Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 13, 2010

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    I love it!

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    pouncingtiger  over 14 years ago

    Calvin’s turning into Cornholio (from Beavis and Butt-Head fame).

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    I gotta try some of those Sugar Bombs!

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    tis4kis  over 14 years ago

    Wait until he grows up and has coffee as well as his sugar bombs! Oy

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    Yukoner  over 14 years ago

    There are mornings I feel like that too.

    …. with vitamins S, U, G, A , R, B, O and M

    Morning Marg and everyone.

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    rentier  over 14 years ago

    Parkinson! Diabetes!

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    MontanaLady  over 14 years ago

    Calvin’s experiencing something more like a Sugar Earthquake!!

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    captainedd  over 14 years ago

    Hey, it’s Sugar Buzz Calvin!

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    ‘Morning Yukoner and all!

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    Rakkav  over 14 years ago

    Hm, how many of the Four Junk Food Groups are _in_ that stuff? Let’s see: Sugar, Cocoa…add Fat and Salt and you’ll have a “balanced” breakfast, all right.

    OK, how about a side of hash browns, heavy on the Morton’s?

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    Pacejv  over 14 years ago

    Let’s toss in a bunch of M.S.G. to boot!

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    COWBOY7  over 14 years ago

    Wind him up and let him go! Blast-off!

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    Dino-1  over 14 years ago

    A bowl of Milk Duds!!! C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E!!! It sounds like a good afternoon pick me up. In the morning though it would make me sick to my stomach too.

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    vibjyor  over 14 years ago

    Hobbes is not the only one shaking and so short of vitamins. The whole world seems to be shaking.

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    kreole  over 14 years ago

    There was a litle bit of Calvin in all of us………..

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    kreole  over 14 years ago

    “They’re” shaking? Best part!

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    gillbillvolume1  over 14 years ago

    kreole said, 26 minutes ago

    There was a litle bit of Calvin in all of us………..

    Well there will be when he finishes that last bowl of sugar bombs and explodes into air born fragments.

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    2write  over 14 years ago

    Good he never grows up to worry about “Vitamin M” deficiency like the rest of us.

    :-p

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    lewisbower  over 14 years ago

    My wife embarrassed me in the market by pushing me by the Reese’s Peanut Butter cereal and straight to the bran flakes. Why should I eat bran flakes? Psst psst. Oh!

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    Cymbol  over 14 years ago

    My husband has diabetes, diagnosed last July. He gets the shakes like that once in a while when his blood sugar drops too low and it scares the living bleeep out of me! I have to get a little sugar into him FAST and that’s not easy when he’s shaking so violently! Naturally it usually happens between 2 and 4 in the morning and not at a more respectable hour when I have my witts about me. That would be too easy!

    I love how Calvin is saying it’s Hobbes shaking when it’s really him on that sugar high.

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    Bittermelon of Truth  over 14 years ago

    @Wayfarer: LOL I know exactly what you mean… “Vitamin M” comes from the daily grind in the rat race. Unfortunately side effects include stress, burnout, and higher taxes :-D

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    wicky  over 14 years ago

    One can get the four food groups from a jelly donut and an irish coffee.

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    Plods with ...™  over 14 years ago

    I prefer my buzz from a Monster(Rtm) BFC.

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    travburg1  over 14 years ago

    Re. that side of hash browns, you gotta have another veggie: plenty of catsup!

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Love that last panel. On occasion I will eat honey nut cheerios. I little bit of a sugar buzz, but not as much as some of those other cereals. I can’t believe I used to add more sugar when I was a kid.

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    Kerovan  over 14 years ago

    cymbol give him some cracker’s and peanut butter before bed. Crashing like that in the middle of the night, or anytime really, is bad. The crackers are a more complex starch and release slowly during the night, and there is protein in peanut butter. Recent studies show protein help stabilize the absorption and release of blood glucose.

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    coffeeturtle  over 14 years ago

    Luv this!

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    carmy  over 14 years ago

    I got dizzy seeing Calvin in the last panel. I used to get a good sugar rush from Super Sugar Crisp and an Archie’s record on the back of the box too.

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    bald  over 14 years ago

    milk duds for breakfast, my youngest son might have tried that when he was in kindergarten

    cymbol, my mom used to keep lifesavers candies in her purse for those occasions

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    Nighthawks Premium Member over 14 years ago

    anybody remember those cool frogmen(powered by baking soda) you sent away to battle creek ,michigan for? 3 different colors, one holding a mine, one a knife….

    battle creek, the cereal capital of the world fifty years ago

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    fran650  over 14 years ago

    Has anyone ever looked more self rightous than Calvin in the second frame? LOL

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    Rise22  over 14 years ago

    There are 5 basic food groups - you guys keep forgetting “Preservatives.”

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    cleokaya  over 14 years ago

    It is no fun being around a child on a sugar high. Kids are usually wound up enough in normal situations.

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    imbaldeagle  over 14 years ago

    Calvin’s shakes epitomizes the saying I once heard. “Everybody in the world is crazy but you and me - sometimes I even wonder about you.”

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    JohnRJ  over 14 years ago

    Of course, everone knows that a wholesome breakfast includes: 2 eggs, bacon, wheat toast, orange juice, milk and a bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.

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    JohnRJ  over 14 years ago

    And then when Calvin gets older, he can pour coffee over his Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.

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    Captain_Commando  over 14 years ago

    fran650 said,

    “Has anyone ever looked more self rightous than Calvin in the second frame? LOL”

    Maybe the duplicate of Calvin’s good side, as seen in “The Duplicate Saga: Part 2”

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    RadioTom  over 14 years ago

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    RadioTom  over 14 years ago

    Actually, I was wondering where the steak, eggs, toast, hash browns, butter and tomato juice were…

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    Smiley Rmom  over 14 years ago

    Kerovan - How “recent” is “recent”? “Recent studies show protein help stabilize the absorption and release of blood glucose.”

    I read a book on ADHD children back when my son was younger. He’s not quite in that category, but close enough to learn some helpful hints in that book. One hint was basically what you’ve stated. He could handle chocolate milk, chocolate milkshakes, and even chocolate ice cream, but heaven help us, if he ate a brownie! Thankfully, as he matured, the effects have become manageable, so he can eat brownies now.

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    treBsdrawkcaB  over 14 years ago

    Rise, et. al.,

    Since everyone seems to be forgetting the 5 basic food groups, let’s recite them all together. Ready?

    Sugar Salt Fat Starch Caffeine
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    treBsdrawkcaB  over 14 years ago

    (Caffeine is Vitamin C; found in abundance in Chocolate…)

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    LadybugMacon  over 14 years ago

    Calvin just has a SUGAR RUSH wait until he come down then he’ll have to look up to see a snake’s stomach.!

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    Puddleglum2  over 14 years ago

    I realize that many of these comments are said in jest, but… Sugar naturally present in fruits and vegetables is good. Salt is needed in small amounts. Most added salt is excessive. Poly-unsaturated and mono-unsaturated fats are good. Starches which are digested slowly are beneficial. Caffeine is difficult to avoid altogether; a small amount is probably okay. Obviously, the aforementioned comments are brief and basic. ‘All things in moderation’, or ‘moderation in all things’, as the saying goes.. I’m not trying to ‘throw a wet blanket’ on your fun. “Shake, rattle and roll”

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    Plods with ...™  over 14 years ago

    Well there’s a spoiler for ya.

    Common sense, ptui! I take your common sense, Puddleglum2 and substitute my own.

    The first 32oz coffee is needed to get my heart restarted in the morning.

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    ratlum  over 14 years ago

    Dont listen to these people Calvin your shaking could be a vitamin deficiency .

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    Shikamoo Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Calvin, you had better eat more sugar bombs. I think you are suffering from a vitamin deficiency! (Like ratlum says.)

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    mrslukeskywalker  over 14 years ago

    A real bowl of Milk Duds is the breakfast dreams are made of!

    I never actually did it so that I could always savor the dream.

    I love this kid. Good luck to anyone who comes in contact with him today.

    We really did have great cereal back then. They have since ruined it all.

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    Let’s not forget that Calvin uses chocolate milk on his Sugar Bombs.

    Stand back….the kid’s gonna blow!!

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    glitterygal07  over 14 years ago

    I think that Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs are really just the comic strip version of Cocoa Puffs.

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    gillbillvolume1  over 14 years ago

    isn’t there a whole subgroup of Junk food listed under mexican ?

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    Rokira  over 14 years ago

    I love this whole series of comics with the Beanie, lol. I think it’s time to pick up some more grapefruits and a couple dozen more muffins, eh Hobbes?

    Easy, gillbillvolume1. Don’t offend the folks now. XD

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    Poladog  over 14 years ago

    Hey - its the Breakfast of Champions!!!!!!!

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    gillbillvolume1  over 14 years ago

    Easy, gillbillvolume1. Don’t offend the folks now. XD

    My apology to all the workers at Taco Bell ..I was unthinking and mis-spoke, your food is both nutritious and healthy as has been proved by thousands of Government studies. We all know its the health food industry thats causing the explosion of obesity in this country and we hope that at some point those crazed salad munchers will stop by the late night drive thru and pick up a dripping sack of goodness for their poor deprived children

    again I apologize and hope all you good folks will continue to make the food that keeps Americas medical system working !

    Taco bell 99 cent menu.. change you can belive in !

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    One of my University Professors called it Taco Smell! At that point though, there was no Taco Smell in Canada. I went on my next trip down to the States and would have to agree with him. I haven’t been there since and I’ve been living in the States for the past 8 years.

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    gillbillvolume1  over 14 years ago

    I remember going on my First foreign trip I was excited to be in another country seeing new thing , having exciting experiences as the taxi was leaving the airport we passed a large sign advertising Pizza Hut and taco bell I later found this same small African village had an A&W root-beer place too

    Sigh .. travel has just never been the same since.

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    khpage  over 14 years ago

    Calvin should simply give the sugar bombs to the dog and save the boxes. He would have the fun of watching the dog go screaming around the house for a few hours. His mother would wonder what was going on, of course, but without a clue. The expression on her face, when she finds out would, no doubt, be priceless….

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    runninanreadin  over 14 years ago

    I thought the 5 major food groups were (in order):

    1) Chocolate

    2) Pizza

    and…..uuuuuuuh….I forgot the other 3……lol

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    My food groups are

    1) pig (any cut including bacon & ribs) 2) eggs 3) fritos 4) Pepsi 5) Bud

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 14 years ago

    Rachel7 said: I think that Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs are really just the comic strip version of Cocoa Puffs.

    Maybe it’s just me but who isn’t maybe just a little bit “Coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs”???!!!

    I may be an adult but every now and then, I like to take a break on the weekends from my perpetual Slim Fast diet and have something else for a change. When I do, I still love the taste of chocolate cereal/milk, just like I did when I was a kid!

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    Rakkav  over 14 years ago

    Here’s something to ruin your travel, gillbillvolume1: a Starbucks Coffee across the street from the entrance to the British Museum in London.

    Yes, I went there. No, I was more amused than anything else. Yes, I longed for my daily Mocha Frappuchino (chilled). Yes, I was asked if the prices were the same there as here. In fact they were (as far as I could tell), except that the prices were in pounds rather than in dollars (therefore twice as costly, more or less).

    Long live American mercantilism (I think…)!

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    gillbillvolume1  over 14 years ago

    I really want to open the first Starbucks on the international space station..lol or maybe the first Bar and call it Quarks :o)

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    runar  over 14 years ago

    Still wondering why Calvin likes Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs (hint: hyperactivity has something to do with it)?

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    bleepingdeadalien  over 14 years ago

    Calvin’s probably right…A vitamin D deficiency…it’s actually quite common.

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    JTGAM  over 14 years ago

    Hey! They taste GOOD, right? We are just following our natural instinct for survival by eating as much high energy food as we can left over from our hunter gatherer days. ( I won’t say caveman days out of respect cause I don’t know if Adam and Eve lived in caves or carried clubs). By the way Grog, Bud goes at the top of the list.

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    moronbis  over 14 years ago

    It is difficult to convince your stuffed tiger..

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    mrslukeskywalker  over 14 years ago

    To those who keep wondering out loud - Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs are just Calvin’s own brand of kid cereal that takes on all qualities of kid cereal worth eating as a kid. And he still scoops extra sugar on them, like a true kid! We who know the strip say we ate them, but that just means we ate our equivalent of what Calvin has.

    They ruined all of the kid cereal, and years ago, they made them change any name that included sugar in it to something else, Like Sugar Smacks became… who cares, I never ate them again, because they also cut all the sugar content in all the cereals.

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    Celtic_Bugman  over 14 years ago

    Goto Love Calvin and Hobs

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Thanx for clearing up the authenticity of CFSBs MrsLuke – I was never sure if they were really real. You guys are forgetting potato chips in you r basic food groups!! Actually I used to get my rush from the first puff on a cigarette for the day. Then I gave it up.

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    lindz, I didn’t forget. I prefer corn chips over tater chips.

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    Kerovan  over 14 years ago

    Rmom I’ve been diagnosed as a type II D iabetic for about 18 years now. At that time I went through all the Diabetes Education and nutritionist counseling offered. The wisdom was you had 75 grams of carbs at each meal +/- 7 grams etc. Over the years I got worse and about 2 years ago I went to an Endocrinologist, specialist in disorders including Diabetes. She told me that “We now know we don’t need as many carbs as we originally thought.”

    I’ve had to go through Diabetes education and counseling all over again. For the last 2 years I’ve been told this is the latest information on maintaining diabetes control - 45 grams of carbs per meal and at least half that in protein sincxe it will “stabilize” the blood sugar. As near as I can tell this protein MUST be peanut butter because no matter what type of protein I tell them I use they will inevitably say one of 2 things- 1)Can you substitute peanut butter? 2) Can you add peanut butter to that? [unfortunately I’m not joking. They give me those same 2 comments every time. Peanut butter must be the holy grail of diabetes control.]

    Typically only those of us who use insulin need a late night snack before bedtime, but if you are crashing in the middle of the night it’s a good idea. Whole wheat or other complex carbs break down slower in your body. That concept hasn’t changed in 18 years.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    You’re right Grog, sorry I missed your fritos.

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    That would be bad news for me Kerovan, I love nuts - particularly cashews, hazel nuts and pistachio nuts - but peanut butter will never touch these sweet lips. Can’t stand the stuff.

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    Nebulous Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I thought the 4 Food Groups were Sugar Fat Caffeine and Alcohol.

    Which makes Irish Coffee the perfect consumable.

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    bloomfan  over 14 years ago

    Funny how Calvin only questions “authority” when he disagrees with it, like when he has to go to school. If it tells him Sugar Bombs are nutritious, though, of course he questions nothing!

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    bluetopazcrystal  over 14 years ago

    Mom is letting him? I’d prefer a bowl of steel cut oats, sliced banana, a sprinkle of cinnamon, and vanilla So Good on top. Yumm. It makes me hungry just thinking of it.

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