Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 29, 2010

Hobbes can’t hawk up a loogie!

Ghastly!

Ah, boys and their (biological) toys …

Hee hee, pretty disgusting, huh Hobbes?

Yuck!

Nice form, Calvin.

Calvin must have been aiming at Susie.

Or at least thinking of Suzie! lol Get with the program Hobbes.

Love Calvin’s expression in panel 2! Calvin’s got it right though.

…and he didn’t even have any snoose.

“Aw, they’re just so cute at that age!”

I love Hobbes expression. Perfect disgust!

I love Hobbes expression. Perfect disgust!

Who needs toys and TV?

Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy!

That’s snot funny!!

Boys will be boys, up till about 20 when they realize that is not acceptable behavior. Here in the city, the teenage “ladies” have followed suit. Eww! I hate to appear a sexist, but—

lindz.coop, The 65 million year old bones “you’ve found” :o), are based on evolutionist presumptions which calculate to long ages. There are numerous calculations by creationist scientists which yield much younger ages. Check out www.icr.org and other similar websites for many articles on the subject. The age of the universe doesn’t have to be exactly 4004 B.C. I can allow for some minor gaps in the Biblical chronology to make it 6,000-10,000 years or so. I hope your family members, students, and friends aren’t so rigid in their beliefs and attitudes that they have turned you off. This discussion could go on and on. I’ve tried to be as brief as possible and still make the points and explanations clear enough to be understood.

Puddleglum2 (and Jon Rakkav): please think about what you write before you post offtopic to a comics site. In fact it would help matters if you take the debates to email.

That said, this particular C&H is why we love Calvin. He’s annoying and yet charmingly disgusting at the same time! Plus Hobbes is a cat right; why doesn’t he cough up hairballs?

EEEEEEWWWWW !!!!!

I think Calvin would win contests at the local bars with that natural ability.

and true BinaryWiener, but at least its more informed that anything I’ve ever seen Joe Allen Doty write.

On most days, the comments and insights are as funny and intelligent as the comic strip itself, and are part of the fun of coming here. I wish today was one of those days.

‘Morning Mike Firesmith and Loki. Great comment.

The green ones go the farthest.

“Bleah! That was just so gross”! That’s my sentiment, too! It’s not funny, today! My earlier comments were in response to questions and opinions from yesterday’s posts. I don’t think we always have to stick strictly to the subject of the comic, especially when it’s frankly rather disgusting, so I disagree with BinaryWiener although I appreciate the politeness. I also thank tamron for the term “more informed”.

I read this strip and the comments each morning as I sit at my computer with my morning bowl of oatmeal and shredded wheat. For some reason today I’ve lost my appetite …

One of Watterson’s grosser efforts. Oh, well, they can’t all be brilliant, and he did hit the mark (no reference to this strip intended) more often than most.

Gross, yes, but beyond Calvin or any other 6 year-old boy? Certainly not.

You folks being grossed out need to lighten up! OH yeah, what’s green and goes backward? SNORGHKKK!!

yeah lighten all you prim and propers – is there any young boy that never tried to hock a loogey? i think not! it takes practice to perfect this art. calvin actually is quite advance for his age.

In a few years the gross acts will be from a different orifice. And I have never understood that brand of “humor.”

Even though I may agree with puddlegum, I flagged him. This is not the place.

At least Calvin did not try to “swordfight” with Hobbes.

Gross !!!!!!!!

I don’t recall doing this particular weird thing at six years old. Other equally weird things, yes. Guess I just had to be different…

margueritemGenius_badge said, about 11 hours ago

Hobbes can’t hawk up a loogie! Yer right Marge, he would blow his stuffing out!

He’s boy of my own heart. LOL

Dino I was hoping for some more of your good stories. C&H brings them out in you.

I had an uncle that would do what Calvin did and when my mom made a gross comment he would do it to gross her out. Me I have a lot of sinus drainage at times more with no kleenxe at hand there are times when I have to get rid of it :(yuk) but not like Calvin.

I wish every a safe Memorial Day weekend as we remember what the day really means to the ones who lost their lives for our freedom. I wish those spammers would go away making our lives misserable. I do flag but doesn’t do much good.

Right on target. Calvin gets his mark every time. I guess Hobbs just doesn’t have what it takes.

Maybe Hobbes can’t hock up a loogie, but I bet his hair balls would beat Calvin’s!!

[now I’m flooded by bad memories of a cat who did the hair ball thing. My own fault to dredge it up…]

Ooh what Tiggers have to put up with.

As someone else on this site might say,

“…Stinky, Booger-Brained Boys….”

Calvin is the SPITTIN’ image of ……uh..Calvin

To make them just right, you have to sort of roll ‘em around on your tongue for a while and get ‘em nice and compact. Same idea as for snowballs.

That’s just gross!

So glad my Gretchen is a girl!!!!!!!!!!

It’s hawk a lungie, guys, and very few people can do it. I can’t. The tiger’s attitude is priceless - gave me my laugh for the day….

That’s a “lunger”, khpage; and it’s pronounced “hawk” only if you’re from Brooklyn, or maybe “Bahston”.

love hobbes expression in the last panel.

I agree with Hobbes on this one.

I’m with Hobbes too – tho he certainly could win if (as someone else suggested) furballs were allowed. We have 3 cats and we just follow them around (the staff) with a bottle of carpet cleaner. Carbona works great!

Re: the rant on evolution vs creation – I don’t debate such issues in a comic strip format unless the strip is about it (as NonSeq kinda was this week). It only got here because some of us think Danae & Calvin would be a good pair.

Kab Buch: Sorry I don’t really remember the guys doing this when I was young so no stories today! Only thing I remember them doing was long distance spitting contests. I guess now the teenagers do it with tobacco chewing. Now that’s gross! Hopefully Sunday I’ll have a good story to go with the comic for you, thanks!

This is supposed to be funny?

Perhaps not funny, but it certainly brings back memories for me.

Its great! If Calvin would tilt his head back and get a 45° angle on it then he would get the farthest range on that loogie! (Just don’t let it go backwards!) More mass gives him more momentum too! Go to it Calvin, you can always become a rocket scientist!

Poindexter: I believe about 40° would produce sufficient altitude for longer range depending on wind conditions. I’m not one to brag, but I use to be quite good at this skill (I guess I still am). Calvin could maximize his velocity by rolling his tongue (if he got that particular gene) and blowing through it as the loogie entered the temporary tube, much like shooting spit wads through a straw. I lived in a trailer park which I despised immensely due to their attitude toward having children (but that would be a long story) so to make it short, every morning on my way to the bus stop I would hock up a solid green one and shoot it as accurately as possible onto their sign. Most dried and remained for long periods of time… Ahh, the fond memories!

I have gotten a whole lot more information today than I ever expected. But it’s all in good fun. Maybe next week it’ll be about a “flatulence” contest. In my neighborhood, it took at least a triple flutter blast to win.

I’m not a “prim and proper”, as someone here put it. It’s just I can totally mentally hear that sound in the first panel and I’m sorry, but it nauseates me when someone does that, maybe because usually when I hear it it’s someone with a cold who then SWALLOWS it. I mean, yeee-uuuuugh. I guess some people haven’t heard of the modern invention of the facial tissue. Blow that stuff outta there! Or at the very least spit into one. So, I’m with Hobbes on the gross-out.

EWWWWWW