Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 08, 2010

Way too much, Calvin, way too much!

She’s still paying, Calvin, and so are you!

Left to the wolves!

She’ll be paying for 18 long years.

She tried once but the wolves brought him back.

Not a plug nickel.

Yes right… Calvin’s going way too far!

But I have also often popped this question (how much was i bought for?) to my mom but definitely in a jovial way!! :)

Whatever she paid you weren’t worth it.

LMBO! They deserve each other!!

It’s not how much she paid for him, it’s how much she would pay to get rid of him.

I think she got her monies worth–There’s never a dull moment with Calvin around.

When I was a kid I was threatened, often, with being sold to gypsies. The gypsies were way smarter.

My granddaughter will say,”I’m in a bad mood grandma” to which I’ll ask why and she says,”I don’t know I just am.” I tell her then I’ll leave you alone in your room and when you feel better you can come join me in whatever I’m doing at the time. She usually shows up in a couple minutes. If she doesn’t I check to see if she’s playing quietly or what. One day she actually put herself down for a nap on the spare bed and slept for about a hour. Smart kid!

I can understand buying a puppy…………

Do I understand Mom hasn’t missed her pill in six years.

Trust Calvin to come out with a commant like that!

$5

Mom may be gruff and a little too direct, but within her heart is one of gold and filled with love for her Calvin.

Yes, love, in spite of everything he has done!

The kid is looking for a hug, may be he should try the direct approach.

\\//_

deep down inside mom wants to kill him

Man, if I had talked to my mother like that, I would have gotten smacked upside the head and sent to my room… Although in today’s age, kids have social services on speed dial to “warn” their parents to behave towards them. My uncle had a great comeback to that one: “It’ll take them awhile to get here, and in that time, I can do alot of damage”…

Calvin & Hobbes Snowmen Nightmares here: http://tinyurl.com/ybdhhnk Scary stuff!!!!

I think the real question is how much was she paid to take him? And the answer would be not nearly enough.

I tell my kids all the time they’re lucky i love them or i would have traded them in a long time ago. it’s usually during play times though in a joking manner. they always just laugh at me.

Ya know, as much as I know it’s only a comic. Someday’s I really wish Mom and Dad would offer some love and understanding to Calvin. For some reason, like today, it would have made me feel a little better if she had just hugged him.

your mom paid a dollar two ninety eight plus tax and handling

Wow… It’s a good thing Mom don’t have claws or Calvin would be sliced into thin pieces right about now!

I think if she would have hugged him he would have kicked her.

@IrregularHonour, Apparently, you’re new here. Have no fear! A sense of humour (to match your Honour) is indispensible. Most of my comments yesterday were directed at Statler and Waldorf (the Odd Couple) who do nothing but cast virulent invective, often in guileful subtlety, in my direction. I’d like to be friends with everyone, but a few will not have it that way. My humor is generally pun and plays-on-words related. I suspect that with your admitted warped sense of humor, you might appreciate mine; just don’t ‘twist’ it. Your smileface is a bit offline, though. :o) I don’t attempt to draw blood or my humor would be a vain (vein) effort. Did you check out my ‘bad’ pun yesterday in the midst of the fuhrer (furor)? I trust our relationship will be ‘cordial’. I’ll drink to that (non-alcoholic 100% juice). Stay tuned!

I don’t think, she wants to kill him. She is not delighted, but kill is too hard!

one dark and stormy night, the wolves sneaked him back in the house.

a little OT, but I thought this pic was amazing!

This is what happens when Calvin escapes into the real world:

http://bit.ly/11gifT

@judyparka said, about 5 hours ago

Calvin & Hobbes Snowmen Nightmares here: http://tinyurl.com/ybdhhnk

AWESOME! LOL!

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem - In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags

(from Yuni’s Latin Quotes)

“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” – Max Eastman

JAJAJAJA, I loved your comment Richard, kinda like a backwards Jungle Book.

Akeela, took him back and then scolded Bagheera.

I dunno, Aardvark359. I’d argue that being able to make a joke proves you have a sense of humor. Being able to take one proves you also have a sense of perspective.

Or as I sometimes say (misquoting Aragorn from LOTR): a man who can’t laugh at his own foibles is in fetters.

The wolves probably gave him to the tigers

you are proving to be poor deal… !!! :P

@rakkav… lots make jokes but few are funny. Aragorn had it right. Or as I sometimes say (quoting Judge Smails from CaddyShack):

“It’s easy to grin when your ship comes in and you’ve got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile when his shorts are too tight in the seat”

Arty - Very funny! When I was a kid, I always said that I was kidnapped FROM the gypsies!

Deep down Mom does love Calvin. It’s hard sometimes with a kid like Calvin. I should know. My life is similar to hers. My little Calvin goes on strong all day without having a break. I’m more exhausted than my girl when it’s bedtime.

@ Aardvark359,

I just read your comments from yesterday and the responses to them.

When you “defend” someone’s right to post with a dig at that poster, it is not unexpected for the person you “defended” to consider that an attack and respond in kind.

Calvin, I thinks you need to chill. You’re not making ANY friends lately.

@Ldywldkat

That IS love she is giving him. You just automatically know Calvin is unconventional in his love and its expression..

So he comes by it honestly. Mom and Dad just conceal it a bit differently (and express it so).

Flash

@Maizing - I respect your right to say that. I hope you picked up on the bits about having a sense of humor as well. My comments in this forum are offered largely in jest and with joy in my heart. It is regretable that some are too humorless to see that or have belief systems so brittle that they feel that they must vehemently defend every slight of their personal philosophies on a comic strip chat board. How can anyone not see the comedy in that? I find it hysterical! ;-)

Too much, that’s for sure.

Maizing is quite perceptive and well-spoken.

The fact that Aardvark359 finds ‘it’ hysterical is exposing his disingenuous attitude. If he were genuine, he would lay off when someone ‘misinterprets’ his vituperative comments. Even his smileface is broken up over it. Of course, I also am ‘speaking largely in jest and with joy in my heart’ as much as he is. The olive branch is still extended. I prefer to let bygones be bygones.

“…my biological mother…” snicker “How much did you pay for me?” Guffaw C is too much!

Take my kid, PLEASE!

In comes the K-Mart Blue Light Special routine from dear old Dad!

These parents really stink! At least wolves show love.

Anyone who keeps telling Calvin off really needs to move on and find something else. You really don’t get this strip at all!

yeah, yeah. It’s all about Calvin. Take a pill.

Aardvark359, Feign innocence all you like. That was an insult, plain and simple. You seem to think it was cleverly veiled. You cannot let other’s comments go without a response, and they are not even insults. Take your own advice.

Feign innocence? Hardly. It’s called sarcasm. As in making fun of the absurd by pretending it’s not. It really is a pretty simple comedic ploy for those astute enough to get the joke.

Ummmm obviously she didn’t buy Calvin because whoever saw him probably wouldn’t want him