Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 24, 2009

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    margueritem  about 15 years ago

    Oops, I hate when that happens!

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    Yukoner  about 15 years ago

    Somehow the song comes to mind, “It’s a Long Way to Tipparary”.

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    DarkHicks  about 15 years ago

    this is not a dream any last words calvin

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    ben_david  about 15 years ago

    SUSPENSE!!! (and he no longer has any suspension. Where is his back-up balloon?)

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    sjoujke  about 15 years ago

    or his parachute?

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    parijatgarg  about 15 years ago

    this is what you call jumping to a conclusion :P

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    On, King! On, you huskies! “It’s a long way to Tipperary” unless you’re in Ireland. “In Dublin’s fair city where the girls are so pretty”

    Look, way down from the sky, Calvin! It’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s Superfrog! GASP!

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    Ivy0730Lcsq  about 15 years ago

    GASP!

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    If Calvin had a back-up balloon, he could back up to where he started. How far is that from Tipperary?

    The SUSPENSE is killing me, (and some people might wish it would). Calvin might be ‘down to his last GASP’.

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    rentier  about 15 years ago

    I can say nothing!

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    carmy  about 15 years ago

    Keep gasping, Calvin. One of them has to work.

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    Rakkav  about 15 years ago

    The Nightmare That Wouldn’t End. Yikes.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Has Kat got your tongue?…Ladywildcat, that is. “Silence is Golden” It sounds better than perpetual GASPS.

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    rentier  about 15 years ago

    I’m speechless!

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    rentier  about 15 years ago

    A last prayer will be the best!

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    What happened to the ‘string’ from the balloon? All I see is a ‘string’ of GASPS. The GASPS are holding up better than Calvin is.

    It’s about time Calvin got a wake-up call. “Up in the morning and off to school”

    “Has Kat got your tongue was for LX013 who said, ” I can say nothing.”

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    Superfrog  about 15 years ago

    I’ll catch ya, Calvin! Gasp. (with my super suctioncup fingers)

    Hi Puddlegum2. I’m still betting on a dream recovery.

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    saturntv  about 15 years ago

    Look out below! Let’s hope there’s a haystack or something.

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    Leonardeuler  about 15 years ago

    Whoever invented balloons must have hated little kids.

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    GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago

    This is going on longer than I thought. I can’t wait for tomorrow’s strip.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    saturntv, What if there’s a pitchfork’ in the haystack? Calvin might have the ‘tine’ of his life, which might end his life.

    Superfrog, ‘A stitch in ‘tine’ saves nine; i’m not needling you, but please don’t let Calvin ‘croak’! “It’s Now or Never”…there’s no ‘tine’ to lose.

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    Superfrog  about 15 years ago

    Hi Puddleglum2, No offence even contemplated. We puddle dwellers have to stick together.

    I’ve got all my sticky fingers out and I’ll catch Calvin if any Superfrog can.

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    Destiny23  about 15 years ago

    Lucid dreaming isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. ‘Specially when you lose control of the dream…

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    Herocoder  about 15 years ago

    Any other ideas?? Genius!!

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    unemandarine  about 15 years ago

    I hate the dream were you keep falling and falling and falling GASP!!!!!

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    lewisbower  about 15 years ago

    Now would be a nice time to get religion

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    wicky  about 15 years ago

    Hobbes will be there in a hopittycopter and save the day.

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    alan.gurka  about 15 years ago

    I used to dream that I was falling (down a stairway), but would wake up before I landed. Finally, one time I dreamt all the way to the conclusion–I landed on the floor, got myself up, and was okay. I never dreamed of falling again after that. Maybe Calvin needs to resolve his dream/issues in the same way. C’mon, Calvin! It’s only a dream!

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    carpetinwater9  about 15 years ago

    Calvin take your shirt off.

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    Rakkav  about 15 years ago

    This is definitely a job for Stupendous Man!

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    Ronshua  about 15 years ago

    I’m impressed Mr Bill this is shaping up to be a real down to earth fable .

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    gjsjr41  about 15 years ago

    When you come right down to it……….SPLAT!!!

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    rentier  about 15 years ago

    Perhaps an enormous eagle will come and take Calvin on his wings and bring him save to the house of his parents and to Hobbes, who is reading all his Comic books!

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    COWBOY7  about 15 years ago

    Or not!

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    ninmas  about 15 years ago

    darkhicks: i love your sprite!

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    alondra  about 15 years ago

    This is a real cliffhanger. Now I will be in suspense all day. We know he won’t die of course, but how’s he gonna get out of this?

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    Stede_Bonnet  about 15 years ago

    “And wow! Hey! What’s this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like… ow… ound… round… ground! That’s it! That’s a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?”

    – Douglas, you are truly missed.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    LX013, If it happens that way, we will say, “The Eagle has landed.” My money is still on Superfrog “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”. “I can say nothing!” GOOD! “I’m speechless.! BETTER! “A last prayer will be the BEST!”

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Calvin, if you hadn’t been showing off with your backward somersault, you might sooner have become aware of this perilous precipitous predicament GASP!

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    midiranger  about 15 years ago

    how far can he fall before he runs out of gasp!. Will he then stop inches from the ground (with apologies to spectators)?

    I.P. Freleng et.al you are missed also

    stede_Bonnet – indeed he is.

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    doppelganger  about 15 years ago

    I think he’s falling for it…what he needs is a drag chute.

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    runninanreadin  about 15 years ago

    …or air brakes! (With regards to Bugs Bunny…)

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    grammahotsho  about 15 years ago

    OOOOOOPSIE!

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    fencingfoil101  about 15 years ago

    GASP!

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    musicnut1986  about 15 years ago

    I believe that at this point Calvin probably needs some new Calvin Kleins.

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    aerwalt  about 15 years ago

    I never tipped a rary.

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    Leonardeuler  about 15 years ago

    Bdaysuit said: When you come right down to it ……. SPLAT !!!!

    That’s the way Garfield acts with spiders.

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    lazygrazer  about 15 years ago

    Look in the sky!—it’s a bird—it’s a plane—it’s…….OMG!!

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    ratlum  about 15 years ago

    Does not look like ocean So no big big really big fish to put up with

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Yesterday Milangirl192 said, “Puddleglum….you’re such a nerd”

    nerd?…in a word…absurd! You could be arrested by Yukoner (Sgt. Preston of the RCMP) for slangder. “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”

    nerd Slang A foolish, socially inept, or unattractive person “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad - Meat Loaf

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    WoodEye  about 15 years ago

    Joe Allen Doty, Put away the old collection of Calvins and enjoy the ride (fall) again. We all know this is old stuff, the young have never seen it and the old fans have forgotten what happens. Leave it at that.

    One way or another Hobbes has got to be there when he … lands.

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Lewreader said, “Now would be a nice time to get religion” If Calvin does get religion (after his namesake John Calvin the great religious reformer), he can land in a foxhole (or possibly a Wily Coyote hole). “There are no atheists in foxholes”. Speaking of Wily Coyote (which baslimthebegger did without mentioning his name), did “The Village Blacksmith” sing “The Anvil Chorus”?

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    redsheri  about 15 years ago

    I don’t think gasping is going to help this time. It’ll only make him pass out! :-)

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    redsheri, Calvin already passed out in yesterday’s strip, but that’s another story, “Hamster Huey and the Gooie Kablooie”.

    Also yesterday thebird55 said, Hey, Puddleglum, keep the Bible quotes coming. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7

    Again I say, “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.” If you have a sound mind, you might figure out which one I’m missing; if you have love, you might show compassion; (more than Milangirl192 did), if you have power, you might keep it under control.

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    bald  about 15 years ago

    calvin could shout towards the ground ,then one of those comic talk balloons would break his fall

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    Yukoner  about 15 years ago

    The baseball seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. I couldn’t understand why, and then it hit me.

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    tonytiger29  about 15 years ago

    It seems he forgot to wear his lucky underpants… good thing I guess… I would have soiled mine in that fall.

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    marvee  about 15 years ago

    Joe Doty, What makes you think readers are clueless? I think everyone knows the strip was discontinued, these are re-runs and don’t necessarily run on the same date as they originally did. Many of us didn’t read them in the first run or have forgotten details, but that doesn’t make us clueless. The details that you posted above are irrelevant to enjoying the strip.

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    ninmas  about 15 years ago

    good idea bald!

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    pouncingtiger  about 15 years ago

    Good to the last drop.

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    pintcape  about 15 years ago

    someone please wake me,hope it’s only a dream.

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    bmonk  about 15 years ago

    And don’t bother telling us to get a life. Some of us already did, then retired. We have a life already. How about you?

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    mrprongs  about 15 years ago

    FYI, if you die in your sleep, you don’t die in real life. Or at least I don’t.

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    stupendousman6  about 15 years ago

    so many of those dreams

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    LemonDemon  over 3 years ago

    so much for those dreams SPLASH

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