Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 22, 2012

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    BE THIS GUY  about 12 years ago

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

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    BigNate+CalvinandHobbes=:)  about 12 years ago

    Good point hobbes

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    rentier  about 12 years ago

    Stop thinking doesn’t help in my case!

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    kittenpah  about 12 years ago

    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.

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    arye uygur  about 12 years ago

    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.

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    whitecarabao  about 12 years ago

    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.

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 12 years ago

    Click here: Peanuts (November 13, 1968)

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    einarbt7  about 12 years ago

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

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 12 years ago

    Click here: Ziggy (July 1, 2007)

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    Linux0s  about 12 years ago

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

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 12 years ago

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

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 12 years ago

    Click here: Reality Check (October 13, 2011)

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 12 years ago

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

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    mattkrickel  about 12 years ago

    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…

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    orinoco womble  about 12 years ago

    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!!

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    Phapada  about 12 years ago

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

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    Puddleglum2  about 12 years ago

    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.

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    Puddleglum2  about 12 years ago

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

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    bluram  about 12 years ago

    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.

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    Puddleglum2  about 12 years ago

    Now bluram is baiting Calvin!

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    Puddleglum2  about 12 years ago

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

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    orinoco womble  about 12 years ago

    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.

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    battle of plattsburgh  about 12 years ago

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

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    rshive  about 12 years ago

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

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    GROG Premium Member about 12 years ago

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

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 12 years ago

    @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.

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    watmiwori  about 12 years ago

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

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    jadoo823  about 12 years ago

    …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!”?

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    witewater  about 12 years ago

    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…..

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    Number Three  about 12 years ago

    That’s not nice, Calvin!

    LOL xxx

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    Earnestly Frank  about 12 years ago

    Whatever you do, don’t think about elephants.

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    ratlum  about 12 years ago

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

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 12 years ago

    @Linda Dean: Maybe it’s Pig?

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    coffeeturtle  about 12 years ago

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

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    margueritem  about 12 years ago

    Monsters are not known for following our plans…

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    Vonne Anton  about 12 years ago

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

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    Purple Ninja  about 12 years ago

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

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    khpage  about 12 years ago

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

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    Popeyesforearm  about 12 years ago

    It’s all in yur mind, ya know?

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    rvonluchen  about 12 years ago

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

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    The#1BoiseStateFan  about 12 years ago

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

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    calvinsfriend110  about 12 years ago

    Yes, don’t think about them.

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    CrazyIrishOperaGirl  about 12 years ago

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

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    Odd Dog Premium Member about 12 years ago

    SNORK If you do let me know!!

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    Hobbes Premium Member about 12 years ago

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

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    the drifter  over 11 years ago
    i wish my brothers awy i wish it worked
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