Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 10, 2012

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    cookies333  over 12 years ago

    Mom’s confused!

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    cookies333  over 12 years ago

    It’s kind of sad he wants to sacrifice his mind to the TV.

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    p0rtalplayer  over 12 years ago

    Equally applicable to the internet, I think…

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    cookies333  over 12 years ago

    I posted this comment late yesterday go comics time, I on’t know if you saw it so here it is. : )

    Hi Adam/Snoopster, I just wanted to say that I do enjoy reading your comments, and so do many other people. Such as Snoopy 323. I don’t think you should leave GoComics just, because of a few people. Anyway I hope you decide to stay, because I’m sure lots of people would miss you! : )

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    cookies333  over 12 years ago

    @p0rtalplayer

    Yeah I bet if the comic strip had been written now it would be the internet instead. : )

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    Veridian  over 12 years ago

    RE: the Comment for AdamPenguin(injured)… Well Said!

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    GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago

    The TV’s not worthy of tapioca – spinach, maybe, but not tapioca.

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    Yochanan204  over 12 years ago

    I still wanna hear a 6-year-old talk that way.

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    Linux0s  over 12 years ago

    A mind is a terrible thing to waste (almost as terrible as a bowl of tapioca).

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    margueritem  over 12 years ago

    LOve the lukewarm tapioca.

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    BananaSlug  over 12 years ago

    Y’know, I want to go into television animation…. It always shatters my ego to hear Calvin break it down this way. Little guy’s right, too.

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    joel robbins  over 12 years ago

    Some things haven’t changed in the 20 years since this was written.

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    Such actual pyjamas! Dotted is totaly in!

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    When you have had lack of food, you are very thankful, when you have some!

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    Timberwolves88  over 12 years ago

    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a good book”.Good ol’ Groucho

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    orinoco womble  over 12 years ago

    I remember when cable TV was new…yes, I’m old…and the commercials they put out to attract new subscribers. One is even more ironic today than it was then; a woman standing there talking confidentially into the camera about the wonders of cable: “I mean, what’s it worth for the kids to learn to think for themselves?”A lot, ma’am, but they won’t get it from TV. They call it programming for a reason.

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    Rakkav  over 12 years ago

    I have to admit, this strip has always been one of my favorites in the Calvin and Hobbes canon. I may just have to see if I can afford to order a framed or otherwise more permanent version of this strip.

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    I like to turn on TV when I have some housework to do like cooking or ironing, than I like it to listen to TV.

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    bluram  over 12 years ago

    I feel sorry for Mom. To think her one and only son was absorbed by the flickering light of the TV Gods.

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    bearsm  over 12 years ago

    @Veridian The element of good satire as with any writing worth its salt is that it transcends time. Although our technology has grown exponentially very little has changed concerning human nature.

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    flagmichael  over 12 years ago

    Watterson once wrote, “I like Calvin’s ability to precisely articulate stupid ideas.” Sometimes the ideas are not so stupid, though.

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    Calvin is soooooo very wise; wish adults were. (For proof of lack of adult wisdom, I present as evidence “Reality Shows.”)

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    Thomas Linquist  over 12 years ago

    I think I have an internet friend in your area. Granted you have a busted arm, but do you ride? (and I add my admiration regarding your comments to what the others have said)

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 12 years ago

    When Marx referred to religion as “the opiate of the masses”, it was only because television hadn’t been invented yet…

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    ewalnut  over 12 years ago

    Looks like the TV set ate Calvin instead of the “brains.”

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    @Vonne Anton: As we are growing up, living healthy and successful lives requires that we learn how to avoid taking foolish risks. But it also requires that we learn how to avoid allowing ourselves to be controlled by irrational fears.Successful parenting requires continually trying to find a healthy balance between being under-protective and over-protective. The same is true for adults who are communicating with children on this site.

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    BluePumpkin  over 12 years ago

    Good morning everybody! I finally caught up on reading all the posts . . . .

    At this point, I almost wish you are lying to us Snoopster because if everything you’ve told us is true, you’ve told us too much. People don’t need this level of information to be your online friends or to build a successful online comic.

    Snoopster has told us about his age, his full name, the general area in which he lives, his injuries (which would help in physically identifying him), some of his hobbies, and potentially where he will be going in the near future. This is enough information to zero in on where he goes to school and if I really bothered to dig, I bet a great deal more.

    Child predators aren’t like the rest of us. They’re obsessive, they’re cunning, and they’re always hunting – just like a junkie is always thinking about where they’ll get their next fix. They know their business well and go to great lengths to conceal their identities while fishing for victims. They like to troll websites that would appeal to children (like a comics website) and they like websites that don’t have privacy settings. This is not being overprotective and it isn’t hiding children away from the world. A child can still very much be a part of an online community without giving out their personal information. I do not have the luxury of being naïve about this.

    Best wishes to all.

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    stp1957 Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Watterson’s strip is still in it’s own league. Amazing & for such a short run.

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    Sorry for the long post…I know it’s irritating.

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    Insanity!

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    Why single out the Mass media! …what about the other states! jk

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    Don’t eat that tapioca, Mom! It has been offered as a sacrifice to an idol!

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    If the TV has stifled Calvin’s imagination, imagine what it would be without TV!

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    Perkycat  over 12 years ago

    Now – back to the cartoon.

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    I’m not sure that the “tapioca” isn’t Calvin’s real brain.I offer kudos to his vocabulary, however. It’s the most endearing trait of Calvin’s character and personality.

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    mcapone  over 12 years ago

    I always get a kick out of the way Bill Watterson drew the TV jumping around when it was turned on.

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    coffeeturtle  over 12 years ago

    Calvin pretty much summed it up!

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    Number Three  over 12 years ago

    Love the flying TV in the last panel.

    And Mum’s face.

    LOL xxx

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    bvallinino  over 12 years ago

    At his age, where did come up with the word “insidious”? Does he know its meaning?

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Click here: Garfield (March 14, 2012)

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    iced tea  over 12 years ago

    What cult does Calvin subscribe to?

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    Popeyesforearm  over 12 years ago

    and that’s why it’s called “The Idiot Box”

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    joegeethree  over 12 years ago

    Calvin is submitting his brain, but not his soul. There is hope for him yet.

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    khpage  over 12 years ago

    Clearly television has had absolutely no effect on Calvin’s capacity for verbal convolutions….on the other hand the tv seems overjoyed at the tapioca offering…..since this tete a machine took place at 3:00 a.m. his mother is understandibly clueless….

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    ratlum  over 12 years ago

    The little devil just found a way of getting rid of unwanted breakfast.

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    ratlum  over 12 years ago

    Or is he starting a new cult ?

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    Heavy sighGood news: the person in question has changed his id, consulted with his mother, and agreed to make some changes.There’s a context here that started yesterday over at Non Sequitur. It might help to consult it.My deepest apologies for “hysteria”, “wholesale flights of terror”, “self-righteous nannyism”, and foisting my own life based on “irrational fears” on everyone. Based on one comment, I must be a mess!Maybe I should go have some tapioca. I’ll feel better.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    << Vonne Anton said: “Based on one comment, I must be a mess!” >>@Vonne Anton: Sounds like an irrational fear to me….Just kidding. Usually I enjoy your comments. And even this comment made me feel better, because I can no longer be accused of posting the longest comments.

    :>)
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    ironflange  over 12 years ago

    I love the way their TV bounces up and down.

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    Cat Hammer  over 12 years ago
    “American Gods”, anyone?
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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    @Vonne Anton: It looks to me like the person in question is still posting, but he has gone the way of some others here in the past. GoComics has blocked all of his current and previous comments so that they are no longer visible.Perhaps some users here contacted GoComics, and they turned off his account to protect him. That is something to keep in mind for the future, if we should have another situation where a child is posting too much personal information.

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    calvinsfriend110  over 12 years ago

    He better not do that ceremony again. or dad will call the orphanage.

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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    @SnoopsterSaw your last post on your profile. Here’s the deal (apparently, after Hobbes sort of explained it to me):To see what is really happening, you need to come here at C&H without logging in to gocomics. You will see that none of your comments today have been posted. They show only on your profile, but not at the comics you commented on. No one is seeing your comments anywhere. This means gocomics has suspended you for some reason. Perhaps (as Hobbes suggests) because you revealed too much personal info and they wish to protect you; perhaps because your posts were offensive to some (don’t think this is likely); or too many others flagged you (I promise I was not one of them).Somehow you will need to communicate with “the powers that be” at gocomics to get this cleared up. Perhaps your parents will have to do it. Or, if your parents approve another e-mail, then you can create that whole new identity that has no reference to your former id’s.Whatever you need to do to re-join us, please figure it out and come back to play. We are a little lesser without you.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    BluePumpkin: My preference is that people not delete their own postings, unless they have second thoughts later and realize that they have said something that they shouldn’t have, or they discover that they have unintentionally offended someone. Sometimes it creates a lot of confusion when someone deletes a posting that has already gotten some responses, especially since all of the blue “@” name references disappear from the responses when the original posting is deleted.The worst case is when the blue “@” name disappears from a very negative response, and it just happens to make it look like the negative poster was responding to the posting immediately above theirs, which had nothing to do with the response. Sometimes, by chance, the negative response seems to perfectly fit the comment that was made above it.

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Hey, Snoopster:I saw your latest comments in your profile also. If GoComics is trying to protect your identity, they may not be willing to reinstate your status, because that would cause all 760 of your previous comments to reappear, and some of them contain your personal information.In that case, you would need to create a new account with a new name, start over with zero comments, and then be careful not to give out any more personal information from now on. Then you shouldn’t have any more problems.

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    westny77  over 12 years ago

    I thought I was the only one who had rabbit ears on my TVThis strip must be written before cable tv.

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    codedaddy  over 12 years ago

    This was one of the better Calvin installments. Too bad that two posters chose to dominate the comments, which are intended to be about the strip.

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    RetroJenny  over 12 years ago

    This your brain. This is your brain due to a lifelong exposure of tv ( picture of a bowl of tapioca pudding). Any questions?

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    38lowell  over 12 years ago

    Mom doesn’t understand satire either. Where’s the flaming candle?

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    Koolfunkygrrl  over 12 years ago

    LOL…too funny!!! :)

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    RRoyster.art  over 12 years ago

    All you teachers out there, this is what we have to work with. Have a good school year!

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    BronyInk  almost 12 years ago

    OMG that was hilarious!

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