

    I believe he was referring to the parent - offspring/alter ego scenario, but that is only a guess on my part.

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    GROG Premium Member over 15 years ago

    Welcome jane 30165

    Mom’s about to burst Calvin’s 10B bubble. Oh the popping sound it’ll make.

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    rentier  over 15 years ago

    Calvin is a good businessman!

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    mroberts88  over 15 years ago

    This should go well, Calvin should sell it.

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    JoStra15  over 15 years ago

    Maybe he should sell it to the modern art museum?

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    ladywolf17  over 15 years ago

    I just thought of something! Calvin you should sell your discovery at the museum that Ben Stiller worked at in the two movies night at the museum. that way your discovery can come to life at night.

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    musicnut1986  over 15 years ago

    bandz, OMG (that is the first time I have used that expression in a post, I simply couldn’t resist) the letter you posted is the funniest thing I have seen posted at C&H!!!

    I read a couple of comics as I get started each morning and entertain myself a few times each day when I take a mental health break to see what has been posted. I just about wet myself laughing while reading your post. Wonderful. I’ll bet they would find a way in the budget to pay his way to the Smithsonian just to meet him.

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    Funny, well-written reading, bandz. ~Thanks!

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    jane30165  over 15 years ago

    hello, and thank you for all of your friendly responses, i look forward to getting to know the site better and meeting all of you.

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    bandz: Wonderful, loved it!

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    lincolnhyde  over 15 years ago

    Bandz - I love the story, but, from Snopes,

    A story that good should be true. But it’s not.

    The letter is a charming bit of fiction; none of the details check out. Harvey Rowe of the Smithsonian doesn’t exist. (Which is indeed our loss. What a talent for gentle sarcasm!) Moreover, the Smithsonian doesn’t have an antiquities department.

    If you call up and ask to speak to the mythical Harvey Rowe, the operator will put you through either to Anthropology or the Smithsonian’s public affairs officer. Either way, you’ll be greeted with “There’s nobody here by that name.” You won’t be the first such caller, either. Far from it, the Smithsonian is heartily sick of being asked about Harvey Rowe.

    There’s also no hopeful backyard paleontologist busily excavating the land around his clothesline and implacably sending specimen after bogus specimen off to the Smithsonian. That too is fabrication.

    There is a Harvey Rowe, but not of the Smithsonian. In the spring of 1994 and while a graduate student at MUSC in Charleston, South Carolina, he wrote what has become known as the Smithsonian Barbie letter. In a fit of creativity, he tossed off this mythical response to a backyard digger, then shared his writing effort with a small circle of friends. One of those friends sent the piece to others, and thus Smithsonian Barbie entered into the world of e-lore.

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    PJOHara  over 15 years ago

    that is a great story even if it is fiction it fits Calvin. and yes he should sell it to the MOMA.

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    Rakkav  over 15 years ago

    bandz, that is one of the most incredible things I’ve ever read. And one of the funniest. Thanks for sharing – that story’s a keeper!

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    coffeeturtle  over 15 years ago

    Indeed Ladywolf. And in the latter movie, it actually was the Smithsonian group of museums!

    Or, at the very least, the special exhibit at the World of Coca-Cola museum.

    http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/

    LOL!

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    chasches  over 14 years ago

    Hey, Mom, ssshhh!

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