Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 01, 2009

lucky…

Yeah, but you get to read comic books….

Haha, but Calvin, if you are not showing signs of being sick anymore Mom WILL send you to school. Dont get too happy.

Grin

Yeah Hobbes, but you’re not allowed to read the comic books when Calvin’s not there. You know the rules.

Calvin has it made.

Looks like he’s better.

Read comic books in bed, wonderful!

Isn’t he a bit young to be drinking tea?

He also gets to star in a comic book. I guess he’ll never know how lucky he is…

This is usually Hobbes’ alone time! Calvin’s in his space!

All those times you couldn’t find a comic book? Guess who’s been messing with them while you’re at school…

These be hard times for Tigers…

If Calvin’s Mom doesn’t bring tea, does she bring tuna sandwiches …

Good to see the smile back on Calvin’s face!

Just picture the look on Mom’s face if Hobbes piped up one day and asked for tea…

sjoujke said, Isn’t he a bit young to be drinking tea?

My mom would give me chamomile when I fel sick, no matter what, it always made me feel better.

Enjoy those comic books Hobbes until Calvin joins the Army and Mom throws them all out.

I could go for tea and comics this morning.

Herb tea would work, especially Celestial Seasonings’ Cinammon Apple. I think Mom knows better than to deliberately give Calvin anything caffeinated.

Mom always brought me weak, milky tea and buttered toast whenI was sick, but not when i was sick to my stomach.

Then she brought me warm, flat Coke.

Mom’s not the only one who isn’t happy Calvin’s home. But as soon as he starts itchin’ to get out of that bed, the party will be over.

I only got warm milk toast. If that isn’t incentive enough to get up and go back to school I don’t know what is.

Chamomile tea (as has been mentioned, among others) might have been the tea Calvin drank. It is anti-spasmodic which might have helped Calvin not to vomit, and it’s soporific which could have helped him to sleep. It worked for Peter Rabbit. Calvin had better not drink too much of it, though. He might fall asleep and miss reading his comic books all day.

Lo! Verily I say unto you, Tea is the anti-coffee! :-D

My mom brought tea and toast when I was sick. Other times she brought warm ginger ale. We were allowed to drink tea as kids but not coffee.

Macushlalondra, you have my deepest sympathies. ;-)

when i was a lad, i had a portable record player i put at the foot of my bed and a glass of juice on the night table, but no comic books, i had to do home work instead

actually apple cinnamon tea is my favorite tea, after the 7 other variety’s i have in my cupboard.

This is how it was for me when I was home sick from school in my youth. Of course, I didn’t have a Hobbes.

She brings me tea

Now that is the life!

“…LIKE SOME PEOPLE I KNOW.” Hobbes is not some people. Calvin must be taking significant poetic license here.

Comic books ,tea,Hobbes,I would have rather went to school Not every body had a school to go to in the good old days

When is the Chicken soup coming?

“Person”: Not too poetic. In philosophy it means “a self-conscious or rational being” To be a person doesn’t mean to be a human, it just means to be treated as sentient.

Hobbes just doesn’t get it…

I wasn’t using ‘poetic license’ in the context of poetry or rhyme. I was using it in the broad sense of taking liberty, relating to the terminology Calvin was using. I wasn’t speaking philosophically, either. In the two dictionaries I consulted, a person is a human being. Calvin seems to consider Hobbes to be a tiger/human, but that is also taking liberties. Calvin also used the word people, which is plural. In law a person is a human or an organization with legal rights and duties. In theology, a person is any of the three separate individualities of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Thank you for reading my post and for your response.

Stop ruining these comic strips, there’s always the expert that HAS to ruin the strip. Hobbes a human or a tiger…WHO CARES, the strip is funny, enjoy.

Everyone has a right to enjoy or appreciate the comic in his/her own way. Some others and I like to apply aspects of the comic to real life situations and circumstances. “To Each His Own”

ahhhh, the good old days. we need to slow down more often.

The doctor perscribed tea, bouillan cube broth which Mom poured a little over white bread cut in squares, milk crackers, and jello when I had flu like symptoms as a kid. Without the bread and crackers it would be the clear liquid diet they serve in the hospital for a few days after surgery. I don’t know if they had herbal teas back in the 60’s when I was a kid. I think you’d have to grow and make it yourself right in the windowbox next to the other medicinal herbs of the day.

how lucky can you get,to be spoiled for a few days,hobbes is a little jealous

On the plus side, Calvin can’t kill you for spilling tea over his comics.

Mom should kiss Hobbes’ (Hobbese´s? I don’t wanna get the grammar police after me!) feet (paws, claws?) for taking Calvin for awhile and returning her ‘lone time.

I thought Mom said it was Saturday a few panels ago.

Ah yes…exactly how I felt this morning going to work after a five day holiday…

ya know? It’s actually not fun to have to lie around in bed and get better for days at a time… I just found that out.