Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 17, 2011

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    rentier  over 13 years ago

    Night is pretty dark for creeping up, Hobbes!

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    rentier  over 13 years ago

    Marg, you must wait with your eggs for one week! It’s too early today! But next Sonday I’ll take them and be happy with eggs!

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    garfield246  over 13 years ago

    Hobbes strikes again!

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    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    LX013, it’s my only chance to have a seasonal avatar.

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    JoanHelen  over 13 years ago

    Marg, I love your Easter egg, it’s beautiful!

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    pouncingtiger  over 13 years ago

    You might have heard of a X-Men named, Nightcrawler. Hobbes’ X-Men name is Night-MAUL-er.

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    cleokaya  over 13 years ago

    Calvin…so philosophical, yet still holding on to the childhood fears. So like many or most adults.

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    lewisbower  over 13 years ago

    MARG Hope you got my invite for Easter. We’re having lobster as any good New Englander does. Oh, bring plenty of eggs. Did I mention eggs? We’re looking forward to seeing you and your eggs. Don’t forget the eggs.

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    thirdguy  over 13 years ago

    Very pretty egg, Marg!

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    Wiseguy411  over 13 years ago

    If Calvin stays in at night and watches TV, he may never see the outdoors again !

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    Dino-1  over 13 years ago

    Marg: Gorgeous egg! Is that one you did yourself? We’ve started our Easter egg tree since that dozen needs to be blown out. It makes such a pretty centerpiece. We’ll color those and the dozen for the baskets next weekend. We adults enjoy it as much as the kids! Happy Easter prep and celebration everybody!

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Watching TV won’t make you any less insignificant in the eyes of the Universe, Calvin.

    Good morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

    Love the egg, Marg!

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    mike.firesmith  over 13 years ago

    **Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

    Eggs for breakfast yay! Calvin for breakfast boo!

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    dimeadance  over 13 years ago

    Marge, quite an egg. Did you lay it yourself?

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    whims  over 13 years ago

    Let’s see…Venus is a hellish oven, Mars a collection of frigid sand dunes, and Jupiter is mostly an ultra-dense atmosphere torn by hurricanes larger than any of the inner planets. One could do a lot worse than ‘stuck here’.

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    gjsjr41  over 13 years ago

    Yup, we have a pretty nice place. Too bad our “Leaders” haven’t figured that out.

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    MrRess  over 13 years ago

    Pysanky for the egg, Marg!

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    Destiny23  over 13 years ago

    Hobbes has quite a knack for bringing the past to life! He’d make a great museum tour guide – especially outside the saber-tooth tiger exhibit…

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    dahawk  over 13 years ago

    JohnnyDiego, I wish everyone at least once in their life could experience the humbling wonder and gorgeous beauty of the Milky Way viewed on a moonless night far away from a city out on the open plains of the southwest.

    l hope someday to go “down under” and see the southern sky as well. I hear it is an entirely different and more wonderful view.

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    magnamax  over 13 years ago

    fantastic egg

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    gofinsc  over 13 years ago

    The grass is always greener…..

    But then, if there was no desire to find that grass, we would all still be living in caves.

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    kab2rb  over 13 years ago

    I grew up in the city. When I was a kid we be outside and look skyword could see the big dipper and little dipper. Then someone would point out different stars with different names. Then I was lost. But see vast space with all those stars was amazing. We did this in the big town that is even bigger. For Marge that egg is very beautiful. Church I attend doesn’t do Easter egg hunts but lifesaver’s hunt for children.

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    ratlum  over 13 years ago

    Sabre tooth out doors you better do like cave men did stay in cave after dark and keep fire going.

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    joylion  over 13 years ago

    LOL!!!! I love that!

    BTW Way to go Hobbes!

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    Helmet Head  over 13 years ago

    http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/index.asp

    Amazing night photography and videos. The World At Night

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    Elaine Rosco Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Marg…beautiful Easter eggs yesterday and today. Hope you have more!

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    lin4869  over 13 years ago

    I get a daily photo from NASA with many wonderful photos from the many telescopes and satellites. Love it!

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    lin4869  over 13 years ago

    Hobbes’ take on the situation cracks me up.

    BTW, Marg–lovely egg. Did you decorate it?

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    Ray_C  over 13 years ago

    Marg, I thanked you for the Easter egg at FA, where no one else had. Here, I’d just be redundant. But thanks, anyway, for fighting through the avatar ban to give us all a beautiful gift. Signed, Ray Dundant

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    Francine Long  over 13 years ago

    Anyone know how long the avatar ban is going to continue? I would like to get mine accepted but so far, it’s a “no go” because of some kind of prohibition or “glitch”….or something.

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    yuggib  over 13 years ago

    Born and raised in a BIG city (then, now it is less than half the size – Detroit) but spent my adult life in the Army, and a lot of that time in the “field.” It ain’t like camping with the Boy Scouts was, but on occasion I would get a chance to look and contemplate the sky. I cannot identify the constellations or individual stars or planets but I can be amazed and awed at the view. Now I live in a rural area, and I get to look at the night sky often. If there is intelligent life beyond our planet, I send a silent prayer outward, “Take me with you!”

    Marg - beautiful egg!

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    COWBOY7  over 13 years ago

    This is one of my favorites from C&H. Love it.

    Love the egg too, Marg!!

    G’Afternoon, Mike, Marg & Grog!

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    Lewreader, It’s a good thing that it’s eggs season or you’d be a poacher. Your mentioning eggs several times is eggs-cessive. You eggs-ceed a reasonable number. People could be shell-shocked from all the egg references. What will you hatch up next? Get off the eggs, already!

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    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    It is a Ukranian Easter egg, ‘pysanky’. No, I don’t do them, but I know a woman who does, and they are gorgeous.

    Yes, lewreader, I’ll bring some eggs. Couple dozen, maybe?

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    comicnut4636  over 13 years ago

    HelmetHead, thanks for the great link WOW!

    For more “out of this world” photos try this one:

    http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/star/titles/true/+5

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    ilanabanana  over 13 years ago

    gotta love that hobbes

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    Rakkav  over 13 years ago

    Define “just out of reach”. It takes very little to infer that the “fixed stars” are very far away - beyond the clouds, beyond the Moon and Sun, even beyond the “wandering stars.”

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    alan.gurka  over 13 years ago

    Great job of egg dying, Margueritem! Must have taken you hours to do one egg.

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    bmonk  over 13 years ago

    A couple of (belated) thoughts:

    I got to see Hale-Bopp in a dark sky, and for once it was every bit as spectacular as predicted. Its tail stretched across some 45° of sky. And the Milky Way was nice that night too.

    When I first moved out to the country, it was hard to see the constellations. It was much easier in suburbia, where all those pesky dimmer stars were lost in the sky glow.

    and:

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip, and after finishing their dinner they retire for the night, and go to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.” “I see thousands of stars, Holmes,” exclaims Watson. “And what do you deduce from that?” Watson ponders for a minute. “Well, astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe. What does it tell you, Holmes?” “Watson, you idiot!” he exclaims, “It tells me that somebody’s stolen our tent!”

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    Once again, Hobbes demonstrates how he could make tiger meat out of Calvin with his “fierce mandibles of death” if he wanted too … but because of their friendship, he chooses not to.

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