Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 06, 2009

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    margueritem  over 15 years ago

    You’re ALL tiger, Hobbes!

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    vepix  over 15 years ago

    Calvin should of heard the rustling and be ready for Hobbes. XD

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    pouncingtiger  over 15 years ago

    INCOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    pouncingtiger  over 15 years ago

    BANZAI!!!!!!

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    pouncingtiger  over 15 years ago

    GERONIMO!!!!!!!!!

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    pouncingtiger  over 15 years ago

    Tag you’re it!!!

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    Allen Rymer  over 15 years ago

    Hey! that has the makings of a good movie.

    “Crouching Tiger, Hit and Dragin’ ”

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    vibjyor  over 15 years ago

    Hobbes lives for this and the welcoming home from school in similar fashion.

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    carmy  over 15 years ago

    Hobbes, you are the best!

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    Comic-Nut  over 15 years ago

    Oh Hobbes, you are just so sneaky.

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    Comic-Nut  over 15 years ago

    Forgot to mention … wait till Calvin is 12 and he decides to experiment on his toys like all us boys. I remember stuffing firecrackers in an old stuffed toy and GI Joe. Hobbes … run while you can.

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    uncleroach  over 15 years ago

    tigers are endergerd spicies calvin

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    Puddleglum2  over 15 years ago

    There are definite indicators that this attack was premeditated, and an invasion of privacy to boot. In the panel with the frame, Calvin is obviously startled, with the realization of impending doom, but his reaction time to the immediate, devastating attack by Hobbes is deficient…hasn’t this happened before? Hobbes, why do you disturb Calvin when he is playing quietly and peacefully? Oh, that’s WHY! Calvin is CRUSHED…in more ways than one. “We (not us) tigers just LIVE for that!” That’s good grammar, Hobbes! You’re not ALL bad in this cartoon. “Not for long, you won’t!” That’s a rash threat by Calvin, spoken out of frustration. Calvin’s really a Paper Tiger. Besides, what would he (or we) do without Hobbes?

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    GROG Premium Member over 15 years ago

    The dark shadows in the third to last panel should have told Calvin that something was up. He just didn’t think fast enough.

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    rentier  over 15 years ago

    Hobbes is happy again!

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    horvath_paul  over 15 years ago

    Calvin & Hobbes at their best :)))

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    Rakkav  over 15 years ago

    Since when do tigers bellyflop on their prey? :))

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    Puddleglum2  over 15 years ago

    When Calvin becomes Hobbes’ ‘prey’, HE needs to ‘pray’! Pray tell, what will Calvin do now? What happened to the quicksand? And where is Susie when you need her? Superfrog could have intervened with his suction-cup fingers to catch Hobbes, or at least deter or hinder him.

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    tekman7d0  over 15 years ago

    The tiger bellyflop is a well studied attack phenomenon of comic strip tigers the world over.

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    Leonardeuler  over 15 years ago

    Puddleglum2 said: …..Besides, what would he (or we) do without Hobbes?

    Without Hobbes (and Calvin of course) our lives would be empty.

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    Stede_Bonnet  over 15 years ago

    Some live for the peaceful moment. Some live for the interruption.

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    Puddleglum2  over 15 years ago

    Leonardeuler, Without Calvin and Hobbes, our “cartoon” lives would be (somewhat) empty, I suppose that’s what you meant. I’m sure we both have lives worth living in many other areas of endeavor.

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    rentier  over 15 years ago

    Tigers in love!

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    CogentModality  over 15 years ago

    (The following is meant to be humorous. Please view it in that light.)

    Your pontificating is tiresome at best. Please abnegate the elucidative quality of your discourse. :=)

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    TigerStripper  over 15 years ago

    Go Hobbes! Go baby go!

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    JanLC  over 15 years ago

    Puddleglum2 ou’re right about the grammar. Watterson was one of the few who cared about proper English and grammar.

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    Crooky  over 15 years ago

    Love Hobbes’ look of absolute glee! One of the moments in life to treasure…

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    Giselda  over 15 years ago

    I love you, too. I’ve been reading since I was a child.

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    Hugh B. Hayve  over 15 years ago

    LOL, I have the animated GIF for this comic I think it’s at one of my photobucket accounts……..ah yes here it is… http://tinyurl.com/calvinand

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    Ronshua  over 15 years ago

    Puddleglum2 –Keep on doing what you do best Bro .

    The world would be scarier with out folks like YOU .

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    grammahotsho  over 15 years ago

    That’s not all they do in sandboxes!

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    chromosome Premium Member over 15 years ago

    GREAT cartoon art!

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    ratlum  over 15 years ago

    Is this not great ? Calvin and his friend playing together

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    mjtempke  over 15 years ago

    I STILL love it when Hobbes gets to POUNCE!!!!!!

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    Aardvark359  over 15 years ago

    CogentModality: Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Yours is spot on!

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    Trisha_Evenstar  over 15 years ago

    LMAO @ Al

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    Dino-1  over 15 years ago

    Great!!! I had a Malamute that would do the same thing. He’d play in the woods all day and when I’d come home he’d come running and pounce on me. I usually saw him coming but where we live there’s woods all around our property so sometimes he’d come up behind me and nail me like Hobbes. He’d jump on top of me to wake me up in the morning and knock the wind of me. He was taller than I was when he stood on his hind legs, paws like a bear, and fur like a sheepdog. I could go on about his personality all day but let’s just say he was a blast!

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    rentier  over 15 years ago

    CogentModality: I can’t find any humor too in yours!

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    Ushindi  over 15 years ago

    Hugh: Thanks for the link - great GIF - really enjoyed it.

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    dinosaur123  over 15 years ago

    “CogentModality said (The following is meant to be humorous. Please view it in that light.)

    Your pontificating is tiresome at best. Please abnegate the elucidative quality of your discourse. :=)”

    Thank you CogentModality!

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    Ronshua  over 15 years ago

    Whats Hobbes up to The Flying Tigers stopped flying July 14 , 1942 . That landing , good luck on the solo test fuzzy buddy . Pass-it first time , “Oh Yeah”.

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    bandz  over 15 years ago

    The BC comic strip today was funnier. Wiley, tthe one-legged caveman - who must be Irish - is asked if he has any vices. He says, No, none at all. Does he have any hobbies? Yes! Gambling and drinking.” Hobbes also has no vices and only a single hobby: pouncing.

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    bandz  over 15 years ago

    CogentModality’s comment is great. I’ll add it to my favorite quotations collection along with:

    “Help stamp out, eradicate and destroy superfluous redundancy.” – or

    “How can you say that I’m redundant? That I repeat myself? That I say the same thing over and over?” - or

    “Don’t use an amplitudinous word when a diminutive one will suffice.”

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    lazygrazer  over 15 years ago

    Maybe the attack was a territorial thing. You know….domesticated tiger….sandbox….

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    bmonk  over 15 years ago

    CogentModality said, about 11 eruditions ago

    “Your pontificating is tiresome at best. Please abnegate the elucidative quality of your discourse. :=)”

    Doctor Toon said, about 10 concurrences ago

    CogentModality - Well said, agreement in totality is extended.”

    Concordance with the sentiments expressed is escalating.

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    pintcape  over 15 years ago

    having a peaceful time,and bam everything is destroyed

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    RinaFarina  over 15 years ago

    @CogentModality, as someone told an errant student:

    “Eschew obfuscation.”

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    RinaFarina  over 15 years ago

    My Mozilla screen doesn’t quite cover the desktop - there is a blue strip to the left of the screen. So when you see Hobbes peering around the edge of the panel, you also see parts of some of the icons that I have on my desktop. I have part of an icon for Internet Explorer, so it took me a moment to realize that it was not Hobbes’s tail to the left of his face that I was looking at, but this half of an icon….

    Well, I will try to take my own advice, and eschew obfuscation.

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    Rakkav  over 15 years ago

    While we’re at it, why don’t we sign a petition to reunite Pangea? :)

    Puddleglum2: you post enough to carry on your own conversation – between you and two clones of yourself. :) Fewer words, more clarity? Maybe, perhaps, possibly?

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    iluvcats5  over 15 years ago

    I &hearts Calvin and Hobbes! It’s so funny! :)

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    rentier  over 15 years ago

    Calvin and Hobbes is fine and I like it .

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    Puddleglum2  over 15 years ago

    I reexamined all the posts from today. The only pontificating I observed was from one person and his five (or so) echoes. That seems like “Much Ado About Nothing”, and “tiresome at best”. I almost always appreciate humor, though.

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    Puddleglum2  over 15 years ago

    Rakkav, “Eschew obfuscation!” Why would anyone want to reunite Pangea? Who are the two clones of me, or does that mean I say enough for three people? Please clarify! If I were more clear, I’d be like a cloudless sky.

    BTW, to whom it may concern: Why are there so many words in the dictionary if nobody is supposed to use most of them? When small words aren’t adequate, larger words will suffice.

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    rentier  over 15 years ago

    Best comic since long!

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    rentier  over 15 years ago

    Great comic!

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    iamnotjx  over 15 years ago

    nyse…

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    Chocokitty44  over 15 years ago

    Calvin should of saw that comeing!!!

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    spacewolf2000  almost 15 years ago

    thats a god dam weird tiger

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    spcmnspff73  over 13 years ago

    I have seen this one a hundred times. And i still like it. It’s great !!!!!

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