Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 19, 2010

Maybe you should cover him with the pillow, Hobbes…

First on the board? Hey, hey, HEY!

To paraphrase the Pharaoh’s sister: your tongue will dig your grave, Calvin.

Good Morning Marg. Not a bad idea at all! I didn’t think he’d forget about it after 6 weeks.

I hoped he would forget it too!

The mother of all sugar rushes continues …

Poor Hobbes!

Hobbes isn’t going to get any sleep for 6 weeks!!!!

Anxiety… the result of eating too many bowls of frosted artificial chocolate covered SUGAR BOMBS!

Mike Firesmith I like that dog of yours!

‘Morning, Grog.

Accidentally push him out of the bed once. Maybe Calvin will get your drift.

Beanie, beanie, beanie, beanie! Sheesh! Go to sleep already.

Calvin just might get beaned before he gets his beanie.

Too much anticipation. I smell disappointment.

Breathe Calvin… take a breath! Before Hobbes smothers you and you breathe no more!

Give Calvin a break. I remember being that antsy, especially on Christmas eve. I simply could not get to sleep for the anticipation and fear of the following morning. Will i get the thing(s) I wanted most? What if I was not good enough that year and didn’t get anything? I would work myself up into a state and not get to sleep until after midnight (bedtime was 8:00 or 8:30). By 5:00 I was awake and had to endure the endless waiting until I simply could not hold back and got my parents up around 6:00.

Yes Calvin, I do understand!

Good morning Marg…The Loki Mutt loves you too!

Morning Fran!!!

This is going to be longer than the last six weeks of pregnancy!

Will your efforts help, Hobbes?

Hobbs can’t push Calvin out of the bed. The monsters under the bed would eat him, get a sugar rush, and then barf him up. How would Hobbs explain monster barf to Calvin’s mom?

:-P

remember when you had to go door-to-door selling seeds to get this kind of stuff?

Seeds, greeting cards and other things.

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You all know, I am sure, that by the time it comes he will play with it for maybe a whole 2 minutes, something else will catch his eye and it will be forgotten forever. Until his mom put’s it in a yard sale that is…

smile

Lady Do you mean like the exercise machines my better half swears she’s gonna use? I hate tag sales. Lady from next door, “oh, an abs flatten er, Didn’t do him any good.”

Or, it will be a big disappointment to him when it comes…the propellers won’t spin; it won’t fit him maybe. I had things like that happen to me when I was a kid. Look forward to something so much, then..fizzzzzzzzzzz :-(

Jascat, you are on the right track. I won’t be a spoiler, but as I remember this story, the beanie does not live up to his extravagent expectations …

‘Morning Mike Firesmith … shepard mix mutts rule!

If Hobbes were allowed to cross the street alone, he would go buy the beanie for Calvin .. just to get some rest.

wow- the spammers are now double posting… anyone want to do the honor, or do I have to flatten all the bugs?

“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. ” –Spock in ‘Amok Time’

I have never seen or expected anyone to be so excited about getting a beanie.

I have never seen or expected anyone to be so excited about getting a beanie.

I can remember ads in comic books expounding on all the wonderful “premiums” you could get by ordering and selling cans of Cloverine salve………….

morning, everyone. poor hobbes!

Calvin thats what happens with too much caffeen and sugar. I’m not to much that way but I do have nights I can’t sleep. I try to avoid chocolate :(

Question once spammers get spammed or flagged aren’t they suppose to go away? Yesterday I flagged spammers but it stayed. And ones who talked about it I at the time didn’t see the spammers.

What if they send him a Cecil instead of a Beanie?

I’m beginning to think gocomics doesn’t monitor the spammers and flags on Sunday, but they do a pretty good job the rest of the week. I don’t see the spam that vldazzle is referring to.

Southwest Calvin want’s the corn and black beanie salsa!

You’re a gentleman and a scholar! Maybe you’re the so-called ‘exception that proves the rule’!

runar, “Watch out for D.J.!”

I’m starting to feel like Hobbes on this topic.

Good job today, GoComics.

Exceptions don’t prove the rule in the modern sense. When the phrase was coined, “prove” meant “test” not “verify as true”. If you think about it, exceptions do test the rule.

henebry complained, about 4 hours ago

“Would love to be able to read this comic. It’s always reproduced too small on Sunday mornings!”

If you click on the comic, it shows up in a larger size.

Bet the propeller falls off within 5 minutes!

Had a beanie that I sewed the prizes from Cracker Jacks collected over many Saturday matinees. These included minature trains and planes. Wore it for about a year. Took the fan off right away though. Long, long ago and far, far away on a planet called the fifties.

Once I put my pillow over my head like Hobbes, but I started to sweat and I could n’t sleep!

“An-ti-ci-pay-ay-shun is….. making him wait. It’s keeping him way-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ting……..”

I love Hobbes’s expression in panel 2.

ronaldmundy said, ”remember when you had to go door-to-door selling seeds to get this kind of stuff?”

Woohoo, forgot all about that little springtime enterprise. Oh how I loved looking the catalogue and picking out my reward! I remember selling enough packets (at 10 cents ea.) to earn myself the neatest things….like a chemistry set one year….then a wristwatch….then a bow and arrows…..

And I was no more patient than Calvin when it came to the eternity it took for my prize to arrive in the mail.

The rule is tested and found not to be absolute in that there is at least one exception. I used ‘so-called’ exception because the word ‘proves’ usually is considered to mean ‘shows convincing evidence’. Thanks for your clarification. I think we are (more-or-less) on the same page.

Has it really been 6 weeks already … or does it just seem that way to an overly anxious 6-year-old looking forward to getting his little red propeller beanie hat more than anything on earth???

This kid is so wired so much of the time I have begun to consider some letters for him, such as ADD or ADHD, etc. Time for some tranks there Calvin….at least that way Hobbes can get some sleep….

Hey, it’s good to be passionate about something. It gives you something to look forward to, until it actually happens. And then… The thrill is gone. poof

What if it’s pink – OMG!?! Cute one bird55!

NOTHING is longer than the last 6 weeks of pregnancy.

Hobbes is all like: “Oh man, I wish I was at a tiger strip club getting it on with tigresses instead of listening to this annoying six year old brat. yak yak yakkety kak CALVIN!!! ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!

Beanies are so 1950s, or even earlier.

In the last frame Hobbes and Calvin seem to both agree on this issue

Wow! You could plug Calvin into a small city and power it for a week! I love the changes in Hobbes’ face as the panels progress! And good afternoon to everybody in the late crew!

“NOTHING is longer than the last 6 weeks of pregnancy.”

Clearly you have never gone to the one grocery store in my home town on a Sunday afternoon and been in a hurry.

Will quote Calvin’s dad - The anticipation of something is often more fun than having it.

Of course , Calvin doesn’t believes it but he is acting so..

give calvin abreak

That’s all folks! See y’all tomorrow!

Clearly, Mike Firesmith has never lived with a pregnant woman.

OOOOOO, runar - good ‘Beanie & Cecil’ quip. Makes me think you’re around my age…but then again, maybe it came out again in re-runs after my time…!

He might be disappointed if he see’s this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6352268211032740503#

Or this:

http://tinyurl.com/yykr79u

Mike Firesmith: clearly YOU have never been pregnant.

i love hobbes’s face in panel 3!

When the beanie comes, they don’t even say what color it is.