Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 22, 2012

My problem is I can’t stop thinking about the people that have gone away.

Good point hobbes

Stop thinking doesn’t help in my case!

A friend suggested that we were all just a figment of his imagination. I answered that I was very concerned if he imagined someone like me. Now he’s nervous.

Once, in a hotel room I had never been in before, I saw an object in a mirror and then noticed the actual object for the first time. I began to wonder if this is proof that the world is not a figment of my imagination.

Fascinating study of philosophy here. leftwingpatriot, I understand what you mean, but never stop remembering those who have gone away. Just don’t let it be a problem.

Of course, if Calvin had met Lio things would be different.

Click here: Peanuts (November 13, 1968)

I think the monsters are back under the bed by now.

Click here: Ziggy (July 1, 2007)

Mom’s “theory” has no credence in Calvin’s reality.

Click here: Pearls Before Swine (October 14, 2007)

Click here: Reality Check (October 13, 2011)

Click here: For Better or For Worse (March 3, 2012)

You can close your ears to the things you don’t want to hear, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel…

True, cOO1. I once attended a study group in which I mentioned that current events in my city/country had me worried. One of the other members replied, “Your problem is, you think too much. I hardly think at all.” Both the group leader and I had to bite our lips to keep from laughing out…because to anyone who knew her that was painfully obvious!!

You dun Love them?… I love Hobbes’s silly face .. h ah ahaa

His parents don’t disappear when Calvin doesn’t think about them, but they are no longer in his conscious mind. They are no shorter in his conscious mind, either. You may scratch the previous sentence if you’re itching to do so.

In the last panel, Hobbes is ‘baiting’ Calvin, but Calvin fails to ‘worm’ his way out of it.

Calvin, that’s right, don’t think about the monsters and they will go away. Of course then the creepy Gargoyle’s will just come out of the walls. Sleep tight.

Now bluram is baiting Calvin!

@Bobzilla,“Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum”Based on your “Chirpy…” comment yesterday, you are not leftwingpatriot. You are more Middle Of the Road!

I feel you, Kuren. It’s an election year in the US though, so politics tends to get mixed with everything online. The rest of us will just have to wait it out, I guess.

What does Mom know about Calvin’s imagination? According to her, Hobbes is just a stuffed animal.

Reality -asumming it exists- has a way of rearing its ugly head.

With Calvin’s imagination, he should be able to wish the monsters away.

@PixieJane: I don’t remember the “paranoid wing” Far Side strip that you mentioned, but the “Floating Head of Death” strip (your link) was a classic. It’s too bad that Gary Larson and his syndicate haven’t allowed The Far Side to be available online. It is a strip that clearly was a major influence on some other current strips, not to mention a lot of modern greeting cards.

But for how long? However long, it can’t be longenough, especially B….

…waking up alone in the house at 3:00 am, why does my mind suddenly say “Hey! We haven’t thought about monsters in a while! Let’s think about monsters!”?

It’s not the monsters under the bed that concern me. It’s the ones that rear their heads from out of the blue on a sunny Tuesday Afternoon…..

That’s not nice, Calvin!

LOL xxx

Whatever you do, don’t think about elephants.

Not thinking about those monsters might help,but thats hard to do with them so close.

@Linda Dean: Maybe it’s Pig?

How can we refute Calvin’s logic here. :-)

Monsters are not known for following our plans…

Yes, Calvin…if you don’t believe in monsters, they don’t exist…that’s just what Keyser Söze wants you to believe.

I know that place in your mind where all the fear lives. I call it my Mind Dungeon.

And if he comes up with anti-monster monsters that should solve the problem, right?

It’s all in yur mind, ya know?

Instead of not thinking about the monsters under the bed, Calvin should try not to think about a pink elephant.

School’s over, FINALLY! it went so slow, i think a snail could’ve won a race to the door

Yes, don’t think about them.

Every once in a while I get this unnerving sensation that NOTHING is a figment of my imagination.

SNORK If you do let me know!!

@rgviper: Stephan Pastis can make you laugh and groan at the same time.